[openstack-dev] Candidate proposals for TC (Technical Committee) positions are now open

Anita Kuno anteaya at anteaya.info
Mon Oct 6 16:38:14 UTC 2014


On 10/03/2014 12:16 PM, Flavio Percoco wrote:
> On 10/03/2014 05:38 PM, Tristan Cacqueray wrote:
>> Candidate proposals for the Technical Committee positions (6 positions)
>> are now open and will remain open until 05:59 UTC October 10, 2014.
>>
>> Candidates for the Technical Committee Positions: Any Foundation
>> individual member can propose their candidacy for an available,
>> directly-elected TC seat. [0] (except the seven TC members who were
>> elected for a one-year seat last April: Thierry Carrez, Jay Pipes,
>> Vishvananda Ishaya, Michael Still, Jim Blair, Mark McClain, Devananda
>> van der Veen) [1]
>>
>> Propose your candidacy by sending an email to the openstack-dev at
>> lists.openstack.org mailing-list, with the subject: "TC candidacy".
>> Please start your own thread so we have one thread per candidate. Since
>> there will be many people voting for folks with whom they might not have
>> worked, including a platform or statement to help voters make an
>> informed choice is recommended, though not required.
>>
>> NEW: In order to help the electorate learn more about the candidates we
>> have posted a template of questions to which all candidates are
>> requested to respond. [2]
>>
>> Anita and I will confirm candidates with an email to the candidate
>> thread as well as create a link to the confirmed candidate's proposal
>> email on the wikipage for this election. [1]
>>
>> The election will be held from October 10 through to 13:00 UTC October
>> 17, 2014. The electorate are the Foundation individual members that are
>> also committers for one of the official programs projects [3] over the
>> Icehouse-Juno timeframe (September 26, 2013 06:00 UTC to September 26,
>> 2014 05:59 UTC), as well as the extra-ATCs who are acknowledged by the
>> TC. [4]
>>
>> Please see the wikipage for additional details about this election. [1]
>>
>> If you have any questions please be sure to either voice them on the
>> mailing list or email Anita or myself [5] or contact Anita or myself on IRC.
>>
>> Thank you, and I look forward to reading your candidate proposals,
>> Tristan
>>
>> [0] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Governance/Foundation/TechnicalCommittee
>> [1] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/TC_Elections_October_2014
>> [2]
>> https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/TC_Elections_October_2014#TC_Election_Questions
>> [3]
>> http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/governance/tree/reference/programs.yaml?id=sept-2014-elections
>> Note the tag for this repo, sept-2014-elections.
>> [4]
>> http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/governance/tree/reference/extra-atcs?id=sept-2014-elections
>> [5] Anita: anteaya at anteaya dot info
>>      Tristan: tristan dot cacqueray at enovance dot com
>>
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> I'd like to take this chance to gently ask, but it's obviously not a
> requirement, to all candidates to share what their opinion with regards
> to the new governance discussion is in their candidacy.
> 
> As a voter, I'm interested to know how the new candidates see our
> governance model in the next 6 months and what changes, related to the
> "big tent" discussion, they consider most important.
> 
> Thanks,
> Flavio
> 
> 
Hi Flavio:
I had purposely not mentioned the organizational changes in the
templated questions (which are brand new this time, so these are the
guinea pig candidates).

One of the things people are looking for is leaders. At campaign time
folks with strong stances prevail. However it is the ability to listen
and consider the opinions of others, especially when disagreement
arises, that makes our TC as strong as it has been and hopefully will be
in future.

Everyone is enjoying the drama of the changes and yes they are dramatic,
but equally if not more important is the work that will have to take
place using listening and consideration skills in order to turn
decisions into outcomes.

Listening is an incredibly important leadership skill but doesn't get
much air time during campaigns. If you look at really effective leaders
though they are listeners, every one. Listeners also rarely state that
is what they are doing, since they are busy listening.

Any candidate is welcome to say anything they wish in their candidate
statement. I appreciate that you are interested in their opinions about
the new governance model, Flavio, and I appreciate you speaking up about
it. But regardless of what decisions are made, what structure is decided
upon and what that structure and its parts are called, we need people
with the ability to listen, consider, and work very hard to put any of
these decisions in place in order for them to succeed.

We have a problem of incredible growth in OpenStack. Our growth is a
manifestation of all we are doing correctly. I hope that the questions
asked in the templates bring out the qualities I know each candidate is
capable of, that ensure we have a group of leaders with the skills
necessary to make agreements and produce results, regardless of the
shape and colour of those agreements and results.

Thank you,
Anita.



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