On 10/06/2014 12:38 PM, Anita Kuno wrote: > On 10/03/2014 12:16 PM, Flavio Percoco wrote: >> On 10/03/2014 05:38 PM, Tristan Cacqueray wrote: >>> Candidate proposals for the Technical Committee positions (6 positions) >>> are now open and will remain open until 05:59 UTC October 10, 2014. >>> >>> Candidates for the Technical Committee Positions: Any Foundation >>> individual member can propose their candidacy for an available, >>> directly-elected TC seat. [0] (except the seven TC members who were >>> elected for a one-year seat last April: Thierry Carrez, Jay Pipes, >>> Vishvananda Ishaya, Michael Still, Jim Blair, Mark McClain, Devananda >>> van der Veen) [1] >>> >>> Propose your candidacy by sending an email to the openstack-dev at >>> lists.openstack.org mailing-list, with the subject: "TC candidacy". >>> Please start your own thread so we have one thread per candidate. Since >>> there will be many people voting for folks with whom they might not have >>> worked, including a platform or statement to help voters make an >>> informed choice is recommended, though not required. >>> >>> NEW: In order to help the electorate learn more about the candidates we >>> have posted a template of questions to which all candidates are >>> requested to respond. [2] >>> >>> Anita and I will confirm candidates with an email to the candidate >>> thread as well as create a link to the confirmed candidate's proposal >>> email on the wikipage for this election. [1] >>> >>> The election will be held from October 10 through to 13:00 UTC October >>> 17, 2014. The electorate are the Foundation individual members that are >>> also committers for one of the official programs projects [3] over the >>> Icehouse-Juno timeframe (September 26, 2013 06:00 UTC to September 26, >>> 2014 05:59 UTC), as well as the extra-ATCs who are acknowledged by the >>> TC. [4] >>> >>> Please see the wikipage for additional details about this election. [1] >>> >>> If you have any questions please be sure to either voice them on the >>> mailing list or email Anita or myself [5] or contact Anita or myself on IRC. >>> >>> Thank you, and I look forward to reading your candidate proposals, >>> Tristan >>> >>> [0] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Governance/Foundation/TechnicalCommittee >>> [1] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/TC_Elections_October_2014 >>> [2] >>> https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/TC_Elections_October_2014#TC_Election_Questions >>> [3] >>> http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/governance/tree/reference/programs.yaml?id=sept-2014-elections >>> Note the tag for this repo, sept-2014-elections. >>> [4] >>> http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/governance/tree/reference/extra-atcs?id=sept-2014-elections >>> [5] Anita: anteaya at anteaya dot info >>> Tristan: tristan dot cacqueray at enovance dot com >>> >> >> Greetings, >> >> I'd like to take this chance to gently ask, but it's obviously not a >> requirement, to all candidates to share what their opinion with regards >> to the new governance discussion is in their candidacy. >> >> As a voter, I'm interested to know how the new candidates see our >> governance model in the next 6 months and what changes, related to the >> "big tent" discussion, they consider most important. >> >> Thanks, >> Flavio >> >> > Hi Flavio: > I had purposely not mentioned the organizational changes in the > templated questions (which are brand new this time, so these are the > guinea pig candidates). > > One of the things people are looking for is leaders. At campaign time > folks with strong stances prevail. However it is the ability to listen > and consider the opinions of others, especially when disagreement > arises, that makes our TC as strong as it has been and hopefully will be > in future. > > Everyone is enjoying the drama of the changes and yes they are dramatic, > but equally if not more important is the work that will have to take > place using listening and consideration skills in order to turn > decisions into outcomes. > > Listening is an incredibly important leadership skill but doesn't get > much air time during campaigns. If you look at really effective leaders > though they are listeners, every one. Listeners also rarely state that > is what they are doing, since they are busy listening. > > Any candidate is welcome to say anything they wish in their candidate > statement. I appreciate that you are interested in their opinions about > the new governance model, Flavio, and I appreciate you speaking up about > it. But regardless of what decisions are made, what structure is decided > upon and what that structure and its parts are called, we need people > with the ability to listen, consider, and work very hard to put any of > these decisions in place in order for them to succeed. > > We have a problem of incredible growth in OpenStack. Our growth is a > manifestation of all we are doing correctly. I hope that the questions > asked in the templates bring out the qualities I know each candidate is > capable of, that ensure we have a group of leaders with the skills > necessary to make agreements and produce results, regardless of the > shape and colour of those agreements and results. > > Thank you, > Anita. > I will also say that it appears that the new questions are demanding enough as it is. On the first Monday of TC nominations last round we had 5 candidate announcements, so far we have zero candidate announcements.
I hope that the request for information in a way that can be more easily parsed by the electorate has not discouraged potential candidates from running. I would be disappointed if the new format decreased the size of the field of potential candidates. Thank you, Anita. _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
