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On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 6:16 PM, Flavio Percoco <flavio at redhat.com> wrote:

> On 10/06/2014 08:58 PM, Anita Kuno wrote:
> > On 10/06/2014 12:38 PM, Anita Kuno wrote:
> >> On 10/03/2014 12:16 PM, Flavio Percoco wrote:
> >>> On 10/03/2014 05:38 PM, Tristan Cacqueray wrote:
> >>>> Candidate proposals for the Technical Committee positions (6
> positions)
> >>>> are now open and will remain open until 05:59 UTC October 10, 2014.
> >>>>
> >>>> Candidates for the Technical Committee Positions: Any Foundation
> >>>> individual member can propose their candidacy for an available,
> >>>> directly-elected TC seat. [0] (except the seven TC members who were
> >>>> elected for a one-year seat last April: Thierry Carrez, Jay Pipes,
> >>>> Vishvananda Ishaya, Michael Still, Jim Blair, Mark McClain, Devananda
> >>>> van der Veen) [1]
> >>>>
> >>>> Propose your candidacy by sending an email to the openstack-dev at
> >>>> lists.openstack.org mailing-list, with the subject: "TC candidacy".
> >>>> Please start your own thread so we have one thread per candidate.
> Since
> >>>> there will be many people voting for folks with whom they might not
> have
> >>>> worked, including a platform or statement to help voters make an
> >>>> informed choice is recommended, though not required.
> >>>>
> >>>> NEW: In order to help the electorate learn more about the candidates
> we
> >>>> have posted a template of questions to which all candidates are
> >>>> requested to respond. [2]
> >>>>
> >>>> Anita and I will confirm candidates with an email to the candidate
> >>>> thread as well as create a link to the confirmed candidate's proposal
> >>>> email on the wikipage for this election. [1]
> >>>>
> >>>> The election will be held from October 10 through to 13:00 UTC October
> >>>> 17, 2014. The electorate are the Foundation individual members that
> are
> >>>> also committers for one of the official programs projects [3] over the
> >>>> Icehouse-Juno timeframe (September 26, 2013 06:00 UTC to September 26,
> >>>> 2014 05:59 UTC), as well as the extra-ATCs who are acknowledged by the
> >>>> TC. [4]
> >>>>
> >>>> Please see the wikipage for additional details about this election.
> [1]
> >>>>
> >>>> If you have any questions please be sure to either voice them on the
> >>>> mailing list or email Anita or myself [5] or contact Anita or myself
> on IRC.
> >>>>
> >>>> Thank you, and I look forward to reading your candidate proposals,
> >>>> Tristan
> >>>>
> >>>> [0]
> https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Governance/Foundation/TechnicalCommittee
> >>>> [1] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/TC_Elections_October_2014
> >>>> [2]
> >>>>
> https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/TC_Elections_October_2014#TC_Election_Questions
> >>>> [3]
> >>>>
> http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/governance/tree/reference/programs.yaml?id=sept-2014-elections
> >>>> Note the tag for this repo, sept-2014-elections.
> >>>> [4]
> >>>>
> http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/governance/tree/reference/extra-atcs?id=sept-2014-elections
> >>>> [5] Anita: anteaya at anteaya dot info
> >>>>      Tristan: tristan dot cacqueray at enovance dot com
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> Greetings,
> >>>
> >>> I'd like to take this chance to gently ask, but it's obviously not a
> >>> requirement, to all candidates to share what their opinion with regards
> >>> to the new governance discussion is in their candidacy.
> >>>
> >>> As a voter, I'm interested to know how the new candidates see our
> >>> governance model in the next 6 months and what changes, related to the
> >>> "big tent" discussion, they consider most important.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>> Flavio
> >>>
> >>>
> >> Hi Flavio:
> >> I had purposely not mentioned the organizational changes in the
> >> templated questions (which are brand new this time, so these are the
> >> guinea pig candidates).
> >>
> >> One of the things people are looking for is leaders. At campaign time
> >> folks with strong stances prevail. However it is the ability to listen
> >> and consider the opinions of others, especially when disagreement
> >> arises, that makes our TC as strong as it has been and hopefully will be
> >> in future.
> >>
> >> Everyone is enjoying the drama of the changes and yes they are dramatic,
> >> but equally if not more important is the work that will have to take
> >> place using listening and consideration skills in order to turn
> >> decisions into outcomes.
> >>
> >> Listening is an incredibly important leadership skill but doesn't get
> >> much air time during campaigns. If you look at really effective leaders
> >> though they are listeners, every one. Listeners also rarely state that
> >> is what they are doing, since they are busy listening.
> >>
> >> Any candidate is welcome to say anything they wish in their candidate
> >> statement. I appreciate that you are interested in their opinions about
> >> the new governance model, Flavio, and I appreciate you speaking up about
> >> it. But regardless of what decisions are made, what structure is decided
> >> upon and what that structure and its parts are called, we need people
> >> with the ability to listen, consider, and work very hard to put any of
> >> these decisions in place in order for them to succeed.
> >>
> >> We have a problem of incredible growth in OpenStack. Our growth is a
> >> manifestation of all we are doing correctly. I hope that the questions
> >> asked in the templates bring out the qualities I know each candidate is
> >> capable of, that ensure we have a group of leaders with the skills
> >> necessary to make agreements and produce results, regardless of the
> >> shape and colour of those agreements and results.
> >>
> >> Thank you,
> >> Anita.
> >>
> > I will also say that it appears that the new questions are demanding
> > enough as it is. On the first Monday of TC nominations last round we had
> > 5 candidate announcements, so far we have zero candidate announcements.
> >
> > I hope that the request for information in a way that can be more easily
> > parsed by the electorate has not discouraged potential candidates from
> > running. I would be disappointed if the new format decreased the size of
> > the field of potential candidates.
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Anita.
>
>
> Hi Anita,
>
> I totally agree with you that this community needs leaders that know how
> to listen and that's precisely one of the reasons I asked for a bit of
> clarification on what their thoughts and opinions are. There have been
> quite some discussions on the "layers" topic and there's enough
> information that will demonstrate (or not) the ability to candidates for
> listening to the community's feedback. In addition to this, I think the
> governance model has a huge impact on our community and the way it'll
> handle growth in the next 6 months. This governance model can make
> contributions easier or harder.
>
> As I mentioned, my request is, obviously, completely optional and
> candidates should feel free to ignore it.
>

I think it's a good idea, and would help me choose a candidate.

-Angus


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