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Excerpts from gordon chung's message of 2016-10-03 15:30:56 +0000:
> hi,
> 
> as there are many candidates this TC election, i figured i'd ask a 
> question to better understand the candidates from the usual sales pitch 
> in self-nominations. hopefully, this will give some insights into the 
> candidates for those who haven't voted yet. obviously, the following is 
> completely optional. :)
> 
> i initially asked this to John Dickinson[1] in his self-nomination. i'd 
> like to open this up to everyone. the (re-worded) question is:
> 
> the TC has historically been a reactive council that lets others ask for 
> change and acts as the final approver. do you believe the TC should be a 
> proactive committee that initiates change and if yes, to what scope? 
> more generally, what are some specific issues you'd like the TC address 
> in the coming year?
> 
> [1] 
> http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2016-September/104821.html

Thanks for raising this question, Gordon.

I hope it is clear from my pushing the goals initiative [2] this
cycle that I want the TC to be a bit more active than it has been
in encouraging project teams to take specific action so the whole
project is moving in common direction. On the other hand, the process
for selecting those goals is intended to incorporate a lot of input
from the community and it could also characterized as "reactive"
to what the community wants. I think that's the balance we want to
have: listen to input, collect information, then clearly set the
direction without over-prescribing the implementation.

Doug

[2] http://governance.openstack.org/goals/index.html