Hello,
The upcoming round for OpenStack's technical elections (both PTL and TC) is set to happen in September this year[1].
We would like to encourage anyone interested to volunteer to help administer the elections, especially as some of our long-service volunteers periodically become ineligible by way of being nominated for election themselves. While elections have historically been handled by a small number of volunteers, the intention was for this to NOT be a closed process.
The election process is detailed in this document [2], with tooling managed in gerrit [3], and uses StoryBoard [4] to keep track of various election activities.
We are happy to mentor individuals and share knowledge about the elections process in an effort to get more of the community involved. Involvement can be on an ongoing basis or simply volunteering to help with some small part of one election just to learn how the process works.
The election officials team is explicitly delegated by the Technical Committee, who have historically consistently expressed interest in more volunteers to assist. Please let us know if you would like to volunteer!
-Kendall Nelson & The Election Officials
[1] https://review.opendev.org/#/c/661673/2 [2] https://governance.openstack.org/election/process.html [3] https://opendev.org/openstack/election [4] https://storyboard.openstack.org/#!/project/openstack/election