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On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 9:15 PM, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto |
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<jmbsvicetto@g.o> wrote: |
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> Dear Gentoo Foundation members, |
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> We've come again to that time of the year when we need to cast our |
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> votes for the Foundation. The Gentoo Foundation[2] is now opening an |
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> election to fill the 2 seats in the Trustees that have reached the end |
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> of their 2 years term, Mathew Summers (quantumsummers) and Robin H. |
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> Johnson (robbat2), and for the seat filled by Joshua Jackson (tsunam) |
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> as he has announced his retirement from the Trustees. |
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> |
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> [1] - http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-nfp/msg_f31a0b92ad9c159ed42d4bf86879f91c.xml |
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> [2] - http://www.gentoo.org/foundation/en/ |
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> |
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> The nomination period starts tomorrow, 20110211 0000UTC and lasts |
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> until Thursday 20110310 2359 UTC. The election polls will be open from |
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> Saturday 20110312 0000UTC to Friday 20110408 2359UTC. The elected |
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> trustees will start their term after the results are published and |
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> before their first meeting on April 17th. |
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With my apologies for the tardiness, the elections team announces that |
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the voting has already started for this election. As announced, the |
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voting will remain open until Friday 20110408 2359UTC. |
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> The election officials for this election will be Patrick Lauer[3], |
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> Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto[4] and Alec Warner[5]. All officials will |
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> keep a daily presence in #gentoo-trustees and #gentoo-elections for |
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> the duration of the election. You can reach all the officials for this |
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> election at the elections[6] alias. |
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> The election officials will publish a page with all information about |
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> this election that will be available from the Foundation Archives[7]. |
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> [3] - patrick@g.o |
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> [4] - jmbsvicetto@g.o |
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> [5] - antarus@g.o |
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> [6] - elections@g.o |
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> [7] - http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/elections/trusteees/ |
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Please pay attention to the method to vote for this election. |
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> If you're a current Gentoo Developer, to cast your vote for this |
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> election you need to login to dev.gentoo.org and run the following |
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> commands, in the specified order. |
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> * votify --new trustees-201102 - This creates a new ballot in your homedir. |
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> * Edit the .ballot-trustees-201102 file and rank the candidates in |
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> the desired order of preference. |
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> * Once you're sure, run votify --verify trustees-201102 to check |
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> the validity of the ballot. |
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> * If that goes through fine, the next and final step is to submit |
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> your vote using votify --submit trustees-201102 |
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> * In case you're stuck, detailed help can be accessed by using |
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> votify --help or feel free to drop by #gentoo-elections on IRC. If you |
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> think you are eligible to vote, but cannot, please contact one of the officials. |
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> * Grab a beer, have fun, sit back and enjoy the show ... till we |
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> announce the results ;) |
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> If you're not a current Gentoo Developer, please send your ballot to |
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> the officials[6] alias and don't forget to sign the email with your |
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> gpg key on record in the Foundation member list[10]. |
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> I'd like to take this chance to warn all foundation members that since |
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> the last Foundation Bylaws update, any member of the Foundation loses |
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> his membership after not voting for 2 consecutive Foundation |
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> elections. This means that any members that joined the Foundation |
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> before the 2009 election and that didn't vote for that election will |
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> lose their membership if they don't vote in this election. |
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> If you have any doubts about this point, please contact the Trustees |
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> or the election officials. |
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> If you have any doubts about the election or any corrections to the |
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> page and lists, contact the election officials. |
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> For the election officials, |
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> |
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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 |
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For the election officials, |
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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 |