[gentoo-project] 2019 Gentoo Foundation Trustee Election & Annual General Meeting

["Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@gentoo.org>]

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To whom it may concern,

This email contains notifications about the 2019 Trustee Election [1],
as well as the Annual General Meeting (AGM).

The AGM of the Gentoo Foundation Inc is scheduled as follows:
Date & Time: 2019/08/26 03:00 UTC.
Location: Freenode IRC network, #gentoo-trustees
A further reminder of the AGM will be sent closer to the date, as per
bylaw 3.4.

The 2019 Trustee Election will be held over June, July and August.
Nominations will be open for three weeks, starting on June 16th.
Voting will take place over four weeks, starting July 10th.

Only Foundation members as of the recording date may vote. [2]

Only active Gentoo developers who are also Foundation members may be
nominated. [1]

Nominations MUST be made by posting to gentoo-nfp@lists.gentoo.org, and
the nominated candidate must accept not later than the end of the
nomination period.

Please note that the recording date will take place during the
nomination period. This ensures that there is time to apply for
Foundation membership AND be nominated before the close of nominations.

The formal recording date is taken as of the July trustees meeting
(scheduled for 2019/07/01 03:00 UTC), to permit approval of membership
applications up to and include that meeting.

The new trustees will take their seats during the AGM on August 26.
Trustees serve a two year term and retire by rotation every year.

  Recording date:
  2019-07-01, as of the Trustees meeting
  
  Nomination Period:
  2019-06-16 00:00 UTC - 2019-07-06 23:59 UTC (3 weeks)
  
  Voting Period:
  2019-07-10 00:00 UTC — 2019-08-06 23:59 UTC (4 weeks)
  
  Election Results:
  2019-08-08

Any candidates higher than reopen_nominations are selected at the end
of this round.

If there are open seats at this point, the second round of nomination &
voting will take place.

  Second Nomination Period:
  2019-08-09 00:00 UTC - 2019-08-15 23:59 UTC (1 week)
  
  Second Voting Period:
  2019-08-17 00:00 UTC - 2019-08-23 23:59 UTC (1 week)
  
  Second Election Results available:
  2019-08-24
  
  Gentoo Foundation AGM
  2019-08-26 03:00 UTC

This year, Alice Ferrazzi (alicef) is retiring by rotation [3].
Additionally Alec Warner (antarus) and Robin H. Johnson (robbat2) are resigning.

Thus, there are 3 seats on the board of trustees to be contested.

 [1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Elections/Trustees
 [2] https://wiki.gentoo.org-wiki-Foundation:Member_List
 [3] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Foundation:Bylaws#Section_5.5._Election_and_Term

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Robin Hugh Johnson
Gentoo Linux: Dev, Infra Lead, Foundation Treasurer
E-Mail   : robbat2@gentoo.org
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