Re: [gentoo-project] Gentoo Council 2019 / 2020 election

[David Seifert]

On Fri, 2019-06-07 at 20:16 -0400, Aaron Bauman wrote:
> > Dear Gentoo Community,
> >
> > Nominations for the Gentoo Council 2019 / 2020 election will start
> > at
> > 2019-06-08 00:00 UTC (Saturday) and will remain open for the next
> > two
> > weeks until the end of 2019-06-21 (Friday) (2019-06-22 00:00 UTC).
> >
> > 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 8th 00:00 UTC to end of day
> > June 21st (June 22nd 00:00 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 23th 00:00 UTC to end of day July 6th
> > (July 7th 00:00 UTC)
> > (there is one day of break between nominations and voting so the
> > infra team has time to set up everything)
> > * Only Gentoo developers may vote
> > * The list of Gentoo Developers is based on active membership
> > by end of day June 7th, 2018 (right before the election is opened)
> > * Gentoo uses the Condorcet method of voting
> > * Results should be published around July 7th
> >
> > The election page for this election[1] will contain all pertinent
> > information regarding the election.
> >
> > [1] - https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Elections/Council/201906
> >
> > If you don't know what the Gentoo Council is, you can read about it
> > on
> > the project page[2].
> >
> > [2] - https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project: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:
> > David Abbott (dabbott)
> > Hans de Graaff (graaff)
> > Roy Bamford (NeddySeagoon)
> >
> > Infra Contact:
> > Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto (jmbsvicetto)
> >
> > For the elections team,
> >
> > - --
> > Regards,
> >
> > Jorge Vicetto (jmbsvicetto) - jmbsvicetto at gentoo dot org
> > Gentoo- forums / ComRel / Elections / RelEng / Infra
>
> >
>
> I nominate:
>
> whissi
> mgorny
> ulm
> dilfridge
> asturm
> prometheanfire
> mattst88
> anarchy
> floppym
> zmedico
> steev
> soap
> kentnl
> monsieurp
> vapier
> kensington
> grknight
> blueness
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Aaron
>

Thanks for the nomination, but given my newly elected position as QA
lead, I would run the risk of concentrating power, and as such will
have to decline.