<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg"><div id="m_2623081668555098141inbox-inbox-magicdomid236" class="m_2623081668555098141inbox-inbox- gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div id="m_2623081668555098141inbox-inbox-magicdomid237" class="m_2623081668555098141inbox-inbox- gmail_msg"><span class="m_2623081668555098141inbox-inbox- gmail_msg">Hello All!<br class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg">Candidate proposals for the Technical Committee positions (7 positions) are now open and will remain open until 2017-04-20, 23:45 UTC</span></div><div id="m_2623081668555098141inbox-inbox-magicdomid238" class="m_2623081668555098141inbox-inbox- gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div id="m_2623081668555098141inbox-inbox-magicdomid239" class="m_2623081668555098141inbox-inbox- gmail_msg"><span class="m_2623081668555098141inbox-inbox- gmail_msg">All candidacies must be submitted as a text file to the openstack/election repository as explained on the election website[1].</span></div><div id="m_2623081668555098141inbox-inbox-magicdomid240" class="m_2623081668555098141inbox-inbox- gmail_msg"><span class="m_2623081668555098141inbox-inbox- gmail_msg">Please note that the name of the file has changed this cycle to be the candidates IRC nic *not* full-name.</span></div><div id="m_2623081668555098141inbox-inbox-magicdomid241" class="m_2623081668555098141inbox-inbox- gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div id="m_2623081668555098141inbox-inbox-magicdomid242" class="m_2623081668555098141inbox-inbox- gmail_msg"><span class="m_2623081668555098141inbox-inbox- gmail_msg">Also for TC candidates election officials refer to the community member profiles at [2] please take this opportunity to ensure that the you profile contains current information.</span></div><div id="m_2623081668555098141inbox-inbox-magicdomid243" class="m_2623081668555098141inbox-inbox- gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div id="m_2623081668555098141inbox-inbox-magicdomid244" class="m_2623081668555098141inbox-inbox- gmail_msg"><span class="m_2623081668555098141inbox-inbox- gmail_msg">Candidates for the Technical Committee Positions: Any Foundation individual member can propose their candidacy for an available, directly-elected TC seat. (except the six (6) TC members who were elected for a one-year seat in October[3]).</span></div><div id="m_2623081668555098141inbox-inbox-magicdomid245" class="m_2623081668555098141inbox-inbox- gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div id="m_2623081668555098141inbox-inbox-magicdomid246" class="m_2623081668555098141inbox-inbox- gmail_msg"><span class="m_2623081668555098141inbox-inbox- gmail_msg">The election will be held from March 30th through to 23:45 April </span><span class="m_2623081668555098141inbox-inbox-author-a-z84zz88z85z65ztz77z2x4z79z95z68zk2 gmail_msg">20</span><span class="m_2623081668555098141inbox-inbox- gmail_msg">th, 2017 UTC. The electorate are the Foundation individual members that are also committers for one of the official programs projects[4] over the Newton-Ocata timeframe (Apr </span><span class="m_2623081668555098141inbox-inbox-author-a-z84zz88z85z65ztz77z2x4z79z95z68zk2 gmail_msg">07, 2016 00:00 UTC to Feb 22</span><span class="m_2623081668555098141inbox-inbox- gmail_msg">, 2017 23:59 UTC), as well as the extra-ATCs who are acknowledged by the TC[5].</span></div><div id="m_2623081668555098141inbox-inbox-magicdomid247" class="m_2623081668555098141inbox-inbox- gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div id="m_2623081668555098141inbox-inbox-magicdomid248" class="m_2623081668555098141inbox-inbox- gmail_msg"><span class="m_2623081668555098141inbox-inbox- gmail_msg">Please see the website[1] for additional details about this election. Please find below the timeline:</span></div><div id="m_2623081668555098141inbox-inbox-magicdomid249" class="m_2623081668555098141inbox-inbox- gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div id="m_2623081668555098141inbox-inbox-magicdomid250" class="m_2623081668555098141inbox-inbox- gmail_msg"><code class="gmail_msg"><span class="m_2623081668555098141inbox-inbox- gmail_msg">TC nomination starts   @ 2017-03-30, 23:59 UTC</span></code></div><div id="m_2623081668555098141inbox-inbox-magicdomid251" class="m_2623081668555098141inbox-inbox- gmail_msg"><code class="gmail_msg"><span class="m_2623081668555098141inbox-inbox- gmail_msg">TC nomination ends     @ 2017-04-09, 23:45 UTC</span></code></div><div id="m_2623081668555098141inbox-inbox-magicdomid252" class="m_2623081668555098141inbox-inbox- gmail_msg"><code class="gmail_msg"><span class="m_2623081668555098141inbox-inbox- gmail_msg">TC elections starts    @ 2017-04-13, 23:59 UTC</span></code></div><div id="m_2623081668555098141inbox-inbox-magicdomid253" class="m_2623081668555098141inbox-inbox- gmail_msg"><code class="gmail_msg"><span class="m_2623081668555098141inbox-inbox- gmail_msg">TC elections ends      @ 2017-04-</span><span class="m_2623081668555098141inbox-inbox-author-a-z84zz88z85z65ztz77z2x4z79z95z68zk2 gmail_msg">20</span><span class="m_2623081668555098141inbox-inbox- gmail_msg">, 23:45 UTC</span></code></div><div id="m_2623081668555098141inbox-inbox-magicdomid254" class="m_2623081668555098141inbox-inbox- gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div id="m_2623081668555098141inbox-inbox-magicdomid255" class="m_2623081668555098141inbox-inbox- gmail_msg"><span class="m_2623081668555098141inbox-inbox- gmail_msg">If you have any questions please be sure to either voice them on the mailing list or to the elections officials[6].</span></div><div id="m_2623081668555098141inbox-inbox-magicdomid256" class="m_2623081668555098141inbox-inbox- gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div id="m_2623081668555098141inbox-inbox-magicdomid257" class="m_2623081668555098141inbox-inbox- gmail_msg"><span class="m_2623081668555098141inbox-inbox- gmail_msg">Thank you, and we look forward to reading your candidate proposals,<br class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></span></div><div id="m_2623081668555098141inbox-inbox-magicdomid257" class="m_2623081668555098141inbox-inbox- gmail_msg"><span class="m_2623081668555098141inbox-inbox- gmail_msg">Kendall Nelson (diablo_rojo)<br class="gmail_msg"></span></div><div id="m_2623081668555098141inbox-inbox-magicdomid258" class="m_2623081668555098141inbox-inbox- gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div id="m_2623081668555098141inbox-inbox-magicdomid259" class="m_2623081668555098141inbox-inbox- gmail_msg"><span class="m_2623081668555098141inbox-inbox- gmail_msg">[1] </span><span class="m_2623081668555098141inbox-inbox-url gmail_msg"><a href="http://governance.openstack.org/election/#how-to-submit-your-candidacy" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">http://governance.openstack.org/election/#how-to-submit-your-candidacy</a></span></div><div id="m_2623081668555098141inbox-inbox-magicdomid260" class="m_2623081668555098141inbox-inbox- gmail_msg"><span class="m_2623081668555098141inbox-inbox- gmail_msg">[2] </span><span class="m_2623081668555098141inbox-inbox-url gmail_msg"><a href="http://www.openstack.org/community/members/" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">http://www.openstack.org/community/members/</a></span></div><div id="m_2623081668555098141inbox-inbox-magicdomid261" class="m_2623081668555098141inbox-inbox- gmail_msg"><span class="m_2623081668555098141inbox-inbox- gmail_msg">[3] </span><span class="m_2623081668555098141inbox-inbox-url gmail_msg"><a href="https://governance.openstack.org/election/results/ocata/tc.html" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">https://governance.openstack.org/election/results/ocata/tc.html</a></span></div><div id="m_2623081668555098141inbox-inbox-magicdomid262" class="m_2623081668555098141inbox-inbox- gmail_msg"><span class="m_2623081668555098141inbox-inbox- gmail_msg">[4] </span><span class="m_2623081668555098141inbox-inbox-url gmail_msg"><a href="https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/governance/tree/reference/projects.yaml?id=jan-2017-elections" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/governance/tree/reference/projects.yaml?id=jan-2017-elections</a></span></div><div id="m_2623081668555098141inbox-inbox-magicdomid263" class="m_2623081668555098141inbox-inbox- gmail_msg"><span class="m_2623081668555098141inbox-inbox- gmail_msg">[5] Look for the extra-atcs element in [4]</span></div><div id="m_2623081668555098141inbox-inbox-magicdomid264" class="m_2623081668555098141inbox-inbox- gmail_msg"><span class="m_2623081668555098141inbox-inbox- gmail_msg">[6] </span><span class="m_2623081668555098141inbox-inbox-url gmail_msg"><a href="http://governance.openstack.org/election/#election-officials" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">http://governance.openstack.org/election/#election-officials</a></span></div></div></div>