Re: 2024 X.Org Foundation Membership deadline for voting in the election

[Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>]

Hi Pekka,

On Tue, Apr 02, 2024 at 10:46:08AM +0300, Pekka Paalanen wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Mar 2024 11:42:48 -0400 Christopher Michael wrote:
> 
> > The 2024 X.Org Foundation membership renewal period has been extended 
> > one additional week and elections will start the following week on 01 
> > April 2024.
> > 
> > Please note that only current members can vote in the upcoming election, 
> > and that the deadline for new memberships or renewals to vote in the 
> > upcoming election is 01 April 2024 at 23:59 UTC.
> > 
> > If you are interested in joining the X.Org Foundation or in renewing 
> > your membership, please visit the membership system site at: 
> > https://members.x.org/
> > 
> > Christopher Michael, on behalf of the X.Org elections committee
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> given that the year's first email reminding everyone to renew their
> memberships was sent on Feb 7 when the renewal was NOT open yet, I
> wonder how many people thought they had already renewed and are now
> thinking they don't need to do anything?
> 
> I fell for that: On Feb 7, I went to members.x.org to check my status,
> it said I was registered for "2023-2024" and there was no button to
> renew, so I closed the page confident that I was a member for 2024.
> After all, it said 2024. This was a mistake I realised only after being
> personally poked to renew. I know for sure of one other person falling
> for the same.

Make that two. Thanks for the notice.

> Now, the members page for this year says "Application for the period:
> 02/2024-02/2025". Thanks to the people adding the month to reduce
> confusion.

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Regards,

Laurent Pinchart