[OpenStack Foundation] Preliminary Election Results

Joshua McKenty joshua at pistoncloud.com
Sun Aug 26 17:56:08 UTC 2012


Dave, I know Jonathan is swamped preparing for the first OpenStack
foundation board meeting, so I'll jump in here really quick.

In order to comply with Delaware law, the Individual Members of the
foundation board of directors had to be elected using a method that is
approved under standard corporate governance. The closest we could get to
the Condorcet method (which will continue to be used for the Technical
Committee elections and the Project Technical Lead elections) is the
Cumulative voting method, which is what resulted in the 8 votes per voter
method.

The reason a number of the candidates who finished in the top 10 won't be
seated on the board is due to the "Director Diversity" requirement in the
bylaws - specifically, there can only be a maximum of two directors who are
affiliated with any single corporate entity on the board at the same time.
So Joseph George (Dell), Thierry Carrez and Anne Gentle (RAX) are all
bumped, in favor of Rob Hirschfeld and Troy Toman, respectively.

Hope that clears things up.

Joshua

On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 10:22 AM, Dave Neary <dave at neary-consulting.com>wrote:

>  Hi Jonathan,
>
> I know this is a bit contentious at this point, but would you mind
> explaining the voting system used, please? I thought that you were going to
> use the Condorcet system used in Debian elections as Thierry suggested, but
> the 8 votes to share around as you want has resulted in a couple of
> surprising results.
>
> I will admit that I was disappointed to see one of the candidates I voted
> for finish in the top 7, both in voters and weighted votes, but not get
> elected. Would you mind explaining how that works, please?
>
> Thanks!
> Dave.
>
>
> On 08/26/2012 06:01 AM, Jonathan Bryce wrote:
>
> The inspectors spent time today looking through the data available from
> BigPulse, but have not been able to finish all of the review they wanted to
> accomplish before an official certification. They're continuing to work on
> it and will have another update before noon CDT tomorrow.
>
>  Jonathan
>
>
>
>  On Aug 24, 2012, at 5:55 PM, Jonathan Bryce wrote:
>
>  Hello everyone,
>
> The election of Individual Directors has closed. Preliminary results are
> available at the following link:
>
> https://www.bigpulse.com/pollresults?code=2601EKAFniDP554rVJb9RBxx
>
> These are the raw voting results and are currently uncertified. Our
> election inspectors (Jim Blair, Lloyd Dewolf, and Vincent Untz) are
> reviewing the voting data and will provide an update on the status of
> certification by 11pm CDT August 25th. After the voting results have been
> certified they will be shared again with the mailing list, and the elected
> and appointed directors will be seated at 7:00am PDT on August 28th. The
> results with the Director Diversity requirements applied are listed below.
>
> Thank you to everyone who participated in our first Individual Director
> election.
>
> Jonathan
>  210-317-2438
>
>
> Preliminary Individual Directors
>  -------------------------------------------
>  Jesse Andrews
>  Tim Bell
>  Hui Cheng
>  Yujie Du
>  Tristan Goode
>  Rob Hirschfeld
>  Monty Taylor
>  Troy Toman
>
> Intended Platinum Directors
>  -----------------------------------------
>  Alan Clark
> Jim Curry
> Eileen Evans
> Toby Ford
>  Kyle MacDonald
> Jon Mittelhauser
> Todd Moore
> Brian Stevens
>
> Intended Gold Directors
>  ------------------------------------------
>  Simon Anderson
> Randy Bias
> Dr. Tzi-cker Chiueh
> John Igoe
> Joshua McKenty
> Boris Renski
> Sean Roberts
>  Lew Tucker
>
>
>
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