<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(20,20,20)">Hello Everyone,</span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(20,20,20)"> </span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(20,20,20)">The OpenStack User Committee will be holding an election in August, per the (UC) bylaws and <a href="https://governance.openstack.org/uc/reference/charter.html" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(14,36,178)">charter</span></a>. </span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(47,51,57)">The current UC will serve until the elections in August. At that point, the current two UC members who still have 6 months to serve get a 6-month seat, and an election is run to determine the other three members. Candidates ranking 1^st, 2^nd, and 3^rd will get a one-year seat. </span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(20,20,20)">Voting for the 2017 UC members will be </span><span style="font-family:Arial"><font color="#101010">granted to the </font><a href="https://governance.openstack.org/uc/reference/charter.html#active-user-contributors-auc" style="color:rgb(14,36,178)" target="_blank">Active User Contributors (AUC).</a><font color="#2f3339"> </font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,38,43)"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,38,43)">Open candidacy for the UC positions will be from July 31 - August 11, 05:59 UTC. </span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(16,16,16)">Voting for the User Committee (UC) members will be open on </span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,38,43)">August 14^th </span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(16,16,16)">and will remain open until </span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,38,43)">August 18, 11:59 UTC. Additional details and the process for nomination can be found <span style="color:rgb(16,60,192)"><a href="https://governance.openstack.org/uc/reference/uc-election-aug2017.html" target="_blank">here</a></span>.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(20,20,20)"> </span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(16,16,16)">As a reminder, please see the community code of conduct (<a href="http://www.openstack.org/legal/community-code-of-conduct/" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(12,11,162)">http://www.openstack.org/lega<wbr>l/community-code-of-conduct/</span></a>)</span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(16,16,16)"> </span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(16,16,16)">Please let me, or anyone from the UC know if you have any questions, comments or concerns. </span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(16,16,16)"> </span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(16,16,16)">Thank you,</span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(16,16,16)"> </span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(20,20,20)">OpenStack User Committee</span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(20,20,20)">Shilla, Edgar, Jonathan, Melvin, Shamail</span></p></div>