<font face="arial" size="3"><p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Election details: <a href="https://governance.openstack.org/election/">https://governance.openstack.org/election/</a></p>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Hello everyone!</p>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">The nomination period officially begins August 17, 2021 23:45.</p>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Please read the stipulations and timelines for candidates and electorate contained in this governance documentation.</p>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">The PTL and TC elections for the coming cycle will run concurrently; deadlines for their nomination and voting activities are synchronized but will still use separate ballots.</p>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Please note, if only one candidate is nominated as PTL for a project team during the PTL nomination period, that candidate will win by acclaim, and there will be no poll. There will only be a poll if there is more than one candidate stepping forward for a project team's PTL position. If teams do not produce any PTL candidate during the nomination period, or are interested in considering alternatives prior to nominations, the TC may consider requests to switch to the new distributed leadership model they recently documented[1].</p>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">In keeping with the established plan[1 ] to gradually reduce the size of the Technical Committee, we will only fill four (4) seats in this coming election.</p>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">There will be further announcements posted to the mailing list as action is required from the electorate or candidates. This email is for information purposes only.</p>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">If you have any questions which you feel affect others please reply to this email thread.</p>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">If you have any questions that you which to discuss in private please email any of the election officials[3] so that we may address your concerns.</p>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">[1] <a href="https://governance.openstack.org/tc/resolutions/20200803-distributed-project-leadership.html">https://governance.openstack.org/tc/resolutions/20200803-distributed-project-leadership.html</a> <br />[2] <a href="https://governance.openstack.org/tc/reference/charter.html#number-of-seats-to-elect">https://governance.openstack.org/tc/reference/charter.html#number-of-seats-to-elect</a> <br />[3] <a href="https://governance.openstack.org/election/#election-officials">https://governance.openstack.org/election/#election-officials</a> </p>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Cheers,<br />Helena<br />on behalf of the OpenStack Technical Election Officials</p></font>