Governance/TCElectionsFall2012

Election officials
Election officials cannot run for the election they are an official for. Election officials for these elections are:


 * Duncan McGreggor
 * Stefano Maffulli
 * Thierry Carrez

= PTL Elections =

Timeline

 * Aug 30 - Sep 5: Open candidacy to PTL positions
 * Sep 7 - 13: PTL elections

Elected positions
All seats are elected for 6 months.


 * Nova PTL (one position)
 * Swift PTL (one position)
 * Glance PTL (one position)
 * Horizon PTL (one position)
 * Keystone PTL (one position)
 * Quantum PTL (one position)
 * Cinder PTL (one position)
 * openstack-common PTL (one position)

Electorate
The electorate for a given project PTL election are the Foundation individual members that are also committers for said project over the Essex-Folsom timeframe, up to 23:59 PST on August 29, 2012.

Candidates
Any member of an election electorate can propose his candidacy for the same election. No nomination is required. They do so by sending an email to the openstack@lists.launchpad.net mailing-list, which the subject: "PROJECT PTL candidacy" (for example for Glance: "Glance PTL 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.

= Technical committee direct members Election =

Timeline

 * Sep 14 - 19: Open candidacy to TC directly-elected seats
 * Sep 21 - 27: TC direct seats election

Elected positions
This is a partial renewal of the elected seats for the Technical committee of the OpenStack Foundation. We are called to select 3 directly-elected positions. All winners will be granted a one-year term on the TC.

Electorate
The electorate for the TC direct seats election are the Foundation individual members that are also committers for an official OpenStack project (as defined here), over the Essex-Folsom timeframe, up to 23:59 PST on August 29, 2012.

Candidates
Any member of the TC direct seats election electorate 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: Members of the PPB that were elected to a one-year term last Spring (Jay Pipes and Thierry Carrez), and 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 Candidate List

 * Chris Behrens
 * Russell Bryant
 * Sean Dague
 * Anne Gentle
 * Soren Hansen
 * Joshua Harlow
 * Matt Joyce
 * Justin Shepherd
 * Mikal Still
 * Monty Taylor
 * Eric Windisch

= Voting process =

As for all previous PTL/PPB elections, we will use the Condorcet method, under the Schulze (Beatpath) algorithm. The CIVS online voting platform will be used. Elections should be left open for a minimum of 5 business days.

Condorcet may result in ties, which would be broken following the procedure outlined here.

= Results =

Results of the PTL elections Results of the TC election