Election Reminder Notification

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Note

This pull request will be reused for future election notifications.

Recently we kicked off the first election for the Nix Steering Committee as a major step towards a renewal of project governance.

Since starting this election, we've had a lot of engagement in the election repository with 25 nominees being endorsed by more than 80 different people.

We're now approaching the end of the nomination phase with some upcoming deadlines:

• 2024-09-29 Sun: Deadline for nominations.
• 2024-10-01 Tue: Deadline for endorsements of nominees without enough endorsements. You will not be able to vote for nominees that don't have sufficient endorsements.
• 2024-10-03 Thu: Deadline for asking questions to candidates.
• 2024-10-06 Sun: Deadline for submitting voter exceptions and updating voter email addresses. You will not be able to vote if you cannot receive emails on the registered address.

Furthermore, if you're a nominee yourself:

• 2024-10-01 Tue: Deadline for accepting the nomination and submitting the candidate form.
• 2024-10-06 Sun: Deadline for answering questions you'd like to answer.

Following these dates, the final list of confirmed candidates along with their forms is expected to be published on 2024-10-02 Wed, while voting starts on 2024-10-07 Mon.

Note that deadlines are in Anywhere on Earth time, meaning submissions are still valid as long as it is still the given day anywhere on the planet (i.e. at the end of that day in UTC-12).

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We've now reached the end of the nomination phase, ending up with 25 confirmed candidates!

All candidate forms have now been published together:

https://github.com/NixOS/SC-election-2024/tree/main/candidates

We're also confirming that there are no same conflicts of interests among the candidates, meaning that there will be no further need to take the constitutional conflict of interest restrictions into account.

Candidate Q&A deadline

Until this Thursday, eligible voters can still ask questions to candidates, and are encouraged to do so. Note that questions can also be based on the candidates forms.

Until this Sunday, candidates can answer questions they'd like to answer.

Email update deadline

Until this Sunday you can check and optionally update your email address. You will not be able to vote if you cannot receive emails on the registered address.

The voting phase starts on Monday and will last for almost 2 weeks until 2024-10-20 Sun.

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Candidates for the first Nix Steering Committee have now been selected, and the voting phase of the election has begun. The list of voters is now final, and the deadline for exception requests and updating emails has passed.

You must cast your vote by 2024-10-20 Sun in Anywhere on Earth time, meaning as long as it is still the given day anywhere on the planet (i.e. at the end of that day in UTC-12). After the poll is closed, votes will not be accepted for any reason.

We will send a reminder to vote on 2024-10-18 Fri.

The Candidates

Please inform yourself about the candidates by looking at their candidate info documents, which include:

• Basic contact info
• A conflict of interest disclosure
• A statement on their motivation to be on the Steering Committee
• All Q&A questions answered by the candidate, followed by ones not answered

Each candidate's individual info document is also linked on the ballot.

How to vote

To be able to vote, you need to activate your email in the voters.json file with CIVS by following the steps on the CIVS Activate User page.

If you already did so, you should've already received an email from civs@cornell.edu with a link to the poll.

If you're only activating your email now, you will get a link to the poll in the activation page under "Pending poll invitations". If you missed this, you can go through the email activation again.

If you have a question, please contact the Election Committee.