SIG Release Chair Election 2025

[Ulrick28]

Responsibility of Chair(s) https://github.com/o3de/community/blob/1563c74bd99c4a4d2896e00d1d53400dbb9f436a/sigs/docs/sig-governance.md#responsibility-of-chairs
Co-chairs are to support the role of the chair

You can see the election process here:
https://github.com/o3de/community/blob/main/O3DE%20Elections/O3DE%20Elections%20Guide.md

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1. Decides the nomination and election timeline.
2. Nomination Period: January 2nd - Jan 24th 2025 [Extended to Monday, 3 February] | Submit nominations to this GHI - include Name, Company (if applicable), brief background and why you are a good fit for chair/co-chair. You can nominate yourself or another person, but if you nominate someone please be sure they are aware of your nomination.
3. Election Period: January 25th - Feb 3rd, 2025 | 2 or more submissions for each position will result in a election poll/voting survey.
4. On Discord, create an event that links to the GitHub Issue and uses the same issue title, mentioning the nomination and voting dates, and the SIG name.
5. Share the event in the SIG Channel, along with the mailing list.
6. Monitor the channel during the nomination process, responding to questions, and checking for nominations, acceptances, or declines. Send out reminders as necessary. If there is only one nominee, extend the nomination period by 1-2 weeks. If no one is nominated, the suggested candidate will become the Chair/Co-Chair.
7. Prepare & send the election poll/voting survey
8. Announce the results of the Issue and the SIG Channel

New members seated: February 3rd 2025

[byrcolin]

I nominate Roddie Kieley for sig-release chair

[matteogrs]

I would like to nominate myself (@matteogrs) to become a co-chair for sig-release.

I currently develop some unannounced game-related projects using O3DE. I regularly monitor and evaluate the impacts of new features from the upstream repository to keep up-to-date and synchronized with it.

I am following the O3DE project since its first public announcement (July 2021), and I was an active user of all past engine versions. This gives me knowledge on the engine features and how they were added over time. I have also created some external addons, such as:

• o3tanks - a versioning tool for O3DE that relies upon containerization;
• minimal game templates - a collection of sample projects that use the built-in feature of the engine to retrieve remote objects from O3DE directly.

In my career, I also worked in the role of project manager to develop and release enterprise software in different industry sectors.

[RoddieKieley]

I nominate Roddie Kieley for sig-release chair

Thanks @byrcolin, I accept the nomination and also thanks to those who have reached out to me in support of me taking on this responsibility for the Open 3D Engine and Foundation.

Also thanks @matteogrs for stepping up and for all the work you have done around the project thus far - looking forward to potentially collaborating with you more closely!