1. Technical Elections: Why & How
Kendall Nelson (diablo_rojo) &
Jeremy Stanley (fungi)

2. Timeline

3. PTL Elections
Nomination Period
Deadline
Voting Period

4. TC Elections Nomination Period Campaigning Period Email Deadline
Voting Period

5. Electorate Generation

6. owners.py Must be committer in last two releases
Have a current profile as an Individual Foundation Member
address in common between gerrit and member profile
Gerrit “preferred” address is where the ballot is sent
Deadline to update gerrit and profile is published as part of the election schedule

7. Submitting Your Candidacy

8. Candidacy File name must be your email address
Must be Individual Foundation Member
For PTLs, must also be the gerrit “owner” of a commit merged to that project during one of the prior two release cycles

9. Fundamentals of Ranked Voting

10. How it works Condorcet Internet Voting Service
Select candidates in a ranked order
Don’t need to rank every candidate, but it’s more effective if you do
Can rank 1 for 1st and everyone else for n, where n is the number of candidates, but the strength of ranked voting is in being able to identify the most consensual candidate(s)
Pay attention to instructions on the ballot: the “lowest” rank numbers identify the most preferred candidates and “highest” rank numbers identify least preference (it’s not like proportional voting where you’re assigning slices of your vote)

11. Why Voting is Important
You have a direct influence on results
Elected leaders should represent your interests I
V TED!

12. Questions?