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Candidates

Note: The candidates with the most votes will be elected for the board. Note that no single organization or company can control more than 40 percent of the electable board seats (more than 2 seats). Since one seat is already occupied by a SUSE employee, only one additional SUSE employee, at most, may be elected. Please read the full description of the election process.

Richard Brown (*) profile - announcement Platform
Bruno Friedmann profile announcement Platform
Kostas Koudaras profile announcement Platform
Sascha Peilicke (*) - profile announcement Platform
Andres Betts - profile announcement Platform
Ish Sookun profile announcement Platform
Jörg "johest" Stephan - profile announcement Platform
Andrew Wafaa - profile announcement Platform

Candidates marked with a (*) are SUSE employees.

Please check the candidates' blogs and platform pages to read more about their vision and plans.

Timeline

2013-10-28 (Phase 0)

Announcement of the openSUSE Board election for 2013.
Start of 3 week period to apply for an openSUSE membership (in order to vote or candidate).
Start of 3 week phase to stand for a position in the openSUSE Board.

2013-11-17

Notification of intent to run, and application for an openSUSE membership close (end of phase 0).

2013-11-18 (Phase 1)

Start of 2 week campaign for the candidates before the ballots open (campaign might be done until ballots close).

2013-12-02 (Phase 2)

Ballots open: Please cast your vote here!

2013-12-15 [1]

Ballots close (end of phase 2)

2013-12-16

Announcement of the results

Seats to get elected

There will be 4 seats to be elected, 2 for a 2 year term, and 2 for a 1 year term.

Andrew Waafaa's and Will Stephenson's terms are coming to expiration.
Richard Brown's seat is up for election as he got appointed in the board as a replacement for Pascal Bleser.
Raymond Wooninck's seat is up for election because he resigned from the board this summer.

All of them would be allowed to stand up for candidacy again, as it was their first term in the board.

Election committee

Contact

You can contact the committee using the mail address election-officials@opensuse.org.

Detailed explanation of all phases

Phase 0: Notification of Intent to Run or nomination

Only openSUSE members have the right to run for a board seat, except if they are in the Election Committee. To stand for a position in the openSUSE board please send a mail to

opensuse-project@opensuse.org and
election-officials@opensuse.org.

In the application candidates should write a short introduction of themselves and probably a short manifesto/platform/program that gives answers to these topics:

Goal statement, Past work summary, Future plans

The election committee also needs the openSUSE username, irc nickname and a userpage in the wiki to reference the candidate. It is recommended that they blog about their candidacy as this will reach a much wider audience of voters. If their blog is not syndicated on Planet openSUSE, please advise the committee who will ensure it does get added.

Potential candidates are advised to read the Board Member Application Mini-HOWTO to get an idea of what is involved.

Also, if you want to nominate somebody else, tell the election officials and they will contact the nominated person and ask whether s/he will run for the board.

Phase 0: Application for an openSUSE membership

To apply for a membership, applicants should read through How to become a member at the membership page.

Note: Applicants need to apply as soon as possible to give the Membership officials enough time to review and approve/reject applications. Even if applicants meet the deadline, it may not be ensured that their openSUSE membership will be approved until just before the ballots open.

Phase 1: Campaign

During the campaign-phase there should be

plenty of blog entries on the upcoming election by the candidates
interviews with all candidates by the openSUSE news team
a moderated Q&A session on IRC possibly during one of the regular Project meetings or a separate meeting

Phase 2: Election

All persons with voting right will be able to cast their votes using here!. Once a vote has been submitted it may not be changed afterward. All votes are stored anonymously in the electronic system.

External links

Articles for candidates

Board Member Application Mini-HOWTO written by Federico Mena Quintera about the GNOME Foundation board
What does the openSUSE Board do? Google Cache

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