Foundation BAC: Election for Large Businesses’ Delegate
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Select the Large Businesses’ Delegate for the Business Advisory Committee (BAC) of the OpenSSL Foundation. This advisory is important in enhancing our governance structure, ensuring that decisions reflect the diverse stakeholders involved and that our Mission and Values remain aligned with the community’s needs.
Only one vote per business will be counted, regardless of the number of individuals participating. If multiple votes are cast by a business for different candidates, the candidate with the highest number of votes will be deemed the business’s choice. This approach ensures equal representation across all groups and fairness in the decision-making process.
Your participation is essential in shaping OpenSSL’s future and ensuring that the voice of the businesses is effectively represented.
Poll Created Thu 5 Dec 2024 12:40PM
Foundation BAC Large Businesses' Election Closed Sun 15 Dec 2024 11:00PM
Thank you to everyone who participated in the recent election. We’re pleased to announce that Tim Chevalier (NetApp) has been elected to a Large Businesses seat in the OpenSSL Foundation BAC.
The result was normalized in accordance with this community election policy, ensuring fairness and equal representation across all businesses: only one vote per business was counted, regardless of the number of individuals participating.
Below is a table with the adjusted results:
Option |
% of points |
Voters |
Tim Chevalier - NetApp |
40% |
8 |
Jaroslav Reznik - Red Hat |
35% |
7 |
Holger Dengler - IBM |
20% |
4 |
None of the Above |
5% |
1 |
Congratulations to Tim!
Results
| Results | Option | % of points | Voters | |||
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Tim Chevalier - NetApp | 36.4% | 12 | |||
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Jaroslav Reznik - Red Hat | 33.3% | 11 | |||
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Holger Dengler - IBM | 27.3% | 9 | |||
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None of the Above | 3.0% | 1 | |||
| Undecided | 0% | 70 |
33 of 103 people have participated (32%)
Election Committee Thu 5 Dec 2024 12:41PM
Nominee: Holger Dengler
Statement
OpenSSL is actively supported and maintained for IBM platforms. As an opensource developer and focal point for the community-maintained platform Linux on IBM System z (s390x), I'm actively involved in the development of the OpenSSL project. In cooperation with my colleagues maintaining the other IBM platforms, I will represent the requirements of all community-maintained platforms of IBM in the Business Advisory Committee. In this role I'll also interlock with other IBM groups, like Research or Software and Hardware Product development.
Representing all actively maintained platforms of IBM also means, that I also represent a large number of customers, which rely on OpenSSL as an essential part of their security solutions.
Last but not least, I certainly will also represent IBM's cryptography strategy which currently includes support of quantum-safe cryptography and hardware-protected key concepts (e.g. HSM).
Election Committee Thu 5 Dec 2024 12:41PM
Nominee: Tim Chevalier
Statement
Principal Engineer with NetApp (~20 years) primarily with security/crypto functionality for the ONTAP operating system. I've been an OpenSSL "user" for 25+ years and was a participant in the OpenSSL FIPS Provider Design Meetings in Brisbane and Edinburgh. I've led each of NetApp's FIPS validations for our OpenSSL FIPS Provider variant. I have a special interest in helping to ensure that OpenSSL continues to maintain the code quality, crypto functionality and feature sets needed by the financial, health, and public sector business communities.
Election Committee · Thu 5 Dec 2024 12:41PM
Nominee: Jaroslav Reznik
Statement
I’m Jaroslav Reznik, long time Red Hatter and open source enthusiast, currently working as Compliance Program Manager in Red Hat’s Product Security Compliance team.
I believe I can provide value to the OpenSSL Corporation Business Advisory Committee as Red Hat is well known OpenSSL community member, I have experience with FIPS 140 and other cybersecurity regulations important for OpenSSL and I believe sharing the same goal can benefit both OpenSSL and Red Hat. In my background, I have a lot of experience in the distribution ecosystems, mainly in Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora - from engineering work (packaging, bringing up a new architecture), through release management, security updates handling to compliance.
Even though I don't have a direct OpenSSL community experience yet ;-), I have a deep open source community background as I was Fedora Program Manager in the past for four years and I was on Fedora Board (as an elected member) and Fedora Council (as an appointed member). This gave me an unique experience of being a person between community and corporate entities and help shaping the Foundation and the Corporation cooperation.