What are the nominees intending to do if they are elected? I miss the
manifests.


On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 12:18 AM, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto <
jmbsvicetto@gentoo.org> wrote:

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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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Mauricio Lima Pilla -- UFPEL

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http://minerva.ufpel.edu.br/~pilla

"I'm just very selective about the reality I choose to accept."
                                                             -- Calvin