Council Elections - Spring 2018

[ioana-chiorean]

Goal:

• Hold the council election in order to occupy the spots that are free after the term of one year is ending for:

🎓 @fayetandog 🎓 @Mte90 🎓 @elioqoshi 🎓 @ankitgadgil 🎓 @Flore-mozfr

Success:

• The elections take place and we have _ new council members

Related Issues & Links:

• Previous Elections #208, #114, #15

Roles:

Owner: @ioana-chiorean Involved: @couci, Reps Peers Informed: @nukeador

Required:

• [x] Prepare the timeline and the steps (@ioana-chiorean, Due: March 20th 2018)
• [x] Send out the announcement (@ioana-chiorean, Due: March 26th 2018)
• [x] Start gathering nominations (@ioana-chiorean, Due: March 26th 2018)
• [x] Close nominations (@ioana-chiorean, Due: March 2018)
• [x] Prepare Q&A (@ioana-chiorean, Due: March 2018)
• [x] Run Q&A (@ioana-chiorean, Due: March 2018)
• [x] Start Voting (@ioana-chiorean, Due: March 2018)
• [x] Close voting and announce results. (@ioana-chiorean, Due: March 2018)

Updates required:

• [ ] History Page [10th Council ]( )
• [ ] Create [11th entry]( )
• [ ] Update < if necessary> [requirements for council members]( )
• [ ] Update [tasks and requirements]( )

[ioana-chiorean]

Proposed timeline (all times in 09:00 UTC):

• [x] March 22nd - Present the timeline in Reps Call

• [x] March 26th - call for candidates/nominees open

• [x] April 3rd - call closes

• [x] April 3rd - start of campaign period

• candidates are given 5 days to answer questions and post them on their profile page

• candidates are given 5 days to publish a 30-120 seconds campaign video

• [x] April 8th - deadline for answers and videos to be published

• [x] April 9th - voting starts

• [ ] April 15th - voting ends - new elected members are announced

• [ ] April 16th - the Council Onboarding begins

[ioana-chiorean]

Announcement published: https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/important-council-elections-spring-2018-please-read/27001

[ioana-chiorean]

Mail for second step was sent out to the 11 applicants. We will be tracking their progress here.

1. Daniele Scasciafratte
   • [x] Video
   • [x] Answers)
2. Pushpita Dey
   • [x] Video
   • [x] Answers
3. Edoardo Viola
   • [x] Video
   • [x] Answers
4. Faisal Aziz
   • [x] Video
   • [x] Answers
5. Umesh Agarwal
   • [x] Video
   • [x] Answers
6. Mehul Patel
   • [x] Video
   • [x] Answers
7. Oarabile Mudongo
   • [x] Video
   • [x] Answers
8. Irvin
   • [x] Video
   • [x] Answers
9. Hossain Al Ikram
   • withdraw
10. David Ross
    • [x] Video
    • [x] Answers
11. Manel Rhaiem
    • [x] Video
    • [x] Answers

Their replies are tracked here.

[ioana-chiorean]

Voting will start at (almost) 9 PM UTC: https://reps.mozilla.org/v/reps-council-elections-spring-2018-5-spots/

[Mte90]

I think that we can close this task because the new council already onboarded

[MichaelKohler]

The following things are left to be done here:

• Update https://wiki.mozilla.org/ReMo/Council/History
• Discourse / Blog post with official announcement for new Council members + thanking outgoing members

[ioana-chiorean]

Updated the first one - https://wiki.mozilla.org/ReMo/Council/History#12th_Council_-_.28April_2018.29 @MichaelKohler discourse was posted -https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/important-council-elections-spring-2018-results-and-next-steps/27804 do you envision smtg else? Blog post can we copy/pasted and edited from there ( i do not have access)