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<title>Fellowship vote for GA seats – Call for nominations</title>
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<h1>Fellowship vote for GA seats – Call for nominations</h1>
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<p newsteaser="yes">The election for the first Fellowship seat in FSFE's
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General Assembly will finish on 1 June in time for the next general
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assembly, which is scheduled for 19-21 June in Miraflores de la Sierra,
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Spain.</p>
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<p>Now is the time to prepare for elections, which will provide the
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Fellowship with a direct representation in FSFE's strategic decision
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making body.</p>
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<p>As you might have read there are two seats. The elections this year are
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for the first seat, while the second seat will come up next year. Those
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elected will serve a two year term and there will thus be one election
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per year from now on.</p>
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<p>The Fellowship representative will be serving as an full member of the
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General Assembly with all rights and obligations of other members. To get an
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idea of the people the new elected representative will be working with, you can
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take a look at <a href="/about/team.html">the
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members page</a>.</p>
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<dl>
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<dt>Who can vote?</dt>
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<dd>All registered Fellows can vote.</dd>
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<dt>Who can be elected?</dt>
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<dd>To be a candidate, you need to have been an active Fellow for at least a
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year before the election to make sure that the people elected into the GA are
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familiar with the organisation and its work.</dd>
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<dt>Election Platform</dt>
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<dd>All candidates should use the <a
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href="http://wiki.fsfe.org">wiki</a> and/or <a
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href="http://planet.fsfe.org">blog</a> as a promotion platform, so that
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it will be possible for their Fellow voters to know them. (Fellows can also
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choose to make the wiki page only visible for other Fellows).</dd>
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<dt>Voting System</dt>
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<dd>For the voting process we will use the Schulze
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method, a popular voting system used by Debian, Wikimedia and others. It's a
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well tested method and has proven to be resistant to voting anomalies.</dd>
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</dl>
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<p>To become a candidate, please send an e-mail, <strong>no later than 31
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March</strong>, to <a
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href="mailto:fellowship@fsfeurope.org">fellowship@fsfeurope.org</a> with the
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subject line <em>"Candidate Fellowship seat"</em>. In the email you should
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state that you want to run for election to the GA along with information about
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yourself, which we can use to compile the list of candidates for all
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Fellows.</p>
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<p>You can only register yourself as a candidate. If you know other Fellows
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that you consider would be good candidates, please motivate them to
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register.</p>
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<p>If you have any further questions, don't hesitate to contact Fellowship
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Coordinator Matthias Kirschner via <a
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href="mailto:fellowship@fsfeurope.org">fellowship@fsfeurope.org</a>.</p>
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<p>For reference please see:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>Our announcement <a
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href="http://fsfeurope.org/news/2008/news-20081210-01.en.html">"FSFE
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adds Fellowship representation to General Assembly"</a> from 10
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December 2008.</li>
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<li><a href="http://fsfeurope.org/about/legal/constitution.en.html">FSFE's
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constitution</a></li>
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</ul>
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