Forgot the links: [1] https://vote.gnome.org/2012/rules.html [2] https://vote.gnome.org/2013/rules.html
2013/5/22 Andrea Veri <a...@gnome.org> > 2013/5/22 Joanmarie Diggs <jdi...@igalia.com> > >> On 05/21/2013 10:46 PM, Karen Sandler wrote: >> > On Tue, May 21, 2013 1:14 pm, Richard Stallman wrote: >> >> The number of candidates so far is pretty small -- I saw only 8 -- so >> >> we will not have much choice in our voting. >> >> >> >> On general principles, and not as criticism of the people who have >> >> already stepped into the race, I think it would be good for more >> >> people to run. I encourage you, and everyone who has already run, to >> >> stay in the race. >> > >> > I am pleased to say that the candidates we already have are *all* >> > exceptionally strong. I feel that I should point out that there are one >> > or two people who would probably join the race as well if we extended >> the >> > deadline. As I said, though, the current candidates are pretty awesome >> and >> > they all got their announcements in on time :) >> >> True, but the announcement period this time was shorter. In 2012, the >> announcement went out 17 April with a deadline of 20 May. [1] This time, >> the announcement went out 6 May with a deadline of 19 May. [2] Given >> Richard's observation that we have a lack of choice combined with the >> shorter announcement period, I wonder if it would be worth extending the >> call for candidates for, say, another week. >> > > Yearly the GNOME Foundation Membership Committee has a meeting to decide > when and how the elections should take place. It seems that both on the > past [1] and the current year [2] the timeline for proposing candidacies > was 13 days. Apparently on 2012 the Board didn't coordinate with the > committee and decided to send out the announcement earlier on the 17th of > April. While I agree we should send out the announcement a bit earlier the > next year (maybe moving the "Announcements and list of candidates opens" to > April?) I feel there's no real reason to postpone the last date for > proposing new candidacies given the fact that no one expressed an interest > in sending out a candidacy after the 20th of May neither publicly or > privately to me or to any other member of the membership committee. 13 days > is a good amount of time for thinking deeply about running or not and for > writing a little sum up of what the candidate has achieved in term of > contributions during the past months / years. > > > -- > Cheers, > > Andrea > > Debian Developer, > Fedora / EPEL packager, > GNOME Sysadmin, > GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee Chairman > > Homepage: http://www.gnome.org/~av > -- Cheers, Andrea Debian Developer, Fedora / EPEL packager, GNOME Sysadmin, GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee Chairman Homepage: http://www.gnome.org/~av
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