<div dir="ltr"><div>Hello Again, <br><br></div>A few corrections from the kickoff email: <br><br><div id="inbox-inbox-m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-magicdomid239" class="inbox-inbox-m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-"><span class="inbox-inbox-m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-">Candidates
 for the Technical Committee Positions: Any Foundation individual member
 can propose their candidacy for an available, directly-elected TC seat.
 (except the seven (7) TC members who were elected for a one-year seat in April[3]).</span></div><div id="inbox-inbox-m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-magicdomid240" class="inbox-inbox-m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-"><br></div><div id="inbox-inbox-m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-magicdomid241" class="inbox-inbox-m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-"><span class="inbox-inbox-m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-">The election will be held from September 29th through to 23:45 </span><span class="inbox-inbox-m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-author-a-4z65zz74zz89z8aqaz79z2rz66zpkku">October</span><span class="inbox-inbox-m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-"> </span><span class="inbox-inbox-m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-author-a-4z65zz74zz89z8aqaz79z2rz66zpkku">18</span><span class="inbox-inbox-m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-">th, 2017 UTC. PLEASE NOTE, we are discussing adding a few days to the nomination period  thereby shortening the campaigning period due to the lack of updates to the governance page and the delayed kickoff email. Please keep an eye out for updates!</span></div><div class="inbox-inbox-m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-"><span class="inbox-inbox-m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-"><br></span></div><div class="inbox-inbox-m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-"><span class="inbox-inbox-m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-">-Kendall Nelson(diablo_rojo)<br></span></div><div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sun, Oct 1, 2017 at 12:29 AM Kendall Nelson <<a href="mailto:kennelson11@gmail.com">kennelson11@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hello Everyone :) <br><br><div id="m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-magicdomid232" class="m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-"><span class="m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-">Candidate proposals for the Technical Committee positions (</span><span class="m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-author-a-4z65zz74zz89z8aqaz79z2rz66zpkku">6</span><span class="m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-"> positions) are now open and will remain open until 2017-</span><span class="m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-author-a-4z65zz74zz89z8aqaz79z2rz66zpkku">10</span><span class="m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-">-0</span><span class="m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-author-a-4z65zz74zz89z8aqaz79z2rz66zpkku">8</span><span class="m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-">, 23:45 UTC</span></div><div id="m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-magicdomid233" class="m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-"><br></div><div id="m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-magicdomid234" class="m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-"><span class="m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-">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_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-magicdomid235" class="m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-"><span class="m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-">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_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-magicdomid236" class="m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-"><br></div><div id="m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-magicdomid237" class="m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-"><span class="m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-">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_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-magicdomid238" class="m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-"><br></div><div id="m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-magicdomid239" class="m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-"><span class="m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-">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_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-magicdomid240" class="m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-"><br></div><div id="m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-magicdomid241" class="m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-"><span class="m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-">The election will be held from March 30th through to 23:45 </span><span class="m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-author-a-4z65zz74zz89z8aqaz79z2rz66zpkku">October</span><span class="m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-"> </span><span class="m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-author-a-4z65zz74zz89z8aqaz79z2rz66zpkku">8</span><span class="m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-">th, 2017 UTC. The electorate are the Foundation individual members that are also committers for one of the official programs projects[4] over the </span><span class="m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-author-a-4z65zz74zz89z8aqaz79z2rz66zpkku">Ocata-Pike timeframe (September, 2016 23:59 UTC to August 3rd , 2017 23:59 UTC</span><span class="m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-">, as well as the extra-ATCs who are acknowledged by the TC[5].</span></div><div id="m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-magicdomid242" class="m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-"><br></div><div id="m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-magicdomid243" class="m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-"><span class="m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-">Please see the website[1] for additional details about this election. Please find below the timeline:</span></div><div id="m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-magicdomid244" class="m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-"><br></div><div id="m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-magicdomid245" class="m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-"><code><span class="m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-">TC nomination starts   @ 2017-0</span><span class="m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-author-a-4z65zz74zz89z8aqaz79z2rz66zpkku">9</span><span class="m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-">-</span><span class="m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-author-a-4z65zz74zz89z8aqaz79z2rz66zpkku">29</span><span class="m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-">, 23:59 UTC</span></code></div><div id="m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-magicdomid246" class="m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-"><code><span class="m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-">TC nomination ends     @ 2017-</span><span class="m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-author-a-4z65zz74zz89z8aqaz79z2rz66zpkku">10</span><span class="m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-">-0</span><span class="m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-author-a-4z65zz74zz89z8aqaz79z2rz66zpkku">8</span><span class="m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-">, 23:45 UTC</span></code></div><div id="m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-magicdomid247" class="m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-"><code><span class="m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-">TC elections starts    @ 2017-</span><span class="m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-author-a-4z65zz74zz89z8aqaz79z2rz66zpkku">10</span><span class="m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-">-1</span><span class="m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-author-a-4z65zz74zz89z8aqaz79z2rz66zpkku">2</span><span class="m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-">, 23:59 UTC</span></code></div><div id="m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-magicdomid248" class="m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-"><code><span class="m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-">TC elections ends      @ 2017-</span><span class="m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-author-a-4z65zz74zz89z8aqaz79z2rz66zpkku">10</span><span class="m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-">-</span><span class="m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-author-a-4z65zz74zz89z8aqaz79z2rz66zpkku">18</span><span class="m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-">, 23:45 UTC</span></code></div><div id="m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-magicdomid249" class="m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-"><br></div><div id="m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-magicdomid250" class="m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-"><span class="m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-">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_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-magicdomid251" class="m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-"><br></div><div id="m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-magicdomid252" class="m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-"><span class="m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-">Thank you, and we look forward to reading your candidate proposals,</span></div><div class="m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-">-Kendall Nelson (diablo_rojo)</div><div class="m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-"><br></div><div id="m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-magicdomid254" class="m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-"><span class="m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-">[1] </span><span class="m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-url"><a href="http://governance.openstack.org/election/#how-to-submit-your-candidacy" target="_blank">http://governance.openstack.org/election/#how-to-submit-your-candidacy</a></span></div><div id="m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-magicdomid255" class="m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-"><span class="m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-">[2] </span><span class="m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-url"><a href="http://www.openstack.org/community/members/" target="_blank">http://www.openstack.org/community/members/</a></span></div><div id="m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-magicdomid256" class="m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-"><span class="m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-">[3] </span><span class="m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-url"><a href="https://governance.openstack.org/election/results/ocata/tc.html" target="_blank">https://governance.openstack.org/election/results/ocata/tc.html</a></span></div><div id="m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-magicdomid257" class="m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-"><span class="m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-">[4] </span><span class="m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-url"><a href="https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/governance/tree/reference/projects.yaml?id=oct-2017-elections" target="_blank">https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/governance/tree/reference/projects.yaml?id=</a></span><span class="m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-author-a-4z65zz74zz89z8aqaz79z2rz66zpkku m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-url"><a href="https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/governance/tree/reference/projects.yaml?id=oct-2017-elections" target="_blank">oct</a></span><span class="m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-url"><a href="https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/governance/tree/reference/projects.yaml?id=oct-2017-elections" target="_blank">-2017-elections</a></span></div><div id="m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-magicdomid258" class="m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-"><span class="m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-">[5] Look for the extra-atcs element in [4]</span></div><div id="m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-magicdomid259" class="m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-"><span class="m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-">[6] </span><span class="m_-1156091025962432876m_-6029530503654213617inbox-inbox-url"><a href="http://governance.openstack.org/election/#election-officials" target="_blank">http://governance.openstack.org/election/#election-officials</a></span></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div>