Re: Board of Directors candidacy question

2019-05-27 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi Britt, we're thinking about extending the candidacy period like we did last year. You'll get notice once we've decided to do so. Reg. your second question: I guess it's best to mention your constraints in your platform and let the membership decide. Cheers, Tobi On Sun, 2019-05-26 at 18:5

Re: Board of Directors candidacy question

2019-05-27 Thread Robert McQueen
Hi Britt, Great to see you decided to go ahead and submit your candidacy! By way of context, I'd say the minimum time commitment is around 2 hours a week. We have a 1hr meeting every 2 weeks, and try to use the alternative weeks as work sessions to make progress on the board's projects. You need a

Bug in the membership application form

2019-05-27 Thread Andrea Veri
Membership, there seems to be a bug in the membership form [1] that triggers in specific situations (i.e when one of the text boxes for account name, email, jabber account is filled in) that prevents the form to actually submit and generate an actual ticket for the membership committee to process.

Re: Announcing Board of Directors Elections 2019: revamped timeline

2019-05-27 Thread Robert McQueen
On Mon, 2019-05-27 at 12:40 +0200, Andrea Veri wrote: > Foundation members, Dear Andrea, > due to no candidacies being received for the 2019 elections Is this a clerical / copy paste error from an old announcement? From my perspective I have seen four timely candidacies per the old timeline (m

Re: Announcing Board of Directors Elections 2019: revamped timeline

2019-05-27 Thread Andrea Veri
Robert, I didn't express myself clearly enough: I really meant we haven't received enough candidacies for the elections and the voting phase to begin, thus the need to extend the timelines. We currently collected a total of 5 candidates, 2 to go for the elections to actually start: Allan Day Brit

Re: Announcing Board of Directors Elections 2019: revamped timeline

2019-05-27 Thread mcatanzaro
On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 7:12 AM, Andrea Veri wrote: I didn't express myself clearly enough: I really meant we haven't received enough candidacies for the elections and the voting phase to begin, thus the need to extend the timelines. We currently collected a total of 5 candidates, 2 to go for th

Re: Announcing Board of Directors Elections 2019: revamped timeline

2019-05-27 Thread Nuritzi Sanchez
On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 5:48 AM wrote: > This seems like case in point for why we should switch to two-year > terms! Hopefully this will be the final election in which we elect > seven directors all at the same time. > > Michael > +1. All of the current board members are in agreement that this s

Re: Minutes of the board meeting of April 29, 2019

2019-05-27 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi Carlos, Rob, thanks for the fantastic answers :) You've written: On Wed, 2019-05-22 at 14:18 +0200, Carlos Soriano wrote: > While my duty if I want to continue this work is to apply again and > convince the membership to vote for me, this have a non-negligible > overhead. In my case, the unc

Re: Announcing Board of Directors Elections 2019: revamped timeline

2019-05-27 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi, On Mon, 2019-05-27 at 07:48 -0500, mcatanz...@gnome.org wrote: > On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 7:12 AM, Andrea Veri wrote: > > I didn't express myself clearly enough: I really meant we haven't > > received enough candidacies for the elections and the voting phase > > to > > begin, thus the need to

Re: Announcing Board of Directors Elections 2019: revamped timeline

2019-05-27 Thread meg ford via foundation-list
Hi, On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 12:41 PM Tobias Mueller wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 2019-05-27 at 07:48 -0500, mcatanz...@gnome.org wrote: > > On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 7:12 AM, Andrea Veri wrote: > > > I didn't express myself clearly enough: I really meant we haven't > > > received enough candidacies f

Re: Announcing Board of Directors Elections 2019: revamped timeline

2019-05-27 Thread Richard Stallman
[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] The members deserve to have a choice of candidates. It is not good to fill the board