Governance/Foundation/UserCommittee/UC-Election-Aug18

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

Officials
Chandan Kumar - chkumar246 at gmail dot com

Ed Leafe - ed at leafe dot com

Mohamed Elsakhawy - m2elsakha at gmail dot com

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
August 6 - August 17, 05:59 UTC: Open candidacy for UC positions

August 20 - August 24, 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 - 2 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 August 13, 2018 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. They do so by sending an email to the user-committee@lists.openstack.org mailing-list, with the subject: “UC candidacy” by August 17, 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-August/002706.html
 * Matt Van Winkle

http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/user-committee/2018-August/002713.html
 * Joseph Sandoval