Re: [gentoo-nfp] 2015 Trustee Election

[Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto]

On 20-07-2015 11:10, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote:
> Dear Gentoo Foundation Member,
>
> Nominations for the 2015 Trustee Election will end at 00:00 UTC
> 2015/07/23 (Thursday), so there's approximately 2 and 1/2 days left to
> nominate.
>
> All nominations must be sent to the gentoo-nfp mailing list. If you were
> nominated and want to run, you have to accept your nomination on
> the same mailing list.
>
> Voting for the election will take place between 00:00 UTC 2015/07/25 and
> 00:00 UTC 2015/08/14. There will only be a need for voting if there are
> more candidates than open seats.
>
> 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 the trustees.
>
> The new trustees will take their seats at the AGM on Aug 16.
>
> Trustees serve a two year term and retire by rotation every year.
>
> This year, Petteri Räty (Betelgeuse) and Sven Vermeulen (SwifT) retire
> by rotation.
>
> There are thus two seats on the board of trustees to be contested.
>
>
> 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.
>
>
> We're still working on the project pages, but when the page is ready, it
> will show up in this election page[1] and be linked from the trustees
> archives[2].
>
>  [1] - https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Elections/Trustees/201506
>  [2] - https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Elections/Trustees

Thanks again to Alex (a3li), the election page[1] is already up. The
archives page[2] is likely going to be updated to match the Council
archives page[3].

 [3] - https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Elections/Council

> 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:
>
> Chris Reffett (creffett)
> Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto (jmbsvicetto)
>
> Infra Contact:
> Matthew Thode (prometheanfire)
>
> We're missing a 3rd election official, so if you don't plan to run for
> the election and are willing to help, please let us know.

Alex Legler (a3li) is going to be our 3rd election official.

> For the elections team,
>
> - --
> Regards,
>
> Jorge Vicetto (jmbsvicetto) - jmbsvicetto at gentoo dot org
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