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From: David Abbott <dabbott@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: Gentoo elections <elections@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Election 2020 - Call For Election Officials
Date: Fri, 29 May 2020 20:10:24
Message-Id: CACs9S6YDk6JKQFGkYfGz0Dwfea-kivTz3Kzc2+9U4+k_LnOwhg@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Election 2020 - Call For Election Officials by Roy Bamford
1 On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 4:03 PM Roy Bamford <neddyseagoon@g.o> wrote:
2 >
3 > Team,
4 >
5 > Our current council will hold their last meeting on 14-Jun-20.
6 > We therefore need to elect a new council before the July meeting.
7 >
8 > To do this, I'm calling for three volunteers to be election officials and an
9 > infra member to be the infra contact.
10 >
11 > The timeline, still exactly to be determined will span just over 4 weeks.
12 > Two weeks nominations, a few days for infra to set up the ballot on
13 > Woodpecker, two weeks for voting followed by a few days to check
14 > results.
15 >
16 > The timeline I have in mind is nominations open at midnight between
17 > 5/6 Jun. and close at midnight 19/20 Jun.
18 > Voting starts Midnight 22/23 June and runs until midnight 6/7 July.
19 > Results announced a few days later.
20 >
21 > Election officials monitor the project ML for nominations and update
22 > the election Wiki page to keep track of nominations, acceptances and
23 > manifestos.
24 > Once the votes are in, they rank the results and compare notes.
25 > They should also join #gentoo-elections on freenode.
26 >
27 > Please don't volunteer to support the election if you plan to run.
28 > Candidates may not be election officials.
29 >
30 > For completeness, only three election officials are required, so with
31 > myself, we will have a spare. That's good, every now and again,
32 > real life can intervene at the last moment.
33 >
34 > --
35 > Regards,
36 >
37 > Roy Bamford
38 > (Neddyseagoon) a member of
39 > elections
40 > gentoo-ops
41 > forum-mods
42 > arm64
43
44 Hi Roy,
45 Count me in.
46 Regards,
47
48 --
49 David Abbott (dabbott)

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