<div dir="ltr">Fair question. Perhaps Rob can provide some details as he is the current lead?<div><br></div><div>I have also served in this role (in an unelected capacity!) in the past. I found the lead position to take a fair amount of time... perhaps 5-10 hours per week. Tasks include:</div><div><br></div><div>- setting the overall direction for the group and making that vision a reality</div><div>- running the weekly IRC meetings</div><div>- coordinating with the team leads to ensure work is progressing (this currently includes OSSN, book, and threat modeling)</div><div>- coordinating mid-cycle meetups</div><div>- advocating for security throughout the openstack community (mailing list, conference talking slots, etc)</div><div>- serving as a liaison to the VMT<br><div><br></div><div>I'm probably missing some things too. I'll let Rob fill in the remaining details :-)</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>-bryan</div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 11:37 AM, Cody Bunch <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cody.bunch@rackspace.com" target="_blank">cody.bunch@rackspace.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, October 15, 2014 12:47 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Clark, Robert Graham<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Openstack-security] Elections for OSSG lead<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Just a reminder that this Sunday is the last day to announce your candidacy for the OSSG Lead position. As of today, we have zero candidates, but I know that there are people who are interested. Please go ahead and add your name to the list!
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Hi All,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">It gives me great pleasure to open the election process for OSSG leadership.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">This is the second time the OSSG has had the opportunity to elect leadership since the OSSG began nearly three years ago.
</span><span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#333333;background:white"> </span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#333333;background:white">The term for this position will begin at the Kilo Summit in Paris (November 2014) and end at the 'L'
Summit in Vancouver (May 2015). The elected leader will be responsible for holding a new election to fill the OSSG Lead position for the following term. There are no term limits (an individual may be re-elected as many times as the community chooses).<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#333333">Any member of the election electorate (see wiki for details) can propose his/her candidacy for the same election. No nomination is required. They do so by sending an email to the
<a href="mailto:openstack-security@lists.openstack.org" target="_blank">openstack-security@lists.openstack.org</a> mailing-list, using the subject: "OSSG Lead Candidacy". The email may include a description of the candidate platform. The candidacy is then confirmed
by one of the election officials, after verification of the electorate status of the candidate.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Please read more at the wiki entry here:
<a href="http://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Security/OSSG_Lead_Election_Fall_2014" target="_blank">
http://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Security/OSSG_Lead_Election_Fall_2014</a> <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Thank you all for being a part of the community and good luck to all the candidates!<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">-Rob</span><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#8496b0"><u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
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