openSUSE election committee is glad to announce the beginning of election campaign for openSUSE board election 2014/2015. This campaign will be 4 weeks long (and will be able to continue until ballots close). As a reminder, ballots will open on January 13, 2015 and will close on January 26, 2015. The candidates running for an openSUSE board seat are (by alphabetical order): - Craig Gardner (*) - Kostas Koudaras - Michal Hrusecky (*) - Peter Linnell (*) - Robert Schweikert (*) Candidates marked with a (*) are SUSE employees. The candidates with the most votes will be elected for the board. 3 seats are open for vote. Note that no single organization or company can control more than 40 percent of the electable board seats (more than 2 seats). Since no seat is already occupied by a SUSE employee, only two additional SUSE employee, at most, may be elected. We'd like to ask each candidate to send (or send again, if they did already in their announcement as candidate), on opensuse-project mailing list, a short introduction of themselves and 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. openSUSE 2014/2015 Election Committee Frederic "fcrozat" Crozat Marcus "darix" Rueckert -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org