Title Gentoo Council 2015/2016 Election ID council-201506 Election Officials Creffett Jmbsvicetto Zlogene Infra Contact(s) Robbat2 Voting eligibility cutoff 2015/06/12 Nomination period 2015/06/13 0000h UTC — 2015/06/27 0000h UTC Voting period 2015/06/28 0000h UTC — 2015/07/12 0000h UTC

Winners

We're pleased to present you the Gentoo Council members for the 2015/2016 term:

Ulrich Müller (ulm)

Anthony G. Basile (blueness)

Andreas K. Hüttel (dilfridge)

Richard Freeman (rich0)

Kristian Fiskerstrand (k_f)

Justin Lecher (jlec)

William Hubbs (williamh)



We published the master ballot file. This file contains all submitted ballots. Each of this ballots can be identified using a confirmation ID. Every person who voted in this election was mailed their ID by one of election officials. If you haven't received your ID, please contact one of election officials to provide you with that information. Using this ID and master ballot file people who voted can verify that their votes were included during counting votes.

We also published the full countify script output so you can check how the whole vote counting was done.

Gentoo Council 201506 full ranked list of candidates (there was a tie for 2nd)

ulm

blueness dilfridge

rich0

k_f

jlec

williamh

patrick

lu_zero

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Election turnout

In this election, the following were the total of eligible voters that have voted:

Total voters: 235

Submitted ballots: 72

Current turnout: 30.638%

Nominees

Legend: accepted (green), reply pending (grey), declined (red)

Name Manifesto Council Trustee Comrel QA Acceptance blueness http://dev.gentoo.org/~blueness/manifesto-2015.txt accepted dilfridge https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-project/message/ee2d0bbf5cb8b8c31c713d303b27e9bb accepted jlec https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-project/message/5282b715548095054be6fedc65f3a4cd accepted k_f https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-project/message/da6c64c4ea30b887d4d1c7a200a8fa0d accepted lu_zero accepted patrick accepted rich0 https://dev.gentoo.org/~rich0/council-manifesto-2015.txt accepted ulm accepted williamh https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-project/message/816bd517148ccd1ee97e9c73852ce964 accepted bicatali no response hasufell no response jdhore no response mgorny no response qnikst no response radhermit no response slyfox no response calchan declined dol-sen declined hwoarang declined idella4 declined kensington declined zmedico declined

If you think you see a mistake in this table, please contact the election officials.

Rules

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.

Council elections generally happen once a year.

The council is composed of seven elected members.

Nominations are allowed from 13 June 2015 00H00 UTC to 27 June 2015 00H00 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 28 June 2015 00H00 UTC to 12 July 2015 00H00 UTC.

Only Gentoo developers may vote.

The list of Gentoo Developers is based on active membership by 12 June 2015 (the day before the election will be opened).

Gentoo uses the Condorcet method of voting.

Results should be published the day after voting closes.

Information for Voters

Those who are eligible to vote in this election are all current Gentoo Developers at the day before the election was opened.

How do I cast my vote for this election?

After polls are open, voters should login to dev.gentoo.org and run the following commands, in the order specified.

votify --new council-201506 — This creates a new ballot in your homedir.

— This creates a new ballot in your homedir. Edit the .ballot-council-201506 file and rank the candidates.

file and rank the candidates. Once you're sure, run votify --verify council-201506 to check the validity of the ballot.

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 council-201506

In case you're stuck, detailed help can be accessed by using votify --help or feel free to drop by #gentoo-elections

or feel free to drop by Grab a coffee or a beer, have fun, sit back and enjoy the show...until the results are announced.

Election e-mails

Election results email Election voting email Election opening email