<div dir="ltr">Chris,<div><br></div><div>Thank you so much for all you have done as a member of the TC!</div><div><br></div><div>Amy (spotz)</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Feb 8, 2019 at 6:41 AM Chris Dent <<a href="mailto:cdent%2Bos@anticdent.org">cdent+os@anticdent.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
Next week sees the start of election season for the TC [1]. People<br>
often worry that incumbents always get re-elected so it is<br>
considered good form to announce if you are an incumbent and do<br>
not intend to run.<br>
<br>
I do not intend to run. I've done two years and that's enough. When<br>
I was first elected I had no intention of doing any more than one<br>
year but at the end of the first term I had not accomplished much of<br>
what I hoped, so stayed on. Now, at the end of the second term I<br>
still haven't accomplished much of what I hoped, so I think it is<br>
time to focus my energy in the places where I've been able to get<br>
some traction and give someone else—someone with a different<br>
approach—a chance.<br>
<br>
If you're interested in being on the TC, I encourage you to run. If<br>
you have questions about it, please feel free to ask me, but also<br>
ask others so you get plenty of opinions. And do your due diligence:<br>
Make sure you're clear with yourself about what the TC has been,<br>
is now, what you would like it to be, and what it can be.<br>
<br>
Elections are fairly far in advance of the end of term this time<br>
around. I'll continue in my TC responsibilities until the end of<br>
term, which is some time in April. I'm not leaving the community or<br>
anything like that, I'm simply narrowing my focus. Over the past<br>
several months I've been stripping things back so I can be sure that<br>
I'm not ineffectively over-committing myself to OpenStack but am<br>
instead focusing where I can be most useful and make the most<br>
progress. Stepping away from the TC is just one more part of that.<br>
<br>
Thanks very much for the experiences and for the past votes.<br>
<br>
[1] <a href="https://governance.openstack.org/election/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://governance.openstack.org/election/</a><br>
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