<div dir="ltr"><div id="inbox-inbox-magicdomid50" class="inbox-inbox-"><span class="inbox-inbox-">Hello All!<br></span></div><div id="inbox-inbox-magicdomid50" class="inbox-inbox-"><span class="inbox-inbox-"><br>Nominations for OpenStack PTLs (Program Team Leads) are now open and will remain open until </span><span class="inbox-inbox-author-a-z87zky8z122zdz88z19dz83zz82zz76zjwz83z">Jan 29, 2017</span><span class="inbox-inbox-"> 23:45 UTC.</span></div><div id="inbox-inbox-magicdomid51" class="inbox-inbox-"><br></div><div id="inbox-inbox-magicdomid52" class="inbox-inbox-"><span class="inbox-inbox-">All candidates must be submitted as a text file to the openstack/election repository as explained at </span><span class="inbox-inbox-url"><a href="http://governance.openstack.org/election/#how-to-submit-your-candidacy">http://governance.openstack.org/election/#how-to-submit-your-candidacy</a></span></div><div id="inbox-inbox-magicdomid53" class="inbox-inbox-"><span class="inbox-inbox-author-a-z87zky8z122zdz88z19dz83zz82zz76zjwz83z">P</span><span class="inbox-inbox-">lease make sure to follow the new candidacy file naming convention: $cycle_name/$project_name/$ircname.txt.</span></div><div id="inbox-inbox-magicdomid54" class="inbox-inbox-"><br></div><div id="inbox-inbox-magicdomid55" class="inbox-inbox-"><span class="inbox-inbox-">In order to be an eligible candidate (and be allowed to vote) in a given PTL election, you need to have contributed an accepted patch to one of the corresponding program's projects[0] during the </span><span class="inbox-inbox-author-a-z87zky8z122zdz88z19dz83zz82zz76zjwz83z">Newton-Ocata timeframe (Apr 11, 2016 00:00 UTC to Jan 23, 2017 23:59 UTC).</span></div><div id="inbox-inbox-magicdomid56" class="inbox-inbox-"><br></div><div id="inbox-inbox-magicdomid57" class="inbox-inbox-"><span class="inbox-inbox-">Additional information about the nomination process can be found here: </span><span class="inbox-inbox-url"><a href="https://governance.openstack.org/election/">https://governance.openstack.org/election/</a></span></div><div id="inbox-inbox-magicdomid58" class="inbox-inbox-"><br></div><div id="inbox-inbox-magicdomid59" class="inbox-inbox-"><span class="inbox-inbox-">As the election officials  approve candidates, they will be listsed here:</span><span class="inbox-inbox-author-a-pz84zo5rz73zdz68z1z70ztz66zjz85zi4"> </span><span class="inbox-inbox-author-a-pz84zo5rz73zdz68z1z70ztz66zjz85zi4 inbox-inbox-url"><a href="https://governance.openstack.org/election/#pike-ptl-candidates">https://governance.openstack.org/election/#pike</a></span><span class="inbox-inbox-url"><a href="https://governance.openstack.org/election/#pike-ptl-candidates">-ptl-candidates</a></span></div><div id="inbox-inbox-magicdomid60" class="inbox-inbox-"><br></div><div id="inbox-inbox-magicdomid61" class="inbox-inbox-"><span class="inbox-inbox-">The electorate is requested to confirm their email address in gerrit, <a href="http://review.openstack.org">review.openstack.org</a> > Settings > Contact Information >  Preferred Email, prior to </span><span class="inbox-inbox-author-a-z87zky8z122zdz88z19dz83zz82zz76zjwz83z">Jan 25, 2017 23:59 UTC</span><span class="inbox-inbox-"> so that the emailed ballots are mailed to the correct email address.</span></div><div id="inbox-inbox-magicdomid62" class="inbox-inbox-"><br></div><div id="inbox-inbox-magicdomid63" class="inbox-inbox-"><span class="inbox-inbox-">Happy running,</span></div><div id="inbox-inbox-magicdomid64" class="inbox-inbox-"><br></div><div id="inbox-inbox-magicdomid64" class="inbox-inbox-">-Kendall Nelson (diablo_rojo)<br><br></div><div id="inbox-inbox-magicdomid65" class="inbox-inbox-"><span class="inbox-inbox-">[0]  </span><span class="inbox-inbox-url"><a href="http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/governance/tree/reference/projects.yaml">http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/governance/tree/reference/projects.yaml</a></span></div></div>