On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 6:16 PM, Flavio Percoco <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 10/06/2014 08:58 PM, Anita Kuno wrote: > > 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. > > > Hi Anita, > > I totally agree with you that this community needs leaders that know how > to listen and that's precisely one of the reasons I asked for a bit of > clarification on what their thoughts and opinions are. There have been > quite some discussions on the "layers" topic and there's enough > information that will demonstrate (or not) the ability to candidates for > listening to the community's feedback. In addition to this, I think the > governance model has a huge impact on our community and the way it'll > handle growth in the next 6 months. This governance model can make > contributions easier or harder. > > As I mentioned, my request is, obviously, completely optional and > candidates should feel free to ignore it. > I think it's a good idea, and would help me choose a candidate. -Angus > > Flavio > > -- > @flaper87 > Flavio Percoco > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev >
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