2024 ONAP TSC Vice Chair Election

What

Members of the ONAP Technical Steering Committee (TSC) elect Vice Chair(s) each year.

Who

This election and nomination process is limited to TSC Members. Any TSC Member can nominate themselves, run for election, and vote in the election for the TSC Vice Chair(s).

How

The election process occurs in two phases; the Nomination phase, and the Election phase and will follow the timeline below.

Self-Nominations open December 12th, 2024.
Nominations close January 8th, 2025, at 9:00pm Pacific Time
Voting begins January 9th, 2025
Voting Ends Jan 15th, 2025 at 9:00pm Pacific Time

Self-Nomination Phase

An email is sent from the Election Coordinator (LJ Illuzzi) to the TSC distribution list for ONAP and the subject line is tagged with the keywords [TSC Vice Chair Nominations].
Any TSC Member may nominate themselves to stand for election. Note that no one can nominate another person to run for election.
To submit a nomination, the TSC Member must reply-all to the original nomination email stating their interest to stand for the election.
As instructed by the email sent from the Election Coordinator on December 12 kicking off the Self-Nomination phase, all nominees are to provide their Name and Statement of Intent in being a TSC Vice Chairperson. Note, candidates’ photo and bio are on file and do not need to be included. 
The length of the Nomination phase is detailed in the above timeline.

Election Phase

Immediately upon the close of the Self-Nomination Phase, an email will be sent via the LFX Voting platform to each TSC member. The email will have instructions and a private URL where each TSC Member is sent to their vote. TSC voting members can also access the vote from there individual dashboard here: https://openprofile.dev/. The vote will be titled “ONAP TSC Vice Chairperson Election”. This voting invitation is only sent to the TSC Members. The TSC mailing list is not cc-ed on this email as per the voting process. Included in this election invitation will be a pointer to the Election wiki page which contains the names, pictures, biographies, and statements-of-intent for each of the candidates.  Each eligible voter will be asked to vote for multiple TSC Vice Chair seats, as will be indicated in the voting instructions. The Election Phase will remain open as detailed in the above timeline.
Once the Election Phase has completed, the results of the election, including the votes cast by all participating TSC members, will be made available to the TSC mailing list.

Information on the Candidates

Each Candidate, please provide the following:

• Name

• Statement of Intent in being a TSC Vice Chairperson

• Note, candidates’ photo and bio are on file and do not need to be included. 

The Candidates (In ascending alphabetical order by last name)