openSUSE:Board election
openSUSE Regular Board Election 2022
This is a regular election as defined in our Election Rules.
This year there are three seats for election in accordance with our normal election cycle. 1. Dr. Axel Braun (DocB), who is not eligible for re-election in accordance with our rules and we thank him for this hard work on the board over the previous years. 2. Gertjan Lettink (Knurpht), and 3. Neal Gompa (Conan_Kudo), who are both still eligible for re-election.
The announcement of the openSUSE Regular Board Election 2022 was made on the project mailing list.
Schedule
Visual / Poster
Poster courtesy - Kukuh Syafaat.
Phase 0
15 October 2022
- Announcement of the Board Election 2022
- Call for Nominations and Applications for Board candidacy
- Membership drive
31 October 2022
- Nominations and Applications for Board candidacy close
Phase 1
1 November 2022
- Announcement of the final list of candidates
- Campaign begins
- Membership drive continues, opportunity to apply for openSUSE Membership, but members will only be eligible to vote and not run as a candidate
Phase 2
1 December 2022
- Ballots open: Please cast your vote during this time
- Campaign continues
15 December 2022
- Ballots close
16 December 2022
- Announcement of results
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 are eligible to run for openSUSE Board openings. Election Committee Officials, however, are not eligible to run in order to avoid conflicts of interest. To stand for a position in the openSUSE board please send a mail to
Phase 1: Campaign
During the campaign phase there should be:
- plenty of campaign releases about the upcoming election by the candidates in openSUSE Communication outlets;
- interviews with all candidates by the openSUSE news team;
- interviews of outgoing and current board members to give a picture of life on the openSUSE Board
Phase 2: Election
All persons with voting rights will be able to cast their votes using a link emailed to them mentioning https://elections.opensuse.org. Once a vote has been submitted, it can be changed until the end of the election period. All votes are stored anonymously in the electronic system.
Members may vote for one candidate only or up to a maximum of three candidates. Members may also opt for "None of the above" if they do not find any suitable candidate in this election.
Candidates
The 2022 openSUSE Board Election candidates are:
- Douglas Demaio: https://en.opensuse.org/User:Ddemaio
- Patrick Fitzgerald: https://en.opensuse.org/User:Pfitzgerald
- Nathan Wolf: https://en.opensuse.org/User:Futureboy
- Chuck Payne: https://en.opensuse.org/User:Terrorpup