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Knative Steering Committee Election - 2023 Voters Guide |
2023 Voters Guide |
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The role of this election is to fill out the two (2) seats due for election this year on the Knative Steering Committee. Each elected member will serve a two (2) year term.
This election will shape the future of Knative as a community and project. The Knative Steering Committee (SC) is responsible for the general health of the Knative community.
Please refer to the SC Election Charter for:
The list of eligible voters is stored in the community repository, but it is easier to check if you are eligible by logging into Elekto. See Voting Process below for more details.
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| October 17 | Announcement of Election, call for nominations, exceptions |
| November 1 | All candidate nominations due by 23:59 UTC (3:59pm Pacific) |
| November 3 | Election Begins via Elekto UI |
| November 28 | Voter exception requests due by 23:59 UTC (3:59pm Pacific) |
| November 30 | Election Closes by 23:59 UTC (3:59pm Pacific) |
| December 6 | Announcement of Results |
In an effort to run a fair and transparent election, the following people have been asked by the Steering Committee to run this election:
You can reach us by emailing elections@knative.team
Nomination
If you want to stand for election for a Steering Committee Seat, open a PR against the
knative/community repository to include
your candidate profile in the /elections/2023-SC folder, with the following
filename format:
candidate-githubid.md
This profile should include:
- Your name
- Your company affiliation (employer or otherwise)
- Your contributions to Knative
- Why you are running
You can find a sample template in the folder.
Once you have created the PR, you may email knative-dev@googlegroups.com and/or knative-users@googlegroups.com once to let people know about your candidacy and encourage endorsements as comments on the PR. Please use a text similar to the text below for your email in order to encourage endorsements in Github and not on the mailing list:
Fellow Knative community members,
My name is {your name} and I am running for Steering Committee. You can read
my profile here: {link to PR}. If you support my candidacy, please endorse me
by commenting on that PR. Please do not reply to endorse me on this list.
After a candidate has met all election requirements, the Election Officers will merge the profile PR.
If you want to nominate someone else, you may do so, but PLEASE talk to them first.
Campaigning
Please refer to the SC Election Charter and understand that we care deeply about limiting corporate campaigning. The election officers and members of the steering committee pledge to recuse themselves from any form of electioneering.
You should be running as a "brand free" individual, based on your contribution to the project as a member of this community, outside of whatever corporate roles you may hold.
Elections will be held using Elekto, an online voting tool created as a CNCF internal project. As a reminder it relies on GitHub Oauth to log you in to vote, instead of relying on email. More details on voting are in the Elekto documentation.
Thus, when you go to Elekto you will be prompted to log in your GitHub account. Please do so, and then click on "Explore Election" to look at the list of elections. From there you can click on the "2023 Knative SC Election."
The election page will, among other things, tell you if you are eligible to vote, via a button at the top of the screen. Due to limitations in our contributor data, many contributors may have been unfairly missed; if you are one of these, please file a voting exception by the deadline listed above so that we can enfranchise you.
As candidates file their candidate statements in the community repo, they will become visible in the Elekto UI. You may click through to any candidate to see their profile.
Once the vote begins, you will be able to rank the candidates in the order of your preference, and submit your ballot. When you submit, you will be offered a chance to set a password, which is required if you want the ability to return and re-cast your ballot before the election close deadline found above.
Employer diversity is encouraged, and thus maximal representation will be enforced as spelled out in the SC Election Charter.
Elekto is being run on an OpenShift instance operated by Red Hat's Open Source Practice Office. Individual ballot data is encrypted, and not retrievable by anyone except the voter, or in aggregate form.
Ballots are compiled by Elekto and all candidates are ranked using the Condorcet method, Schultze variant.
The newly elected body will be announced on the knative-dev mailing list.
Following the mailing list post, the raw voting results and winners will be published on the Knative Blog.
For more information, definitions, and/or detailed election process, please refer to the SC Election Charter.