Dear Gentoo Community, Nominations for the Gentoo Council 2021 / 2022 election will start at 2021-06-04 00:00 UTC (Friday) and will remain open for the next two weeks until the end of 2021-06-17 (Thursday) (2021-06-18 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 4th 00:00 UTC to end of day June 17th (June 18 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 19th 00:00 UTC to end of day July 2nd (July 3rd 00:00 UTC) (there is a 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 3rd, 2021 (right before the election is 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/202106 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 (Libera #gentoo-elections). Officials: David Abbott (dabbott) Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto (jmbsvicetto) Roy Bamford (NeddySeagoon) Infra Contact: Robin H Johnson (robbat2) For the elections team, ---------------- Regards, Jorge Vicetto (jmbsvicetto) - jmbsvicetto at gentoo dot org Gentoo- forums / Elections / Infra