Re: New rules for the elections

[Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org>]

Le vendredi 28 octobre 2005 �9:16 +0200, Claudio Saavedra a �it :
> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 17:23 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote:
> [...]
> > I'm not saying we should block the media. I'm saying that we should try
> > to let each candidate be able to use the same way to express themselves,
> > especially on media that are closely related to GNOME (like Planet
> > GNOME).
> 
> That shouldn't be needed if every votant reads and participates in the
> discussions and debates that *should* take place in the foundation
> mailing list. Saying that exposition in Planet GNOME is needed, is
> almost saying that members are not subscribed to this mailing list or
> simply doesn't read the discussions...

Exposition in Planet GNOME is not needed, but it will happen (and this
is also a good thing since it will inform people not in the Foundation
of what is going on).

Not all members are subscribed to foundation-list. All members should be
subscribed to foundation-announce, though. I don't have any statistics,
so maybe in the end, nearly all the members are subscribed to
foundation-list.

> ...by the way, does debate and discussion during elections really
> happen? I think that the past year debates came too late. Don't really
> know how was in previous elections (I wasn't suscrited and wasn't member
> either). Probably this 11-or-7 issue is generating more momentum for the
> next election, so I hope we'll have opportune debates in the list this
> time. We'll see.

Ah, this is interesting feedback. Would you like to see more time for
debate this year? The nearly-frozen timeline for this year is:

   November 2005
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
       1  2  3 (4) 5   applications/renewals closed (4th)
 6 (7) 8  9 10 11 12   list of candidates open (7th)
13(14)15(16)17 18 19   list of candidates closed (14th)
                       list of candidates announced (16th)
20 21 22 23 24(25)26   ballots are sent (25th)
27 28 29 30

   December 2005
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
             1  2  3
 4  5  6  7  8 (9)(10) ballots must be returned (9th)
                       preliminary results announced (10th)
11 12 13 14 15 16 17
18 19 20 21 22(23)24   challenges to the results close (23rd)
25 26 27 28 29 30 31



Vincent

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