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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Hey Patrick,</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">thanks for the work on this.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Who is in charge of the voting process
this year? It was first Gerv, then somebody else from Mozilla.</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Obviously, it cannot be a Council
member that is in charge of its own re-election and the process.
Not that we accuse anybody of anything bad, but from serving in
the role of assistant in the previous years, I know that there are
sometimes difficult judgement questions to make, and it's
important to have somebody impartial and unbiased to make the
decisions, oversee it, and double-check everything.</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">A community member or a Council member
can be an assistance to the election overseer, as long as the
overseer double-checks everything, including the actual vote
count, and the technical and organizational processes.</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Ben<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Patrick Cloke wrote on 14.02.19 14:33:<br>
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<p dir="ltr"
id="docs-internal-guid-e13e2c40-7fff-8129-0b6b-4cc7e1c6f19e"><span>Hello
Mozillians and friends of Thunderbird,</span></p>
<br>
<p dir="ltr"><span>The next Thunderbird Council election is coming
up. As in previous years, people eligible to vote and to stand
as candidates need to be on an electoral roll. Contributors
are eligible to be an elector if they have contributed 10 or
more hours per year of involvement in the Thunderbird project.
To illustrate this, if a contributor first became involved
three years ago then the expected contribution is at least 30
hours, if two years ago then at least 20 hours, and if one
year ago or less then at least 10 hours. Contributors may
self-nominate, and on request must submit examples that
illustrate their level of involvement.</span></p>
<br>
<p dir="ltr"><span>Contribution can be any of the following:</span></p>
<ul>
<li dir="ltr">
<p dir="ltr"><span>triaging bugs;</span></p>
</li>
<li dir="ltr">
<p dir="ltr"><span>fixing, or reviewing code changes;</span></p>
</li>
<li dir="ltr">
<p dir="ltr"><span>providing support on SUMO or other forums;</span></p>
</li>
<li dir="ltr">
<p dir="ltr"><span>localizing Thunderbird, related websites,
or extensions;</span></p>
</li>
<li dir="ltr">
<p dir="ltr"><span>testing, writing, or reviewing add-ons;</span></p>
</li>
<li dir="ltr">
<p dir="ltr"><span>furthering the Thunderbird cause by
constructive contributions to tb-planning; or public
relations, including writing blog posts, posting on social
media, artwork, etc.</span></p>
</li>
</ul>
<br>
<p dir="ltr"><span>People working for Mozilla who dedicate time to
Thunderbird are also eligible.</span></p>
<br>
<p dir="ltr"><span>This simple rule will spare us any complicated
metric, such as “x number of patches submitted”, “x bugs
submitted” or “x SUMO comments written”, etc. If we have
missed a group of contributors, or if you are unsure if your
contribution qualifies, please reach out to the Council, or me
personally.</span></p>
<br>
<p dir="ltr"><span>Since we already know the people who are
dedicating time, their most precious asset, to Thunderbird, we
have prepared a preliminary electoral roll based on previous
years. This is available at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird/Council_Elections_2019"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird/Council_Elections_2019</a>.
Note that new additions have the year they were added in
parentheses after their names, e.g. “(2019)”.</span></p>
<br>
<p dir="ltr"><span>We ask voters who were previously added to the
electoral roll to check for themselves whether they still
fulfill the criteria mentioned above and inform us know if are
no longer contributing to the Thunderbird project at the
required level.</span></p>
<br>
<p dir="ltr"><span>To reiterate, people who are not on the
preliminary electoral roll can contact the Council or me and
ask to be included, mentioning their contribution. The idea is
not to make it hard to be on the electoral roll.</span></p>
<br>
<p dir="ltr"><span>In general, the election process will work as
in past years, follow-up emails will include more instructions
on the exact timeline, but you will have until </span><span><span>Wednesday,
February 20, 2019</span> to be added to the electoral roll.</span><span>
</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>
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<p dir="ltr"><span>Thanks,</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>Patrick Cloke</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>Thunderbird Council member</span></p>
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