Hey everyone! It's that time again :-)
Anyone who would like to be a candidate for the forth-coming elections for the OpenStack Project Technical Leads may now submit their names! Valid candidates must currently be an Active Technical Contributor (within the 6 months prior to 23:59 PST August 29, 2012). The project for which they are running as PTL must be one of: Nova, Swift, Glance, Keystone, Horizon, Quantum, or Cinder. To submit your name for the ballot, please send an email to the OpenStack mail list with the following information included: To: openstack@lists.launchpad.net Subject: <PROJECT_NAME> PTL candidacy Body: Ideally, a description of your platform/what you aim to accomplish (and how!), your technical/leadership credentials, experience, etc. -- in short, anything that will be useful for voters to assess your qualifications as a technical lead for the OpenStack project of your passion. Timeline: Now: kickoff! Today through 5 Sep: * collect names of candidates who have submitted an email indicating their intent to run for election * verification of eligibility of candidate; confirmation sent by election officials to the openstack mail list * for each project, election officials will identify the list of valid voters (Active Technical Contributors; see the "TechnicalCommittee" wiki link below for more info) * verify the that the Active Technical Contributors are members of the OpenStack Foundation 6 Sep: Set up the online polls with the information gathered above. 7 Sep - 13 Sep: Hold the online elections (a separate announcement for this will be forthcoming). For more information (background and process), please see the following: * http://wiki.openstack.org/Governance/Foundation/TechnicalCommittee * http://wiki.openstack.org/Governance/TCElectionsFall2012 * http://wiki.openstack.org/Projects Let us know if there's anything more we can do to make this process as transparent as possible! Thanks, and happy running ;-) d _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
