[OpenStack Foundation] [Gold Members] [Foundation Board] Election is open

Tristan Goode tristan at aptira.com
Wed Jan 14 22:14:50 UTC 2015


And this to the Foundation list too.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonathan Bryce [mailto:jonathan at openstack.org]
> Sent: Thursday, 15 January 2015 8:05 AM
> To: <foundation-board at lists.openstack.org>;
> goldmembers at lists.openstack.org
> Subject: Re: [Gold Members] [Foundation Board] Election is open
>
> We’re at about 1,560 voters in the director election (this puts us over
> our 10%
> quorum requirement for this election) and about 1,950 on the bylaws
> amendment
> (where we need 25%). Also, to clarify some a statement that was made
> earlier this
> week, we need at least 25% (~3,373) to vote to meet quorum on the Bylaws
> and a
> majority of however many end up voting to say “Yes” for approval of them.
>
> The companies with the largest concentration of voters (Cisco, Dell, HP,
> IBM, Intel,
> Mirantis, Rackspace, Red Hat, Symantec and VMware) actually have a higher
> than
> average participation percentage already, but continuing to encourage them
> to vote
> is always welcome. The last email reminder we sent out had a subject line
> of
> "Please Vote Now in the OpenStack Foundation Election” if you want to give
> them
> something to look for in their inbox.
>
> We’re also continuing to email the non-voters directly and will keep
> ramping it
> through the last 2 days.
>
> Thanks everyone for the help in pushing this.
>
> Jonathan
>
>
>
> > On Jan 14, 2015, at 2:52 PM, Evans, Eileen <eileen.evans at hp.com> wrote:
> >
> > Monty and I sent a couple of messages to the HP members kindly
> > explaining the
> importance of voting in the election and encouraging them to vote.
> >
> > Best,
> > Eileen
> >
> > From: Tim Bell [mailto:Tim.Bell at cern.ch]
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2015 12:40 PM
> > To: Tristan Goode; Jonathan Bryce; foundation-board at lists.openstack.org
> > Subject: Re: [Foundation Board] Election is open
> >
> >
> > The key thing for me is where to place the effort. I am not convinced
> > that Re-
> tweeting is going to make quorum.
> >
> > From the non-voters, are there significant shares within companies where
> > a board
> member or sponsor could explicitly encourage voting ?
> >
> > Tim
> >
> > From: Tristan Goode [mailto:tristan at aptira.com]
> > Sent: 14 January 2015 21:19
> > To: Tim Bell; Jonathan Bryce; foundation-board at lists.openstack.org
> > Subject: RE: [Foundation Board] Election is open
> >
> > Indeed. Can we please see the number who've completed their ballots each
> > day
> so we know how close/far we are???
> >
> > Cheers
> > Tristan
> >
> >
> > From: Tim Bell [mailto:Tim.Bell at cern.ch]
> > Sent: Thursday, 15 January 2015 5:33 AM
> > To: Jonathan Bryce; <foundation-board at lists.openstack.org>
> > Subject: Re: [Foundation Board] Election is open
> >
> >
> > How are we doing ?
> >
> > What other channels are available ? Tom and Stefano are working on the
> > user
> groups.
> >
> > Can we identify who has not voted and emphasise the need (especially if
> > we can
> do it with the appropriate company sponsor)  ?
> >
> > I feel twitter has been exhausted, especially with the auto-tweeting
> > bot.
> >
> > I’d like to avoid doing this all again next year.
> >
> > Tim
> >
> > From: Jonathan Bryce [mailto:jonathan at openstack.org]
> > Sent: 13 January 2015 01:43
> > To: <foundation-board at lists.openstack.org>
> > Subject: Re: [Foundation Board] Election is open
> >
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > Thanks for the help promoting this election so far. We have 13,490
> > eligible voters,
> so our 25% quorum line is 3,373. We’ve had a little over 900 voters
> complete their
> ballots in the first day. Good progress, but we still have a long way to
> go. We’re
> continuing to send reminder emails to the voters who have not yet
> completed their
> ballots through the rest of the week and appreciate continued support from
> all of
> you.
> >
> > Jonathan
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Jan 11, 2015, at 7:16 PM, Mark Collier <mark at openstack.org> wrote:
> >
> > If you're on Twitter, please retweet this:
> >
> > https://twitter.com/openstack/status/554428654525362177
> >
> > We plan to heavily promote election week on all channels and could use
> > your help
> to get the word out.
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Mark
> >
> >
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