OCI TOB Elections 2022

[caniszczyk]

A new year means a new election:

Call for Nominations will open on Mon, Nov 29 2021 and end on Mon, Jan 10 2022
Call for Votes will open Tue, Jan 11 2022 and end on Tue, January 18 2022.
Vote winner will be announced on Monday, January 24th

Each OCI member can submit up to one candidate for nomination, which they are then voted upon by OCI membership. Here are the relevant sections from the OCI charter:
https://www.opencontainers.org/about/governance

e. The TOB shall be composed of nine (9) individuals elected for their expertise, contribution to the advancement of container technologies and are considered to be thought leaders in the OCI ecosystem. Anyone may be elected to the TOB, regardless of whether the individual is an employee of an OCI Member, so long as they are an OCI TDC participant. A TOB member is elected as an individual and not as a representative of his or her employer. No more than two (2) TOB members may be employed by the same entity or its affiliates. Affiliates shall be defined as entities owning 50% or more of an entity, or owned by or under common ownership with each other. TOB members may not designate alternative representatives.

f. TOB members shall be split into two (2) groups, serving for a term of two (2) years on a staggered basis, where one group is elected each year. The initial TOB will have four (4) TOB members who will only serve for a term of one year and five (5) TOB members that serve for a term of two (2) years.

g. The initial TOB shall be established through a nomination and election process. The first group from which four (4) TOB members shall be elected, will be nominated and elected by the current TDC maintainers, initially identified in Section 4(e), and serve for a period of one (1) year. Each TDC maintainer may nominate up to two (2) candidates for election, except that only one (1) nominee may be employed by the TDC maintainer’s own company. The second group from which five (5) TOB members shall be elected, will be nominated and elected by the OCI Members and serve for a period of two (2) years. Each OCI Member may nominate one (1) candidate for election.

The 5 TOB slots open are:

• Phil Estes [AWS] (TOB Chair) (term date: 1/29/2020 - 1/29/2022)
• Wei Fu [Alibaba] (term date: 1/29/2020 - 1/29/2022)
• Jon Johnson [Google] (term date: 1/29/2020 - 1/29/2022)
• Samuel Karp [AWS] (term date: 1/29/2020 - 1/29/2022)
• Steve Lasker [Microsoft] (term date: 1/29/2020 - 1/29/2022)

[caniszczyk]

FYI @opencontainers/tob

[jonjohnsonjr]

https://opencontainers.org/about/governance is a 404 for me -- can we redirect it to https://github.com/opencontainers/tob/blob/main/CHARTER.md?

[geekygirldawn]

I'm curious where the nominations can be found - in other words, is there a list of nominees that we can see ahead of the election kicking off?

[caniszczyk]

@geekygirldawn it's available only for OCI member organizations, I forwarded you a note and primary OCI contact for your company that will be responsible for the nomination

[caniszczyk]

@jonjohnsonjr fixed with opencontainers/opencontainers.org#112

[amye]

Nominations are now closed, a ballot will be sent to voting contacts shortly.

[caniszczyk]

Amye, can you publicly list the nominees too :)?

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[amye]

Yes! Confirming on the list now. :)

[amye]

Nominees are:

• Samuel Karp (Amazon)
• Josh Dolitsky (Chainguard)
• Phil Estes (Amazon)
• Jon Johnson (Google)
• Sajay Antony (Microsoft)
• Syed Ahmed (Red Hat)
• Nisha Kumar (VMWare)

[nishakm]

As the new person to this process, is there a place where candidates can make their statements?

[amye]

As the new person to this process, is there a place where candidates can make their statements?

We have names and bios here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1UwyZso1iMSBzeUDR_F50gvpCQ29Gq7cUgPlnNWXR4dw/edit?resourcekey#gid=820747266

[nishakm]

As the new person to this process, is there a place where candidates can make their statements?

We have names and bios here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1UwyZso1iMSBzeUDR_F50gvpCQ29Gq7cUgPlnNWXR4dw/edit?resourcekey#gid=820747266

I meant statements like "If elected I will give everyone unicorns and rainbows".

[amye]

Yes, we do not currently have a process for that - nominations and bios are the statements submitted.
Want to put them in here instead?

[nishakm]

I can do that :)

[nishakm]

To voters, here is my statement:

If elected I will work with members of the TOB and the OCI community to improve the governance of the OCI project. I will specifically work towards defining, documenting and improving processes involved in getting features requested by stakeholders accepted into the various specification. These include:

• Creation and maintenance of projects under the opencontainers Github organization.
• Guides for community members to bring their ideas and requests to the general OCI community.
• Tracking topics and action items from the community meetings, including resolution of actions.
• Escalating and resolving conflicts.

[cyphar]

@amye I seem to have not received a ballot on either of my email accounts.

[vbatts]

On 13/01/22 21:18 -0800, Aleksa Sarai wrote: ***@***.*** I seem to have not received a ballot on either of my email accounts. This nomination cycle seems to have had confusion around the fact that nominations and voting is done by the _member_ seats, being: those that paid money to the foundation to be a member. Not an open nomination, nor open voting.

[cyphar]

Ah right, now that I re-read (g) it makes more sense. Carry on. 😅

[amye]

Ah right, now that I re-read (g) it makes more sense. Carry on. 😅

The maintainer chosen seats are the next cycle!

[caniszczyk]

OCI TOB election results are out:

https://civs1.civs.us/cgi-bin/results.pl?num_winners=5&id=E_f5fb2a144687c308&rkey=1671f5aa54293e59&algorithm=runoff

Phil Estes (Amazon)
Nisha Kumar (VMWare)
Samuel Karp (Amazon) 
Josh Dolitsky (Chainguard)
Jon Johnson (Google)

Thanks everyone who ran and participated, and outgoing TOB members :)

We will post a blog post soon!

[caniszczyk]

sorry for the delay, blog post up: https://opencontainers.org/posts/blog/2022-01-31-oci-in-2022/

congrats all, we will run the TOB chair process starting next week