On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 9:31 AM, Thierry Carrez <thie...@openstack.org> wrote: > Dan Wendlandt wrote: >> I must admit even I was unaware of the requirement to be a individual >> foundation member in order to vote in PTL elections (I personally >> happen to be a member already). There are definitely at least a few >> people on the list below that I feel should be able to vote but can't, >> including two core members, Sumit and Aaron. > > It's a requirement that was set upon us by the Foundation bylaws, and > that was communicated on the wiki page describing the election process > (and in one of my subsequent nagging emails). I agree it could have been > communicated a bit more clearly, but hey, I was in vacation :)
and a well deserved vacation at that :) > >> This is not the end of the world, but I'm guessing both Gary and I >> would both feel better if people had a chance to revisit their >> foundation status. Is there anything we can do about this? > > The wording in the rules on the wiki is slightly ambiguous as it > mentions a clear cut-off dates for commits, but no cut-off date for > Foundation individual membership. > > My suggestion would therefore be to give Quantum committers until the > end of the day to sign up for the Foundation as an individual member if > they want to participate in the election. > > We would enable that interpretation of the election rules if both > candidates agree, and the other election officials agree. > > Would that work for you ? That would be fantastic. To a large degree, I feel bad that I was unaware of this rule and therefore didn't alert the rest of the Quantum team members at the team meeting to make sure they were aware of the voting requirement. I spoke with Gary on IRC and I believe he would agree with this. He was away from computer for a bit, but I asked him to chime in on the thread when he was back online. Thanks for the flexibility. Dan > > In all cases, we'll clarify this for the upcoming TC elections. > Regards, > > -- > Thierry Carrez (ttx) > Election official -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dan Wendlandt Nicira, Inc: www.nicira.com twitter: danwendlandt ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
