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... [4] http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/user-committee/2019-August/002866.html