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
[2]: https://github.com/openbmc/tof-election/blob/main/2025H2/rollcall.json
[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting
[4]: https://github.com/openbmc/tof-election

-- 
Patrick Williams