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To whom it may concern, |
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This email contains notifications of the start of the nomination period |
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for the 2018 Trustee Election. [1] |
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The 2018 Trustee Election will be held over June, July and August. |
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Nominations will be open for a period of three weeks starting on June |
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25th. |
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Voting will take place approximately four weeks later starting on July |
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16th. |
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Nominations must be made by posting to gentoo-nfp@l.g.o |
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Only Foundation members who are active Gentoo developers may be |
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nominated. [1] |
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Only Foundation members may vote. [2] |
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Nomination Period: |
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2018-06-25 00H00 UTC — 2018-07-13 00H00 UTC |
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Voting Period: |
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2018-07-16 00H00 UTC — 2018-07-29 00H00 UTC |
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The new trustees will take their seats at the AGM on Aug 25. |
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Trustees serve a two year term and retire by rotation every year. |
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Any candidates higher than reopen_nominations are selected at the end |
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of this round. |
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If there are open seats at this point, the second round of nomination & |
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voting takes place. |
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Second Nomination Period: |
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2018-07-30 00H00 UTC - 2018-08-06 00H00 UTC |
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Second Voting Period: |
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2018-08-06 00H00 UTC - 2018-08-18 |
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This year, David Abbott (dabbott) and Matthew Thode (prometheanfire) |
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retire by rotation and Michael Palimaka (Kensington) and Francisco Blas |
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Izquierdo Riera (klondike) are retiring. |
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There are thus four seats on the board of trustees to be contested. |
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The Annual General Meeting of the Gentoo Foundation Inc. will be held |
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on 25th August 2018 in #gentoo-trustees on irc.freenode.net at 2200 |
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UTC. |
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[1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Elections/Trustees |
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[2] https://wiki.gentoo.org-wiki-Foundation:Member_List |
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David Abbott (dabbott) |
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Gentoo Foundation Secretary |
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~dabbott/ |
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