Executive Director Candidate Committee

Concluding Recommendation; Letter to members and contributors

July 30, 2012

Dear OpenStack members and contributors,

One of the first important tasks for the OpenStack Foundation Board of Directors, once elected, is to appoint the first Executive Director of the Foundation. The Executive Director will act as Chief Executive Officer of the Foundation and shall, subject to the direction of the Board of Directors, have general supervision, direction and control of the business and the officers of the Foundation.

In anticipation of the Foundation being formed and the Board being appointed and elected, and in order to smooth the transition to operating as a Foundation, the 19 companies who publicly committed to be Platinum and Gold members formed a committee in May 2012 to conduct a process to define a job description, invite applications, interview candidates, and select a candidate to recommend to the Board (once formed) for the Executive Director role.

After a diligent and inclusive process by the committee, which included preparing and posting a comprehensive job description, receiving and reviewing over 40 applications, and panel style interviews of 5 short-listed candidates, the Executive Director search committee has recommended Jonathan Bryce for the Executive Director position.

The recommendation of Jonathan Bryce as Executive Director will be considered at the first meeting of the Board of the Foundation, anticipated to be held on August 28th, 2012 after the completion of Board member appointments and elections. The process the committee developed and used to arrive at its recommendation is outlined on this wiki page. The job description containing a complete listing of the job criteria and detailed job responsibilities is also contained within this wiki page. Sincerely, Committee Members

Alan Clark (chair)
Boris Renski
Brian Stevens
Cliff Young
Eileen Evans
Ewan Mellor
Jim Curry
Jon Mittelhauser
Sean Roberts
Simon Anderson
Tim Bell
Todd Moore
Tristan Goode
Winston Damarillo

Background and Process

Based on action items resulting from the May 9th F2F a Executive Director Candidate committee is being formed to formulate the criteria, to vet possible candidates for the role and to provide a recommendation to the Foundation board. The efforts of the committee will result in ensuring that all are on the same page with the roles, responsibilities, priorities and goals for the ED. Writing these down will be a very good thing for the ED and for the members. While it is the responsibility of the Board to place the ED, this committee can in the interim go through the steps enabling the Board to immediately act. Also having the persons on the committee, who will potentially be the board helps assure that the board will adopt the committees results and recommendations.

The committee members are:

Alan Clark (chair)
Boris Renski
Brian Stevens
Cliff Young
Eileen Evans
Ewan Mellor
Jim Curry
Cole Crawford replaced by Jon Mittelhauser
Sean Roberts
Simon Anderson
Tim Bell
Todd Moore
Tristan Goode
Winston Damarillo
Lauren Sell (For communications)

The output of this committee effort is a candidate recommendation to the board for approval along with a recommendation for the first year incentive goals.

All work will be posted and updated on this wiki page.

The following is the Committee's steps/schedule that align with the Drafting Committees time line.

May 23-30

May 30

June 6

June 11

June 14

June 22

June 27

July 9 - 13

July 18

August 28

Job Description and Candidate Criteria

Executive Director candidate criteria and job description:

[[attachment:Executive_Director_OpenStack_Job_Description_Draft_06_11_2012.[pdf]]

Committee Interview Process

To ensure that the process be as transparant and fair as possible for all candidates and members, the committee developed and adopted the following process for discovering and interviewing candidates

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1w8JjQuTmrQKzGtshxZxOmaaSMgPfxHMcGYrXAV1Ytew/edit?invite=CJm18yc

Governance/Foundation/EDCandidateCommittee