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

[Ricardo Garcia]

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
> 
>