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[Stefano Maffulli <stefano@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The time is once again upon us for our OpenStack Governance Elections.
The OpenStack community is called to elect the Project Technical Leads
and two seats of the Project Policy Board. The election committee is
made of Stefano Maffulli, Lloyd Dewolf and Dave Nielsen.


      * February 16 – 26 11:59 PST: Nominations open.
      * February 28 – March 3 11:59 PST: Online voting open.
      * March 3 11:59 PST: Voting closed.


Final results will be posted immediately upon election close.

What seats are up for election

      * NOVA Project Team Lead (1 Position)
      * SWIFT Project Team Lead (1 Position)
      * GLANCE Project Team Lead (1 Position)
      * HORIZON Project Team Lead (1 Position)
      * KEYSTONE Project Team Lead (1 Position)
      * Project Policy Board (2 Open Positions)



How to nominate yourself or others as Project Technical Lead
Only OpenStack community members who have code in the respective
OpenStack subproject are eligible to be elected as that subproject’s
Project Team Lead. Please nominate someone from the developer community
or yourself at http://etherpad.openstack.org/Spring2012-Nominees under
the Nominees heading.  Please provide the name and email address of the
nominee. The election committee will then confirm with the nominee that
they are willing to run for the position.The list of Approved Candidates
will be announced with a new blog post on openstack.org/blog when online
voting opens (Feb 28).

How to nominate yourself or others as member of the Project Policy Board

Any registered member of the OpenStack Launchpad group is eligible to
run or be nominated for a position on the Project Policy Board. If you
want to vote and/or run for a seat you need to register on Launchpad and
add yourself to the public OpenStack group on
https://launchpad.net/~openstack. Please nominate someone from the
community or yourself at
http://etherpad.openstack.org/Spring2012-Nominees under the Nominees
heading. Please give the name and email address of the nominee. The
election committee will then confirm with the nominee that they are
willing to run for the position. The list of Approved Candidates will be
announced with a new blog post on openstack.org/blog right before the
election starts.How to register to vote for PTL
Only OpenStack community members who have code in the respective
OpenStack subproject are eligible to vote for that subproject’s Project
Team Lead.  The authoritative list of eligible voters and nominees is
the Authors file in each repository. For example, the list of Nova
authors is https://github.com/openstack/nova/blob/master/Authors.
Make sure your name and correct email address is there or you won’t be
able to vote.


How to register to vote for Project Policy Board

Any registered member of the OpenStack Launchpad group is eligible to
vote for the Project Policy Board. If you want to vote you need to
register to Launchpad and add yourself to the public OpenStack group on
https://launchpad.net/~openstack before registering as a voter using the
form at http://ppbelectionsregistration.openstack.org/. Company
affiliation is only collected as an interesting statistic; it has no
effect on the outcome of the election.


Voting process

Like previous OpenStack Governance Elections, we will use the Condorcet
Internet Voting Service from Cornell University,
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/andru/civs.html. This tool uses the Condorcet
method of voting which invokes ranking the nominees instead of just
selecting one choice. More information on this methodology is at
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/w8/~andru/civs/rp.html.

All registered voters will receive an email with a unique link allowing
them to privately vote.

Please note that the voting system is run using private polls with
restricted access to ensure voter authenticity; however all results will
be made public once the election ends. Voter anonymity is guaranteed.
The result’s ranking will be evaluated using Schulze (also known as
Beatpath or CSSD) completion rule.

Thanks for participating in this essential process. Please remind your
friends and colleagues to get involved, register and vote!