Hello Stackers,

The OpenStack election process is critical to our community. While we have historically relied on a dedicated group of volunteers to serve as election officials, we want to broaden community knowledge of this process. We are looking to recruit new election officials to help manage this important task responsibly.

If you are interested in shadowing the upcoming PTL and TC elections for 2026.2, please join #openstack-election on OFTC and let us know. We would appreciate assistance with reviewing candidacies and administering the different election phases [1].

Please note that election officials should ideally be neutral parties who are not contesting these elections themselves.

Thanks,

Goutham Pacha Ravi (gouthamr)

[1] https://governance.openstack.org/election/