2024 TAC Chair Election

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Last updated: Jul 09, 2024 by Olaf Renner
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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

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    • 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 Jun 26, 2024   and will conclude on Jul 9, 2024   17:00 PDT. 

Election Phase

If there are multiple nominees: A Condorcet election will be initiated by the LF using a ranked choice voting platform.  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 vote 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: Olaf Renner

Company: Nokia

Short Biography:

I am working in Nokias Open Source Program Office and have been in the telecommunications industry for 17 years in various roles in research, standardization and since 7 years in open source.

I had the honor to serve as TAC chair for the last year and would like to humbly self-nominate for another year.

Statement of Intent: 

The last year has been busy with improving the LFN project lifecycle which enabled Nephio induction as graduate project, inducting CNTI as community driven project and bringing Paraglider to LFN as candidate project.

L3af moved from sandbox to incubation, the 5GSBP is on a good way to be also goverened as a LFN project by fall this year and collaboration with LF Edge should progress to start technical work.

For the upcoming year there should be more time to revisit the backlog and review the health of projects and taskforce / working groups.

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