Governance/Foundation/UserCommittee/UC-Election-Feb18

UC Elections February 2018
We expect all members of our community to adhere to the highest standards of behavior during User Committee elections.

Officials
Shilla Saebi - shilla.saebi at gmail dot com

Tim Bell - tim.bell at cern dot ch

Election System
Elections will be held using CIVS and a Condorcet algorithm (Schulze/Beatpath/CSSD variant). Any tie will be broken using Governance/TieBreaking.

Timeline
January 29 - February 11, 05:59 UTC: Open candidacy for UC positions

February 19 - February 25, 11:59 UTC: UC elections (voting)

Elected Positions
Under the rules of the UC charter, we need to elect 2 UC seats for this election. Seats are valid for one-year term. User Committee member - 3 positions*.

* We have one member stepping down during this particular election requiring us to elect 3 positions.

Electorate
The electorate for this election are the Foundation individual members that are also Active User Contributors (AUC) over the last six months. The electorate is requested to confirm their email address and (if applicable) IRC handle in their Foundation Member Profile, https://openstack.org/profile, prior to February 5, 2017 05:59 UTC so that the emailed ballots are mailed to the correct email address.

Candidates
Any individual member of the foundation who is an Active User Contributor (AUC) can propose their candidacy (except two of the three recently elected members).

Self-nomination is common, no third party nomination is required. Nominate by sending an email to the user-committee@lists.openstack.org mailing-list, with the subject: “UC Candidacy” by February 11, 05:59 UTC. 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.

Confirmed Candidates
http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/user-committee/2018-February/002555.html
 * Melvin Hillsman

http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/user-committee/2018-February/002556.html
 * Yih Leong Sun

http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/user-committee/2018-February/002558.html
 * James Page

http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/user-committee/2018-February/002559.html
 * Amy Marrich

http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/user-committee/2018-February/002562.html
 * Joseph Sandoval

http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/user-committee/2018-February/002563.html
 * Kevin Carter