The PEAR blog has a quick note about this year's elections - specifically that they have been extended due to some communication issues.
As every year, the elections for the PEAR Group and PEAR President are happening. This year due to a few factors and messages lost in translation, we decided to extend the elections period by 10 days so more people would have time to vote! So remember to cast your vote at http://pear.php.net/election/ and you have until the the 5th of August 2009.
There's both group elections and an an election for president that all PEAR developers can vote on. Hurry! The deadline is Wednesday, August 15th!