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jonathan at openstack

Jul 28, 2012, 11:18 PM

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Individual Member Elections

The OpenStack Foundation has already attracted over 2,000 Individual Members in a little over a week. It's a very exciting moment for all of us involved in this effort, but also brings responsibility for each Individual and Corporate member.

We've learned that someone may have violated the basic principles that hold this community together by trying to affect the nominations for the Individual Member elections. This is not what our community stands for, and we do not want to let the actions of one or a few tarnish the reputation of the thousands of individuals who are working to make OpenStack a great place to develop open source software. We are so determined to uphold our values that every member--individual or corporate--agrees to a code of conduct that prohibits abusive behavior and attempts to manipulate our elections.

Our bylaws and election process have been defined and overseen by very experienced, independent legal counsel, Mark Radcliffe. We are completely committed to ensuring this process is open, fair and legitimate in accordance with our bylaws and Delaware corporate law. To ensure that the process is open, fair and legitimate, we are looking for individuals who would like to volunteer to be inspectors through the duration of the election to certify the outcome along with our counsel. No more than two affiliated members (working for the same company) can be inspectors, and any candidates who wish to run for election are also ineligible to be inspectors. As stated in the bylaws, "Each inspector, before entering upon the discharge of his duties, shall take and sign an oath to faithfully execute the duties of inspector with strict impartiality and according to the best of his ability." This will require a firm time commitment from any volunteers, as they will need to be available at a number of points through the process to fulfill their duties in a timely manner. If you are interested in being an inspector, let me know.

Any complaints or concerns about the election process are taken extremely seriously. Each complaint will be reviewed by our independent counsel and addressed or brought before the full Board at its first meeting as appropriate. To facilitate reporting we have created an email address that is received only by the Foundation's independent counsel for review: electionmonitor [at] openstack

We are also working on process improvements for nominations and elections--more details on that coming soon. In the meantime, please speak up or contact me or Mark Radcliffe directly if you have any concerns. We have all come a very long way in establishing the OpenStack Foundation--our Foundation--and are right on the threshold of having it up and running. Now is the time for us all to pull together and to make sure we continue to build the kind of inclusive, supportive community that has come so far in the last 2 years.

Thanks,

Jonathan
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Atul.Jha at csscorp

Jul 29, 2012, 12:21 AM

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Re: [Openstack] Individual Member Elections [In reply to]

Hi,

The OpenStack Foundation has already attracted over 2,000 Individual Members in a little over a week. It's a very exciting moment for all of us involved in this effort, but also brings responsibility for each Individual and Corporate member.

Awesome and kudos to everyone making it successful.

We've learned that someone may have violated the basic principles that hold this community together by trying to affect the nominations for the Individual Member elections. This is not what our community stands for, and we do not want to let the actions of one or a few tarnish the reputation of the thousands of individuals who are working to make OpenStack a great place to develop open source software. We are so determined to uphold our values that every member--individual or corporate--agrees to a code of conduct that prohibits abusive behavior and attempts to manipulate our elections.

Our bylaws and election process have been defined and overseen by very experienced, independent legal counsel, Mark Radcliffe. We are completely committed to ensuring this process is open, fair and legitimate in accordance with our bylaws and Delaware corporate law. To ensure that the process is open, fair and legitimate, we are looking for individuals who would like to volunteer to be inspectors through the duration of the election to certify the outcome along with our counsel. No more than two affiliated members (working for the same company) can be inspectors, and any candidates who wish to run for election are also ineligible to be inspectors. As stated in the bylaws, "Each inspector, before entering upon the discharge of his duties, shall take and sign an oath to faithfully execute the duties of inspector with strict impartiality and according to the best of his ability." This will require a firm time commitment from any volunteers, as they will need to be available at a
number of points through the process to fulfill their duties in a timely manner. If you are interested in being an inspector, let me know.

Any complaints or concerns about the election process are taken extremely seriously. Each complaint will be reviewed by our independent counsel and addressed or brought before the full Board at its first meeting as appropriate. To facilitate reporting we have created an email address that is received only by the Foundation's independent counsel for review: electionmonitor [at] openstack

We are also working on process improvements for nominations and elections--more details on that coming soon. In the meantime, please speak up or contact me or Mark Radcliffe directly if you have any concerns. We have all come a very long way in establishing the OpenStack Foundation--our Foundation--and are right on the threshold of having it up and running. Now is the time for us all to pull together and to make sure we continue to build the kind of inclusive, supportive community that has come so far in the last 2 years.

+1

Cheers!!

Atul Jha aka koolhead17
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markmc at redhat

Jul 29, 2012, 3:43 AM

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Re: [Openstack] Individual Member Elections [In reply to]

Hi Atul,

On Sun, 2012-07-29 at 07:21 +0000, Atul Jha wrote:

> We've learned that someone may have violated the basic principles that
> hold this community together by trying to affect the nominations for
> the Individual Member elections. This is not what our community stands
> for, and we do not want to let the actions of one or a few tarnish the
> reputation of the thousands of individuals who are working to make
> OpenStack a great place to develop open source software. We are so
> determined to uphold our values that every member--individual or
> corporate--agrees to a code of conduct that prohibits abusive behavior
> and attempts to manipulate our elections.

Well said, we cannot allow the entire community to be tainted by the
behaviour of an individual.

> Our bylaws and election process have been defined and overseen by very
> experienced, independent legal counsel, Mark Radcliffe.

My understanding from:

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/openstack/foundation/14647

is that Mark was "retained to provide additional independent legal
advice" to the drafting committee.

> We are completely committed to ensuring this process is open, fair
> and legitimate in accordance with our bylaws and Delaware corporate
> law. To ensure that the process is open, fair and legitimate, we are
> looking for individuals who would like to volunteer to be inspectors
> through the duration of the election to certify the outcome along with
> our counsel. No more than two affiliated members (working for the same
> company) can be inspectors, and any candidates who wish to run for
> election are also ineligible to be inspectors. As stated in the
> bylaws, "Each inspector, before entering upon the discharge of his
> duties, shall take and sign an oath to faithfully execute the duties
> of inspector with strict impartiality and according to the best of his
> ability." This will require a firm time commitment from any
> volunteers, as they will need to be available at a
> number of points through the process to fulfill their duties in a
> timely manner. If you are interested in being an inspector, let me
> know.
>
> Any complaints or concerns about the election process are taken
> extremely seriously. Each complaint will be reviewed by our
> independent counsel and addressed or brought before the full Board at
> its first meeting as appropriate. To facilitate reporting we have
> created an email address that is received only by the Foundation's
> independent counsel for review: electionmonitor [at] openstack
>
> We are also working on process improvements for nominations and
> elections--more details on that coming soon. In the meantime, please
> speak up or contact me or Mark Radcliffe directly if you have any
> concerns. We have all come a very long way in establishing the
> OpenStack Foundation--our Foundation--and are right on the threshold
> of having it up and running. Now is the time for us all to pull
> together and to make sure we continue to build the kind of inclusive,
> supportive community that has come so far in the last 2 years.

I don't mean to give offence, but I must admit the above strikes me as
rather bizarre.

The role "inspector" you refer to above seems to be about an individual
who may be appointed to make a written report of a meeting and any
voting that happens there, including by proxy.

You are laying out a mechanism for handling complaints about the
election process which involves Mark Radcliffe being the sole recipient
of those complaints. I know neither what your current role in the
Foundation is nor how Mark was appointed to this position.

Further, the mechanism above does not address the issue at hand - how
should the Foundation handle a complaint about a member of our
community[1]?

Personally, I assume good good faith and there's some reasonable
explanation for how this all came about, but we need to be careful here
- having people (apparently arbitrarily) assume roles in the Foundation
and establish new processes doesn't help matters IMHO.

...

Seeing the brouhaha on twitter last night, I had hoped the target of the
allegation would be named and we could sort this out in the open.
However, a name doesn't appear forthcoming and the text of the complaint
itself has been deleted.

Given the code of conduct that members are subject:

http://wiki.openstack.org/Governance/Foundation/CommunityCodeOfConduct

and the bit about "OpenStack members ... are ultimately accountable to
the OpenStack Board of Directors", I think the way forward is for the
complaint to be made formally to the board so that they can investigate
the matter and report on their actions to address it.

The bylaws name Jonathan Bryce, Mark Collier and Alice King as the
"Initial Board". The complaint should be made to them.

If the complainant isn't satisfied with that and can't make the
complaint public, then we may need another process. That would need some
open discussion to figure out and IMHO may just be that the complaint is
taken to a meeting of the corporate members who have been working to
establish the Foundation.

Regards,
Mark.

[1] - the target of the complaint was not named, so I'm assuming for now
we're not talking about a "director, officer and employee of the
Foundation" who would be subject to:

http://wiki.openstack.org/Governance/Foundation/CodeOfConduct

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markmc at redhat

Jul 29, 2012, 3:58 AM

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Re: [Openstack] Individual Member Elections [In reply to]

On Sun, 2012-07-29 at 11:43 +0100, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> Hi Atul,
>
> On Sun, 2012-07-29 at 07:21 +0000, Atul Jha wrote:
>
> > We are also working on process improvements for nominations and
> > elections--more details on that coming soon. In the meantime, please
> > speak up or contact me or Mark Radcliffe directly if you have any
> > concerns. We have all come a very long way in establishing the
> > OpenStack Foundation--our Foundation--and are right on the threshold
> > of having it up and running. Now is the time for us all to pull
> > together and to make sure we continue to build the kind of inclusive,
> > supportive community that has come so far in the last 2 years.
>
[..]
> You are laying out a mechanism for handling complaints about the
> election process which involves Mark Radcliffe being the sole recipient
> of those complaints. I know neither what your current role in the
> Foundation is nor how Mark was appointed to this position.

Wow. See how important it is to properly quote emails? :-(

My apologies to all. I see now that Jonathan sent the original email.
That makes a whole lot more sense.

I hope this gets resolved quickly.

Regards,
Mark.

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rick at openstack

Jul 29, 2012, 8:34 AM

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Re: Individual Member Elections [In reply to]

Jonathon,
How is it possible for someone to taint the nomination process? Are we
not allowed to promote our nominations? In light of the fact that the
process is closed and we can't know how many nominations we had
received, it seems fine to me to encourage nominations. Have some
unwritten rules been broken, I am completely confused? Saying someone
"violated the basic principles that hold our community together" is an
extreme statement. Our community does things in the open, by default.
Had we followed our "basic principles" in this nomination process, I
can't help but think we wouldn't be in this situation.

Rick

On 07/29/2012 01:18 AM, Jonathan Bryce wrote:
> The OpenStack Foundation has already attracted over 2,000 Individual Members in a little over a week. It's a very exciting moment for all of us involved in this effort, but also brings responsibility for each Individual and Corporate member.
>
> We've learned that someone may have violated the basic principles that hold this community together by trying to affect the nominations for the Individual Member elections. This is not what our community stands for, and we do not want to let the actions of one or a few tarnish the reputation of the thousands of individuals who are working to make OpenStack a great place to develop open source software. We are so determined to uphold our values that every member--individual or corporate--agrees to a code of conduct that prohibits abusive behavior and attempts to manipulate our elections.
>
> Our bylaws and election process have been defined and overseen by very experienced, independent legal counsel, Mark Radcliffe. We are completely committed to ensuring this process is open, fair and legitimate in accordance with our bylaws and Delaware corporate law. To ensure that the process is open, fair and legitimate, we are looking for individuals who would like to volunteer to be inspectors through the duration of the election to certify the outcome along with our counsel. No more than two affiliated members (working for the same company) can be inspectors, and any candidates who wish to run for election are also ineligible to be inspectors. As stated in the bylaws, "Each inspector, before entering upon the discharge of his duties, shall take and sign an oath to faithfully execute the duties of inspector with strict impartiality and according to the best of his ability." This will require a firm time commitment from any volunteers, as they will need to be available at a number
of points through the process to fulfill their duties in a timely manner. If you are interested in being an inspector, let me know.
>
> Any complaints or concerns about the election process are taken extremely seriously. Each complaint will be reviewed by our independent counsel and addressed or brought before the full Board at its first meeting as appropriate. To facilitate reporting we have created an email address that is received only by the Foundation's independent counsel for review: electionmonitor [at] openstack
>
> We are also working on process improvements for nominations and elections--more details on that coming soon. In the meantime, please speak up or contact me or Mark Radcliffe directly if you have any concerns. We have all come a very long way in establishing the OpenStack Foundation--our Foundation--and are right on the threshold of having it up and running. Now is the time for us all to pull together and to make sure we continue to build the kind of inclusive, supportive community that has come so far in the last 2 years.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jonathan
> 210-317-2438
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Foundation mailing list
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> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/foundation
>

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jonathan at openstack

Jul 29, 2012, 9:21 AM

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Re: Individual Member Elections [In reply to]

On Jul 29, 2012, at 10:34 AM, Rick Clark wrote:
> Jonathon,
> How is it possible for someone to taint the nomination process? Are we
> not allowed to promote our nominations? In light of the fact that the
> process is closed and we can't know how many nominations we had
> received, it seems fine to me to encourage nominations. Have some
> unwritten rules been broken, I am completely confused?

Certainly no rules against promoting your nomination or candidacy (or someone else's for that matter). Campaign away! The situation in question is a completely different matter and involves a serious allegation of harassment that we are still trying to get details on.

> Saying someone
> "violated the basic principles that hold our community together" is an
> extreme statement. Our community does things in the open, by default.
> Had we followed our "basic principles" in this nomination process, I
> can't help but think we wouldn't be in this situation.

I agree that our tools and processes can get better and more transparent, and as I mentioned below, we are working on that. Hope to have an update later today or tomorrow on that to send out. I am not sure that it would have prevented this situation as it involves behavior outside of the mechanics of the nominations.

Jonathan

>
>
> Rick
>
>
>
> On 07/29/2012 01:18 AM, Jonathan Bryce wrote:
>> The OpenStack Foundation has already attracted over 2,000 Individual Members in a little over a week. It's a very exciting moment for all of us involved in this effort, but also brings responsibility for each Individual and Corporate member.
>>
>> We've learned that someone may have violated the basic principles that hold this community together by trying to affect the nominations for the Individual Member elections. This is not what our community stands for, and we do not want to let the actions of one or a few tarnish the reputation of the thousands of individuals who are working to make OpenStack a great place to develop open source software. We are so determined to uphold our values that every member--individual or corporate--agrees to a code of conduct that prohibits abusive behavior and attempts to manipulate our elections.
>>
>> Our bylaws and election process have been defined and overseen by very experienced, independent legal counsel, Mark Radcliffe. We are completely committed to ensuring this process is open, fair and legitimate in accordance with our bylaws and Delaware corporate law. To ensure that the process is open, fair and legitimate, we are looking for individuals who would like to volunteer to be inspectors through the duration of the election to certify the outcome along with our counsel. No more than two affiliated members (working for the same company) can be inspectors, and any candidates who wish to run for election are also ineligible to be inspectors. As stated in the bylaws, "Each inspector, before entering upon the discharge of his duties, shall take and sign an oath to faithfully execute the duties of inspector with strict impartiality and according to the best of his ability." This will require a firm time commitment from any volunteers, as they will need to be available at a number
> of points through the process to fulfill their duties in a timely manner. If you are interested in being an inspector, let me know.
>>
>> Any complaints or concerns about the election process are taken extremely seriously. Each complaint will be reviewed by our independent counsel and addressed or brought before the full Board at its first meeting as appropriate. To facilitate reporting we have created an email address that is received only by the Foundation's independent counsel for review: electionmonitor [at] openstack
>>
>> We are also working on process improvements for nominations and elections--more details on that coming soon. In the meantime, please speak up or contact me or Mark Radcliffe directly if you have any concerns. We have all come a very long way in establishing the OpenStack Foundation--our Foundation--and are right on the threshold of having it up and running. Now is the time for us all to pull together and to make sure we continue to build the kind of inclusive, supportive community that has come so far in the last 2 years.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Jonathan
>> 210-317-2438
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Foundation mailing list
>> Foundation [at] lists
>> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/foundation
>>
>
>

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rick at openstack

Jul 29, 2012, 9:37 AM

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Re: Individual Member Elections [In reply to]

Thanks Jonathon,

Apparently, I missed a lot by spending yesterday taking my kids to the
movies and playing outside all day. It seems everyone else was on
Twitter.

I'm glad you are taking care of this.

Cheers,

Rick

On 07/29/2012 11:21 AM, Jonathan Bryce wrote:
> On Jul 29, 2012, at 10:34 AM, Rick Clark wrote:
>> Jonathon,
>> How is it possible for someone to taint the nomination process? Are we
>> not allowed to promote our nominations? In light of the fact that the
>> process is closed and we can't know how many nominations we had
>> received, it seems fine to me to encourage nominations. Have some
>> unwritten rules been broken, I am completely confused?
>
> Certainly no rules against promoting your nomination or candidacy (or someone else's for that matter). Campaign away! The situation in question is a completely different matter and involves a serious allegation of harassment that we are still trying to get details on.
>
>> Saying someone
>> "violated the basic principles that hold our community together" is an
>> extreme statement. Our community does things in the open, by default.
>> Had we followed our "basic principles" in this nomination process, I
>> can't help but think we wouldn't be in this situation.
>
> I agree that our tools and processes can get better and more transparent, and as I mentioned below, we are working on that. Hope to have an update later today or tomorrow on that to send out. I am not sure that it would have prevented this situation as it involves behavior outside of the mechanics of the nominations.
>
> Jonathan
>
>
>>
>>
>> Rick
>>
>>
>>
>> On 07/29/2012 01:18 AM, Jonathan Bryce wrote:
>>> The OpenStack Foundation has already attracted over 2,000 Individual Members in a little over a week. It's a very exciting moment for all of us involved in this effort, but also brings responsibility for each Individual and Corporate member.
>>>
>>> We've learned that someone may have violated the basic principles that hold this community together by trying to affect the nominations for the Individual Member elections. This is not what our community stands for, and we do not want to let the actions of one or a few tarnish the reputation of the thousands of individuals who are working to make OpenStack a great place to develop open source software. We are so determined to uphold our values that every member--individual or corporate--agrees to a code of conduct that prohibits abusive behavior and attempts to manipulate our elections.
>>>
>>> Our bylaws and election process have been defined and overseen by very experienced, independent legal counsel, Mark Radcliffe. We are completely committed to ensuring this process is open, fair and legitimate in accordance with our bylaws and Delaware corporate law. To ensure that the process is open, fair and legitimate, we are looking for individuals who would like to volunteer to be inspectors through the duration of the election to certify the outcome along with our counsel. No more than two affiliated members (working for the same company) can be inspectors, and any candidates who wish to run for election are also ineligible to be inspectors. As stated in the bylaws, "Each inspector, before entering upon the discharge of his duties, shall take and sign an oath to faithfully execute the duties of inspector with strict impartiality and according to the best of his ability." This will require a firm time commitment from any volunteers, as they will need to be available at a numb
er
>> of points through the process to fulfill their duties in a timely manner. If you are interested in being an inspector, let me know.
>>>
>>> Any complaints or concerns about the election process are taken extremely seriously. Each complaint will be reviewed by our independent counsel and addressed or brought before the full Board at its first meeting as appropriate. To facilitate reporting we have created an email address that is received only by the Foundation's independent counsel for review: electionmonitor [at] openstack
>>>
>>> We are also working on process improvements for nominations and elections--more details on that coming soon. In the meantime, please speak up or contact me or Mark Radcliffe directly if you have any concerns. We have all come a very long way in establishing the OpenStack Foundation--our Foundation--and are right on the threshold of having it up and running. Now is the time for us all to pull together and to make sure we continue to build the kind of inclusive, supportive community that has come so far in the last 2 years.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Jonathan
>>> 210-317-2438
>>>
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Foundation mailing list
>>> Foundation [at] lists
>>> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/foundation
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
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Jul 30, 2012, 10:06 AM

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Re: Individual Member Elections [In reply to]

On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 11:18 PM, Jonathan Bryce <jonathan [at] openstack> wrote:
>
> We've learned that someone may have violated the basic principles that hold this community together by trying to affect the nominations for the Individual Member elections.

For clarity, my understanding as it played out publicly, of the
accusation is someone was inappropriately discouraging another person
from running for nomination to the board.

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jonathan at openstack

Aug 6, 2012, 10:35 AM

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Re: Individual Member Elections [In reply to]

I want to provide a brief update regarding concerns that an individual nominee for the Board received harassing communications from an employee at an intended corporate member. Once we learned of the issue last week, we made independent counsel available to both parties and communicated the opportunity to raise the matter to the full Board of Directors once seated. Both parties cooperated with independent counsel and neither party wishes to pursue the matter further at this time. We would like to clarify a few points that were raised during this incident:

(1) Corporate nominations are not required for Individual Members who wish to run for an Individual Member seat. Any Individual Member regardless of his or her affiliation can nominate any other Individual Member.
(2) Individuals who have potential conflicts of interest are not prohibited from standing for election. If elected, their potential conflicts may be reviewed by the Board of Directors as provided in the code of conduct for officers, directors and employees, but it does not preclude their serving on the Board.
(3) No corporate members have appointed board members as of this date.

We appreciate the willingness of the individuals involved to bring this forward and would like to reiterate that our Community Code of Conduct (http://www.openstack.org/legal/community-code-of-conduct/) encourages a respectful and productive environment in the OpenStack community. Anyone who wishes to contact the independent counsel on this or other election matters can do so anytime at electionmonitor [at] openstack

Jonathan
210-317-2438

On Jul 29, 2012, at 1:18 AM, Jonathan Bryce wrote:

> The OpenStack Foundation has already attracted over 2,000 Individual Members in a little over a week. It's a very exciting moment for all of us involved in this effort, but also brings responsibility for each Individual and Corporate member.
>
> We've learned that someone may have violated the basic principles that hold this community together by trying to affect the nominations for the Individual Member elections. This is not what our community stands for, and we do not want to let the actions of one or a few tarnish the reputation of the thousands of individuals who are working to make OpenStack a great place to develop open source software. We are so determined to uphold our values that every member--individual or corporate--agrees to a code of conduct that prohibits abusive behavior and attempts to manipulate our elections.
>
> Our bylaws and election process have been defined and overseen by very experienced, independent legal counsel, Mark Radcliffe. We are completely committed to ensuring this process is open, fair and legitimate in accordance with our bylaws and Delaware corporate law. To ensure that the process is open, fair and legitimate, we are looking for individuals who would like to volunteer to be inspectors through the duration of the election to certify the outcome along with our counsel. No more than two affiliated members (working for the same company) can be inspectors, and any candidates who wish to run for election are also ineligible to be inspectors. As stated in the bylaws, "Each inspector, before entering upon the discharge of his duties, shall take and sign an oath to faithfully execute the duties of inspector with strict impartiality and according to the best of his ability." This will require a firm time commitment from any volunteers, as they will need to be available at a number of points through the process to fulfill their duties in a timely manner. If you are interested in being an inspector, let me know.
>
> Any complaints or concerns about the election process are taken extremely seriously. Each complaint will be reviewed by our independent counsel and addressed or brought before the full Board at its first meeting as appropriate. To facilitate reporting we have created an email address that is received only by the Foundation's independent counsel for review: electionmonitor [at] openstack
>
> We are also working on process improvements for nominations and elections--more details on that coming soon. In the meantime, please speak up or contact me or Mark Radcliffe directly if you have any concerns. We have all come a very long way in establishing the OpenStack Foundation--our Foundation--and are right on the threshold of having it up and running. Now is the time for us all to pull together and to make sure we continue to build the kind of inclusive, supportive community that has come so far in the last 2 years.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jonathan
> 210-317-2438
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Foundation mailing list
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