Hello all,

As announced [1-2], the UC nomination period was from August 5 - August
16, 2019, and as the election officials, we would like to share the
result, as well as  the next steps. This was discussed by the User
Committee yesterday [3]:

     - There was one UC candidacy [4]. The candicacy has been validated
and election official announce that "Mohamed Elsakhawy" will serve on
the UC. Congratulations!
     - There will be no election since there was only one candicate out
of two positions for this election.
     - There were discussions during the UC meeting [3] yesterday, and
the UC decided to have a second, special election for another seat
within the timeframe spelled out in the charter.
       The same election officials will work, and the officials and UC
members are discussing a feasible time frame for the election.

As mentioned, the upcoming election is *special*, so please pay
attention for more election information.
The election officials will post an email soon with more details on
upcoming special UC election.


Thank you,

- Ed & Ian

[1]
http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/user-committee/2019-July/002862.html
[2]
http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/user-committee/2019-August/002864.html
[3]
http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/uc/2019/uc.2019-08-19-15.04.log.html#l-70
[4]
http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/user-committee/2019-August/002866.html