2020 Steering Election: Call for Nominations and Exceptions
Josh Berkus
It’s time for the annual Steering Committee Election!
As is now customary, August-October is election season for Kubernetes. Four(4) elected members (cblecker, derekwaynecarr, nikhita, parispittman) will stay on for the remaining year of their terms, and there will be three(3) positions open for election. Every election term will be 2 years. We will be posting regular updates to kubernetes-dev with deadlines and instructions as well as providing quick updates during the regular Thursday community meetings until completion of the election.
If you’d like to vote or run for a seat, all details and next steps are outlined in the election process doc[3] and voters guide.[4] The voters guide will be the single source of truth of information for this cycle. It will be updated live as new bios of candidates flow through over the next four weeks. Please pay attention to the scheduled dates:
August 12: Election announced
September 8: All candidate bios and voting exception forms due by 0000 UTC (5pm PST)
September 14: Election begins
October 6: Election closes
October 12: Announcement of results at public Steering Committee meeting
As mentioned in the process doc, eligibility for voting will be determined by 50 contributions to a Kubernetes project over the past year and Kubernetes Org membership[5], which will result in you getting a ballot emailed to you when the election starts. All contributors who will receive a ballot are listed in voters.md[7]; if your name is not there, you will need an exception to vote.
For those of you doing work within the Kubernetes project / community that is NOT measured in GitHub, or if you have 50 contributions but not Org Membership, you can apply for participation via the voter exemption form[6]. This is to ensure that non-code contributors can participate, so please don’t hesitate to use the form.
Resources:
[1] Steering Committee: https://github.com/kubernetes/steering - who sits on the committee and terms, their projects and meeting info
[2] Steering Committee Charter: https://github.com/kubernetes/steering/blob/master/charter.md - this is a great read if you’re interested in running (or assessing for the best candidates!)
[3] Election Process: https://git.k8s.io/steering/elections.md
[4] Voters Guide: https://github.com/kubernetes/community/tree/master/events/elections/2020 - Updated on a rolling basis. This guide will always have the latest information throughout the election cycle. The complete schedule of events and candidate bios will be housed here.
[5] Contributor Ladder: https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/community-membership.md - explains Org Membership as well as all of the higher levels
[6] Exemption Form: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/k8s-sc-election-2020
[7] Voters.md: https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/events/elections/2020/voters.md - list of contributors who will automatically receive a ballot
On behalf of the election officers,
Josh Berkus
Jaice Singer DuMars
Ihor Dvoretskyi
If you have questions, please feel free to ask on the list; otherwise, you can reach the Election Officers at elec...@kubernetes.io.
Wei Huang
Josh Berkus
We have become aware that there were some names missing from the data
dump we received from Devstats. We will be updating voters.md
tommorrow; as such, hold off on exception requests until then.
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Josh Berkus
Kubernetes Community
Red Hat OSPO
Josh Berkus
68 contributors who were excluded from voters.md due to mismatched
uppercasing have been added.
There remains an unknown issue with a small number of other excluded
contributors, that may have to do with changing employers in the last
year. These will get fixed later this week or Monday. If you are not
in voters.md and think that this is the case with you, please file an
exception.
In the meantime, everyone should proceed both with nominations and with
filing exceptions. Thanks!
