TC Elections Spring 2013

Election official(s)

 * Monty Taylor

Timeline

 * Mar 15 - 21: Open candidacy to directly-elected TC positions
 * Mar 22 - 28: TC elections

Elected positions
The persons ranking 1st and 2nd will get one-year seats on the TC, and the person ranking 3rd will be elected for a 6-month seat as a replacement for Russell Bryant who is now granted a PTL seat.

Electorate
The electorate for the TC direct seats election are the Foundation individual members that are also committers for an official OpenStack project, over the Folsom-Grizzly timeframe, up to 23:59 PST on February 28, 2013.

Candidates
Any Foundation individual member can propose his candidacy for this election. No nomination is required. They do so by sending an email to the openstack@lists.launchpad.net mailing-list, which the subject: "TC candidacy". The email can include a description of the candidate platform. The candidacy is then confirmed by one of the election officials, after verification of the electorate status of the candidate.

Note: PTLs that just got elected in the previous election are automatically granted a 6-month term seat on the TC, and therefore cannot run for this election.

Confirmed candidates for Spring 2013 PTL Elections:

Chris Behrens

Thierry Carrez

Vishvananda Ishaya

Gary Kotton

Carl Perry

Michael Still

Chuck Thier

Eric Windisch

Results
One-year seats:
 * Vishvananda Ishaya
 * Thierry Carrez

Six-month seat:
 * Michael Still

See detailed results.