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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Greetings!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The time for our very first User Committee election is almost upon us. In case you are unaware, there were recent changes – approved by the Board of Directors – that allowed for the expansion of the UC from
3 to 5 members and a move to elected positions. Monday morning UTC, February 13<sup>th</sup>, notifications will go out to all community members with the AUC designation. The poll will stay open till 23:59 UTC on Friday, February 17<sup>th</sup>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">This election, members will be voting on two additional seats for the UC. We have a pool of five vetted candidates:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Yih Leong Sun<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Maish Saidel-Keesing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Christopher Adeo<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Shamail Tahir<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Melvin Hillsman<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">We encourage all AUC members to participate in order to maintain a strong and active UC. Many thanks to the current Committee and many other community members who have worked very hard over the last couple
of years to implement the AUC process, develop the new structure and obtain all the necessary approval and by-laws changes to make it a reality. For information on the new UC approach, the details of the AUC designation or any other questions around this
area of OpenStack governance, you may refer to the charter online [1]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">If you have any other election related questions, you may reach out directly to the election inspectors – Matt Van Winkle (<a href="mailto:vw@rackspace.com)">vw@rackspace.com)</a> or Matt Jarvis (<a href="mailto:matt@mattjarvis.org.uk)">matt@mattjarvis.org.uk)</a>
with any questions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Thank you all, and happy voting!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Matt and Matt<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">[1] <a href="https://governance.openstack.org/uc/reference/charter.html">
https://governance.openstack.org/uc/reference/charter.html</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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