Dear openSUSE members, It's time to elect a new Board member to fill an empty seat on the openSUSE Board. This is an Ad-hoc election as defined in our Election Rules [1] so the elected board member will serve till the end of 2021. The election schedule is as follows:   == Phase 0 ==    20 July 2020    * Announcement of the Ad-hoc openSUSE Board Election 2020    * Call for Nominations and Applications for Board candidacy    * Membership drive    2 August 2020    * Nominations and Applications for Board candidacy close   == Phase 1 ==    3 August 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 ==    17 August 2020    * Ballots open: Please cast your vote during this time    * Campaign continues    30 August 2020    * Ballots close    31 August 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 [1]. The Election Committee [2] are hereby calling for Nominations & Applications for the openSUSE Board [3]. [1] https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Board_election_rules [2] Members: Ish Sookun, Edwin Zakaria and myself. [3] https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Board_election -- Regards, Ariez Vachha ajv@opensuse.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org