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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Everybody,</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">it's the last day.</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">If you care about Thunderbird at all,
please consider to run. This election is very important for the
future of Thunderbird.
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Unless there are enough candidates, the
elections and the whole community oversight concept are pointless.
We need at least 14 candidates, if I want to have a choice between
2 people for each spot. We currently have <b>only 6 candidates</b>,
and it's the last day.</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">If you don't know what to write about
yourself in the email, it doesn't matter. All that matters is
that you care about Thunderbird and its users.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">We need 10 more people standing up.</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Ben Bucksch<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 21.09.20 um 16:13 schrieb Ben
Bucksch:<br>
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<p>Hello TB community members,</p>
<p>I hope that you have received the email titled "[tb-election]
Thunderbird Council Elections - Nomination Deadline: Tuesday,
September 23, 2020". As of this date, as part of the normal
electorate, I have not received even a single nomination. That
makes me uneasy.<br>
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<p>I would like to urge all of you to consider whether you want
to serve as TB Council member. The last elections, there was
very little choice of candidates, so in fact I was <i>forced</i>
to vote for people that I did not want to vote for, because
there simply were not enough candidates.</p>
<p>If you care about Thunderbird, please consider whether you
want to help out in this important role. Even if you have not
been deeply involved in the Thunderbird project, but only been
helping out here and there, but you care about Thunderbird and
its future health, and you <a
href="https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird/Council_Elections_2020"
moz-do-not-send="true">qualify</a>, you may stand for the TB
Council. If nothing else, to fill the candidate list, so that
we have enough choice.</p>
<p>Please think about why you care about Thunderbird. Why it's
important for you. What you would like to see preserved.</p>
<p>Also, please think about what is important for you in the
project structure. Transparency, so that you know what's going
on? How the Thunderbird donations are used? Participation, so
that you have a voice and will be listened to, esp. in
important decisions that decide on the future of the project?
That people are constructive, on both ends of an argument, and
seek good solutions?</p>
<p>We really need to have more people standing as TB Council
candidates. People that reflect the wishes of the Thunderbird
users as a whole. We simply do not have enough candidates. If
you care about Thunderbird users and think that you have a
positive, constructive approach, please consider to help out.</p>
<p>As work load, you can expect 2 meetings per month, typically
on an evening, plus internal mailing list chatter.<br>
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<p>Ben<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 17. Sept. 2020 at 01:00 AM CEST:<br>
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<div>Welcome to the 2020 Thunderbird Council Elections ... We
are opening the nomination period, which will conclude on
Wednesday, September 23, 2020.<br>
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<div>Members of the electorate who desire to stand for election
should send their self-announcement to this mailing list (<a
href="mailto:tb-election@mozilla.org" moz-do-not-send="true">tb-election@mozilla.org</a>),
titled: “Standing for Election: <name>”, and stating in
the body of the email:<br>
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<div> a) name;<br>
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<div> b) current professional affiliation (if any);<br>
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<div> c) a statement summarizing their contributions to
Thunderbird; and<br>
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<div> d) a personal statement.<br>
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...<br>
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<div>During the nomination period, ... only messages for
contributors standing for election will be posted.</div>
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