Governance/ElectionsSpring2012

The time is once again upon us for our OpenStack Governance Elections. The OpenStack community is called to elect the Project Technical Leads and two seats of the Project Policy Board. The election committee is made of Stefano Maffulli, Lloyd Dewolf and Dave Nielsen.


 * February 16 – 26 11:59 PST: Nominations open.
 * February 28 – March 3 11:59 PST: Online voting open.
 * March 3 11:59 PST: Voting closed.

Final results will be posted immediately upon election close.

Elections results: http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/03/openstack-governance-elections-spring-2012-results/

What seats are up for election

 * NOVA Project Team Lead (1 Position)
 * SWIFT Project Team Lead (1 Position)
 * GLANCE Project Team Lead (1 Position)
 * HORIZON Project Team Lead (1 Position)
 * KEYSTONE Project Team Lead (1 Position)
 * Project Policy Board (2 Open Positions)

How to nominate yourself or others as Project Technical Lead
Only OpenStack community members who have code in the respective OpenStack subproject are eligible to be elected as that subproject’s  Project Team Lead. Please nominate someone from the developer community or yourself at http://etherpad.openstack.org/Spring2012-Nominees under the Nominees  heading. Please provide the name and email address of the nominee. The election committee will then confirm with the nominee that they are  willing to run for the position.The list of Approved Candidates will be  announced with a new blog post on openstack.org/blog when online voting opens (Feb 28).

How to nominate yourself or others as member of the Project Policy Board
Any registered member of the OpenStack Launchpad group is eligible to run or be nominated for a position on the Project Policy Board. If you want to vote and/or run for a seat you need to register on Launchpad and  add yourself to the public OpenStack group on https://launchpad.net/~openstack. Please nominate someone from the community or yourself at http://etherpad.openstack.org/Spring2012-Nominees under the Nominees heading. Please give the name and email address of the nominee. The election committee will then confirm with the nominee that they are  willing to run for the position. The list of Approved Candidates will be announced with a new blog post on openstack.org/blog right before the election starts.

How to register to vote for PTL
Only OpenStack community members who have code in the respective OpenStack subproject are eligible to vote for that subproject’s Project  Team Lead. The authoritative list of eligible voters and nominees is the Authors file in each repository. For example, the list of Nova authors is https://github.com/openstack/nova/blob/master/Authors.


 * Make sure your name and correct email address is there or you won’t be able to vote.

How to register to vote for Project Policy Board
Any registered member of the OpenStack Launchpad group is eligible to vote for the Project Policy Board. If you want to vote you need to register to Launchpad and add yourself to the public OpenStack group on https://launchpad.net/~openstack before registering as a voter using the form at http://ppbelectionsregistration.openstack.org/. Company affiliation is only collected as an interesting statistic; it has no effect on the outcome of the election.

Voting process
Like previous OpenStack Governance Elections, we will use the Condorcet Internet Voting Service from Cornell University,http://www.cs.cornell.edu/andru/civs.html. This tool uses the Condorcet method of voting which invokes ranking the nominees instead of just selecting one choice. More information on this methodology is at http://www.cs.cornell.edu/w8/~andru/civs/rp.html.

All registered voters will receive an email with a unique link allowing them to privately vote.

Please note that the voting system is run using private polls with restricted access to ensure voter authenticity; however all results will  be made public once the election ends. Voter anonymity is guaranteed. The result’s ranking will be evaluated using Schulze (also known as Beatpath or CSSD) completion rule.

Thanks for participating in this essential process. Please remind your friends and colleagues to get involved, register and vote!