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<OL> <OL>
<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">See the <A HREF="charter.html">GNOME <LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">See the <A HREF="charter.html">GNOME
Foundation charter</A> for general rules.</P> Foundation charter</A> for general rules.</P>
<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">There are 11 board slots that are <LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">There are 11 board slots that are
to be filled during this election.</P> to be filled during this election.</P>
<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">Elections are for registered
voters (future members of the GNOME Foundation) only. Anyone who has <LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">Members of the GNOME
made a contribution to GNOME can register. You may do so by sending Foundation as of November 8, 2001 are eligible to vote in the
email to <A HREF="mailto:membership@gnome.org">membership@gnome.org</A>. election. Anyone who has made a contribution to GNOME can
People with CVS accounts can add themselves to membership.txt in the apply for membership by completing the <a href="http://foundation.gnome.org/membership-form.html">application</a>.
Gnome-Foundation module. People who register to vote will
automatically become members of the yet-to-be-incorporated GNOME
Foundation, although anyone can withdraw their membership at any
time.
</P> </P>
<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">An election committee consisting
of Dan Mueth, Martin Baulig, Russell Steinthal, Chris DiBona and <LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">Any eligible voter is
Sergey Panov is in charge of reviewing registration/membership eligible to be elected to the Board of Directors. To announce
requests and will monitor the membership list for abuse, in your candidacy, send a message to
accordance with the charter.</P> foundation-announce@gnome.org with your full name, e-mail,
<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">To be on the ballot, anyone who is corporate affiliation (if any), and a description of your
a member can announce their candidacy, in accordance with the reasons for wanting to serve as a director. Candidacies must
timeline below, by sending mail to <A HREF="mailto:foundation-announce@gnome.org">foundation-announce@gnome.org</A>, be announced prior to November 8, 2001, 23:59 UTC.</P>
including their name, e-mail address, contributions to GNOME, and
why they want to be on the board of directors. Candidacies will be <LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">All candidates should mail a
cross-posted on <A HREF="mailto:foundation-list@gnome.org">foundation-list@gnome.org</A>, summary of their candicacy announcement (see previous rule) to
where they can be discussed.</P> elections@gnome.org. Summaries should be no more than 75
<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">Ballots will be sent via e-mail to words of continuous text (i.e. no bullet lists or multiple
all members. To vote, members return ballots, selecting up to 11 paragraphs) and must be received by the nomination deadline
candidates who will receive their vote. Members may not vote more given above. A compilation of the summaries will be mailed to
than once for the same candidate.</P> all registered voters several days prior to the election.</LI>
<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">The 11 candidates who receive the
most votes will be elected.</P> <LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">All discussion related to
<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">Not more than 4 slots may be the election should be held on foundation-list@gnome.org.
occupied by individuals affiliated with any one company. See charter Members are invited to ask questions of one or all candidates
for definition of affiliation and process for enforcing this rule.</P> on that list.</P>
<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">If there is a tie for the 11th
slot, the candidates who are tied may choose to let the already <LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">Ballots will be sent via
elected board members resolve the tie, or, at the request of any of e-mail to all eligible voters on November 13, 2001, and must
the tied candidates, run-off elections to resolve the tie may be be returned by November 20, 2001, 23:59 UTC (18:59 EST). Full
held.</P> instructions will be included in the ballot.</P>
<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">Votes shall be e-mailed to a
publicly archived mailing list. The archive shall be made publicly <LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">Ballots will be held
accessible at the conclusion of the elections.</P> confidential during the election, but an archive of all
<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">The votes will be tallied submitted ballots will be made publicly accessible at its
automatically, with the election committee stepping in to decide on conclusion.</P>
misformatted returns.
</P> <LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">The Elections Committe is
<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">Foundation-list is the mailing responsible for counting the ballots, after taking appropriate
list to discuss election-related issues. The election committee will action to fix misformatted ballots.</P>
resolve election-related disputes that are not readily resolved on
the list.</P> <LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">The 11 candidates who
<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">The election committee will receive the most votes will be elected, except that no more
announce the results of the elections.</P> than four individuals affiliated with any one corporation may
<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">Summary Statements: All candidates be elected. Should more than four of the top eleven
should submit 75-word max summaries of their candidacy statement for vote-getters be affiliated with the same company, only the
inclusion in the ballot information sheet that will be posted on four with the most votes will be considered elected. For a
10/25. The deadline for this is Tuesday 10/24, noon pacific time. full definition of corporate affiliation, see the GNOME
Candidates should also state their corporate affilitions. Statements Foundation Charter.</P>
that are longer than 75 words will be edited down by the elections
committee. Summary statements should be continuous text: bullet <LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">In the event of a tie for
lists etc. will be converted to continuous text. For candidates who the final slot on the board, the Elections Committee will
do not submit a summary statement, the elections committee will use schedule a run-off election as soon as possible.</P>
a snippet from their full candidacy statement instead. If we do not
receive a sufficient number of these summary statements, the <LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">The Elections Committee will
elections committee reserves the right to post these summaries announce preliminary results as soon as possible after the
elsewhere.</P> election closes, along with instructions on how to access the
ballot archive and how to independently verify the vote
count.</P>
<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">Any eligible voter may challenge the preliminary
results by e-mailing elections@gnome.org prior to November 27,
2001. The decision of the Elections Committee as to any
challenge shall be final. Once any challenges have been
resolved, the Elections Committee shall announce the final
results.</P>
<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">Any questions regarding
these procedures should be directed to the Elections Committee
by e-mail to elections@gnome.org. The committee shall have
the power to make any necessary changes or clarifications to
these rules at any point during the election.</P>
</OL> </OL>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><BR> <P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><BR>
</P> </P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><U>Timeline</U></P> <P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><U>Timeline (all deadlines are 23:59
UTC/18:59 EST):</U></P>
<UL> <UL>
<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">October 23 (Monday): Deadline for <LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">November 8 (Thursday): Last
candidate nominations for the elections. Deadline for making changes day to announce candidacies, submit summary statements, and
to the charter.</P> apply for membership (to be eligible for this election).</p>
<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">October 25 (Wednesday): Candidate <LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">November 10 (Saturday):
list posted on Gnotices and foundation-announce.</P> Final list of candidates, platform summaries posted to
<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">October 30 (Monday): Deadline to GNotices and mailed to foundation-announce@gnome.org</P></LI>
register to vote.</P> <LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">November 13 (Tuesday):
<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">November 1 (Wednesday): Elections Ballots mailed to eligible voters, voting begins.</P></LI>
begin.</P> <LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">November 20 (Tuesday):
<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">November 8 (Wednesday): Elections Voting closes.</P></LI>
end.</P> <LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">November 27 (Tuesday): Last
day to challenge preliminary results</P>
</UL> </UL>
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</P> </P>