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<h1>Rules & Timeline for the GNOME Foundation 2000 Elections</h1>
<h2>Elections Rules</h2>
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See the <a href="../../about/charter/">GNOME Foundation charter</a> for
general rules.
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There are 11 board slots that are to be filled during these elections.
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<li>
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 <a
href="mailto:membership-committee@gnome.org">
membership-committee@gnome.org</a>. 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.
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An elections 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 <a href="../../about/charter/">charter</a>.
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To be on the ballot, anyone who is a member can announce their
candidacy, in accordance with the timeline below, by sending mail to <a
href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/">foundation-announce@gnome.org</a>,
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 <a
href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/">foundation-list@gnome.org</a>,
where they can be discussed.
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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.
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The 11 candidates who receive the most votes will be elected.
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Not more than 4 slots may be occupied by individuals affiliated with
any one company.
See <a href="../../about/charter/">charter</a> for definition of
affiliation and process for enforcing this rule.
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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.
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<li>
Votes shall be e-mailed to a publicly archived mailing list. The
archive shall be made publicly accessible at the conclusion of the
elections.
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The votes will be tallied automatically, with the elections committee
stepping in to decide on misformatted returns.
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<li>
<a
href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/">foundation-list@gnome.org</a>
is the mailing list to discuss elections-related issues. The elections
committee will resolve elections-related disputes that are not readily
resolved on the list.
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The elections committee will announce the results of the elections.
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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.
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<h2>Timeline</h2>
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October 23 (Monday): Deadline for candidate nominations for the
elections. Deadline for making changes to the
<a href="../../about/charter/">charter</a>.
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October 25 (Wednesday): Candidate list posted on Gnotices and
foundation-announce.
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October 30 (Monday): Deadline to register to vote.
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November 1 (Wednesday): Elections begin.
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November 8 (Wednesday): Elections end.
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