OpenStackers: Elections are beginning soon. This means as a community, we have a responsibility to identify and credit any extra Active Contributors (extra ACs) who may not have committed code in the last six months. Being named an extra AC has a simple, but important impact: it permits the individual named to vote in elections for the Technical Committee. Additionally, it's an important form of recognition which can encourage future non-code contributions. If there's someone who has made non-code contributions to a project who should be recognized, please contact me, in my role as the Technical Committee Chair (per the TC Charter https://governance.openstack.org/tc/reference/charter.html#voters-for-tc-sea...) and the TC will evaluate the request and approve it if reasonable. Please note; this is not just an exercise for PTLs. Self-nominating for extra-AC status is not only permitted; it's encouraged -- if you've contributed, we want to recognize you. Additionally, any existing project contributors are eligible to nominate peers they think are deserving. Thank you in advance for taking time to recognize your upstream peers! Jay Faulkner OpenStack TC Chair