Councilor nomination: Tatiana Tropina

[Michael Oghia]

Thanks Tapani.

In that case, and since the nomination period is open, I would like to
formally nominate Tatiana Tropina to carry out another term.

Best,
-Michael


On Tue, Aug 1, 2017 at 8:50 AM, Tapani Tarvainen <ncsg at tapani.tarvainen.info
> wrote:

> Dear Michael,
>
> Yes, current councillors do need to be nominated and they must accept the
> nomination and write candidate statements if they are to be re-elected.
>
> Same goes for Chair in general, although in this case it's moot as I'm
> not in the running.
>
> Tapani
>
> On Tue, Aug 01, 2017 at 08:38:28AM +0200, Michael Oghia (
> mike.oghia at gmail.com) wrote:
> >
> > Dear Tapani,
> >
> > A quick procedural note: do the current councilors need to be
> re-nominated,
> > or are they already nominated as incumbents?
> >
> > Best,
> > -Michael
> >
> > On Tue, Aug 1, 2017 at 8:27 AM, Tapani Tarvainen <
> ncsg at tapani.tarvainen.info
> > > wrote:
> >
> > > Dear all,
> > >
> > > Elections are upon us soon. Voter check-in process has already been
> > > started, as I hope you all have noticed, and the key dates for the
> > > election are as follows:
> > >
> > > July 31  nomination period begins
> > > Aug  13  nomination period ends
> > > Aug  17  voter roll finalized, check-in ends
> > > Aug  18  deadline for nomination acceptance
> > > Aug  19  deadline for candidate statements
> > > Aug  21  voting begins
> > > Sep   3  voting ends
> > > Sep   4  results announced
> > >
> > > My apologies for delay in sending this, as nominating period is in
> > > effect starting right now.
> > >
> > > Up for election are:
> > >
> > > NCSG Chair, currently Tapani Tarvainen, not eligible for re-election;
> > >
> > > 2-year Council seat, currently Marilia Maciel, eligible for one more
> term;
> > >
> > > 2-year Council seat, currently Stefania Milan, eligible for one more
> term;
> > >
> > > 2-year Council seat, held by Martin Silva Valent as temporary
> replacement
> > >        for Amr Elsadr, who resigned from the council;
> > >
> > > 1-year Council seat, held by Tatiana Tropina as temporary alternate
> > >        for Edward Morris, who also resigned from the council.
> > >
> > > The council seats will be allocated so that 2-year terms will go to
> > > the three with highest vote counts and the 1-year term to the fourth,
> > > although regional and gender balance requirements may change the
> > > order; I will send a separate message about those.
> > >
> > > Note that the deadline given in the check-in request message was not
> > > final, it's just the time after which we'll assume you didn't get it
> > > and send a new one, or later try to reach you with other means. (A new
> > > message was just sent today to those who didn't respond last week.)
> > > The final deadline for check-in is when we finalize the voter roll,
> > > August 17.
> > >
> > > For our latest new members, I'm afraid you cannot vote or nominate
> > > candidates as our charter limits that to those who've been active
> > > members for at least 30 days. A bit surprisingly though you can,
> > > however, run for office if someone else nominates you.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Tapani Tarvainen
> > >
>
> --
> Tapani Tarvainen
>
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