[openstack-tc] [openstack-dev] Motion - Amend TC charter language to reflect Gender Parity

Mark McLoughlin markmc at redhat.com
Tue Nov 12 21:39:57 UTC 2013


Hi Anita,

On Tue, 2013-11-12 at 15:50 -0500, Anita Kuno wrote:
> Currently some of the language found in the TC charter does not yet 
> reflect gender parity[0].
> 
> I encountered this myself while officiating the TC election, 
> particularly the section on Candidates for PTL seats[1].
> 
> I move that the language of the TC charter reflect gender parity.
> 
> 
> [0] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Governance/Foundation/TechnicalCommittee
> [1]Candidates for PTL seats
> Any APC can propose his candidacy for the corresponding program PTL 
> election. Sitting PTLs are eligible to run for re-election each cycle, 
> provided they continue to meet the criteria.

I think it goes without saying that it makes sense to fix this.
Personally, I'm annoyed I didn't notice this before now.

Care to suggest alternate wording and submit it as a patch to our
governance repo?

This is the canonical TC charter document:

  https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/governance/tree/reference/charter

Thanks,
Mark.




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