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Excerpts from Tony Breeds's message of 2018-08-08 14:39:30 +1000:
> Hello all,
>     With the PTL elections behind us it's time to start looking at the
> TC election.  Our charter[1] says:
> 
>   The election is held no later than 6 weeks prior to each OpenStack
>   Summit (on or before ‘S-6’ week), with elections held open for no less
>   than four business days.
> 
> Assuming we have the same structure that gives us a timeline of:
> 
>   Summit is at: 2018-11-13
>   Latest possible completion is at: 2018-10-02
>   Moving back to Tuesday: 2018-10-02
>   TC Election from 2018-09-25T23:45 to 2018-10-02T23:45
>   TC Campaigning from 2018-09-18T23:45 to 2018-09-25T23:45
>   TC Nominations from 2018-09-11T23:45 to 2018-09-18T23:45
> 
> This puts the bulk of the nomination period during the PTG, which is
> sub-optimal as the nominations cause a distraction from the PTG but more
> so because the campaigning will coincide with travel home, and some
> community members take vacation along with the PTG.
> 
> So I'd like to bring up the idea of moving the election forward a
> little so that it's actually the campaigning period that overlaps with
> the PTG:
> 
>   TC Election    from 2018-09-18T23:45 to 2018-09-27T23:45
>   TC Campaigning from 2018-09-06T23:45 to 2018-09-18T23:45
>   TC Nominations from 2018-08-30T23:45 to 2018-09-06T23:45
> 
> This gives us longer campaigning and election periods.
> 
> There are some advantages to doing this:
> 
>  * A panel style Q&A could be held formally or informally ;P
>  * There's improved scope for for incoming, outgoing and staying put TC
>    members to interact in a high bandwidth way.
>  * In personi/private discussions with TC candidates/members.
> 
> However it isn't without downsides:
> 
>   * Election fatigue, We've just had the PTL elections and the UC
>     elections are currently running.  Less break before the TC elections
>     may not be a good thing.
>   * TC candidates that can't travel to the PTG could be disadvantaged
>   * The campaigning would all happen at the PTG and not on the mailing
>     list disadvantaging community members not at the PTG.
> 
> So thoughts?
> 
> Yours Tony.
> 
> [1] https://governance.openstack.org/tc/reference/charter.html

Who needs to make this decision? The current TC?

Doug