[gentoo-nfp] 2017 Trustee Election

[gentoo-nfp] 2017 Trustee Election

[David Abbott]

To whom it may concern,

This email contains notifications of the start of the election period
for the 2017 Trustee Election. [1]

Only Foundation members may vote. [2]

Voting Period:
2017/07/27 00H00 UTC — 2017/08/16 00H00 UTC

The new trustees will take their seats at the AGM on Aug 20.
Trustees serve a two year term and retire by rotation every year.

This year, Sven Vermeulen (SwifT),  Robin H. Johnson (robbat2) and Alec Warner
 (antarus) retire by rotation.

There are thus three seats on the board of trustees to be contested.

The Annual General Meeting of the Gentoo Foundation Inc. will be held
on 20th August 2017 in #gentoo-trustees on irc.freenode.net at 1900 UTC.

[1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Elections/Trustees/201707
[2] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Foundation:Member_List

Regards,

-- 
David Abbott (dabbott)
Gentoo Foundation Secretary
http://dev.gentoo.org/~dabbott/

Re: [gentoo-nfp] 2017 Trustee Election

[Andrew Savchenko]

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Hi,

On Fri, 28 Jul 2017 04:03:42 -0400 David Abbott wrote:
> To whom it may concern,
> 
> This email contains notifications of the start of the election period
> for the 2017 Trustee Election. [1]
> 
> Only Foundation members may vote. [2]
> 
> Voting Period:
> 2017/07/27 00H00 UTC — 2017/08/16 00H00 UTC

Am I understand correctly that votify --submit $name just
renames .ballot-* to .ballot-*-submitted, so a voter can edit
the ballot file later (but before the deadline) in case they want
to made some adjustments?

Best regards,
Andrew Savchenko

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Re: [gentoo-nfp] 2017 Trustee Election

[Roy Bamford]

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On 2017.07.29 10:04, Andrew Savchenko wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, 28 Jul 2017 04:03:42 -0400 David Abbott wrote:
> > To whom it may concern,
> > 
> > This email contains notifications of the start of the election
> period
> > for the 2017 Trustee Election. [1]
> > 
> > Only Foundation members may vote. [2]
> > 
> > Voting Period:
> > 2017/07/27 00H00 UTC — 2017/08/16 00H00 UTC
> 
> Am I understand correctly that votify --submit $name just
> renames .ballot-* to .ballot-*-submitted, so a voter can edit
> the ballot file later (but before the deadline) in case they want
> to made some adjustments?
> 
> Best regards,
> Andrew Savchenko
> 

Andrew,

I reccommend against editing  .ballot-*-submitted as edits won't be 
validated.  This could mean that your vote may not be counted.

You are free to tear up your ballot and request a new one at any 
time.

-- 
Regards,

Roy Bamford
(Neddyseagoon) a member of
elections
gentoo-ops
forum-mods

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Re: [gentoo-nfp] 2017 Trustee Election

[Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto]

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On 29-07-2017 09:20, Roy Bamford wrote:
> On 2017.07.29 10:04, Andrew Savchenko wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Fri, 28 Jul 2017 04:03:42 -0400 David Abbott wrote:
>>> To whom it may concern,
>>>
>>> This email contains notifications of the start of the election
>> period
>>> for the 2017 Trustee Election. [1]
>>>
>>> Only Foundation members may vote. [2]
>>>
>>> Voting Period:
>>> 2017/07/27 00H00 UTC — 2017/08/16 00H00 UTC
>>
>> Am I understand correctly that votify --submit $name just
>> renames .ballot-* to .ballot-*-submitted, so a voter can edit
>> the ballot file later (but before the deadline) in case they want
>> to made some adjustments?
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Andrew Savchenko
>>
> 
> Andrew,
> 
> I reccommend against editing  .ballot-*-submitted as edits won't be 
> validated.  This could mean that your vote may not be counted.
> 
> You are free to tear up your ballot and request a new one at any 
> time.

You can edit the submitted vote, but I would recommend then renaming the
ballot to .ballot-* and run votify --verify and votify --submit. That
will catch any mistakes in the ballot.
As Roy warned, editing the submitted ballot and not validating the final
ballot, might cause it to be discarded.
Best regards,

Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto


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Re: [gentoo-nfp] 2017 Trustee Election

[Andrew Savchenko]

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On Sat, 29 Jul 2017 11:35:44 +0000 Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote:
> On 29-07-2017 09:20, Roy Bamford wrote:
> > On 2017.07.29 10:04, Andrew Savchenko wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> On Fri, 28 Jul 2017 04:03:42 -0400 David Abbott wrote:
> >>> To whom it may concern,
> >>>
> >>> This email contains notifications of the start of the election
> >> period
> >>> for the 2017 Trustee Election. [1]
> >>>
> >>> Only Foundation members may vote. [2]
> >>>
> >>> Voting Period:
> >>> 2017/07/27 00H00 UTC — 2017/08/16 00H00 UTC
> >>
> >> Am I understand correctly that votify --submit $name just
> >> renames .ballot-* to .ballot-*-submitted, so a voter can edit
> >> the ballot file later (but before the deadline) in case they want
> >> to made some adjustments?
> >>
> >> Best regards,
> >> Andrew Savchenko
> >>
> > 
> > Andrew,
> > 
> > I reccommend against editing  .ballot-*-submitted as edits won't be 
> > validated.  This could mean that your vote may not be counted.
> > 
> > You are free to tear up your ballot and request a new one at any 
> > time.
> 
> You can edit the submitted vote, but I would recommend then renaming the
> ballot to .ballot-* and run votify --verify and votify --submit. That
> will catch any mistakes in the ballot.

Yes, that was exactly what I intended to do if there will be a need
for such action.

> As Roy warned, editing the submitted ballot and not validating the final
> ballot, might cause it to be discarded.

Understood, thanks for your answers.

Frankly I though all previous elections that ballot is send to some
external service, so it is uneditable after submission and is kept
locally for reference purposes. So I assumed that I can't change my
preferences after a ballot is submitted, thus I submitted it late
(one ore two days before the deadline).

Now I see that actual implementation is much simpler, so this is a
very good news :)

Best regards,
Andrew Savchenko

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Re: [gentoo-nfp] 2017 Trustee Election

[Andreas K. Huettel]

Reminder - less than 5 days of voting time left in the Gentoo Foundation 
trustees election!

Cheers, Andreas


Am Freitag, 28. Juli 2017, 10:03:42 CEST schrieb David Abbott:
> To whom it may concern,
> 
> This email contains notifications of the start of the election period
> for the 2017 Trustee Election. [1]
> 
> Only Foundation members may vote. [2]
> 
> Voting Period:
> 2017/07/27 00H00 UTC — 2017/08/16 00H00 UTC
> 
> The new trustees will take their seats at the AGM on Aug 20.
> Trustees serve a two year term and retire by rotation every year.
> 
> This year, Sven Vermeulen (SwifT),  Robin H. Johnson (robbat2) and Alec
> Warner (antarus) retire by rotation.
> 
> There are thus three seats on the board of trustees to be contested.
> 
> The Annual General Meeting of the Gentoo Foundation Inc. will be held
> on 20th August 2017 in #gentoo-trustees on irc.freenode.net at 1900 UTC.
> 
> [1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Elections/Trustees/201707
> [2] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Foundation:Member_List
> 
> Regards,


-- 
Dr. Andreas K. Hüttel
tel. +49 151 241 67748 (mobile)
e-mail mail@akhuettel.de
http://www.akhuettel.de/