On 2017.06.10 00:53, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote:
> Dear Gentoo Community,
> 
> Nominations for the Gentoo Council 2017 / 2018 election will start at
> 00:00 UTC 2017/06/10 (Saturday) and will remain open for the next two
> weeks until the end of 2016/06/23 (Friday) (2016/06/24 00:00 UTC).
> 
> 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 10th 00:00 UTC to end of day
> June 23th (June 24th 00:00 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 25th 00:00 UTC to end of day July 8th
> (July 9th 00:00 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 9th, 2016 (the day before the election was opened)
>     * Gentoo uses the Condorcet method of voting
>     * Results should be published around July 10th
> 
> The election page for this election[1] will contain all pertinent
> information regarding the election.
> 
>  [1] - https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Elections/Council/201706
> 
> If you don't know what the Gentoo Council is, you can read about it on
> the project page[2].
> 
>  [2] - 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:
> 
> Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto (jmbsvicetto)
> Roy Bamford (NeddySeagoon)
> 
> Infra Contact (to be confirmed):
>  Matthew Thode  (prometheanfire)
> 
> We're missing a 3rd election official. If you'd like to help run the
> election, please get in touch with the officials for this election.
> 
> For the elections team,
> 
> - --
> Regards,
> 
> Jorge Vicetto (jmbsvicetto) - jmbsvicetto at gentoo dot org
> Gentoo- forums / ComRel / KDE / Elections / RelEng
> 
> 

Team,

The nominations and acceptance period for the above election is now 
complete and voting has started.  Ballots must be cast befere the 
end of day July 8th (July 9th 00:00 UTC).

Log on to dev.gentoo.org and follow the instructions in the login 
message.

On behalf of the election offcials.

-- 
Regards,

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