Well, I’m already nearly fed up with the election cycle in the U.S. — can we just vote already? — but I’m still plenty psyched about the upcoming openSUSE Board elections.

If you’re interested in running for the openSUSE Board, you have less than 24 hours to toss your hat into the ring. We have quite a few qualified candidates running — and more candidates than seats — so I’m pretty happy with the options. Of course, there are a few other members of the openSUSE community that I’d like to see running for the board, and I’d be happy to see a few more candidates slip in before the deadline hits tomorrow.

However, I do hope we’ll see a lot more people applying for openSUSE membership by tomorrow. Note that membership is above and beyond signing up as a user on the wiki and so forth — so, just because you’re listed on users.opensuse.org, doesn’t mean you’re eligible to vote. Browsing through the list of users, I see a lot of people who would be qualified to be members (and thus entitled to vote) who are not.

Again if you do any/all of the following, you’re probably qualified to be a member:

• Development
• Packaging
• Wiki editing
• Translations
• User support via forums, mailing lists, IRC, or other communication methods
• Giving talks and presentations about openSUSE / openSUSE projects, and generally promoting openSUSE

If you think you qualify, please follow the instructions on the Members page. The full schedule for the openSUSE board election and much more information can be found on the election wiki pages.

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