[gentoo-project] 2018 Trustee Election

[David Abbott]

To whom it may concern,

This email contains notifications of the start of the nomination period
for the 2018 Trustee Election. [1]

The 2018 Trustee Election will be held over June, July and August.
Nominations will be open for a period of three weeks starting on June
25th.
Voting will take place approximately four weeks later starting on July
16th.

Nominations must be made by posting to gentoo-nfp@l.g.o
Only Foundation members who are active Gentoo developers may be
nominated. [1]
Only Foundation members may vote. [2]

   Nomination Period:
   2018-06-25 00H00 UTC — 2018-07-13 00H00 UTC

   Voting Period:
   2018-07-16 00H00 UTC — 2018-07-29 00H00 UTC

   The new trustees will take their seats at the AGM on Aug 25.
   Trustees serve a two year term and retire by rotation every year.

Any candidates higher than reopen_nominations are selected at the end
of this round.

If there are open seats at this point, the second round of nomination &
voting takes place.

   Second Nomination Period:
   2018-07-30 00H00 UTC - 2018-08-06 00H00 UTC

   Second Voting Period:
   2018-08-06 00H00 UTC - 2018-08-18

This year, David Abbott (dabbott) and Matthew Thode (prometheanfire)
retire by rotation and Michael Palimaka (Kensington) and Francisco Blas
Izquierdo Riera (klondike) are retiring. 

There are thus four seats on the board of trustees to be contested.
The Annual General Meeting of the Gentoo Foundation Inc. will be held
on 25th August 2018 in #gentoo-trustees on irc.freenode.net at 2200
UTC.

	[1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Elections/Trustees
	[2] https://wiki.gentoo.org-wiki-Foundation:Member_List
-- 
David Abbott (dabbott)
Gentoo Foundation Secretary
http://dev.gentoo.org/~dabbott/
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