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Dear Gentoo Foundation Member, |
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Nominations for the 2015 Trustee Election will end at 00:00 UTC |
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2015/07/23 (Thursday), so there's approximately 2 and 1/2 days left to |
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nominate. |
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All nominations must be sent to the gentoo-nfp mailing list. If you were |
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nominated and want to run, you have to accept your nomination on |
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the same mailing list. |
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Voting for the election will take place between 00:00 UTC 2015/07/25 and |
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00:00 UTC 2015/08/14. There will only be a need for voting if there are |
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more candidates than open seats. |
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Only Foundation members may vote. The list of members is |
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https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Foundation:Member_List |
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If you are not listed, please contact the trustees. |
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The new trustees will take their seats at the AGM on Aug 16. |
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Trustees serve a two year term and retire by rotation every year. |
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This year, Petteri Räty (Betelgeuse) and Sven Vermeulen (SwifT) retire |
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by rotation. |
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There are thus two seats on the board of trustees to be contested. |
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Here are the rules: |
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* Gentoo Board of Trustees is composed of five elected members |
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* Elections happen every year and need to be completed before the AGM |
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in August |
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* There should be at least three election officials plus at least one |
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person assigned from Gentoo Infrastructure project to handle their side |
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of the election. Officials are allowed to vote in the election but they |
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aren't allowed to run in it. They are selected by the current Board of |
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Trustees. |
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* There's one month for nominations and one month for voting. In |
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special cases current Board of Trustees may decide to shorten that |
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period. Anyone can nominate. |
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* All Gentoo Foundation members may vote but only members of age above |
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18 are allowed to run (legal requirement). To run in the election, a |
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person has to be nominated on the gentoo-nfp mailing list and personally |
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accept that nomination on the same list. |
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* Members who are active Gentoo developers vote using votify script on |
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dev.gentoo.org. |
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* Members who aren't active Gentoo developers should mail their |
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GPG-signed ballot files to election officials who will verify |
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authenticity of those and pass them to infra so they are taken into |
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account while counting votes. Special care should be taken to ensure the |
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ballot is signed by the gpg key in the Foundation records. |
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* After voting period is over, all election officials verify results |
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provided by Infrastructure project member assigned to the election and |
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then post them to the gentoo-nfp mailing list. |
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We're still working on the project pages, but when the page is ready, it |
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will show up in this election page[1] and be linked from the trustees |
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archives[2]. |
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[1] - https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Elections/Trustees/201506 |
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[2] - https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Elections/Trustees |
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If you want to read more about the Foundation you can check their page |
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at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Foundation:Main_Page |
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If you want to ask a question or share your thoughts, contact any of |
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the election officials through the alias (elections@g.o) or at |
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IRC (Freenode #gentoo-elections). |
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Officials: |
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Chris Reffett (creffett) |
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Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto (jmbsvicetto) |
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Infra Contact: |
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Matthew Thode (prometheanfire) |
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We're missing a 3rd election official, so if you don't plan to run for |
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the election and are willing to help, please let us know. |
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For the elections team, |
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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 / RelEng |