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Any member of an election electorate can propose his/her candidacy for the same election.  No nomination is required.  They do so by sending an email to the openstack-security@lists.openstack.org mailing-list, using the subject: "OSSG Lead Candidacy". The email may 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.
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Any member of the election electorate (as defined above) can propose his/her candidacy for the same election.  No nomination is required.  They do so by sending an email to the openstack-security@lists.openstack.org mailing-list, using the subject: "OSSG Lead Candidacy". The email may 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 for Spring 2014 OSSG Lead Elections:
 
Confirmed candidates for Spring 2014 OSSG Lead Elections:

Revision as of 17:46, 27 February 2014

Officials

  • Bryan Payne
  • Rob Clark

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

  • Mar 3 - Mar 12: Open candidacy to OSSG lead position
  • Mar 13 - 19: Elections
  • Mar 20 - May 12: Leadership transition period

Elected positions

This election is for a new person to lead the OpenStack Security Group (OSSG). The term for this position will begin at the Icehouse Summit in Atlanta (May 2014) and end at the "J" Summit in Paris (Nov 2014). The elected leader will be responsible for holding a new election to fill the OSSG Lead position for the following term. There are no term limits (an individual may be re-elected as many times as the community chooses).

Electorate

The electorate for this election are members of the OSSG Launchpad group (https://launchpad.net/~openstack-ossg) who have played an "active role" in the OSSG community. Active role is defined as any one or more of the following since the creation of OSSG:

  • attend an IRC meeting
  • write or review an OSSN
  • write or review the OpenStack Security Guide
  • participate in security code reviews
  • submit or review vulnerabilities
  • write security enhancing code for OpenStack
  • other contributing activities as defined at the discretion of the election officials

Candidates

Any member of the election electorate (as defined above) can propose his/her candidacy for the same election. No nomination is required. They do so by sending an email to the openstack-security@lists.openstack.org mailing-list, using the subject: "OSSG Lead Candidacy". The email may 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 for Spring 2014 OSSG Lead Elections:

  • tbd

Results

tbd