Information on the TAC Chair Role

The TAC will elect from amongst the voting TAC members a chairperson for a term of one year. The TAC shall hold elections to select a TAC Chair annually; there are no limits on the number of terms a TAC Chair may serve. 

Responsibilities

The primary responsibility of the TAC Chair is to lead the TAC in fulfilling its responsibilities as outlined in section 7 of the LF Networking Fund Charter and to be responsible for:

  • Leading TAC meetings;
  • Representing the TAC and the technical community within and outside of LFN by:
    • Should the TAC chair be unable or unwilling to serve as the TAC representative to the Governing Board the vice-chair will serve as the TAC representative to the Governing Board
    • Serving as the TAC representative to the Governing Board
    • Participating in other communications as necessary within and outside LFN

These responsibilities may be delegated to another member of the technical community.

Election Mechanics

How to nominate yourself

The election process occurs in two phases; the Nomination phase, and the Election phase.

Self Nomination Phase

Individuals interested in running for this position must update this wiki page with their biography and statement of intent on why you would be a good person to hold this position.

The nomination phase starting    and will conclude on   17:00 PDT. 

Election Phase

If there are multiple nominees: A Condorcet election will be initiated by the LF using the OpaVote voting system.  All TAC members will receive an invitation to vote. In the case of multiple candidates the timing is as follows:

  • The election phase will begin on with the distribution of the OpaVote poll via email
  • The election phase will end four (4) full business days later in the same time zone the poll was initiated from (typically PDT).


Information on Candidates

Name:
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Company: (Optional)

Short Biography:

Statement of Intent: 


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Name: Olaf Renner

Company: Nokia

Short Biography: 

I am working in Nokia OSPO and have been in the telecommunications industry for 16 years in various roles in research, standardization and since 6 years in open source.

My involvement in open source started in OPNFV and OpenStack focusing on virtual networking and later SDN with Opendaylight to it's current evolution in LFN. Besides LFN I follow container networking related projects in CNCF and supply chain security in OpenSSF.


Statement of Intent: 

With ongoing and upcoming tasks of renewing the LFN livecycle process, inducting new projects and tackeling challenges of existing ones I would like to offer my service to the community and propse myself for consideration as the LFN TAC chair.

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