[NOTICE] Voting for the Kubernetes Steering Committee Election Closes Soon!

[Sreeram Venkitesh]

Voting Closes in a week (Friday, October 24th)!

Get your votes in for the Kubernetes Steering Committee Election now at [1] https://elections.k8s.io/.

Quick Details on the Election:

4 seats are up for election this year

8 contributors are running for a seat

Check your voter status manually here: voters.yaml

Voting process uses elekto, a GitHub integrated webapp

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 into the election site using your GitHub account, and click “explore elections” to find the Steering Committee election. The election page will show the list of candidates, as well as whether or not you are currently eligible to vote.

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”.

100% of voting activity happens through the Elections site. You will NOT receive an individual email of any kind.

Other resources and information:

[1] - https://elections.k8s.io/

[2] - https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/elections/steering/2025/voters.yaml

[3] - 2025 Voter Guide

[4] - 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