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Hi,</div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Slack-Lato, Slack-Fractions, appleLogo, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(29, 28, 29); background-color: rgb(248, 248, 248);">Manoj and Andrew G</span></div>
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On 03/09/25, 7:46 AM, "Patrick Williams" <patrick@stwcx.xyz> wrote:<br>
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<div>Greetings,</div>
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<div>For the TOF elections this half, we had 4 qualified individuals</div>
<div>nominated and there are 3 seats expiring. Therefore, we are going to</div>
<div>have to hold an election for the half.</div>
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<div>Per the TOF election rules[1] (with minor date adjustments):</div>
<div> - The election will begin on Sept 3rd, 2025.</div>
<div> - The election will conclude on Sept 10th, 2025 (*).</div>
<div> - The election will be by Ranked Choice Voting of qualified OpenBMC</div>
<div> developers.</div>
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<div>For refreshment, you are considered "qualified" if your Github user ID</div>
<div>is found at the rollcall[2].</div>
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<div>The 4 nominated developers are (alphabetical by Github IDs):</div>
<div> * dkodihal: Deepak Kodihalli</div>
<div> * edtanous: Ed Tanous</div>
<div> * geissonator: Andrew Geissler</div>
<div> * manojkiraneda: ManojKiran Eda</div>
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<div>I'll again say this is a Ranked Choice Voting. That means you should</div>
<div>ideally vote for at least 3 individuals, in the order of your</div>
<div>preference[3].</div>
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<div>As with the last election, we have a tool to facilitate voting[4]. You are</div>
<div>expected to fork the Github repository, run the tool, commit the</div>
<div>resulting JSON file, and create a Pull-Request to submit your vote.</div>
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<div>If you have the `gh` tool this would be as follows:</div>
<div>```</div>
<div>gh repo fork --clone openbmc/tof-election</div>
<div>cd tof-election</div>
<div>./vote --user <github-id></div>
<div># make your selections with 'vote N', 'save', 'quit'</div>
<div>git add 2025H2/votes/<github-id>.json</div>
<div>git commit -s -m "2025H2: <github-id>: add vote"</div>
<div>git push origin</div>
<div>gh pr create</div>
<div>```</div>
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<div>If you don't use the `gh` tool hopefully you know the equivalent</div>
<div>git-commands / github webui operations.</div>
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<div>Please reach out either by email or in #tsc-and-tof in Discord if you</div>
<div>have trouble voting.</div>
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<div>(*) - Since the election rules do not specify a timezone for the</div>
<div> election, please submit your vote/PR by 23:59:59 Samoa Standard</div>
<div> Time (SST).</div>
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<div>[1]: <a href="https://github.com/openbmc/docs/blob/master/tof/membership-and-voting.md#terms-and-elections" data-outlook-id="4d82eec6-a2d5-4423-bd7b-b0db7be0965a">
https://github.com/openbmc/docs/blob/master/tof/membership-and-voting.md#terms-and-elections</a></div>
<div>[2]: <a href="https://github.com/openbmc/tof-election/blob/main/2025H2/rollcall.json" data-outlook-id="5f9796ac-f9cc-4144-ac1b-2f48af574ac4">
https://github.com/openbmc/tof-election/blob/main/2025H2/rollcall.json</a></div>
<div>[3]: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting" data-outlook-id="0516e3e1-e624-440d-8626-b359d675f145">
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting</a></div>
<div>[4]: <a href="https://github.com/openbmc/tof-election" data-outlook-id="e196a29b-44c1-4236-885c-1ea39dc8acae">
https://github.com/openbmc/tof-election</a></div>
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<div>Patrick Williams</div>
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