[gentoo-project] Re: Nominations for 2017 Trustee Election

[David Abbott]

On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 4:14 AM, David Abbott <dabbott@g.o> wrote:
> To whom it may concern,
>
> This email contains notifications of the start of the nomination period for
> the 2017 Trustee Election. [1]
>
> The 2017 Trustee Election will be held over July and August.
> Nominations will be open for a period of three weeks starting on July 5th.
> Voting will take place approximately four weeks later starting on July 27th.
>
> Nominations must be made by posting to gentoo-nfp@l.g.o
> Only Foundation members may be nominated.

I forgot to update the announcement , bylaws have been changed.
https://wiki.gentoo.org/index.php?title=Foundation%3ABylaws&type=revision&diff=650466&oldid=327790

Only Foundation members who are active Gentoo developers may be nominated.

> Only Foundation members may vote. [2]
>
> Nomination Period:
> 2017/07/05 00H00 UTC — 2017/07/25 00H00 UTC
>
> Voting Period:
> 2017/07/27 00H00 UTC — 2017/08/16 00H00 UTC
>
> The new trustees will take their seats at the AGM on Aug 20.
> Trustees serve a two year term and retire by rotation every year.
>
> This year, Sven Vermeulen (SwifT),  Robin H. Johnson (robbat2) and Alec Warner
>  (antarus) retire by rotation.
>
> There are thus three seats on the board of trustees to be contested.
>
> The Annual General Meeting of the Gentoo Foundation Inc. will be held
> on 20th August 2017 in #gentoo-trustees on irc.freenode.net at 1900 UTC.
>
> [1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Elections/Trustees/201707
> [2] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Foundation:Member_List
>
> --
> David Abbott (dabbott)
> Gentoo Foundation Secretary
> http://dev.gentoo.org/~dabbott