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jonathan at openstack

Aug 3, 2012, 5:20 PM

Post #126 of 129 (154 views)
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Re: Nomination Process Updates [In reply to]

For this first election, we need to give notice 15 days in advance, which is Sunday. The notice is required to disclose the dates, times and means of communication for the "special meeting" that will be held to run the election. Since we are a highly distributed community, our Bylaws allow us to hold meetings and elections by means of remote communication, and we will be using on online voting platform for this one.

We have 3 inspectors for this election: James Blair, Lloyd Dewolf, and Vincent Untz. They can be reached using electioninspectors [at] openstack The method of voting specified by the Bylaws is cumulative voting. This is a common form of voting used by corporations for shareholder and member elections. We've been doing some research and have found a system that meets our needs (although it's not necessarily beautiful to look at): http://www.bigpulse.com/

The BigPulse system allows for cumulative voting and for the inspectors to run reports securely, such as by affiliation, to verify the results. Does anyone have experience with this system or alternatives to suggest that meet the cumulative voting criteria? The election inspectors and I are meeting next Monday to discuss this and some other procedural items around the voting. We'll then post more details about the election online on the link that will be contained in the notice.

Separately, and relevant to the profile discussion, within two days of giving notice, we need to publish a list of eligible voters along with their mailing address. This is another corporate election item, under Delaware law, to ensure that members have the ability to contact each other and organize appropriately for the election. It would be nice if we could get the new profiles, or at least the questions live rather quickly, so we could populate the list of eligible voters with people who have completed the additional required fields. It seems like we've started to have some consensus around an approach of having a set of checkboxes plus a freeform area that members need to complete. Does anyone have any further suggestions or want to take a stab at proposing a final list of areas of involvement?

Also in regards to the list of eligible voters, it only needs to be accessible to members. We are thinking that we will publish it, requiring a valid member login and displaying a clear disclaimer that the information is confidential and only to be used as provided for under Delaware corporate law (the same language as in the Bylaws).

Thanks for your help,

Jonathan
210-317-2438

On Aug 2, 2012, at 9:46 PM, Ryan Lane wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 5:13 PM, Duncan McGreggor <duncan [at] dreamhost> wrote:
>> What about checkboxes for areas in which one has contributed?
>>
>> [ ] commits to one or more projects
>> [ ] updates to wiki pages
>> [ ] attendance at conferences
>> [ ] participation in hack-ins/bug-squash days
>> [ ] community/project infrastructure support
>> [ ] advocacy in social media (blog posts, tweets, etc.)
>> [ ] ... other options?
>>
>
> It would be good to get some information about what kind of
> environment they run, if they run one:
>
> Which type of cloud do you run? Public, private, hybrid?
> What's the size of your deployment?
> Etc.
>
> - Ryan
>
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acs at parvuscaptus

Aug 15, 2012, 6:04 PM

Post #127 of 129 (132 views)
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Re: Nomination Process Updates [In reply to]

I was interested to see how things have changed in the last 2 weeks.

Did the list of members get taken down or it just isn't working right now?

On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Anne Gentle <anne [at] openstack> wrote:

> In the spirit of running-the-code-so-the-rest-of-us-get-more-context,
> here's the resulting output when run at 2:10 CST today 8/1/12.
>
> [.(787, u'rackspace'),
> (753, u'hp'),
> (297, u'none'),
> (41, u'cisco'),
> (28, u'canonical'),
> (24, u'dreamhost'),
> (22, u'red hat'),
> (22, u'nebula'),
> (17, u'cloudscaling'),
> (14, u'employee'),
> (13, u'morphlabs'),
> (13, u'emc'),
> (13, u'dell'),
> (10, u'suse'),
> (10, u'piston cloud'),
> (5, u'yahoo'),
> (5, u'ibm'),
> (5, u'at&t'),
> (4, u'tipit'),
> (4, u'opscode')]
>
> Wanted to be sure non-Python programmers have the information that
> results from running the script linked on Github.
>
> Thanks Jonathan and crew for all the additional info, now I know who
> to thank for the support.
> Anne
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Matt Joyce <matt [at] nycresistor> wrote:
> >> For those who are curious, I've pushed up an ugly hack to get some
> >> basic stats one membership affiliations here:
> >> https://gist.github.com/3229457
> >
> > =/ not particularly happy with those numbers. it's about as fair and
> > balanced as fox news.
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Foundation mailing list
> > Foundation [at] lists
> > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/foundation
>
> _______________________________________________
> Foundation mailing list
> Foundation [at] lists
> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/foundation
>

chrisfer at us

Aug 15, 2012, 6:58 PM

Post #128 of 129 (134 views)
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Re: Nomination Process Updates [In reply to]

Seems to be a blank page, presently.

I ran the numbers yesterday and they were as follows:

[(864, u'rackspace'),
(828, u'hp'),
(513, u'none'),
(279, u'dell'),
(57, u'emc'),
(52, u'cisco'),
(36, u'ibm'),
(32, u'canonical'),
(27, u'dreamhost'),
(26, u'nebula'),
(25, u'red hat'),
(20, u'employee'),
(20, u'cloudscaling'),
(16, u'mirantis'),
(13, u'piston cloud'),
(13, u'morphlabs'),
(11, u'suse'),
(7, u'netapp'),
(6, u'yahoo'),
(6, u'at&t')]

Cheers,

Christopher Ferris
IBM Distinguished Engineer, CTO Industry and Cloud Standards
Member, IBM Academy of Technology
IBM Software Group, Standards Strategy
email: chrisfer [at] us
Twitter: christo4ferris
phone: +1 508 234 2986

-----Andrew Clay Shafer <acs [at] parvuscaptus> wrote: -----To: Anne Gentle <anne [at] openstack>
From: Andrew Clay Shafer <acs [at] parvuscaptus>
Date: 08/15/2012 09:05PM
Cc: foundation [at] lists
Subject: Re: [OpenStack Foundation] Nomination Process Updates

I was interested to see how things have changed in the last 2 weeks.
Did the list of members get taken down or it just isn't working right now?

On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Anne Gentle <anne [at] openstack> wrote:

In the spirit of running-the-code-so-the-rest-of-us-get-more-context,
here's the resulting output when run at 2:10 CST today 8/1/12.

[(787, u'rackspace'),
(753, u'hp'),
(297, u'none'),
(41, u'cisco'),
(28, u'canonical'),
(24, u'dreamhost'),
(22, u'red hat'),
(22, u'nebula'),
(17, u'cloudscaling'),
(14, u'employee'),
(13, u'morphlabs'),
(13, u'emc'),
(13, u'dell'),
(10, u'suse'),
(10, u'piston cloud'),
(5, u'yahoo'),
(5, u'ibm'),
(5, u'at&t'),
(4, u'tipit'),
(4, u'opscode')]

Wanted to be sure non-Python programmers have the information that
results from running the script linked on Github.

Thanks Jonathan and crew for all the additional info, now I know who
to thank for the support.
Anne

On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Matt Joyce <matt [at] nycresistor> wrote:
>> For those who are curious, I've pushed up an ugly hack to get some
>> basic stats one membership affiliations here:
>> https://gist.github.com/3229457"]https://gist.github.com/3229457
>
> =/ not particularly happy with those numbers. it's about as fair and
> balanced as fox news.
>
> _______________________________________________
> Foundation mailing list
> Foundation [at] lists
> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/foundation"]http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/foundation

_______________________________________________
Foundation mailing list
Foundation [at] lists
http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/foundation"]http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/foundation

_______________________________________________
Foundation mailing list
Foundation [at] lists
http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/foundation"]http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/foundation

mark at openstack

Aug 16, 2012, 12:13 AM

Post #129 of 129 (137 views)
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Re: Nomination Process Updates [In reply to]

Will try to post more info tomorrow, but the short answer is that something in the page template broke when we hit 4000 members (!) and switching to a paginated design fixed the issue.

On Aug 15, 2012, at 8:58 PM, Christopher B Ferris <chrisfer [at] us> wrote:

> Seems to be a blank page, presently.
>
> I ran the numbers yesterday and they were as follows:
>
> [.(864, u'rackspace'),
> (828, u'hp'),
> (513, u'none'),
> (279, u'dell'),
> (57, u'emc'),
> (52, u'cisco'),
> (36, u'ibm'),
> (32, u'canonical'),
> (27, u'dreamhost'),
> (26, u'nebula'),
> (25, u'red hat'),
> (20, u'employee'),
> (20, u'cloudscaling'),
> (16, u'mirantis'),
> (13, u'piston cloud'),
> (13, u'morphlabs'),
> (11, u'suse'),
> (7, u'netapp'),
> (6, u'yahoo'),
> (6, u'at&t')]
>
> Cheers,
>
> Christopher Ferris
> IBM Distinguished Engineer, CTO Industry and Cloud Standards
> Member, IBM Academy of Technology
> IBM Software Group, Standards Strategy
> email: chrisfer [at] us
> Twitter: christo4ferris
> phone: +1 508 234 2986
>
> -----Andrew Clay Shafer <acs [at] parvuscaptus> wrote: -----
> To: Anne Gentle <anne [at] openstack>
> From: Andrew Clay Shafer <acs [at] parvuscaptus>
> Date: 08/15/2012 09:05PM
> Cc: foundation [at] lists
> Subject: Re: [OpenStack Foundation] Nomination Process Updates
>
>
> I was interested to see how things have changed in the last 2 weeks.
>
> Did the list of members get taken down or it just isn't working right now?
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Anne Gentle <anne [at] openstack> wrote:
>> In the spirit of running-the-code-so-the-rest-of-us-get-more-context,
>> here's the resulting output when run at 2:10 CST today 8/1/12.
>>
>> [.(787, u'rackspace'),
>> (753, u'hp'),
>> (297, u'none'),
>> (41, u'cisco'),
>> (28, u'canonical'),
>> (24, u'dreamhost'),
>> (22, u'red hat'),
>> (22, u'nebula'),
>> (17, u'cloudscaling'),
>> (14, u'employee'),
>> (13, u'morphlabs'),
>> (13, u'emc'),
>> (13, u'dell'),
>> (10, u'suse'),
>> (10, u'piston cloud'),
>> (5, u'yahoo'),
>> (5, u'ibm'),
>> (5, u'at&t'),
>> (4, u'tipit'),
>> (4, u'opscode')]
>>
>> Wanted to be sure non-Python programmers have the information that
>> results from running the script linked on Github.
>>
>> Thanks Jonathan and crew for all the additional info, now I know who
>> to thank for the support.
>> Anne
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Matt Joyce <matt [at] nycresistor> wrote:
>> >> For those who are curious, I've pushed up an ugly hack to get some
>> >> basic stats one membership affiliations here:
>> >> https://gist.github.com/3229457
>> >
>> > =/ not particularly happy with those numbers. it's about as fair and
>> > balanced as fox news.
>> >
>> > _______________________________________________
>> > Foundation mailing list
>> > Foundation [at] lists
>> > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/foundation
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Foundation mailing list
>> Foundation [at] lists
>> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/foundation
>
> _______________________________________________
> Foundation mailing list
> Foundation [at] lists
> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/foundation
> _______________________________________________
> Foundation mailing list
> Foundation [at] lists
> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/foundation

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