The nomination period for the February User Committee elections is now open. Any individual member of the Foundation who is an Active User Contributor (AUC) can propose their candidacy (except the two sitting UC members elected in the previous election). Self-nomination is common; no third party nomination is required. Nominations can be made by sending an email to the user-committee@lists.openstack.org mailing-list[0], with the subject: “UC candidacy” by February 16, 23:59 UTC aa voting will begin on February 17. The email can include a description of the candidate platform. The candidacy is then confirmed by one of the election officials, after verification of the electorate status of the candidate. Criteria for AUC status can be found at https://superuser.openstack.org/articles/auc-community/. If you are still not sure of your status and would like to verify in advance please email myself(amy@demarco.com) and Rain Leander(rleander@redhat.com) as we are serving as the Election Officials. Thanks, Amy Marrich (spotz) 0 - Please make sure you are subscribed to this list before sending in your nomination.