<div dir="ltr"><span class="m_2486622408122702952gmail-im" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(20,20,20)">Hello Everyone,</p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(20,20,20)"> </p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(20,20,20)">The OpenStack User Committee will be holding an election in February, 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 style="color:rgb(47,51,57)">The current UC will serve until the elections in February, and 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 1st, 2nd, and 3rd, will get a one-year seat. </span>Voting for the 2018 UC members will be <span style="color:rgb(16,16,16)">granted to the <a href="https://governance.openstack.org/uc/reference/charter.html#active-user-contributors-auc" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(14,36,178)">Active User Contributors (AUC).</span></a></span><span style="color:rgb(47,51,57)"> </span></p></span><div class="m_2486622408122702952gmail-yj6qo m_2486622408122702952gmail-ajU" style="margin:2px 0px 0px;font-size:12.800000190734863px"><div id="m_2486622408122702952gmail-:4r0" class="m_2486622408122702952gmail-ajR"><img class="m_2486622408122702952gmail-ajT" src="https://ssl.gstatic.com/ui/v1/icons/mail/images/cleardot.gif"></div></div><div class="m_2486622408122702952gmail-adL" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"><span class="m_2486622408122702952gmail-im"><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;min-height:15px"><span style="color:rgb(35,38,43)">Open candidacy for the UC positions will be from January 29 - February 11, 05:59 UTC. </span><span style="color:rgb(16,16,16)">Voting for the User Committee (UC) members will be open on February</span><span style="color:rgb(35,38,43)">12</span><span style="color:rgb(35,38,43);font-stretch:normal;font-size:10.8px;line-height:normal">^th</span><span style="color:rgb(35,38,43)"> </span><span style="color:rgb(16,16,16)">and will remain open until </span><span style="color:rgb(35,38,43)">February 18, 11:59 UTC.</span> <br></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;min-height:15px"><br></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;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>)</p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(16,16,16)"> </p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;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. </p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(16,16,16)"> </p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(16,16,16)">Thank you,</p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(16,16,16)"><br></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(16,16,16)">Shilla Saebi</p></span></div></div>