For this Election cycle [1] we are going to follow a new way how Elections are organized. It is an outcome of a discussion on Council level [2] trying to improve participation of the Fedora Community in the election process.

Today we are starting Nomination & Campaign period when we accept nominations to "steering bodies" of the following teams:

* FESCo (Engineering) (5 seats) [3] * Fedora Council (2 seats) [4] * Mindshare (2 seats) [5]

This period is open until 2017-Dec-04 at 23:59:59 UTC.

The nominees can already start with preparation of answers for questions in the Election Questionnaire [6]. These answers (aka interview) are going to be published in Community Blog [7] on the first day of the Voting period (2017-Dec-05). Please note that the interview is mandatory for all nominees. Nominees not having their interview ready by end of the Nomination & Campaign period will be disqualified from their nominations.

The full schedule of the Autumn Elections 2017 is available on the Elections wiki page [1] and on the detailed schedule for F27 [8].

[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections [2] https://pagure.io/Fedora-Council/tickets/issue/135#comment-467523 [3] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Development/SteeringCommittee/Nominations [4] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Council/Nominations [5] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mindshare/Nominations [6] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections/Questionnaire [7] http://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/ [8] https://fedorapeople.org/groups/schedule/f-27/f-27-elections.html

Regards, Jan