Hi everyone, The OpenStack "Technical Committee" (TC) is the evolution of the "Project Policy Board" (PPB) under the new, Foundation-driven governance. It is defined by the Foundation bylaws[1] and further specified in the Technical Committee charter[2].
The main difference with the PPB is that there are no more appointed members. The 8 recently-elected PTLs will get a reserved seat, and the last 5 seats are directly elected. Two of those five were elected for one year last Spring and will be carried over from the PPB to the TC. That leaves us with 3 seats to elect this time around. Those will be elected for a one-year term on the TC. Being a representation of the technical contributors in the project, the TC is elected by the Active Technical Contributors ("ATCs"), i.e. anyone who committed a change to one of the official OpenStack projects[3] (which the TC oversees) in the year before August 29, 23:59 PST. This includes doc and infrastructure projects. The Foundation bylaws also mandate that ATCs are individual members of the Foundation. That means that *in order to vote* (or propose your candidacy to the committee), you additionally have to *join the Foundation* if you haven't done so yet. The email you specify there will be the one used in the election process. The cut-off date for joining the Foundation to be able to participate to this election is set to the end of day (23:59 PST), Thursday September 13. You can do so at: http://openstack.org/join Then the timeline is as follows: Starting September 14, ending September 19, 23:59 PST: declaration of candidates. Remember that candidates must be an ATC (and a Foundation individual member). Starting September 21, ending September 27, 23:59 PST: Election More details on the process at: http://wiki.openstack.org/Governance/TCElectionsFall2012 [1] http://wiki.openstack.org/Governance/Foundation/Bylaws [2] http://wiki.openstack.org/Governance/Foundation/TechnicalCommittee [3] http://wiki.openstack.org/Projects Regards, -- Thierry Carrez (ttx) _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp