Mark Kowarsky

The elections for userreps have been over for a few days now. There were 477 votes, which isn't as many as I would have liked, but doesn't matter so much as the nominees were all so wonderful .

User Relations will soon be contacting the N-number of elected userreps, so keep watching Gentoo Universe for updates.

In other news, I have added larrythecow.net and Planet Larry to my favourite gtk+ RSS reader, liferea. I am really liking reading a bunch of users' and ex-developers' blogs, as it provides a perspective on Gentoo that you don't get to see on Gentoo Universe. My only issue is, that with the increased content, the amount of time spent reading has increased, luckily it isn't stopping me from doing things in Real Life^tm (yet).

The elections for User Representatives have been open since the 23^rd July and are set to close on the 6^th August.

For those that managed to miss the announcements:

• gentoo-user mailing list
• gentoo-dev mailing list
• Gentoo Weekly Newsletter: 24 July 2006
• forum announcement
• channel topic in #gentoo
• DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 162, 31 July 2006

The time to vote is quickly approaching an end, so if you haven't yet voted, please do so in the forum thread. You can read about the candidates here.