================= Airship Elections ================= +-----------------+-----------------------------+----------------------------+ | Events | Start Date | End Date | +=================+=============================+============================+ | TC Nominations | June 18, 2019 19:00 UTC | June 25, 2019 19:00 UTC | +-----------------+-----------------------------+----------------------------+ | TC Campaign | June 25, 2019 19:00 UTC | July 2, 2019 19:00 UTC | +-----------------+-----------------------------+----------------------------+ | TC Election | July 2, 2019 19:00 UTC | July 9, 2019 19:00 UTC | +-----------------+-----------------------------+----------------------------+ | WC Nominations | July 16, 2019 19:00 UTC | July 30, 2019 19:00 UTC | +-----------------+-----------------------------+----------------------------+ | WC Campaign | July 30, 2019 19:00 UTC | August 6, 2019 19:00 UTC | +-----------------+-----------------------------+----------------------------+ | WC Election | August 6, 2019 19:00 UTC | August 13, 2019 19:00 UTC | +-----------------+-----------------------------+----------------------------+ | WC Nominations* | October 9, 2019 19:00 UTC | October 16, 2019 19:00 UTC | +-----------------+-----------------------------+----------------------------+ | WC Campaign* | October 16, 2019 19:00 UTC | October 23, 2019 19:00 UTC | +-----------------+-----------------------------+----------------------------+ | WC Election* | October 23, 2019 19:00 UTC | October 30, 2019 19:00 UTC | +-----------------+-----------------------------+----------------------------+ | WC Nominations* | January 6, 2020 19:00 UTC | January 20, 2020 19:00 UTC | +-----------------+-----------------------------+----------------------------+ | TC Nominations* | January 6, 2020 19:00 UTC | January 13, 2020 19:00 UTC | +-----------------+-----------------------------+----------------------------+ | TC Campaign* | January 13, 2020 19:00 UTC | January 20, 2020 19:00 UTC | +-----------------+-----------------------------+----------------------------+ | TC Election* | January 22, 2020 16:00 UTC | January 29, 2020 16:00 UTC | +-----------------+-----------------------------+----------------------------+ \* Denotes a special election for a vacant seat. See `Election system`_, `TC details`_ and `WC details`_. Previous Elections ================== .. toctree:: :maxdepth: 1 results/2019/tc results/2019/wc results/2020/tc results/2020/wc Election Officials ================== * Matt McEuen (mattmceuen), madgin at madgin dot net * Chris Hoge (hogepodge), chris at openstack dot org * Alan Meadows (alanmeadows), alan.meadows at gmail dot com * Rodolfo Pacheco (jezogwza), jezogwza at gmail dot com For any questions, please contact officials by mail or over IRC at #airshpit Freenode channel. .. _Election system: Election System =============== Elections will be held using CIVS and a Condorcet algorithm (Schulze/Beatpath/CSSD variant). Any tie will be broken using `Governance_TieBreaking`_. .. _TC details: Technical Committee election ============================ Elected Positions ----------------- Under the rules of the Airship `Governance`_, we need to elect 5 TC seats for this election. Seats are valid for one-year terms. * Technical Committee member - 5 positions. Electorate ---------- The electorate for this election are the individuals who earned the Contributor status some time in the past 12 months prior to the nomination period starts as defined by the Airship `Governance`_ document. Candidates ---------- Anyone who has demonstrated a commitment to Airship (community building, communications, or has had code merged to the Airship project repositories) within the last 12 months is eligible to run for the Technical Committee, as specified in the Airship `Governance`_ document. Nominees propose their candidacy by submitting a text file to the airship/election repository. The file must be placed in candidates//TC/. The commit message for the patch must contain the candidate's current affiliation (company name or 'independent'). The candidacy is then confirmed by elections officials through gerrit. See `How to submit a candidacy`_ documentation below. .. _WC details: Working Committee election ========================== Under the rules of the Airship `Governance`_, we need to elect 5 Working Committee seats for this election. Seats are valid for one-year terms. * Technical Committee member - 5 positions. Electorate ---------- The electorate for this election the Core Reviewers on the Airship projects at the time of the election. Candidates ---------- Any Contributor can propose their candidacy. Nominees propose their candidacy by submitting a text file to the airship/election repository. The file must be placed in candidates//WC/. The commit message for the patch must contain the candidate's current affiliation (company name or 'independent'). The candidacy is then confirmed by elections officials through gerrit. See `How to submit a candidacy`_ documentation below. .. _How to submit a candidacy: How to submit a candidacy ========================= Each candidate must nominate themselves for each elected position, and are encouraged to submit their own candidacy to gerrit, although where appropriate, others may submit a candidacy for those who have already self-nominated by other means. If you are not already familiar with the Airship/OpenStack development workflow, see this more detailed documentation: https://docs.openstack.org/infra/manual/developers.html Candidacies now need to be submitted as a text file to the airship/election repository. Here are the required steps: * Clone the election repository: git clone https://opendev.org/airship/election.git ; cd election * Create a new file candidates/// containing the candidate statement. * Commit the candidacy: git add candidates///; git commit * In the text editor add a title and specify your affiliation like: Adding candidacy for role Affiliation: * Save the text and exit the text editor * Submit your candidacy: git review For example Dana Developer (ddev on IRC) would compose a platform in a file named "candidates/2019/TC/dana\@inconnu.org" to submit a TC candidacy for the 2019 election. After the candidacy is submitted to gerrit, verification and approval will be performed by elections officials, followed by an update to the approved candidate list. .. seealso:: See the `Election Officiating Guidelines`_ page in the wiki for details on the election process. .. _Election Officiating Guidelines: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Election_Officiating_Guidelines .. _Governance_TieBreaking: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Governance/TieBreaking .. _Governance: https://opendev.org/airship/governance/src/branch/master/README.md