Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev-announce

From: Torsten Veller <tove@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: gentoo-dev-announce@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev-announce] Gentoo Council 2010/2011 - Nominations are now open
Date: Sat, 05 Jun 2010 00:02:53
Message-Id: 20100605000002.GA8617@veller.net
1 Hello fellow developers and users.
2
3 Nominations for the Gentoo Council 2010/2011 are now open for the next
4 two weeks (until 23:59 UTC, 18/06/2010).
5
6 All nominations must be sent to the gentoo-dev mailing list. If you
7 were nominated and want to run, you have to accept your nomination on
8 the same mailing list.
9
10 Here are the rules:
11
12 * Council elections generally happen once a year
13 * The council is composed of seven elected members
14 * Nominations are allowed from June 5th 00H00 UTC to June 18th 23H59 UTC
15 * Only Gentoo developers may be nominated
16 * Anyone can nominate (nominating yourself is OK)
17 * Nominees must accept their nomination before voting begins
18 * Voting is opened from June 20th 00H00 UTC to July 03rd 23H59 UTC
19 (there is a one day break between nominations and voting so the
20 infra team has time to set up everything)
21 * Only Gentoo developers that have joined the project before nomination
22 starts may vote
23 * Gentoo uses the Condorcet method of voting
24
25 The page listing all nominations is here:
26 http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/elections/council/2010/council-201006-nominees.xml
27
28 If you don't know what the Gentoo Council is, you can read about it here:
29 http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/
30
31 If you want to ask a question or share your thoughts, contact any of
32 the election officials:
33
34 Roy Bamford (neddyseagoon)
35 Ulrich Müller (ulm)
36 Torsten Veller (tove)
37 Robin H. Johnson (robbat2) will be doing infra magic.
38
39 You can send us an e-mail (elections at gentoo dot org) or find
40 us on Freenode (#gentoo-elections, #gentoo-dev, so on).
41
42 For the elections team,
43 Torsten