Add TOC election mechanics and eligibility criteria (#119)

* Add TOC election mechanics and eligibility criteria

* address feedback

TECH-OVERSIGHT-COMMITTEE.md

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 ## Committee Mechanics
 
+The TOC is [elected by the community](./mechanics/TOC.md).
+
 The TOC’s work includes:
 
 - Regular committee meetings to discuss hot topics, resulting in a set of

mechanics/TOC.md

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+---
+title: "Knative TOC election process"
+linkTitle: "TOC election process"
+weight: 30
+type: "docs"
+aliases:
+  - /contributing/mechanics/toc/
+---
+
+# Guiding Principles
+
+- The TOC seat should be earned by individuals and not company participation
+- Members of the TOC should be exemplary members of the community who have
+  demonstrated our community values
+- The TOC should be made up of individuals from different working groups and
+  vendors so that we have a diverse group of thought and input
+
+# Composition
+
+The TOC will have five seats, with a maximum of 2 seats being held by employees
+from the same vendor.
+
+There will be an annual election to determine the composition of the TOC for the
+following year. Three seats will be up for election in one year and two will be
+up for election the following year.
+
+# Candidate Eligibility
+
+Current TOC members and
+[Approvers](https://github.com/knative/community/blob/master/ROLES.md#approver)
+with at least 3 months tenure are eligible to stand for election. Candidates may
+self-nominate or be nominated by another eligible member. The approximate time
+commitment of a TOC member is around 8 hours per week.
+
+# Voter Eligibility
+
+Anyone who has at least 50 contributions in the last 12 months is eligible to
+vote in the TOC election. Contributions are defined as opening PRs, reviewing
+and commenting on PRs, opening and commenting on issues, writing design docs,
+commenting on design docs, helping people on slack, participating in working
+groups and etc.
+
+[This dashboard](https://knative.teststats.cncf.io/d/9/developer-activity-counts-by-repository-group-table?orgId=1&var-period_name=Last%20year)
+shows only GitHub based contributions and does not capture all the contributions
+we value. _We expect this metric not to capture everyone who should be eligible
+to vote._ If a community member has had significant contributions over the past
+year but is not captured in the stats.knative.dev dashboard, they will be able
+to submit an exception form to the steering committee who will then review and
+determine whether this member should be marked as an exception.
+
+All eligible voters will be captured at
+`github.com/knative/community/elections/$YEAR/voters.md` and the voters’ guide
+will be captured at `github.com/knative/community/elections/$YEAR/README.md`
+similar to the kubernetes election process.
+
+We are committed to an inclusive process and will adapt future eligibility
+requirements based on community feedback.
+
+# Election Process
+
+Elections will be held using a time-limited
+[Condorcet](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condorcet_method) ranking on
+[CIVS](http://civs.cs.cornell.edu/) using the
+[Schulze](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schulze_method) method. The top
+vote-getters will be elected to the open seats. This is the same process used by
+the Kubernetes project.
+
+## Election Officers
+
+The steering committee will be the election officers for the technical oversight
+committee elections.
+
+## Vacancies
+
+In the event of a resignation or other loss of an elected TOC member, the
+candidate with the next most votes from the previous election will be offered
+the seat. This process will continue until the seat is filled.
+
+In case this fails to fill the seat, a special election for that position will
+be held as soon as possible. Eligible voters from the most recent election will
+vote in the special election (ie: eligibility will not be redetermined at the
+time of the special election). Any replacement TOC member will serve out the
+remainder of the term for the person they are replacing, regardless of the
+length of that remainder.
+
+---
+
+Except as otherwise noted, the content of this page is licensed under the
+[Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/),
+and code samples are licensed under the
+[Apache 2.0 License](https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0).