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Hello again. |
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The nominations for the empty seat in the Council were closed 20 hours |
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ago. All the details about this election can be found in the Council |
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Elections Archives[1]. The information about the nominees can be seen in |
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the 200912 nominees[2] page. If you think you're entitled to vote in |
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this election, please check the list of voters[3]. |
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The dates for voting in this election will be pushed back 24 hours as I |
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failed to notice the start coincided with New Year's and the elections |
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team is busy this night. Thus, the dates for voting are the following: |
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voting: January 2nd to 15th |
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The election officials for this election are going to be me, Roy Bamford |
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(NeddySeagoon) and a 3rd person (we have candidates, but the position is |
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still open) and the infrastructure contact for the election is going to |
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be either Shyam Mani (fox2mike) or Robin H Johnson (robbat2). |
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The rules for the Council election as well as details on how to vote for |
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this election are available in the Council Elections Archives[1]. In any |
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case, here is the quick procedure on how to vote using votify: |
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* If you're eligible to vote in this election, log in to dev.gentoo.org |
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* Type votify --new council200912 to create a new ballot file |
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* Edit .ballot-council200912 file in your home directory and rank |
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the candidates |
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* Once you're finished, use votify --verify council200912 command to |
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verify validity of your ballot file |
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* If everything is okay, use votify --submit council200912 to submit |
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your vote. Don't forget your vote doesn't count until you submit it. |
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* If you run into problems, you can either work them out yourself |
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using votify --help or contact election officials and ask them for help |
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The elections for the Council now include the _reopen_nominations |
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candidate. Any candidate that ranks below this candidate cannot be |
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selected to fill the missing seat or any future seats that open until |
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the next full council election. If the council remains with an open |
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seat(s) and no candidates are eligible to fill that seat, a new election |
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will be held to fill that seat / those seats. |
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If you have any doubts, please contact one of the election officials in |
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IRC, you can use the elections project channel[4], or email the |
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Elections team[5]. |
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[1] - http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/elections/council/ |
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[2] - |
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http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/elections/council/2009/council-200912-nominees.xml |
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[3] - |
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http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/elections/council/2009/voters-council200912.txt |
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[4] - #gentoo-elections in the Freenode or OFTC IRC networks |
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[5] - elections@g.o |
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For the election officials, |
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- -- |
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Regards, |
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Jorge Vicetto (jmbsvicetto) - jmbsvicetto at gentoo dot org |
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Gentoo- forums / Userrel / Devrel / KDE / Elections |
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