[gentoo-dev-announce] Re: [gentoo-nfp] 2016 Trustee Election

[Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto]

On 21-06-2016 07:17, David Abbott wrote:
> Dear Member,
>
> You are receiving this email as you are a member of the Gentoo
> Foundation Inc. The Foundation is legally obliged to notify its members
> of some events. This email contains notifications of

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> 2. The 2016 Trustee Elections
>
> The 2016 Trustee Election will be held over June, July and the early
> part of August. Nominations will be open for a period of three weeks
> starting on June 21st. Voting will take place approximately four weeks
> later starting in mid July. Exact dates will be notified by the
> Elections project.
>
> Nominations must be made by posting to gentoo-nfp@l.g.o
> Only Foundation members may be nominated.
> Only Foundation members may vote. The list of members is
> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Foundation:Member_List
> If you are not listed, please contact me.
>
> The new trustees will take their seats at the AGM on Aug 21.
>
> Trustees serve a two year term and retire by rotation every year.
>
> This year, David Abbott (dabbott) and Roy Bamford (NeddySeagoon) retire
> by rotation.
>
> There are thus two seats on the board of trustees to be contested.
>
> Regards,
> David


Dear Gentoo Foundation Member,

Voting for the election has started at 00:00 UTC 2016/07/21 and will be
open until 00:00 UTC 2016/08/18. As there are 4 candidates for 2 open
seats, we need to have a voting.

As already mentioned by David, only Foundation members may vote and the
current list of members is at
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Foundation:Member_List
If you are not listed, please contact David ASAP.

Here are the rules:

 * Gentoo Board of Trustees is composed of five elected members
 * Elections happen every year and need to be completed before the AGM
in August
 * There should be at least three election officials plus at least one
person assigned from Gentoo Infrastructure project to handle their side
of the election. Officials are allowed to vote in the election but they
aren't allowed to run in it. They are selected by the current Board of
Trustees.
 * There's one month for nominations and one month for voting. In
special cases current Board of Trustees may decide to shorten that
period. Anyone can nominate.
 * All Gentoo Foundation members may vote but only members of age above
18 are allowed to run (legal requirement). To run in the election, a
person has to be nominated on the gentoo-nfp mailing list and personally
accept that nomination on the same list.
 * Members who are active Gentoo developers vote using votify script on
dev.gentoo.org.
 * Members who aren't active Gentoo developers should mail their
GPG-signed ballot files to election officials who will verify
authenticity of those and pass them to infra so they are taken into
account while counting votes. Special care should be taken to ensure the
ballot is signed by the gpg key in the Foundation records.
 * After voting period is over, all election officials verify results
provided by Infrastructure project member assigned to the election and
then post them to the gentoo-nfp mailing list.

The web page for this election [1] is already up and is linked from the
trustees archives[2].

 [1] - https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Elections/Trustees/201606
 [2] - https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Elections/Trustees

If you want to read more about the Foundation you can check their page
at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Foundation:Main_Page

If you want to ask a question or share your thoughts, contact any of
the election officials through the alias (elections@g.o) or at
IRC (Freenode #gentoo-elections).

Officials:

Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto (jmbsvicetto)
Michael Palimaka (kensington)
Robin H. Johnson (robbat2)

Infra Contact:
Alex Legler (a3li)


PS - I apologize for the delay opening the election and sending this email.


For the elections team,

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Regards,

Jorge Vicetto (jmbsvicetto) - jmbsvicetto at gentoo dot org
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