It's finally here — our last questions for OTW Board candidates and their answers! You can read those questions and answers here, on the OTW Elections website. Emphasis in these responses is on immediate answers rather than polished essays — just as in the chats.

Answers are listed in the order they were received, and any responses received after the deadline will be added to that page as soon as possible, with any post-publication changes noted. As this was the last batch, we've extended the period for timestamped edits to responses from 12 to 24 hours past the due date, which was before 16:05/4:05pm UTC 3 November 2011. All previous questions and answers, as well as the chat transcripts, can be found by starting here, on the OTW Elections site candidates page. The first chat and those overflow questions can be accessed directly here, and the second chat and those overflow questions can be accessed directly here.

We've got our fourth batch of questions and answers from our candidates ready for your perusal! You can read those questions and answers here, on the OTW Elections website. Answers are listed in the order they were received, and any responses received after the deadline will be added to that page as soon as possible, with any post-publication changes noted. Emphasis in these responses is on immediate answers rather than polished essays — just as in the chats.

At this point, we have five questions left! Three of them are currently with the candidates, and you can expect them around 24 hours from now — they were sent to candidates at 16:00/4:00pm UTC 1 November 2011, meaning they are due before 16:00/4:00pm UTC 2 November 2011.

We'd also like to remind all of our voters that tomorrow, 2 November 2011, is the deadline to assign a voting proxy (see our Elections timeline here). We know that the extended, electronic ballots that we use should make proxy voting unnecessary in most cases, but a voter might decide they need a proxy if the 48-hour voting period falls during a time when they may not have internet access, or when they have other commitments.

To assign a proxy, send an email from the account you used when you last donated, addressed to both elections-chair@transformativeworks.org and your proxy. State in the email that you wish to assign your proxy to the recipient, and include your legal name. Your proxy must reply to you and to elections-chair@transformativeworks.org to accept the responsibility, and to give us their legal name. Proxies remain in place for six months and cannot be revoked, so they aren't a back-up plan! Our elections website has a FAQ section on proxy voting with more details, if you think this may apply to you.

We've passed our second 24 hour response period for our chat overflow questions, and have another batch of insightful questions and thoughtful answers from our candidates, posted now for your review. You can read those questions and answers here, on the OTW Elections website. Answers are listed in the order they were received, and any responses that are received after the deadline will be added to that page as soon as possible, with any post-publication changes noted.

To reiterate, these questions are being delivered in batches to the candidates, and they are being asked to submit answers within twenty-four hours of each email so that those responses can be publicly posted. The emphasis in these responses is on immediate answers rather than polished essays, and as previously, candidates were also asked to keep to the question topics.

The third batch of questions was sent to candidates at 01:15/1:15am UTC 29 October 2011; answers are due before 01:15/1:15am UTC 30 October 2011, and will be posted for public review in approximately 24 hours.

De OTW is verheugd te kunnen melden dat zes zeer gekwalificeerde kandidaten zich verkiesbaar hebben gesteld voor de vier zetels die dit jaar openvallen in de raad van bestuur. We bedanken graag huidige leden Rachel Barenblat en Sheila Lane, die het einde van hun driejarige termijn bereikt hebben, en ook Hele Braunstein en Allison Morris, die eind dit jaar om persoonlijke redenen de raad vaarwel zeggen.

De kandidaten zijn in alfabetische volgorde op familienaam: Julia Beck, Naomi Novik, Lucy Pearson, Betsy Rosenblatt, Nikisha Sanders, and Jenny Scott-Thompson. Hun persoonlijke verklaringen zullen vanaf 17 Oktober 2011 beschikbaar zijn op de OTW verkiezingswebsite.

We zullen twee chatsessies met de kandidaten van telkens een uur organiseren, die toegankelijk zijn voor al onze leden en het publiek.. Ze zullen worden gehouden in de openbare chatroom van OTW, te bereiken via deze link: https://fanarchive.campfirenow.com/e79cc

De precieze datums van de twee chatsessies worden binnenkort bekend gemaakt. Als je verhinderd bent maar wel vragen voor de kandidaten hebt, raden we je aan deze in te sturen via ons contactformulier zodat onze verkiezingsfunctionaris Ira Gladkova ze namens jou kan stellen. Je zal deze chatsessies na afloop kunnen nalezen op de verkiezingswebsite.

De verkiezingen duren vanaf 12.00 uur 's middags UTC op 16 november (Hoe laat is dat waar ik woon?) tot 12.00 uur 's middags UTC op 18 november (Hoe laat is dat waar ik woon?). Stemrecht is beperkt tot de huidige OTW-leden; dit is iedereen die $10 of meer gedoneerd heeft tussen 1 oktober 2010 en 17 oktober 2011. Om je lidmaatschap te vernieuwen, bezoek http://transformativeworks.org/nl/hoe-je-kunt-helpen/steun-otw.

Meer informatie is te vinden op de OTW verkiezingswebsite.