• [gentoo-dev] Call for Election Offciials - 2024-25 Election Season

    From Roy Bamford@21:1/5 to All on Sat May 4 16:00:01 2024
    Team,

    We need some election officials for the Gentoo 2024-25 Election Season.
    The Council hold their last meeting in June, the new Foundation
    trustees take their seats at the AGM in August.

    Suggested council election dates are
    Nominations open 01-Jun-24,
    Last meeting 09-Jun-24 (approx)
    Nominations close 15-Jun-24
    Voting 17-Jun-24 to 01-Jul-24

    The council need not agree to those dates but its broadly in line with
    previous years. The new council could then meet on 07-Jul-24.

    The trustees dates are a bit more complex as the foundation needs
    to comply with NM statutes. The process starts with the trustees
    declaring a record date. Only members on record on that date can take
    part in the election. It ends with the newly elected trustees taking
    their seats at the AGM due in August.

    This year there is a complication. jmbsvicetto has retired and I'm
    expecting to be on devaway. The details of that are on the core ML.

    Officials may not be candidates. This sometimes leads to having
    different teams for different elections.

    1. We need an -infra contact. Their remaining tasks are to harvest the
    votes when the election closes and add any email votes to the count.

    2. A lead official to set up the election in the elections repo. https://cgit.gentoo.org/proj/elections.git/

    The details are in https://cgit.gentoo.org/proj/elections.git/tree/
    README.md

    There is also the incomplete https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/ User:NeddySeagoon/Election_Officials_HOWTO which is based on my
    experience at the school of hard knocks.

    3. Create the 2024-25 Wiki pages https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/ Project:Elections for the elections team to maintain through the
    nomination period.

    4. At least two other officials to count the votes. More than two is
    good.We have had officials become candidates and vanish at short/no
    notice before.

    5. All officials need to be in #gentoo-elections and on the elections
    alias to respond to questions from the electorate.

    6. Update topic in -dev with the turnout, post reminders to the
    electorate.

    Once we have a team, we can arrange a practice election.

    On behalf of the elections project.

    --
    Regards,

    Roy Bamford
    (Neddyseagoon) a member of
    elections
    gentoo-ops
    forum-mods
    arm64





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