Re: Announcing Board of Directors Elections 2019: revamped timeline

2019-05-27 Thread Richard Stallman
[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] The members deserve to have a choice of candidates. It is not good to fill the

Re: Announcing Board of Directors Elections 2019: revamped timeline

2019-05-27 Thread meg ford via foundation-list
Hi, On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 12:41 PM Tobias Mueller wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 2019-05-27 at 07:48 -0500, mcatanz...@gnome.org wrote: > > On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 7:12 AM, Andrea Veri wrote: > > > I didn't express myself clearly enough: I really meant we haven't > > > received enough candidacies

Re: Announcing Board of Directors Elections 2019: revamped timeline

2019-05-27 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi, On Mon, 2019-05-27 at 07:48 -0500, mcatanz...@gnome.org wrote: > On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 7:12 AM, Andrea Veri wrote: > > I didn't express myself clearly enough: I really meant we haven't > > received enough candidacies for the elections and the voting phase > > to > > begin, thus the need to

Re: Announcing Board of Directors Elections 2019: revamped timeline

2019-05-27 Thread Nuritzi Sanchez
On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 5:48 AM wrote: > This seems like case in point for why we should switch to two-year > terms! Hopefully this will be the final election in which we elect > seven directors all at the same time. > > Michael > +1. All of the current board members are in agreement that this

Re: Announcing Board of Directors Elections 2019: revamped timeline

2019-05-27 Thread mcatanzaro
On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 7:12 AM, Andrea Veri wrote: I didn't express myself clearly enough: I really meant we haven't received enough candidacies for the elections and the voting phase to begin, thus the need to extend the timelines. We currently collected a total of 5 candidates, 2 to go for

Re: Announcing Board of Directors Elections 2019: revamped timeline

2019-05-27 Thread Andrea Veri
Robert, I didn't express myself clearly enough: I really meant we haven't received enough candidacies for the elections and the voting phase to begin, thus the need to extend the timelines. We currently collected a total of 5 candidates, 2 to go for the elections to actually start: Allan Day

Re: Announcing Board of Directors Elections 2019: revamped timeline

2019-05-27 Thread Robert McQueen
On Mon, 2019-05-27 at 12:40 +0200, Andrea Veri wrote: > Foundation members, Dear Andrea, > due to no candidacies being received for the 2019 elections Is this a clerical / copy paste error from an old announcement? From my perspective I have seen four timely candidacies per the old timeline