TL;DR
Unfortunately there is no short-cut this time. If you consider yourself an active Mozilla Rep, please read the full email, reflect on its contents and take action.
Intro to Elections
The Mozilla Reps program has been a volunteer driven program from the beginning. As Pierros previously said In that spirit the core governing body of the program, the Council, was designed to be an elected body with new members chosen by all Reps every six months. More background about the history of the Council and its structure can be found here.
Available positions
The time has come for a new round of elections and this time 5 positions need to be filled for the next 12 months term.
Irayani Queencyputri (RaRa) is reaching the end of her 12-month term
Faisal Aziz is reaching the end of his 12-month term
Umesh Agarwal / Replaced temporary by Ioana Chiorean in Dec. 2016
Flore Allemandou is reaching the end of her 6-month experimental term
Adriano Cupello (who due to personal commitments will step down at midterm/6 months)
We thank them for all the work done and we hope they will support the next members in rampup and advises.
Nominations are open
As Flore successfully ends her 6 months Cohort Council seat experiment started in the last elections we will open this requirement to all the 5 positions. So if you are a Mozilla Rep who have had experience mentoring (ie. being a Mentor or attended One of the Participation/Open innovation to Cohort’s events as Invitee of this team, you are eligible to self-nominate yourself as candidates for a Council seat.
Simply put, eligible reps are:
- All Reps Mentors
- All Reps that have participated in events organized by the Participation team(Community Gatherings, Leadership Summit, Mozfest 2016 and All Hand Attendees with the Participation/Open Innovation team)
As mentioned in a couple of Mozilla Reps Meetings we wanted to have cleared skillset and commitment needed for a council member. Also, analyzing the activity from last year we were able to identify clearer the responsibilities. All of these are documented in Tasks and Responsibilities of Council Members and in Election/Designation of Council Members. Full versions of this can be found in “What’s the Council skillset and the commitment needed?” discourse post.
Next steps and timeline
Add yourself to the etherpad and when the call closes stay close to the announcements (be available online to receive mails).
All times in 9:00 PM UTC.
May 13th - call for candidates (eligible Mozilla Reps Mentors/Cohort only)
May 20th - call closes
May 21st - 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
May 25th - deadline for answers and videos to be published
May 26th - voting starts
June 1st - voting ends - new elected members are announced
June 2nd - the Council Onboarding begins
This is an exciting time for the Reps program and our role as Reps to help Mozilla build a better web has never been as critical. Thank you all for being part of this!
On behalf of Mozilla Reps Peers and Council,
Ioana 
PS: Don’t hesitate to contact me or the peers body with any concerns, advises or questions you might have!