Kubernetes Steering Committee Election Cycle Starting
Kaslin Fields
## Election Announcement
It's Steering Committee election season again!
This year we will be electing four (4) seats on the Steering Committee. Each
of these seats will serve for a two (2) year term. Christoph Blecker,
Stephen Augustus, Carlos Tadeu Panato Jr., and Tim Pepper are finishing their 2 year terms this year. Benjamin Elder, Nabarun Pal, and Bob Killen are halfway through their terms and will continue to serve on the Steering Committee for another year.
The first phase of the election has two parts:
1. Candidate nominations
2. Voter exceptions
## Nominations
If you would like to nominate yourself or someone else for one of the
four available seats, follow the process in the election guide[2]. This
involves writing a *candidate issue*, posting to kubernetes-dev,
writing a bio and information about your candidacy as a Pull Request.
You can find all the details about the nomination process in the election
repository: https://github.com/kubernetes/community/tree/master/elections/steering/2023#candidacy-process [2]
## Voter Status
The full list of current voters by GitHub username is posted in the
election repository:
https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/events/elections/2023/voters.yaml
[4]
The requirements for voting are Kubernetes Github org membership, and to have had at least 50 project
Contributions (according to devstats [7]) in the last year. We do our best to source contribution
data from many areas, however we know that many types of contributions to
the project are not necessarily code contributions and hence difficult to measure. We apologize for any contributions not counted. If we've missed you for any reason, please file an exception
request[3] and we'll take a look as soon as possible and approve it when appropriate.
## Voting System
We will be using Elekto[5] for the Kubernetes
Steering election. It uses GitHub authentication, so
all we need to know is your GitHub username. If you log in to Elekto at
https://elections.k8s.io/app/elections/steering---2023 [6], you can also
directly check your eligibility if you don't want to search through the
YAML file linked above.
## Schedule
The following are the critical dates for this election:
- Saturday, August 26 - Candidate nominations due at the end of the day in AoE time
- Sunday, August 27 - All candidate bios due at the end of the day in AoE time
- Tuesday, August 29 - Election Begins
- Saturday, September 23 - Deadline to submit voter exception requests
- Tuesday, September 26 - Election Closes at the end of the day in AoE time
- Monday, October 2 - Public announcement of Results at Public Steering Committee Meeting
We will be posting regular updates to d...@kubernetes.io during the election.
## Resources
[1] Steering Committee: https://github.com/kubernetes/steering - who
sits on the committee and terms, their projects and meeting info
[2] Candidacy Process:
https://github.com/kubernetes/community/tree/master/elections/steering/2023#candidacy-process
- how running for a seat works
[3] Exception Request:
https://elections.k8s.io/app/elections/steering---2023/exception - form
to fill out to get added as a voter if we've missed you
[4] Voters List:
https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/events/elections/2023/voters.yaml
- GitHub usernames for everyone qualified to vote in this election
[5] Elekto: https://elekto.dev - Our elections platform
[6] 2023 Steering Election on Elekto:
https://elections.k8s.io/app/elections/steering---2023
- You may check your voting eligibility by logging in to the election on Elekto.
[7] Devstats developer activity counts: https://k8s.devstats.cncf.io/d/13/developer-activity-counts-by-repository-group?orgId=1&var-period_name=Last%20year&var-metric=contributions&var-repogroup_name=All&var-repo_name=&var-country_name=All
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.
Bridget Kromhout
Davanum Srinivas
Kaslin Fields
Bridget Kromhout
Benjamin Elder
A friendly reminder that currently serving Steering Committee Members and Election Officers are prohibited from endorsing candidates / electioneering so we'll be quiet observers to the nomination process etc :-)