Foundation members, I'd like to remind everyone the GNOME Foundation Board of Directors elections have officially started, please see [1] in case you are interested in running for a seat.
[1] https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2022-May/msg00003.html On Tue, May 10, 2022 at 1:59 PM Andrea Veri <a...@gnome.org> wrote: > The GNOME Foundation Membership and Elections Committee are pleased to > announce the upcoming elections for the Board of Directors in Spring 2022. > > The most important deadlines (UTC) in the timeline are the following: > > *GNOME Board Elections 2022* > 2022-05-31: Announcements and list of candidates opens. > 2022-06-06: Last day to announce candidacies, submit summary > statements. > 2022-06-07: Final list of candidates. > 2022-06-07: Instructions mailed to eligible voters, voting > begins. > 2022-06-21: Voting closes. > 2022-06-21: Preliminary results are announced. > 2022-06-28: Last day to challenge preliminary results. > > ELECTIONS > ========= > > Four (4) of the seven members of our current Board of Directors have been > ruling GNOME for 12 months now. We, the GNOME Foundation Members, will have > to elect what will be the Board of Directors for the next year. > > Why are elections going to renew four (4) out of seven seats this year? > Please read below under the VOTING session. > > The seats that will be up for election during this run are: > > - Regina Nkemchor Adejo > - Robert McQueen > - Felipe Borges > - Ekaterina Gerasimova > > CANDIDACY > ========= > > If you want to run for one of the seven positions on The GNOME > Foundation Board of Directors, then send an email to > foundation-announce@gnome.org with your full name, e-mail, corporate > affiliation (if any), and your reasons for wanting to serve as a director. > > Candidacies must be announced prior to 2022-06-06, 23:59 UTC. > > Members are invited to ask questions to one or all candidates via > Discourse at: > > https://discourse.gnome.org/c/community/elections-and-referendums/336 > > These candidates might become your representative, so do not hesitate to > ask them questions. > > Please try to avoid asking duplicate questions that others have > already asked. Also, bear in mind that the candidates invest a lot of > time answering questions, so please be reasonable with the amount and > scope of the questions. > > A list of candidates will be announced on 2022-06-07. > > ELECTORATE > ========== > > Every GNOME Foundation member whose membership is valid as of > 2022-06-07 is eligible to vote in the elections. Please note that > Emeritus members won't have voting rights. More details about what > Emeritus members can and can't do are available at > > https://wiki.gnome.org/MembershipCommittee/EmeritusMembers. > > If you are not a member yet, please consider applying for membership > as soon as possible at: > > https://www.gnome.org/foundation/membership/apply > > Late applications will most likely not be processed in time. > > The GNOME Foundation Membership and Elections Committee do inform members > they need to renew by mailing them once a month both on their personal > email and on the foundation-list mailing list. We recommend that members > also double check this to avoid a missed opportunity to vote. Please verify > that the email address that is associated with your GNOME Foundation > membership is valid and that you are able to read emails sent to this > address. With the introduction of https://account.gnome.org verifying > this information is now possible by just logging in with your GNOME > Account. Your password can be reset via: > > https://password.gnome.org > > A new password will be e-mailed directly to the registered e-mail for your > account. > > You can verify your membership status by visiting > https://foundation.gnome.org/membership/members.php and > looking for your name, surname on the list of members. > > > VOTING > ====== > > The Electorate will receive complete instructions on how to vote by > 2022-06-07 via email. > > This specific election run will elect only four (4) directors (instead of > the former 7), as a result of the amendments that were recently introduced > to the Foundation's Bylaws. The aforementioned changes introduced the > ability to only renew a subset of the available seats of the Board. The > rationale of the changes and the historical information about these > specific amendments can be found here: > > https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2019-July/msg00007.html > > The candidates voted for most as counted by a single transferable vote > system will be elected, except that no more than two individuals affiliated > with any one corporation may be sitting on the Board as Directors during > the same term. This holds true even in the case a subset of seats is up for > renewal: as an example if X is affiliated with the Example Inc. and his/her > seat is not up for renewal, the amount of possible candidates affiliated > with Example Inc. that may be elected would be 1 (one). On top of that and > as taken from the Foundation's Bylaws: "8.2.4: In the event that any > election of directors results in a single entity representing greater than > 40% of the Board, than the nominee representing that entity receiving the > least number of votes, shall be replaced by the nominee receiving the > greatest number of votes who was not elected to the Board." For a full > definition of corporate affiliation, see the GNOME Foundation charter at: > > https://wiki.gnome.org/Foundation/Charter > > In the event of a tie for the final slot on the board, the Elections > Committee will schedule run-off elections as soon as possible. > > --- > > More information about The GNOME Foundation Membership Committee and the > voting process can be found here: > > https://wiki.gnome.org/MembershipCommittee > https://vote.gnome.org > > -- > Cheers, > Andrea > > Principal Systems Engineer at Red Hat, > GNOME Infrastructure Team Coordinator, > Former GNOME Foundation Board of Directors Secretary, > GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee Chairman > > Homepage: https://www.dragonsreach.it > -- Cheers, Andrea Principal Systems Engineer at Red Hat, GNOME Infrastructure Team Coordinator, Former GNOME Foundation Board of Directors Secretary, GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee Chairman Homepage: https://www.dragonsreach.it
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