2024 X.Org Foundation Membership deadline for voting in the election

[Jonathan Martin]

Ricardo:

Please don’t mistake me for being upset. I’m amused even to start. I don’t know what I contribute except my amusement at being here. It feels like “The Talos Principle.”

I am somewhat upset to think we’re being reduced to project managers managing project managers.

~Jonathan

> On Mar 31, 2024, at 1:24 PM, Ricardo Garcia <rgarcia at igalia.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello Jonathan, Laurent:
> 
> Part of the "spam" that you received today was likely me going over
> several x.org mailing lists making sure no old legitimate messages were
> being blocked in their queues. I know some people got a bit tired of
> receiving multiple emails with the same topic today, so sorry about
> that.
> 
> The reason for me going over the mailing lists is that this year the
> number of people who have renewed or applied for their x.org membership
> is strangely low, so I wanted to make sure every message (even old ones)
> reached every subscriber and, at the risk of being slightly annoying,
> certainly they would catch many eyes.
> 
> Answering your questions: X.Org memberships last 1 year, so if you want
> to continue being an X.Org Foundation member you have to renew every
> year.
> 
> What does being a member get you? You can vote in elections to the board
> of directors and sometimes in other matters. For example, last year we
> also voted to change the fiscal sponsorship from SPI to SFC (this was
> accepted), and to make a small change to one of the bylaws (this was
> rejected). The current version of the bylaws can be found here:
> 
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorgfoundation/bylaws/blob/master/bylaws.pdf
> 
> Normally, we start the membership renewal process just before the
> elections, so that people renew and are more or less immediately able to
> vote.
> 
> If you want to know what the X.Org Foundation does or what are the
> duties of the board of directors, let me shamelessly point you to my own
> blog, because I wrote a post about that not long ago:
> 
> https://rg3.name/202305240752.html
> 
> Note this is just a personal post, not anything official coming from the
> board. In any case, I hope you find the information there useful, but do
> let us know if you have any other questions.
> 
> Again, sorry for the spam today and best regards,
> 
> -Ricardo
> 
> On Sun, 2024-03-31 at 05:26 -0700, Jonathan Martin wrote:
>> To X.org:
>> 
>> I have also received these emails with no distinction as to whether I need to renew. I’ve only just arrived to this cohort and so far I can’t tell what it does except offer a parliamentary hello.
>> 
>> ~Jonathan
>> 
>>> On Mar 31, 2024, at 5:13 AM, Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart at ideasonboard.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hello Christopher,
>>> 
>>> (Trimming the CC list)
>>> 
>>> I've just received a total of 7 e-mails sent to the events at lists.x.org
>>> list related to this topic in one go, with the oldest one dating from
>>> February the 7th. This issue keeps repeating year after year, and while
>>> it didn't impact me this time as I received the news through other
>>> lists, it really calls for a structural solution.
>>> 
>>> On Wed, Feb 07, 2024 at 05:38:26AM -0500, Christopher Michael wrote:
>>>> The 2024 X.Org Foundation elections are rapidly approaching. We will be 
>>>> forwarding the election schedule and nominating process to the 
>>>> membership shortly.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Please note that only current members can vote in the upcoming election, 
>>>> and that the deadline for new memberships or renewals to vote in the 
>>>> upcoming election is 26 February 2024 at 23:59 UTC.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> If you are interested in joining the X.Org Foundation or in renewing 
>>>> your membership, please visit the membership system site at: 
>>>> https://members.x.org/
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Christopher Michael, on behalf of the X.Org elections committee
>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> Regards,
>>> 
>>> Laurent Pinchart
>> 
>> 
>