Re: [gentoo-project] Gentoo Council 2015 / 2016 election - < 48 hours for nominations

["Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto" <jmbsvicetto@gentoo.org>]

On Sat, 13 Jun 2015, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote:

> 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).

There's less than 48 hours to nominate and accept nominations for this 
election.
If there's anyone you want to nominate, please send the nomination email 
ASAP. If you want to accept your nomination, please send your acceptance 
email ASAP as well.

> 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.

Please check the election page[1] for details about the election.

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

> 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)
<insert>
>  Mikle Kolyada (zlogene) 
</insert>
>
> Infra Contact:
> Robin H. Johnson (robbat2)
>
> For the elections team,
>
> - --
> Regards,
>
> Jorge Vicetto (jmbsvicetto) - jmbsvicetto at gentoo dot org
> Gentoo- forums / Userrel / Devrel / KDE / Elections / RelEng
>