Re: TOF elections for 2026H1

Greetings,

For the TOF elections for this half, we had 7 qualified individuals
nominated and there are 4 seats expiring.  Therefore, we are going to
have to hold an election for the half. 

The 7 nominated developers[1] are (alphabetical by Github IDs):
    * Andrew Jeffery
    * Brad Bishop
    * Deepak Kodihalli
    * Jagpal Gill
    * Jayanth Othayoth
    * Alexander Hansen
    * Patrick Williams

A few key points about the election:
    - Voting is by Ranked Choice Voting.  The order you give as your
      preference matters [2,3].

    - TOF members represent the development community and not their
      companies.

    - Since there are 4 seats up for election, you may submit a vote
      with up to 4 candidates.

With this being the most nominated-for election in TOF history, I would
strongly encourage candidates to reply to this email with a [brief]
campaign: who are you, what work have you done for the community, why do
you want to be on the TOF, etc.

Votes will be accepted until April 1st, 2026 at 12:00 GMT from qualified
votes[4].

As with the last election, we have a tool to facilitate voting[5].  You are
expected to fork the Github repository, run the tool, commit the
resulting JSON file, and create a Pull-Request to submit your vote.

If you have the `gh` tool this would be as follows:
```
gh repo fork --clone openbmc/tof-election
cd tof-election
./vote --user <github-id>
# make your selections with 'vote N', 'save', 'quit'
git add 2026H1/votes/<github-id>.json
git commit -s -m "2026H1: <github-id>: add vote"
git push origin
gh pr create
```

[1]: https://github.com/openbmc/tof-election/blob/main/2026H1/candidates.json
[2]: https://github.com/openbmc/docs/blob/master/tof/membership-and-voting.md#terms-and-elections
[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting
[4]: https://github.com/openbmc/tof-election/blob/main/2026H1/rollcall.json
[5]: https://github.com/openbmc/tof-election

-- 
Patrick Williams

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