[GD-election] GD elections are about to start

[Giuseppe Liotta]

Dear Graph Drawers,

This e-mail is to announce that the elections of two members of the 
Graph Drawing Steering Committee are about to start. We, the community 
of graph drawers, shall elect two members for the period (2018-2020), 
and the steering committee will then appoint two more members for the 
same period.

I take this opportunity to thank Martin N"ollenburg and Alexander 
(Sascha) Wolff for the great work that they did as elected members for 
the years 2015-2017.

Similar to the previous elections, we have the help of some volunteers 
who are going to act as election officers. The election officers this 
year are: Sascha Wolff and myself.  Sascha and I would like to introduce 
the use of a web e-voting platform that guarantees anonymity and may 
also be a convenient way to collects statistics about this and future 
elections.

Details about the election procedure and about the e-voting platform are 
given below.

According to our bylaws (available at 
http://www.graphdrawing.org/doc/bylaws-sc-composition.pdf) , there will 
be a two-stage procedure.

Phase 1:  nomination of candidates  (January 8 - January 21, 2018)
You can nominate up to *five* candidates.

Thereafter, we shall immediately contact the top nominees and ask for an 
ok to  go for Phase 2, until (hopefully) 10 of them accept.

Phase 2: voting (Feb. 1 - Feb. 14, 2018)
The nominees who agreed to stand at the end of Phase 1 are the 
candidates of Phase 2. You can vote for up to two candidates.

The top two candidates are elected.

Your votes are secret. You can vote without specifying any statistical 
information about yourself. In case you wish to provide this additional 
information, please be ensured that the statistical data are only 
collected in aggregated form. In addition, the platform is set up in 
such a way that the aggregated data are visible to the election officers 
only at the end of the voting period.

At the beginning of each phase, you will receive an e-mail from the 
voting platform ballotbin (https://www.ballotbin.com/) that allows you 
to vote exactly once per phase.

This e-mail is send to the mailing list GDelection. There are 492 e-mail 
addresses in this list. The e-mail addresses listed in GDelection belong 
to:  (i)Participants of at least one of the last four editions of the 
International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization; (ii) 
authors of at least one paper published in the Proceedings of one of 
the  above mentioned symposiums; (iii) current members of the GD 
Steering Committee; (iv)current members of the GD Advisory Board.

Best regards,

Giuseppe Liotta
GD Steering Committee Chair-person

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