<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 2:00 PM, Doug Hellmann <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:doug@doughellmann.com" target="_blank">doug@doughellmann.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">Excerpts from Morgan Fainberg's message of 2015-09-17 12:51:33 -0700:<br>
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> I think this is all superfluous however and we should simply encourage<br>
> people to not wait until the last minute. Waiting to see who is<br>
> running/what the field looks like isn't as important as standing up and<br>
> saying you're interested in running.<br>
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Doug<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace">​My dog ate my homework...</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace">My car wouldn't start...</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace">I couldn't figure out what UTC time was...</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace">The guidelines seemed pretty clear:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Arial Unicode MS',Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:20px">Any member of an election electorate can propose their candidacy for the same election until September 17, 05:59 UTC</span>​</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace">That being said, a big analysis on date/time selection etc doesn't really seem warranted here or harping on the fact that something 'went wrong'.  I as a TC member have no problem saying "things happen" and those that have submitted candidacy albeit late and are unopposed are in.. no muss no fuss.  I *think* we're all reasonable adults and don't know that anybody had in mind that the TC would arbitrarily assign somebody that wasn't even listed as a PTL for one of the mentioned projects.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace">Moving on,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace">John</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace"><br></div><br></div></div>