updated candidates and voting instructions, deleted unused timeline.ics file

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diff --git a/vote/2017-board/candidates.wml b/vote/2017-board/candidates.wml
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--- a/vote/2017-board/candidates.wml
+++ b/vote/2017-board/candidates.wml
@@ -45,7 +45,102 @@
 
     <h2>Candidates for The Document Foundation Board of Directors</h2>
 
-    <p>Will be announced after the nomination phase has ended</p>
+    <p>In random order:</p>
+
+    <ol>
+<li><strong>Cor Nouws</strong><br />
+             Affiliation: <em>Nou&amp;Off</em><br />
+             Full statement at <a href="https://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/msg04010.html">https://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/msg04010.html</a>
+             <blockquote>
+With (growing) involvement in various places, it feels like a good moment to serve on the board of our community; to me: an interesting and challenging environment; people with many backgrounds, from different situations and locations. The joy we have in our contributions and how we can help each other to do maybe even better, in directing skills for creating great products, means a lot to me.
+             </blockquote>
+          </li>
+<li><strong>Jan Holešovský</strong><br />
+             Affiliation: <em>Collabora</em><br />
+             Full statement at <a href="https://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/msg04029.html">https://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/msg04029.html</a>
+             <blockquote>
+As a long-time contributor to LibreOffice, I would like to continue serving in the Board to help make decisions that support doers in their work, and that lead to having more people involved in the project. I can offer my experience from cross-team work, and from the last two years in the Board. I am deeply committed to LibreOffice and its success.
+             </blockquote>
+          </li>
+<li><strong>Franklin Weng</strong><br />
+             Affiliation: <em>Software Liberty Association Taiwan</em><br />
+             Full statement at <a href="https://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/msg04032.html">https://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/msg04032.html</a>
+             <blockquote>
+If I'm elected as a member of BoD, firstly I'll do my best to be the bridge between the community and Asian countries, and then I'll also focus on communicating with people and marketing ODF and LibreOffice to governments of different countries.  Besides, I hope to make the products more friendly to Asian C/J/K people in the aspect of UI/UX.
+             </blockquote>
+          </li>
+<li><strong>Björn Michaelsen</strong><br />
+             Affiliation: <em>unaffilated</em><br />
+             Full statement at <a href="https://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/msg04034.html">https://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/msg04034.html</a>
+             <blockquote>
+I bring lot of experience from prior work on TDFs governance and am an unaffiliated contributor to LibreOffice. I think the key to the success of LibreOffice is in the project and seeking growth for it by improving the experience for contributors and raising the visibility of our community and the opportunities for contribution.
+             </blockquote>
+          </li>
+<li><strong>Simon Phipps</strong><br />
+             Affiliation: <em>unaffiliated</em><br />
+             Full statement at <a href="https://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/msg04036.html">https://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/msg04036.html</a>
+             <blockquote>
+I've been involved with the LibreOffice project in some way since the OpenOffice.org launch in 2000. I still believe LibreOffice is one of software freedom movement's most important projects. I have previously served both as Membership Chair and and as a Director and have extensive business experience which I have used to TDF's advantage. Now independent, I'd be honoured to serve again; my priority will be the new challenges of the cloud era.
+             </blockquote>
+          </li>
+<li><strong>Michael Meeks</strong><br />
+             Affiliation: <em>Collabora</em><br />
+             Full statement at <a href="https://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/msg04037.html">https://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/msg04037.html</a>
+             <blockquote>
+I'd love to serve you again on the board: as a FLOSS advocate, with passion for LibreOffice, deep TDF board knowledge, lots of generic business experience: legal, budgeting, interviewing, management, yet also eager to keep LibreOffice fun and free. I've a long history of contribution to different FLOSS communities in various ways, am currently betting the business on LibreOffice and its success, but also want to help growing our volunteer participation.
+             </blockquote>
+          </li>
+<li><strong>Osvaldo Gervasi</strong><br />
+             Affiliation: <em>The University of Perugia, Italy</em><br />
+             Full statement at <a href="https://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/msg04039.html">https://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/msg04039.html</a>
+             <blockquote>
+I want to run for a seat in the next BoD after two years of the exciting experience as Director, to have the chance to further contribute to the project. In particular I want to promote LibreOffice among University students, in particular Engineers and Computer Scientists in order to let them approach the development of such a great software with the help of TDF, removing the barriers that they may encounter and facilitating their work.
+             </blockquote>
+          </li>
+<li><strong>Eike Rathke</strong><br />
+             Affiliation: <em>Red Hat, Inc.</em><br />
+             Full statement at <a href="https://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/msg04040.html">https://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/msg04040.html</a>
+             <blockquote>
+I, Eike Rathke, candidate for a seat on the Board of Directors of The Document Foundation. I am a LibreOffice core code contributor, working full time on the code base employed by Red Hat, Inc. I have been around with the project and TDF since 2011. I want TDF to grow and continue to be a prosperous community that creates and maintains the framework and conditions for a successful LibreOffice development in all its aspects.
+             </blockquote>
+          </li>
+<li><strong>Marina Latini</strong><br />
+             Affiliation: <em>Studio Storti Srl</em><br />
+             Full statement at <a href="https://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/msg04041.html">https://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/msg04041.html</a>
+             <blockquote>
+In the last 2 years, I’ve been honoured to serve in TDF BoD. We have done a lot and to achieve our purpose we can do much more. I will put all the gained experience in order to make our community more inclusive and open, lowering the entry barrier and avoiding exclusion. Freedom and inclusivity are the keys of a successful community and I would see a TDF inspired by these values.
+             </blockquote>
+          </li>
+<li><strong>Eric Ficheux</strong><br />
+             Affiliation: <em>Nantes Métropole</em><br />
+             Full statement at <a href="https://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/msg04043.html">https://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/msg04043.html</a>
+             <blockquote>
+I'm standing for a seat at the TDF Board of Directors for the first time. I believe in the LibreOffice project, in the community and in the power of our Free Software model. I will commit to do my best to help the project tackle the UX and Cloud challenges, to help grow the user and contributor base and make our Free software model better known, understood and supported.
+             </blockquote>
+          </li>
+<li><strong>Uwe Altmann</strong><br />
+             Affiliation: <em>unaffiliated</em><br />
+             Full statement at <a href="https://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/msg04045.html">https://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/msg04045.html</a>
+             <blockquote>
+I, Uwe Altmann, candidate for a seat on the Board of Directors of The Document Foundation. I have been around with the project and TDF since the early beginning, mostly in german community and QA for the Mac version. Actually I’m more in the marketing trying to start a process to discuss a vision of TDFs future. Being more an administrative guy than a coder I would like to foster the TDF as organization.
+             </blockquote>
+          </li>
+<li><strong>Daniel Armando Rodriguez</strong><br />
+             Affiliation: <em>unaffiliated</em><br />
+             Full statement at <a href="https://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/msg04046.html">https://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/msg04046.html</a>
+             <blockquote>
+If I result chosen as a BoD member my goal is to get more hispanic people involved into the project on a regular basis. I commit myself to give my best effort for the benefit of the project and to work hard to put a regional conference in the map.
+             </blockquote>
+          </li>
+<li><strong>Thorsten Behrens</strong><br />
+             Affiliation: <em>CIB software GmbH</em><br />
+             Full statement at <a href="https://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/msg04047.html">https://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/msg04047.html</a>
+             <blockquote>
+I'm leading a team of LibreOffice developers at CIB, and am a long-time TDF contributor to both code and organisation. Serving in the current board as a director, I would like to offer my continued help for the next two years. Things I promise to do: improve &amp; professionalize organisation; grow &amp; diversify contribution; keep things fun, fair &amp; sustainable; and help with the largely-German administrative grunt work.
+             </blockquote>
+          </li>
+
+    </ol>
 
     <h2>Additional Elections-related Information</h2>
 
diff --git a/vote/2017-board/timeline.ics b/vote/2017-board/timeline.ics
deleted file mode 100644
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@@ -1,72 +0,0 @@
-30
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-VERSION:2.0
-CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
-METHOD:PUBLISH
-PRODID:-//PYVOBJECT//NONSGML Version 1//EN
-BEGIN:VEVENT
-UID:20171127T153026Z-64985@vm200
-DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20171019
-DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20171020
-DESCRIPTION:If you are a member of The Document Foundation and are interes
- ted in running for election\, you may nominate yourself by sending an e-ma
- il to elections@documentfoundation.org with your name\, e-mail address\, c
- orporate affiliation (if any)\, and a description of why you'd like to ser
- ve\, before 2017-11-27 (23:59 UTC).\n     You should also send a summary o
- f your candidacy announcement (75 words or less) to discuss@documentfounda
- tion.org.\n    
-SUMMARY:Announcements and list of candidates opens
-END:VEVENT
-BEGIN:VEVENT
-UID:20171127T153026Z-80218@vm200
-DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20171127
-DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20171128
-DESCRIPTION:If you are a member of The Document Foundation and are interes
- ted in running for election\, you may nominate yourself by sending an e-ma
- il to elections@documentfoundation.org with your name\, e-mail address\, c
- orporate affiliation (if any)\, and a description of why you'd like to ser
- ve\, before 2017-11-27 (23:59 UTC).\n     You should also send a summary o
- f your candidacy announcement (75 words or less) to discuss@documentfounda
- tion.org.\n    
-SUMMARY:List of candidates closed
-END:VEVENT
-BEGIN:VEVENT
-UID:20171127T153026Z-64756@vm200
-DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20171128
-DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20171129
-DESCRIPTION:You may now start to send your questions to the candidates
-SUMMARY:List of candidates announced
-END:VEVENT
-BEGIN:VEVENT
-UID:20171127T153026Z-25968@vm200
-DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20171205
-DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20171206
-DESCRIPTION:Please read your email and follow these instructions and submi
- t your vote by 2017-12-12
-SUMMARY:Instructions to vote are sent
-END:VEVENT
-BEGIN:VEVENT
-UID:20171127T153026Z-18131@vm200
-DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20171212
-DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20171213
-DESCRIPTION:Preliminary results are announced on 2017-12-13
-SUMMARY:Votes must be returned
-END:VEVENT
-BEGIN:VEVENT
-UID:20171127T153026Z-5280@vm200
-DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20171213
-DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20171214
-DESCRIPTION:The preliminary results can be challenged until 2017-12-18
-SUMMARY:Preliminary results are announced
-END:VEVENT
-BEGIN:VEVENT
-UID:20171127T153026Z-870@vm200
-DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20171218
-DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20171219
-DESCRIPTION:If there weren't any challenges\, preliminary results are vali
- d
-SUMMARY:Challenges to the results closed
-END:VEVENT
-X-WR-TIMEZONE:UTC
-END:VCALENDAR
-
diff --git a/vote/2017-board/voting-instructions.txt b/vote/2017-board/voting-instructions.txt
index 9b0e451..430b9d2 100644
--- a/vote/2017-board/voting-instructions.txt
+++ b/vote/2017-board/voting-instructions.txt
@@ -6,8 +6,9 @@ Dear $member,
 The election of The Document Foundation Board of Directors will soon
 be open.
 
-Voting will run from 2017-12-05, 00:00 CET/UTC+1 until
-2017-12-12, 24:00 CET/UTC+1.
+Voting will run
+from 2017-12-05, 00:00 CET/UTC+1 (i.e. beginning of the day 05)
+until 2017-12-12, 24:00 CET/UTC+1 (i.e. end of the day 12).
 
 To vote, please go to
 https://elections.documentfoundation.org/vote.php?election_id=9
@@ -26,10 +27,10 @@ voting token above. Then select your preferred candidates in order of
 preference. A third step will show you your choice, and ask you to
 confirm or return to the previous step. Finally, after confirming your
 choice, a unique identifier will be given to you which will allow you to
-verify after the election that your vote was counted correctly. To ensure
-anonymity, no link will be kept between this token and your identifiers,
-so please keep this token safe. Once you have voted, you will not be able
-to vote again.
+verify after the election that your vote was counted correctly. To
+ensure anonymity, no link will be kept between this token and your
+identifiers, so please keep this token safe. Once you have voted, you
+will not be able to vote again.
 
 Thank you for your vote!