Thank you very much Slawek. I wanted to chime in with a request to prospective candidates. While it is not an official requirement to add your affiliation information to your foundation profile: https://www.openstack.org/profile/ Please consider doing so. Maybe it's also a good opportunity to check if your affiliation is up to date :) If you are a candidate to the OpenStack Technical Committee, our bylaws require us to limit the number of members from a single affiliation [1], so declaring your affiliation matters so our tooling can prominently present this information to election officials. Thank you very much for your cooperation. Goutham [1] https://governance.openstack.org/tc/reference/charter.html#tc-diversity-requ... On Wed, Aug 14, 2024 at 4:45 PM Slawomir Kaplonski <skaplons@redhat.com> wrote:
Nominations for OpenStack PTLs (Project Team Leads) and TC (Technical Committee) positions (4 positions) are now open and will remain open until Aug 28, 2024 23:45 UTC.
All nominations must be submitted as a text file to the openstack/election repository as explained at https://governance.openstack.org/election/#how-to-submit-a-candidacy
Please make sure to follow the candidacy file naming convention: candidates/2025.1/<Project_Name or "TC">/<email_address> (for example, "candidates/2025.1/TC/stacker@example.org").
The name of the file should match an email address for your current OpenStack Foundation Individual Membership. Take this opportunity to ensure that your OSF member profile contains current information: https://www.openstack.org/profile/
Any OpenStack Foundation Individual Member can propose their candidacy for an available, directly-elected seat on the Technical Committee.
In order to be an eligible candidate for PTL you must be an OpenStack Foundation Individual Member. PTL candidates must also have contributed to the corresponding team during the 2024.1 to 2024.2 timeframe, Sep 15, 2023 00:00 UTC - Aug 28, 2024 00:00 UTC. Your Gerrit account must also have a verified email address matching the one used in your candidacy filename.
Both PTL and TC elections will be held from Sep 04, 2024 23:45 UTC through to Sep 18, 2024 23:45 UTC. The electorate for the TC election are the OpenStack Foundation Individual Members who have a code contribution to one of the official teams over the 2024.1 to 2024.2 timeframe, Sep 15, 2023 00:00 UTC - Aug 28, 2024 00:00 UTC, as well as any Extra ACs who are acknowledged by the TC. The electorate for a PTL election are the OpenStack Foundation Individual Members who have a code contribution over the 2024.1 to 2024.2 timeframe, Sep 15, 2023 00:00 UTC - Aug 28, 2024 00:00 UTC, in a deliverable repository maintained by the team which the PTL would lead, as well as the Extra ACs who are acknowledged by the TC for that specific team. The list of project teams can be found at https://governance.openstack.org/tc/reference/projects/ and their individual team pages include lists of corresponding Extra ACs.
Please find below the timeline:
PTL + TC nomination starts @ Aug 14, 2024 23:45 UTC PTL + TC nomination ends @ Aug 28, 2024 23:45 UTC TC campaigning starts @ Aug 28, 2024 23:45 UTC TC campaigning ends @ Sep 04, 2024 23:45 UTC PTL + TC elections start @ Sep 04, 2024 23:45 UTC PTL + TC elections end @ Sep 18, 2024 23:45 UTC
Shortly after election officials approve candidates, they will be listed on the https://governance.openstack.org/election/ page.
The electorate is requested to confirm their email addresses in Gerrit prior to 2024-08-28 00:00:00+00:00, so that the emailed ballots are sent to the correct email address. This email address should match one which was provided in your foundation member profile as well. Gerrit account information and OSF member profiles can be updated at https://review.openstack.org/#/settings/contact and https://www.openstack.org/profile/ accordingly.
If you have any questions please be sure to either ask them on the mailing list or to the elections officials: https://governance.openstack.org/election/#election-officials
-- Best regards Slawek Kaplonski skaplons@redhat.com