Dear openSUSE members, openSUSE Board Election 2020 [1] It's time to elect new Board members to fill empty seats on the openSUSE Board. This is a regular election as defined in our Election Rules [2] so the elected board members will serve till the end of 2022. There are three seats for election in accordance with our normal election cycle. Stasiek is opting not to continue for the next full year due to a change in his personal circumstances. The election schedule is as follows: ## Phase 0 15 November 2020 - Announcement of the openSUSE Board Election 2020 - Call for Nominations and Applications for Board candidacy Membership drive 29 November 2020 - Nominations and Applications for Board candidacy close ## Phase 1 30 November 2020 - 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 15 December 2020 - Ballots open: Please cast your vote during this time - Campaign continues 30 December 2020 - Ballots close 31 December 2020 - Announcement of results To stand for a position in the openSUSE Board please send an email to: * opensuse-project@opensuse.org and * election-officials@opensuse.org If a member would like to nominate another member, please inform the Election Committee and the officials will contact the nominee to ask whether they would like to run as a Board candidate. Only openSUSE members are eligible to run for openSUSE Board openings in accordance with the Eligibility and Validity section of our Election Rules [2]. The Election Committee [3] are hereby calling for Nominations & Applications for the openSUSE Board. [1] https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Board_election [2] https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Board_election_rules [3] Members: Ish Sookun, Edwin Zakaria and Ariez Vachha. -- Regards, The Election Committee election-officials@opensuse.org