See the GNOME
Foundation charter for general rules.
There are 11 board slots that are
to be filled during this election.
Elections are for registered
voters (future members of the GNOME Foundation) only. Anyone who has
made a contribution to GNOME can register. You may do so by sending
email to membership-committee@gnome.org.
People with CVS accounts can add themselves to membership.txt in the
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.
An election committee consisting
of Dan Mueth, Martin Baulig, Russell Steinthal, Chris DiBona and
Sergey Panov is in charge of reviewing registration/membership
requests and will monitor the membership list for abuse, in
accordance with the charter.
To be on the ballot, anyone who is
a member can announce their candidacy, in accordance with the
timeline below, by sending mail to foundation-announce@gnome.org,
including their name, e-mail address, contributions to GNOME, and
why they want to be on the board of directors. Candidacies will be
cross-posted on foundation-list@gnome.org,
where they can be discussed.
Ballots will be sent via e-mail to
all members. To vote, members return ballots, selecting up to 11
candidates who will receive their vote. Members may not vote more
than once for the same candidate.
The 11 candidates who receive the
most votes will be elected.
Not more than 4 slots may be
occupied by individuals affiliated with any one company. See charter
for definition of affiliation and process for enforcing this rule.
If there is a tie for the 11th
slot, the candidates who are tied may choose to let the already
elected board members resolve the tie, or, at the request of any of
the tied candidates, run-off elections to resolve the tie may be
held.
Votes shall be e-mailed to a
publicly archived mailing list. The archive shall be made publicly
accessible at the conclusion of the elections.
The votes will be tallied
automatically, with the election committee stepping in to decide on
misformatted returns.
Foundation-list is the mailing
list to discuss election-related issues. The election committee will
resolve election-related disputes that are not readily resolved on
the list.
The election committee will
announce the results of the elections.
Summary Statements: All candidates
should submit 75-word max summaries of their candidacy statement for
inclusion in the ballot information sheet that will be posted on
10/25. The deadline for this is Tuesday 10/24, noon pacific time.
Candidates should also state their corporate affilitions. Statements
that are longer than 75 words will be edited down by the elections
committee. Summary statements should be continuous text: bullet
lists etc. will be converted to continuous text. For candidates who
do not submit a summary statement, the elections committee will use
a snippet from their full candidacy statement instead. If we do not
receive a sufficient number of these summary statements, the
elections committee reserves the right to post these summaries
elsewhere.
