Luc is right, there is a limit of 2 board members who work for a given company.
And company affiliations should be clearly visible on the candidate list. The procedure followed in a prior election, was that after tallying votes, only the two highest-scoring reps were approved as members of the board. Leon on Fri, 5 Feb 2010 10:20:43 +0100 Luc Verhaegen wrote: > >On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 11:17:22PM -0800, Barton C Massey wrote: >> Voting for the 2010 Election of the X.Org Foundation Board >> of Directors opens Friday 5 Feb 2010 at 0100 UTC, and closes >> Thursday 18 Feb 2010 at 2300 UTC. All current Members of >> the X.Org Foundation are eligible to vote in this election. >> Members may vote by logging in to the web app at >> https://members.x.org >> >> Four seats are open for two-year terms, and one additional >> seat is open for a one-year term to finish the term vacated >> by Daniel Stone's resignation. >> >> For the list of candidates and their personal and >> contribution statements, please see >> http://wiki.x.org/wiki/BoardOfDirectors/Elections/2010 >> >> Thank you for your support of X.Org. >> >> Bart Massey >> Election Committee Chair >> X.Org Foundation Board of Directors >> b...@cs.pdx.edu > >It would be interested to see company affiliations in the wiki here to >remind members who works for what company. > >I seem to remember that the bylaws state that only 2 people from a given >one company are allowed a seat on the board, and i am counting 3 intel >employees here. It would be nice to know what happens when all three >have been voted to the board. > >Luc Verhaegen. >_______________________________________________ >members mailing list >memb...@foundation.x.org >http://foundation.x.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/members Shiman Associates Incorporated 163 Tappan Street Brookline MA 02445 USA office: +1.617.277.0087 mobile: +1 617.642.5366 [US] _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg