On 13-06-2015 02:50, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote:

Dear Gentoo community,

the council election will open in a few minutes at 2014-06-28 00:00 UTC.
The election booth will remain open until 2014-07-12 00:00 UTC.
The election page for this election[1], made possible by the excellent
job of Alex Legler (a3li) that created the template for the election
pages, now contains all the information about the election.

  [1] - https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Elections/Council/2015

Please let us know if you find any issues with the page or with the
election.

The rules for the Council election as well as details on how to vote for
this election are available in the Council Elections Archives[2]. 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-201506 to create a new ballot file
     * Edit .ballot-council-201506 file in your home directory and rank
the candidates
     * Once you're finished, use votify --verify council-201506 command
to verify the validity of your ballot file
     * If everything is okay, use votify --submit council-201506 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[3].

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.

  [2] - https://gentoo-handbook.lugons.org/proj/en/elections/council/
(use until we're able to migrate the archives page to the wiki)
  [3] -
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/meeting-logs/20090212-summary.txt

> Dear Gentoo Community,
> 
> Nominations for the Gentoo Council 2015 / 2016 election have now started
> at 00:00 UTC 2015/06/13 (Saturday) and will remain open for the next two
> weeks until 23:59 UTC, 2015/06/26 (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 13th 00H00 UTC to June 26th
> 23H59 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 28th 00H00 UTC to July 11th 23H59 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 12th, 2013 (the day before the election was opened)
>     * Gentoo uses the Condorcet method of voting
>     * Results should be published around July 13th
> 
> We're still working on the project pages, so the address for the page
> listing all nominations will be posted later.
> 
> If you don't know what the Gentoo Council is, you can read about it on
> the project page: 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)
> 
> Infra Contact:
> Robin H. Johnson (robbat2)
> 
> We're missing a 3rd election official, so if you don't plan to run for
> the election and are willing to help, please let us know.

For the elections team,

> For the elections team,
> 
> - --
> Regards,
> 
> Jorge Vicetto (jmbsvicetto) - jmbsvicetto at gentoo dot org
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