XOrg Foundation Opens Membership and Elections

XOrg Foundation writes "To active developers and users of the X Window System:You are invited to join and help shape the direction of the new X.Org Foundation. Membership in the X.Org Foundation is now open and free.Applications for membership are sought from all contributors to the X and Desktop communities." Read more below for the rest of the information from the foundation.

The Interim Board of directors has established that examples of acceptable
contributions that will qualify you for membership in the Foundation include
coding, bug-fixing, testing, design, documentation, translation,
administration or maintenance of project-wide resources, speaking at
conferences, and supporting bugzilla or release management.

Should you wish to apply for free membership in the X.Org Foundation, then
please visit:

http://www.x.org/XOrg_Foundation_Membership.html

All Members are eligible for election to the Board of Directors and the
Architecture Group of the XOrg Foundation. The XOrg Foundation is now
seeking nominations for candidates for election to these groups.

Nominations for each election are open until 23.59 PDT on Friday 30th April
2004 for those Members of the X.Org Foundation who wish to stand for
election. You may nominate yourself for election. You may not nominate any
other member.

There will be 8 people elected to each of the Board of Directors and the
Architecture Group. In this first year of the X.Org Foundation, the four
candidates polling the most votes in each election will be granted a two
year term of office (until June 2006), and the next four candidates will
receive 1 year term of office (until June 2005). In subsequent years, four
seats of each group will be re-elected in the annual elections.

It is permissible for a candidate to stand for election for both the Board
of Directors and the Architecture Group.

The responsibilities of an elected person are detailed in the current
Bylaws of the X.Org Foundation, which can be found at:

http://www.x.org/XOrg_ByLaws_17Sep03.pdf

In addition, an elected person will be required to attend the annual
meeting of the X.Org Foundation, which will be held a location determined
in advance by the Board of Directors.

Should you wish to enter your candidacy for these elections, then please
prepare a personal statement of up to 200 words that can be provided to
prospective voters. This statement, and the statement of contribution to
the X.Org Foundation (which you completed when applying for membership)
will be made available to all voters to help them make their voting
decisions.

Once you have completed your personal statement, then you may visit:

http://www.x.org/member/XOrg_Foundation_Election_N omination.tpl

to enter your candidacy for the X.Org Foundation elections.

We look forward to your membership and candidacy submissions,

The Interim Board
X.Org Foundation."

I registered,

[nevek]

Nevek For Governor!!

Whats an xwindows system?

What the fuck?

[Anonymous Coward]

Is there a reason this is formatted like some dipshit's livejournal?

great for pickup factor

[Anonymous Coward]

well helllloooo ladies, I'm a member of X.org...

X.org election sponsored by Diebold E-Voting

[norculf]

Seriously I hope they have a more reliable system than that.

Haiku Breaks

[Anonymous Coward]

I think you meant:

the line breaks used in
t' f'ing a'ticle were
a bit excessive

-theGreater Hack-u.

This reminds me of a Nigerian scam email

[Slashdot Hivemind]

I think it's the personal addressing and the crap formatting. Are all the modalities assured in this risk free venture?

I claim the position of XOrg Fuhrer

[Anonymous Coward]

The first thing I plan to do is to cleanse the codebase of all bad code. A good programmatic cleansing from time to time helps refresh the CVS tree of liberty.

Cool..

[sokkalf]

Do you get a fancy @x.org mailaddress?

Re:X.org election sponsored by Diebold E-Voting

[nacturation]

They are using Majordomo. Everyone knows that there is no way to stuff the ballot box when you use an open mailing list.

At least it beats Diebold's system which appears to run on Majordumbass.

Re:This reminds me of a Nigerian scam email

[Ctrl-Z]

Crap formatting? It's text. You know, words arranged in a collection to form sentences, in turn arranged to form paragraphs? This sort of thing existed before the Internet.

I nominate

[KingKire64]

Bill Gates, after all look at all the wonderful stuff he hs done for windows. its so perty.

Would that make you on of the X men?

[Chuck Chunder]

And do you get a funky rubber suit and a cool name?
"Anonymo" or something?

Re:Would that make you on of the X men?

[Anonymous Coward]

well if i had a rubber suit id be late.x man

Re:Haiku Breaks

[Anonymous Coward]

You mean something like this?

Like storm-tossed forests,
cluttered and impsassable:
Those line breaks just suck.

Re:Haiku Breaks

[theGreater]

That is why I signed
My miserable attempt
theGreater HACK-u

As you can see I
Made no real attempt toward
Actual haiku.

Re:X.org election sponsored by Diebold E-Voting

[kikta]

It'll be done via a Slashdot poll... ...meaning CowboyNeal will now be running X.org.

Re:Haiku Breaks

[Hard_Code]

Summer comes again
Trolls and dorks proliferate:
we must save haiku!

Joke Haiku is bad
Disrespectful and stupid:
just go kill yourself

You're missing the point
if you think that joke haiku is
not self-mocking

Banality is
used to mock austerity:
a glorious cause

You're right this is fun
I could go on forever:
you made a monster

Re:What ever happened to simple OS?

[rizzo]

I sure hope Bush gets elected to be X.Org president.

That depends, does the person with the most votes actually win this election?