• Debian Project Leader Elections 2025: Call for nominations

    From Debian Project Secretary - Kurt Roe@21:1/5 to All on Sat Mar 8 11:40:01 2025
    XPost: linux.debian.vote

    Hi,

    According to the constitution (5.2. Appointment), project
    leader elections should begin "six weeks before the leadership
    post becomes vacant, or (if it is too late already) immediately."

    The new project leader term starts on 2025-04-21. The time line
    looks like:

    | Period | Start | End | |------------+-------------------+---------------------|
    | Nomination | Sunday 2025-03-09 | Saturday 2025-03-15 |
    | Campaign | Sunday 2025-03-16 | Saturday 2025-04-05 |
    | Vote | Sunday 2025-04-06 | Saturday 2025-04-19 |

    Prospective leaders should be familiar with the constitution, but
    just to review: there's a one week period when interested
    developers can nominate themselves and announce their platform,
    followed by a three week period intended for campaigning, followed
    by two weeks for the election itself.

    I intend to collect platform statements from the candidates, and
    publish them at http://www.debian.org/vote/2025/platforms/ at the
    end of the nomination period, which means around 2025-03-16.

    I suggest that the candidates send the platform, preferably in
    wml or HTML, to the secretary at least a day before the
    publication date.

    The format of the web page is open to discussion, but I suggest
    there be at least three sections:
    - Introduction / Biography
    - Major Goal / Meat of the platform
    - Rebuttal.

    The candidates can make a rebuttal. I would like to receive them
    in the first week of the campaign period, so I can publish them
    around 2025-03-23.

    Details and results for the vote will be published at: http://www.debian.org/vote/2025/vote_001

    Please make sure that nominations are sent to (or cc:'d to)
    debian-vote, and are cryptographically signed.


    Kurt Roeckx
    Debian Project Secretary


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