<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body>Voted few days ago but also not sure if it was too early, or if it was received at all.<div><br></div><div>Mihovil</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><!-- originalMessage --><div>-------- Izvorna poruka --------</div><div>Šalje: Tanstaafl <tanstaafl@libertytrek.org> </div><div>Datum: 25.2.2016. 19:11 (GMT+01:00) </div><div>To: tb-planning@mozilla.org </div><div>Naslov: Re: Do only 28 people care about the future of Thunderbird? Please vote! </div><div><br></div>
I voted, but never got any notification of the receipt of my vote.<br />
<br />
Should I have? If not, why wasn't this done? It is easy to send an<br />
auto-response saying 'Thanks for your vote!'...<br />
<br />
<br />
On 2/25/2016 12:47 PM, R Kent James <kent@caspia.com> wrote:<br />
> As of yesterday, according to Gerv only 28 people had cast a vote in the <br />
> ongoing process to confirm a reorganized Thunderbird Council. That is a <br />
> turnout of less than 15% of the people eligible to vote, and that is too <br />
> few.<br />
> <br />
> I strongly encourage you to participate in this voting process. I've <br />
> copied Gerv's instructions below. You have less than two days to do this!<br />
> <br />
> :rkent<br />
> <br />
> On 2/16/2016 4:24 AM, Gervase Markham wrote:<br />
>> The following message gives the arrangements for the approval vote for<br />
>> the new Thunderbird Council.<br />
>><br />
>> Do NOT send votes to tb-planning.<br />
>><br />
>> Timing<br />
>> ------<br />
>><br />
>> Voting opens at 00:00:01 UTC on Saturday 20th February. The deadline<br />
>> for sending votes is 23:59:59 UTC on Friday 26rd February, one week later.<br />
>><br />
>> This may be delayed in the unlikely event that Mozilla IT don't set up<br />
>> the voting email address in time.<br />
>><br />
>> Motion<br />
>> ------<br />
>><br />
>> Voters will be approving or rejecting the following motion:<br />
>><br />
>> "The Thunderbird community endorses the following list of candidates to<br />
>> form a Thunderbird Council and lead the project until either a) one year<br />
>> has elapsed from the date this motion passes, or b) an organizational<br />
>> home is chosen and a new governance model is put in place. A condition<br />
>> of approval is that, in the case of b), the new Council commits to<br />
>> working in good faith with the new organizational home to implement<br />
>> governance arrangements which are acceptable to that organization, in a<br />
>> timely fashion. Or, if the organization has no governance requirements,<br />
>> the Council commits to consult on and implement a governance reform process.<br />
>><br />
>> If vacancies arise on the Council during its period of office, the<br />
>> Council may leave them unfilled, or fill them using a mechanism of its<br />
>> own choosing.<br />
>><br />
>> The list of candidates is:<br />
>><br />
>> Florian Quèze<br />
>> Joshua Cranmer<br />
>> Jörg Knobloch<br />
>> Kent James<br />
>> Magnus Melin<br />
>> Matt Harris<br />
>> Patrick Cloke<br />
>> Philipp Kewisch<br />
>> Wayne Mery"<br />
>><br />
>> Eligibility<br />
>> -----------<br />
>><br />
>> Eligible voters are those who were subscribed to tb-planning as of 27th<br />
>> January 2016, or who are unsubscribed now but have posted to the list in<br />
>> 2015 or 2016.<br />
>><br />
>> Voting Process<br />
>> --------------<br />
>><br />
>> Voting will be by secret ballot. To vote, please send an email to:<br />
>><br />
>> <a class="normal-link" href="mailto:thunderbird-vote@mozilla.org">thunderbird-vote@mozilla.org</a><br />
>><br />
>> from the email address which is subscribed to tb-planning@mozilla.org.<br />
>> Votes must clearly indicate "Yes" or "No", in English. Unclear votes<br />
>> will be disregarded. The last clear vote from any voter before the<br />
>> deadline will be the one accepted.<br />
>><br />
>> Submission email addresses will be checked against the tb-planning<br />
>> subscriber list for an _exact_ (case-insensitive) match. If you are<br />
>> claiming eligibility based on previous interactions rather than current<br />
>> subscription, you must include a link to a Google Group archived message<br />
>> that you posted to the list (from the email address you are voting with)<br />
>> on or after 1st January 2015.<br />
>><br />
>> The scrutineers will examine the message to attempt to determine the<br />
>> sending date and time, but it is advised that you not vote close to the<br />
>> deadline. The last-dated clear vote from any address will be counted.<br />
>> Individual voters should not attempt to vote from more than one<br />
>> subscribed address; anyone caught doing so will be publicly named.<br />
>><br />
>> Voters may choose, if they wish, to sign their votes using email signing<br />
>> technology.<br />
>><br />
>> Counting and Reporting<br />
>> ----------------------<br />
>><br />
>> The email address above sends copies of the voting emails to the<br />
>> scrutineers, Gervase Markham and Ben Bucksch, who has kindly agreed to<br />
>> serve in this capacity alongside me. Both scrutineers commit to keeping<br />
>> the votes confidential.<br />
>><br />
>> Once the deadline passes, the scrutineers will independently count the<br />
>> votes, and in case of a difference, reconcile the discrepancy until they<br />
>> are as agreed as possible. They will then report the result to the<br />
>> tb-planning mailing list, giving:<br />
>><br />
>> * Number of Yes votes<br />
>> * Number of No votes<br />
>> * Number of votes discounted due to being unclear<br />
>> * Number of votes discounted due to voter ineligibility<br />
>> * Number of votes discounted due to being late or early<br />
>> * Number of votes discounted because the two scrutineers could not<br />
>> agree on a determination<br />
>><br />
>> The motion shall be considered passed if the number of Yes votes<br />
>> strictly exceeds the number of No votes. If the number of votes in the<br />
>> final category listed above is equal to or greater than the margin of<br />
>> victory, the ballot shall be re-run.<br />
>><br />
>> Gerv<br />
<br />
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