[Announcement] Steering Committee Election Results!
Bridget Kromhout
The 2024 Steering Committee Election[1] is now complete. The Kubernetes Steering Committee consists of 7 seats, 3 of which were up for election in 2024. Incoming committee members serve a term of 2 years, and all members are elected by the Kubernetes Community.
This community body is significant since it oversees the governance of the entire Kubernetes project. With that great power comes great responsibility. You can learn more about the steering committee’s role in their charter[2].
Thank you to everyone who voted in the election; your participation helps support the community’s continued health and success.
If you have any feedback on the election, please attend the retro meeting on October 9th at 8am Pacific, or add your notes to the doc [6].
Results
Congratulations to the elected committee members whose two year terms begin immediately (listed in alphabetical order by GitHub handle):
Antonio Ojea, (@aojea), Google
Benjamin Elder, (@BenTheElder), Google
Sascha Grunert, (@saschagrunert), Red Hat
They join continuing members:
Stephen Augustus (@justaugustus), Cisco
Paco Xu 徐俊杰 (@pacoxu), DaoCloud
Patrick Ohly (@pohly), Intel
Maciej Szulik (@soltysh), Defense Unicorns
Benjamin Elder is a returning Steering Committee Member.
Thanks to the Emeritus Steering Committee Members. Your service is appreciated by the community:
Bob Killen (@mrbobbytables), Cloud Native Computing Foundation
Nabarun Pal (@palnabarun), VMware
And thank you to all the candidates who came forward to run for election.
Get Involved with the Steering Committee
This governing body, like all of Kubernetes, is open to all. You can follow along with Steering Committee meeting notes[3] and weigh in by filing an issue or creating a PR against their repo[4]. They have an open meeting on the first Wednesday at 8am PT of every month[4]. They can also be contacted at their public mailing list steering (at) kubernetes.io.
You can see what the Steering Committee meetings are all about by watching past meetings on the YouTube Playlist[5].
Thank you again from all your election officers for participating in this election.
Have Feedback on this Election?
The election team will hold a public retro of the 2024 Steering Election on Wednesday, October 9th at 8am Pacific Time. Add the meeting to your calendar to participate in person, add your feedback to the notes doc [6], or please send any feedback you have to any of the election officers via email (election officers are cc’d, or sent, this message), Slack DM, or publicly on Slack in the #sig-contribex-elections channel [7].
[1] - https://github.com/kubernetes/community/tree/master/elections/steering/2024
[2] - https://github.com/kubernetes/steering/blob/master/charter.md
[3] - https://bit.ly/k8s-steering-wd
[4] - https://github.com/kubernetes/steering
[5] - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL69nYSiGNLP1yP1B_nd9-drjoxp0Q14qM
[6] - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QRhsZouP5Jro2bqFmh1KmF-snN6kzrTcRVajQkho5Y8/edit?usp=sharing
[7] - https://kubernetes.slack.com/archives/C03PY5263LN
Bridget Kromhout
Christoph Blecker
Priyanka Saggu