For those who haven't checked e-mail, you should have received your voting token for Board elections, or will be getting it soon. If you don't get it within the next few hours, you may want to check your spam filter, your Maemo.org e-mail address, and/or go to the vote page and ask for your token to be re-sent to you. (There's an additional button on the login page for this purpose.)

Elections officially run from the 12th through the 18th, but apparently the machine is accepting votes slightly early, as it appears to be up and running now.

On this same topic, I ask that all involved consider your choices from the nominees carefully. As the nomination list is now 5, only 3 Board members will be elected. As a result, we're putting the future of our entire community into a very small set of hands. Please consider that when voting!

Said another way: Please don't vote for me, or if you do, do so only as the last of the other viable candidates you would choose from the list.

I ask this because I will not have much time to donate the first few months, as noted in my nomination announcement. At the same time, this is a crucial period for the Board, where we need as many active members as we can have. When there were going to be 5 selected of 6 or 7, my nomination made sense. But now, with 3 selected from 5, it makes less sense. Where I to be elected one of the 3, my presence could in fact impede the progress of the Board, which I would not want. Over the past day or so, I had actually been debating withdrawing my nomination for just that reason.

I will, as noted earlier, help the Board and Council in any way I can for the next year, regardless of whom gets elected. While I'm sure most in the list would do the same, they can do so actively. Due to the volume of work I have in the September to March time frame, that may not be an option for me outside of minor tasks (like meeting minutes and what not).

In any case, please do vote! After going through all this, the worst thing would be to have a poor turn out.