[NOTICE] Voting in the Kubernetes Steering Committee Election closes October 24th!
Arujjwal Negi
Dear Kubernetes Community,
Voting Closes in 3 days (Friday, October 24th)!
Get your votes in for the Kubernetes Steering Committee Election now at https://elections.k8s.io/app/elections/steering---2025.
Quick Details on the Election:
4 seats are up for election this year
8 contributors are running for a seat
You can check your voter status manually here: voters.yaml
The voting process uses Elekto, a GitHub-integrated web app
There is NO email ballot; you MUST go here to vote: https://elections.k8s.io/
Please vote! Voting ends on Friday, October 24th.
How do I vote?
Log in to the election site using your GitHub account, and click “explore elections” to find the Steering Committee election. The election page will display the list of candidates, along with information on your current eligibility to vote. (If you have contributed to Kubernetes in the last year but haven’t met the eligibility requirements, you will need to submit an exception request by October 22nd.)
On the main election page, you can review the candidate bios by clicking on the candidate names.
From the list, rank the candidates in order of preference. Please do your best to rank all candidates and not just a few favorites. However, if you simply can’t decide about a candidate, you may select “No Opinion”.
Other resources and information:
[2] https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/elections/steering/2025/voters.yaml
[3] https://github.com/kubernetes/community/tree/master/elections/steering/2025#voter-exception
[4] 2025 Voter Guide
[5] Steering Committee Charter
Thank you from all your election officers. If you have any questions,
You can reach us via elec...@k8s.io or message us on Slack any time.
Christoph Blecker
Nina Polshakova
Sreeram Venkitesh