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

[Laurent Pinchart]

Hi Ricardo,

On Sun, Mar 31, 2024 at 10:24:00PM +0200, Ricardo Garcia 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.

This is the part I commented about in my reply. Mails being held in
queues for a long time has happened multiple times in the past, and has
result in at least one occasion in people not being notified in time
about membership renewal and elections. I don't know what happens behind
the scene, but a delay of two months doesn't seem normal to me.
Something needs to be fixed to make sure such problems will not occur
again.

> 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 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

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Regards,

Laurent Pinchart