RE: TOF elections for 2025H2

[Gunnar M <gunnar@gmills.xyz>]

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> On 09/03/2025 12:34 AM MDT Sridevi Ramesh <sridevra@in.ibm.com> wrote:
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>  
> Hi,
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> I would like to vote for Manoj and Andrew G
>  
> Regards,
> Sridevi.R
> 
Please follow the steps below and create a Pull-Request to submit your vote.

Thx,
Gunnar
 
 

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> On 03/09/25, 7:46 AM, "Patrick Williams" <patrick@stwcx.xyz> wrote:
> 
> Greetings,
>  
> For the TOF elections this half, we had 4 qualified individuals
> nominated and there are 3 seats expiring.  Therefore, we are going to
> have to hold an election for the half.
>  
> Per the TOF election rules[1] (with minor date adjustments):
>     - The election will begin on Sept 3rd, 2025.
>     - The election will conclude on Sept 10th, 2025 (*).
>     - The election will be by Ranked Choice Voting of qualified OpenBMC
>       developers.
>  
> For refreshment, you are considered "qualified" if your Github user ID
> is found at the rollcall[2].
>  
> The 4 nominated developers are (alphabetical by Github IDs):
>     * dkodihal:         Deepak Kodihalli
>     * edtanous:         Ed Tanous
>     * geissonator:      Andrew Geissler
>     * manojkiraneda:    ManojKiran Eda
>  
> I'll again say this is a Ranked Choice Voting.  That means you should
> ideally vote for at least 3 individuals, in the order of your
> preference[3].
>  
> As with the last election, we have a tool to facilitate voting[4].  You are
> expected to fork the Github repository, run the tool, commit the
> resulting JSON file, and create a Pull-Request to submit your vote.
>  
> If you have the `gh` tool this would be as follows:
> ```
> gh repo fork --clone openbmc/tof-election
> cd tof-election
> ./vote --user <github-id>
> # make your selections with 'vote N', 'save', 'quit'
> git add 2025H2/votes/<github-id>.json
> git commit -s -m "2025H2: <github-id>: add vote"
> git push origin
> gh pr create
> ```
>  
> If you don't use the `gh` tool hopefully you know the equivalent
> git-commands / github webui operations.
>  
> Please reach out either by email or in #tsc-and-tof in Discord if you
> have trouble voting.
>  
> (*) - Since the election rules do not specify a timezone for the
>       election, please submit your vote/PR by 23:59:59 Samoa Standard
>       Time (SST).
>  
> [1]: https://github.com/openbmc/docs/blob/master/tof/membership-and-voting.md#terms-and-elections https://github.com/openbmc/docs/blob/master/tof/membership-and-voting.md#terms-and-elections
> [2]: https://github.com/openbmc/tof-election/blob/main/2025H2/rollcall.json https://github.com/openbmc/tof-election/blob/main/2025H2/rollcall.json
> [3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting
> [4]: https://github.com/openbmc/tof-election https://github.com/openbmc/tof-election
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> --
> Patrick Williams
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> 

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