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							|  |  |  | <P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><B>Elections Announcement</B></P> | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | <P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">The first-ever elections for the GNOME | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | Foundation's Board of Directors will be held November 1-8. The GNOME | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | Foundation will coordinate GNOME releases, speak on behalf of the | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | GNOME project and more.  | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | <P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">Anyone who has contributed in any way | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | to GNOME is welcome to vote, but first you must register.  | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | <P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><B>Register to vote</B> by October 30 | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | as follows:</P> | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | <P STYLE="margin-left: 0.79in; margin-bottom: 0in">with your name, | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | email address, and a short list of how you contributed to GNOME.  | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | <P STYLE="margin-left: 0.79in; margin-bottom: 0in">eg: Havoc | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | Pennington <hp@no_spam.redhat.com> (GConf, GTK+, gnome-libs, | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | odd jobs)</P> | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | <P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">Please respect this format or you're | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | going to drive Martin and Dan crazy! People with CVS accounts can | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | just add themselves to membership.txt in the gnome-foundation module.</P> | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | <P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">Everyone who is registered to vote can | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | also submit their candidacy for the election. There are 11 slots on | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | the board, so the 11 candidates with the highest number of votes will | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | be elected. To <B>announce your candidacy</B>, please check out the | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | <A HREF="overview.html">overview page</A>. The deadline to submit | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | candidacies is October 23.  | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | <P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">Ballots will be sent to all registered | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | voters via email.  The list of candidates will also be posted on | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | foundation-announce and Gnotices on October 25.</P> | 
					
						
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