Nominations for OpenStack PTLs (Project Team Leads) and TC (Technical Committee) positions (6 positions) are now open and will remain open until Sep 03, 2019 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/u/<Project_Name or "TC">/<email_address> (for example, "candidates/u/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 Stein to Train timeframe, Aug 10, 2018 00:00 UTC - Sep 03, 2019 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 10, 2019 23:45 UTC through to Sep 17, 2019 23:45 UTC. The electorate for the TC election are the OpenStack Foundation Individual Members who have a code contribution one of the official teams over the Stein to Train timeframe, Aug 10, 2018 00:00 UTC - Sep 03, 2019 00:00 UTC, as well as any Extra ATCs 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 Stein to Train timeframe, Aug 10, 2018 00:00 UTC - Sep 03, 2019 00:00 UTC, in a deliverable repository maintained by the team for which the PTL would lead, as well as the Extra ATCs 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 ATCs. Please find below the timeline: nomination starts @ Aug 27, 2019 23:45 UTC nomination ends @ Sep 03, 2019 23:45 UTC campaigning starts @ Sep 03, 2019 23:45 UTC campaigning ends @ Sep 10, 2019 23:45 UTC elections start @ Sep 10, 2019 23:45 UTC elections end @ Sep 17, 2019 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 2019-09-03 00:00:00+00:00 so that the emailed ballots are mailed 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 checked 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 -- Jeremy Stanley, on behalf of the technical election officials