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Excerpts from Tony Breeds's message of 2018-08-10 07:44:42 +1000:
> On Thu, Aug 09, 2018 at 05:20:53PM -0400, Doug Hellmann wrote:
> > Excerpts from Tony Breeds's message of 2018-08-08 14:39:30 +1000:
> > > Hello all,
> > >     With the PTL elections behind us it's time to start looking at the
> > > TC election.  Our charter[1] says:
> > > 
> > >   The election is held no later than 6 weeks prior to each OpenStack
> > >   Summit (on or before ‘S-6’ week), with elections held open for no less
> > >   than four business days.
> > > 
> > > Assuming we have the same structure that gives us a timeline of:
> > > 
> > >   Summit is at: 2018-11-13
> > >   Latest possible completion is at: 2018-10-02
> > >   Moving back to Tuesday: 2018-10-02
> > >   TC Election from 2018-09-25T23:45 to 2018-10-02T23:45
> > >   TC Campaigning from 2018-09-18T23:45 to 2018-09-25T23:45
> > >   TC Nominations from 2018-09-11T23:45 to 2018-09-18T23:45
> > > 
> > > This puts the bulk of the nomination period during the PTG, which is
> > > sub-optimal as the nominations cause a distraction from the PTG but more
> > > so because the campaigning will coincide with travel home, and some
> > > community members take vacation along with the PTG.
> > > 
> > > So I'd like to bring up the idea of moving the election forward a
> > > little so that it's actually the campaigning period that overlaps with
> > > the PTG:
> > > 
> > >   TC Election    from 2018-09-18T23:45 to 2018-09-27T23:45
> > >   TC Campaigning from 2018-09-06T23:45 to 2018-09-18T23:45
> > >   TC Nominations from 2018-08-30T23:45 to 2018-09-06T23:45
> > > 
> > > This gives us longer campaigning and election periods.
> > > 
> > > There are some advantages to doing this:
> > > 
> > >  * A panel style Q&A could be held formally or informally ;P
> > >  * There's improved scope for for incoming, outgoing and staying put TC
> > >    members to interact in a high bandwidth way.
> > >  * In personi/private discussions with TC candidates/members.
> > > 
> > > However it isn't without downsides:
> > > 
> > >   * Election fatigue, We've just had the PTL elections and the UC
> > >     elections are currently running.  Less break before the TC elections
> > >     may not be a good thing.
> > >   * TC candidates that can't travel to the PTG could be disadvantaged
> > >   * The campaigning would all happen at the PTG and not on the mailing
> > >     list disadvantaging community members not at the PTG.
> > > 
> > > So thoughts?
> > > 
> > > Yours Tony.
> > > 
> > > [1] https://governance.openstack.org/tc/reference/charter.html
> > 
> > Who needs to make this decision? The current TC?
> 
> I believe that the TC delegated that to the Election WG [1] but the
> governance here is a little gray/fuzzy.

OK, I'm content for the Election team to make the call I just wanted to
make sure I gave you an opinion if you were asking me for one. ;-)

> So I kinda think that if the TC doesn't object I can propose the patch
> to the election repo and you (as TC chair) can +/-1 is as you see fit.
> 
> Is it fair to ask we do that shortly after the next TC office hours?

+1

> 
> Yours Tony.
> 
> [1] https://governance.openstack.org/tc/reference/working-groups.html