The purpose of this election was to choose five members to form the next Gentoo Foundation Board of Trustees. More information about their roles and duties can be found in the Gentoo Foundation Charter. Archives of the gentoo-nfp mailing list contain most recent information about elections progress. If you have any questions or suggestions, please contact the election officials.
Officials running this election were Łukasz Damentko, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto and Richard Freeman. The infrastructure contact for this election was Shyam Mani.
We're pleased to present you the ranked list of all elected Gentoo Foundation Trustees:
We published the master ballot file. This file contains all submitted ballots. Each of this ballots can be identified using a confirmation ID. Every person who voted in this election was mailed their ID by one of election officials. If you haven't received your ID, please contact one of election officials to provide you with that information. Using this ID and master ballot file people who voted can verify that their votes were included during counting votes.
We also published the full countify script output so you can check how the whole vote counting was done.
In this section we present data showing how many of eligible persons have voted in this election.
Everybody could nominate one of eligible persons to run in the election. Nominees had to be a minimum of 18 years of age, they also had to be current Gentoo Foundation Members or active Gentoo Developers for at least a year before polls closing date. All nominations were sent to the gentoo-nfp mailing list. To run in the election, a nominated person had to accept his nomination on the same mailing list.
Now nominations are closed and people who were nominated and decided to run in the election are named in the following table:
| Nominee | Nickname | Nominated by | Date | Status | Links |
| William Thomson | wltjr | Steve Long | 29 Jan 2008 | Accepted | wltjr's Trustee Election 2008 Manifesto |
| Roy Bamford | NeddySeagoon | Steve Long | 29 Jan 2008 | Accepted | NeddySeagoon's Trustee Election 2008 Manifesto |
| Tom Gall | tgall | Brent Baude | 29 Jan 2008 | Accepted | tgall's Trustee Election 2008 Manifesto |
| Patrick Lauer | patrick | Steve Long | 30 Jan 2008 | Accepted | patrick's Trustee Election 2008 Manifesto |
| Joshua Jackson | tsunam | Paul Varner | 30 Jan 2008 | Accepted | none |
| Jeffrey Gardner | je_fro | Chris Gianelloni | 31 Jan 2008 | Accepted | je_fro's Trustee Election 2008 Manifesto |
| Ferris McCormick | fmccor | Roy Bamford | 08 Feb 2008 | Accepted | fmccor's Trustee Election 2008 Manifesto |
| Jakub Moc | jakub | Patrick Lauer | 03 Feb 2008 | Accepted | jakub's Trustee Election 2008 Manifesto |
The following table presents people who were nominated but didn't agree to run in the elections.
| Nominee | Nickname | Nominated by | Date | Status | Links |
| Zac Medico | zmedico | Steve Long | 29 Jan 2008 | didn't reply | none |
| Paul de Vrieze | pauldv | Steve Long | 29 Jan 2008 | didn't reply | none |
| Seemant Kulleen | seemant | Steve Long | 29 Jan 2008 | didn't reply | none |
| Renat Lumpau | rl03 | Steve Long | 29 Jan 2008 | didn't reply | none |
| Steve Dibb | beandog | Christian Faulhammer | 02 Feb 2008 | didn't reply | none |
| Kurt Lieber | klieber | William Thomson | 29 Jan 2008 | Declined | none |
| Markus Ullmann | jokey | William Thomson | 29 Jan 2008 | Declined | none |
| Daniel Robbins | drobbins | Andrew Zane | 29 Jan 2008 | Declined | none |
| Daniel Drake | dsd | George Prowse | 01 Feb 2008 | Declined | none |
| Ned Ludd | solar | Steve Long | 29 Jan 2008 | Declined | none |
| Grant Goodyear | g2boojom | Steve Long | 29 Jan 2008 | Declined | none |
| Alec Warner | antarus | William Thomson | 29 Jan 2008 | Declined | none |
If you think you see a mistake in any of this tables, please contact the election officials.
People who are eligible to vote in this election were:
We have prepared lists of all eligible current Gentoo Developers and all eligible Gentoo Foundation members. If you can't find your name on any of those lists and think you should be eligible to vote, please contact the election officials.
Those lists are still considered provisional. We are currently trying to complete them, which is problematic because some Gentoo Developers lack a join date in their LDAP record. If you are one of those people, please contact the election officials with your Gentoo join date.
How do I cast my vote for this election?
Eligible current Gentoo devs should login to dev.gentoo.org and run the following commands, in the order specified.
The remaining Foundation members (ex-devs), should email their ballot to the 3 election officials, signing the mail with their gpg key:
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