<div dir="ltr"><div>    Hello All!<br><br>Nominations for the Technical Committee positions (7 positions) are now open and will remain open until 2018-04-17T23:45.<br><br>                All nominations must be submitted as a text file to the openstack/election repository as explained on the election website[1].<br><br>Please note that the name of the file should match an email address in the foundation member profile of the candidate.</div><div><br>                Also for TC candidates, election officials refer to the community member profiles at [2], so please take this opportunity to ensure that your profile contains current information.<br><br>                Candidates for the Technical Committee Positions: Any Foundation individual member can propose their candidacy for an available, directly-elected TC seat.<br><br>                The election will be held from 2018-04-23T23:59 through to 2018-04-30T23:45. The electorate are the Foundation individual members that are also committers                for one of the official teams[3] over the Pike-Queens timeframe (22 Feb 2017 to<br>                28 Feb 2018, as well as the extra-ATCs who are acknowledged by the TC[4].<br><br>                Please see the website[5] for additional details about this election.<br>                <br>Please find below the timeline:<br><br>                TC nomination starts   @ 2018-04-10T23:59<br>                TC nomination ends     @ 2018-04-17T23:45<br>                TC campaigning starts  @ 2018-04-17T23:45<br>                TC campaigning ends    @ 2018-04-22T23:45<br>                TC elections starts    @ 2018-04-23T23:59<br>                TC elections ends      @ 2018-04-30T23:45<br><br>                If you have any questions please be sure to either ask them on the mailing list or to the elections officials[6].<br><br>                Thank you,<br></div><br>Kendall Nelson (diablo_rojo)<br><div><br>                [1] <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> <br>                [2] <a href="http://www.openstack.org/community/members/" target="_blank">http://www.openstack.org/community/members/</a> <br>                [3] <a href="https://governance.openstack.org/tc/reference/projects/" target="_blank">https://governance.openstack.org/tc/reference/projects/</a> <br>                [4] <a href="https://releases.openstack.org/rocky/schedule.html#p-extra-atcs" target="_blank">https://releases.openstack.org/rocky/schedule.html#p-extra-atcs</a> <br>                [5] <a href="https://governance.openstack.org/election/" target="_blank">https://governance.openstack.org/election/</a> <br>                [6] <a href="http://governance.openstack.org/election/#election-officials" target="_blank">http://governance.openstack.org/election/#election-officials</a> <br><br></div></div>