* Ariez Vachha - openSUSE [11-14-23 13:58]:

Dear openSUSE members,

openSUSE Board Election 2023 [1]

It's time to elect new Board members to fill empty seats on the openSUSE Board for 2024. This time we are looking to fill two seats in accordance with our Election Rules [2]:

1. Maurizio Galli (MauG), and 2. Patrick Shanahan (paka), who are both still eligible for re-election.

## Phase 0 15 November 2023 * Announcement of the Board Election 2023 * Call for Nominations and Applications for Board candidacy * Membership drive

30 November 2023 * Nominations and Applications for Board candidacy close

## Phase 1

1 December 2023 * Announcement of the final list of candidates * Campaign begins * Membership drive continues, opportunity to apply for openSUSE Membership, but new members will only be eligible to vote and not run as candidate

## Phase 2 15 December 2023 * Ballots open: Please cast your vote during this time * Campaign continues

30 December 2023 * Ballots close

31 December 2023 * Announcement of results

To stand for a position in the openSUSE Board please send an email to:

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

you WILL piss a bunch of people off offering to re-elect me, expecially since I am not and never have been, nor would I offer to be elected. makes one wonder about the state of the board and the election committee. -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri Photos: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/piwigo paka @ IRCnet oftc

Dear all

On 14 Nov 2023, at 22:57, Ariez Vachha - openSUSE wrote:

To stand for a position in the openSUSE Board please send an email to:

* project@lists.opensuse.org mailto:project@lists.opensuse.org and * election-officials@lists.opensuse.org mailto:election-officials@lists.opensuse.org

The correct email address to reach the Election Officials is election-officials@opensuse.org mailto:election-officials@opensuse.org. Regards, Ish Sookun