[gentoo-project] Re: Gentoo Council 2014 / 2015 election (< 36 hours left to vote)

[Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto]

On Tue, 1 Jul 2014, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote:

Hi again.

> On Sat, 14 Jun 2014, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote:
>
>
> Dear Gentoo community,
>
> with my personal apologies for the delay, the council election is now open.
> The election booth will remain open until 2014-07-15 00:00 UTC.
> Due to some issues with the current council election page, I went ahead and
> reused the existing Trustees page model to create a new page[1].

This means there is now less than 36 hours left to vote. If you haven't 
casted your vote yet (we have at the moment a 27% participation rate), 
please run to your election booth and be sure to cast your vote.
You can follow the instructions below and if you have any questions be 
sure to run "votify --help" or contact us. Don't forget to run "votify --verify 
council-201406" to make sure everything is ok with your ballot and "votify 
--submit council-201406" to submit your ballot. If you don't submit your 
ballot, your vote won't count. At the moment we have a few ballots that 
weren't submitted, so make sure you submitted your vote.

> [1] -
> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/elections/council/2014/council-201406.xml
>
> Please let us know if you find any issues with the page or with the election.
>
> The rules for the Council election as well as details on how to vote for
> this election are available in the Council Elections Archives[2]. In any
> case, here is the quick procedure on how to vote using votify:
>
>    * If you're eligible to vote in this election, log in to
> dev.gentoo.org
>     * Type votify --new council-201406 to create a new ballot file
>     * Edit .ballot-council-201406 file in your home directory and rank
> the candidates
>    * Once you're finished, use votify --verify council-201406 command
> to verify the validity of your ballot file
>    * If everything is okay, use votify --submit council-201406 to
> submit your vote. Don't forget your vote doesn't count until you
> submit it.
>    * If you run into problems, you can either work them out yourself
> using votify --help or contact election officials and ask them for help
>
> The elections for the Council include the pseudo _reopen_nominations
> candidate. If the pseudo-candidate '_reopen_nominations' appears in
> 7th place or higher those candidates that rank above
> '_reopen_nominations' will be the current council. A second period of
> election will be opened for the remaining council seats. No third
> period of election will be opened in the event '_repoen_nominations'
> ranks higher than the candidates necessary to fill the council[3].
>
> In case there's a need to fill a seat during the council term due to a
> retirement, if no candidate ranked above the _reopen_nominations_ candidate,
> a new election must be held to fill that seat. If there were candidates
> ranked above the _reopen_nominations_ candidate, it's up to the remaining
> council members to accept the next candidate in order of voting or open an
> election to fill the open seat.
>
>  [2] - http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/elections/council/
>  [3] -
> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/meeting-logs/20090212-summary.txt
>
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>>  Dear Gentoo Community,
>>
>>  Nominations for the Gentoo Council 2014 / 2015 have now started at
>>  00:00 UTC 2014/06/14 (Saturday) and will remain open for the next two
>>  weeks until 23:59 UTC, 2014/06/27 (Friday).
>>
>>  All nominations must be sent to the gentoo-project mailing list. If you
>>  were nominated and want to run, you have to accept your nomination on
>>  the same mailing list.
>>
>>  Here are the rules:
>>
>>     * Council elections generally happen once a year
>>     * The council is composed of seven elected members
>>     * Nominations are allowed from June 14th 00H00 UTC to June 27th
>>  23H59 UTC
>>     * Only Gentoo developers may be nominated
>>     * Anyone can nominate (nominating yourself is OK)
>>     * Nominees must accept their nomination before voting begins
>>     * Voting is opened from June 29th 00H00 UTC to July 12th 23H59 UTC
>>       (there is one day of break between nominations and voting so the
>>  infra team has time to set up everything)
>
> Due to time availability issues, I had to delay this by 2 days.
>
>>     * Only Gentoo developers may vote
>>     * The list of Gentoo Developers is based on active membership
>>  by June 13th, 2013 (the day before the election will be opened)
>>     * Gentoo uses the Condorcet method of voting
>>     * Results should be published around July 14th
>>
>>  The page listing all nominations will be available at:
>>  http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/elections/council/2014/council-201406-nominees.xml
>>  (not available yet)
>
> Please use
> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/elections/council/2014/council-201406.xml
> instead.
>
>>  If you don't know what the Gentoo Council is, you can read about it on
>>  the project page: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/
>>
>>  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)
>>  David Abbott (dabbott)
>>  Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto (jmbsvicetto)
>>
>>  Infra Contact:
>>  Alec Warner (antarus)
> Robin H. Johnson (robbat2)
>
>
> Regards,
> For the elections team.
>
>>  For the elections team,
>>
>>  - --
>>  Regards,
>>
>>  Jorge Vicetto (jmbsvicetto) - jmbsvicetto at gentoo dot org
>>  Gentoo- forums / Userrel / Devrel / KDE / Elections / RelEng
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Regards,
For the elections team,

Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto
Gentoo Developer