Good luck to all candidates. Who is elected to the MC will do a great job.
2014-07-19 17:17 GMT-03:00 Thorsten Behrens <[email protected]>: > Dear Community, > > all members of The Document Foundation are called to vote on a new > Membership Committee. Therefore, the Board of Directors hereby > announces the elections to the Membership Committee with the following > timeline: > > 1. 2014-07-19: announcement of the elections (this e-mail); and start of > the nomination phase > 2. 2014-08-27, 24:00 CET/UTC+2: end of the nomination phase > 3. 2014-09-04, 00:00 CET/UTC+2: official start of the elections > 4. 2014-09-11, 24:00 CET/UTC+2: end of the elections > 5. 2014-09-12: announcement of the preliminary results; and start of the > challenging phase > 6. 2014-09-17, 24:00 CET/UTC+2: end of the challenging phase > 7. 2014-09-18: official announcement of the final results > 8. 2014-09-19: new Membership Committee officially in charge > > Members of The Document Foundation as of 2014-07-01 [1] are eligible > to vote in the elections, and any eligible voter can also be elected > to the Membership Committee. Members may self-nominate. > > To announce your candidacy, send a message to > [email protected] with your full name, e-mail, > corporate affiliation (if any), and a description of your reasons for > wanting to serve as a committee member. All candidates should also > send a summary of their candicacy announcement to > [email protected] - a compilation of the summaries will > be mailed to all registered voters prior to the elections. Summaries > should be no more than 75 words of continuous text (so no bullet lists > or multiple paragraphs) and must be received by the nomination > deadline given above. > > Available slots will be filled by a single transferable vote system, > seats filled in decreasing order of preference. This election is > according to our statutes [2], and the term of office is two years. > > All discussion related to the elections should be held on > [email protected] where members are invited to ask > questions to one or all candidates. Instructions explaining how to > vote will be sent via e-mail to all eligible voters in time before the > election. > > The board will announce preliminary results as soon as possible after > the elections close, along with instructions on how to access the votes > archive and how to independently verify the vote count. > > Any eligible voter may challenge the preliminary results by e-mailing > [email protected] within the aforementioned deadline. > Once any challenges have been resolved, the board shall announce the > final results. > > Any questions regarding these procedures should be directed to the > board by e-mail to [email protected] > > We are looking forward to all candidacies, and would like to thank you > for your work, engagement and dedication for The Document Foundation! > > On behalf of the Board of Directors, > > Thorsten Behrens > > [1] http://www.documentfoundation.org/foundation/members/ > [2] http://www.documentfoundation.org/statutes.pdf > -- *Henderson Matsuura Sanches Cel. (61) 9977 - 0522 * *"Eu uso Software Livre, por que pirata, é coisa do passado!"* *Blog: http://hmatsuura.blogspot.com.br/ <http://hmatsuura.blogspot.com.br/>* *Membro da Comunidade LibreOffice Brasil - http://pt-br.libreoffice.org/sobre-nos/comunidade-brasileira/ <http://pt-br.libreoffice.org/sobre-nos/comunidade-brasileira/>* * Membro da The Document Foundation - www.documentfoundation.org/foundation/members/ <http://www.documentfoundation.org/foundation/members/>* *Sócio Efetivo da SBC - Sociedade Brasileira da Computação* *Sócio ASL - Associação Software Livre* *O formato ODF é livre, reconhecido pela ABNT o qual pode ser aberto por um programa gratuito e livre disponibilizado na página http://pt-br.libreoffice.org/baixe-ja/ <http://pt-br.libreoffice.org/baixe-ja/>* -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
