On 03-06-2016 23:38, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote:


Dear Gentoo community,

the council election will open later tonight at 2016-06-19 00:00 UTC.
The election booth will remain open until 2014-07-03 00:00 UTC.
The election page for this election[1], contains all the information
about the election.

  [1] - https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Elections/Council/201606

Please let us know if you find any issues with the page or with the
election. In particular, make sure you're listed as a voter[2] or you
won't be able to vote in the election.

 [2] -
https://projects.gentoo.org/elections/council/2016/voters-council-201606.txt

The rules for the Council election as well as details on how to vote for
this election are available in the Council Elections Archives[3]. 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-201606 to create a new ballot file
     * Edit .ballot-council-201606 file in your home directory and rank
the candidates
     * Once you're finished, use votify --verify council-201606 command
to verify the validity of your ballot file
     * If everything is okay, use votify --submit council-201606 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[4].

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.

  [3] - https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Elections/Council
  [4] -
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/meeting-logs/20090212-summary.txt

> Dear Gentoo Community,
> 
> Nominations for the Gentoo Council 2016 / 2017 election will start at
> 00:00 UTC 2016/06/04 (Saturday) and will remain open for the next two
> weeks until 00:00 UTC, 2016/06/18 (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 4th 00H00 UTC to June 18th
> 00H00 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 19th 00H00 UTC to July 3rd 00H00 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 June 3rd, 2016 (the day before the election was opened)
>     * Gentoo uses the Condorcet method of voting
>     * Results should be published around July 4th
> 
> The election page for this election[1] will contain all pertinent
> information regarding the election.
> 
>  [1] - https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Elections/Council/201606
> 
> 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:
> 
> Chris Reffett (creffett)
> Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto (jmbsvicetto)
> Roy Bamford (NeddySeagoon)
> 
> Infra Contact
> Alex Legler (a3li)

For the elections team,

> For the elections team,
> 
> - --
> Regards,
> 
> Jorge Vicetto (jmbsvicetto) - jmbsvicetto at gentoo dot org
> Gentoo- forums / ComRel / KDE / Elections / RelEng
>