Hi, The GNOME Foundation Board has decided that the next Foundation Elections will use a preferential voting mechanism, namely Single Transferable Vote (STV) [1].
When this was discussed in the past (eg, [2] [3]), the community mostly seemed to like the idea and there were proposals to at least try it out once to see if it works well. Therefore, we believe that this decision simply reflects the position of the community. As a reminder, the current board was elected to serve until June 30th, 2009. The next elections will therefore happen in May/June. Thanks, Vincent [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Transferable_Vote [2] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2008-February/msg00007.html [3] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2009-February/msg00000.html -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. _______________________________________________ foundation-announce mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-announce
