Governance/Foundation/UserCommittee/UC-Election-August17

UC Elections August 2017
We expect all members of our community to adhere to the highest standards of behavior during User Committee elections.

Officials
Amy Marrich

Ed Leafe

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
July 31 - August 11, 05:59 UTC: Open candidacy for UC positions

August 14 - August 18, 11:59 UTC: UC elections (voting)

Elected Positions
Under the rules of the UC charter, we need to elect 3 UC seats for this election. Seats are valid for one-year term. User Committee member - 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 4, 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 Contributors (AUC) can propose their candidacy (except the two UC members who were elected during the February election process: Melvin Hillsman and Shamail Tahir).

Self-nomination is common, no third party nomination is required. They do so by sending an email to the user-committee@lists.openstack.org mailing-list, with the subject: “UC candidacy” by August 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

 * Edgar Magana

http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/user-committee/2017-August/002260.html

http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/user-committee/2017-August/002272.html
 * Saverio Proto

http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/user-committee/2017-August/002281.html
 * Bruno Morel

http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/user-committee/2017-August/002282.html
 * Yih Leong Sun

http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/user-committee/2017-August/002284.html
 * Matt Van Winkle

Candidates Nominated but Ineligible due to not having AUC status

 * Robert Wen 文禹翔 - yuxiang.wen at easystack.cn

http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/user-committee/2017-August/002264.html

http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/user-committee/2017-August/002265.html - nomination accepted via email
 * Jay Jahns

http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/user-committee/2017-August/002283.html - nomination accepted via email
 * Sriram Subramanian