[gentoo-council] Gentoo Council nominations are now closed

[gentoo-council] Gentoo Council nominations are now closed

[Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto]

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Hello fellow devs, users and Gentoo community.

The nominations for the empty seat in the 2008 Gentoo Council were
closed at 23:59:59 UTC November 28th, 2008. The voting for the empty
seat will begin in a few minutes and will end at 23:59:59 UTC December 5th.
There were 11 nominees to the empty seat in the council, of which 5 will
run on this election. All details about the nominations can be checked
at http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/elections/council-200811-nominees.xml
The nominees who have accepted their nominations for this election are:

- - dev-zero
- - jer
- - leio
- - ssuominen
- - ulm

If you're an eligible voter, to cast your vote for this election you
need to login to dev.gentoo.org and run the following commands, in the
order specified.

    * votify --new council2008b - This creates a new ballot in your homedir.
    * Edit the .ballot-council2008b file and rank the candidates.
    * Once you're sure, run votify --verify council2008b to check the
validity of the ballot.
    * If that goes through fine, the next and final step is to submit
your vote using votify --submit council2008b
    * In case you're stuck, detailed help can be accessed by using
votify --help or feel free to drop by #gentoo-elections on IRC. If you
think you are eligible to vote, but cannot, please contact one of the
officials.
    * Grab a beer, have fun, sit back and enjoy the show ... till we
announce the results ;)

An important point in this election is the new *_reopen_nominations*
candidate. If this candidate ranks over all other candidates, the
election will be reopened. Any candidate that ranks below this candidate
won't be taken into account if there's a need to replace any member of
the council until the end of term.


For the election officials

Regards,

Jorge Vicetto (jmbsvicetto) - jmbsvicetto at gentoo dot org
Gentoo- forums / Userrel / SPARC / KDE
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[gentoo-council] Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-project] Gentoo Council nominations are now closed

[Donnie Berkholz]

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On 10:02 Sat 29 Nov     , Mauricio Lima Pilla wrote:
> What are the nominees intending to do if they are elected? I miss the
> manifests.

To those of you telling us to look at what you do now, what you're 
saying is that you're good in your current role. That doesn't support 
why you would be good in a different role as a council member.

In other words, writing good code doesn't make you good at everything in 
Gentoo. It doesn't mean you would make a good docs writer, a good devrel 
member, a good trustee, or a good council member. They all involve 
different activities or different levels of thought.

All I'd like to hear is the same thing I'd want from a job candidate -- 
what makes you uniquely qualified? We have plenty of technically good 
developers running, so that doesn't exactly differentiate you.

What is your vision for what the council should do? How about what 
Gentoo should do? How would you make it happen?

-- 
Thanks,
Donnie

Donnie Berkholz
Developer, Gentoo Linux
Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com

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