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Simon Phipps posted this today to the announcement mailing list:
“Having received no objections to the preliminary election results I posted on October 20th within the period described in the election rules, it is now my pleasure to declare the results of the 2011 Board elections for The Document Foundation.
I declare the following Members of The Document Foundation duly elected as Board Members:
I declare the following Members of The Document Foundation duly elected as Deputies:
Full election materials can be found at https://elections.documentfoundation.org/2011/
Thanks for the opportunity to contribute to The Document Foundation in this way, and congratulations to the Board members on their election.”
Are you looking for ways to enhance your free office suite? Do you need some nice templates? The Document Foundation is proud to announce that today, the LibreOffice Extensions and Templates repository has been put online at
http://extensions.libreoffice.org
and
http://templates.libreoffice.org
This new website is one of the many community efforts at the LibreOffice project. Led by Andreas Mantke, a team of international community volunteers has worked hard during the past weeks to make this new repository possible, to the benefit of millions of LibreOffice and free office users worldwide.
We welcome everyone to try out the growing number of available extensions, and we invite developers to upload their own templates and plugins, to make them available to users worldwide.
The election results have been processed using OpenSTV by multiple members of the Membership Committee, and I am now confident that we have a result ready for review pending confirmation next week. Full election materials can be found at https://elections.documentfoundation.org/2011/
PRELIMINARY RESULTS
Candidates are sorted here in their order of overall preference after all preferences have been considered according to the Meek STV with Droop-Dynamic-Fractional threshold method. The first seven preferences will be elected as Board members after confirmation; the remaining three will be elected as Deputies.
Board Members:
DEPUTIES:
CONFIRMATION PERIOD:
The detailed results of running OpenSTV can be found at https://elections.documentfoundation.org/results.php?election_id=1 and a list of all votes cast can be found at https://elections.documentfoundation.org/votes.php?election_id=1
You can run the calculation yourself using OpenSTV from http://www.openstv.org/; the machine-readable votes are at https://elections.documentfoundation.org/blt.php?election_id=1 and the preference ordering is achieved by sorting according to keep factor in the final round of calculation.
Any eligible voter may challenge the preliminary results by e-mailing elections@documentfoundation.org prior to 2011-10-26 at 23:59 UTC with a detailed explanation of their challenge. The decision of the Membership Committee as to any challenge shall be final. Once any challenges have been resolved, the Membership Committee shall announce the final results.
Have you seen our new and improved way of filing bugs for LibreOffice? This bug submission assistant was made by the community. 😉 Some more details on it is available in Loic’s blog post.
For those interested in helping to squeeze out some bugs of LibreOffice, the community hosts monthly bug hunting sessions. The next one is tomorrow, September 6th. More details can be found at the respective wiki page.
