The Steering Committee is composed of nine (9) Contribution Seats and four (4) Community Seats. The role of this election is to elect the four Community Seats to the Istio Steering Committee for a one-year term.
The Istio Steering Committee oversees the administrative aspects of the project, including governance, marketing and community health. Steering exists to allow the Technical Oversight Committee to exclusively focus on the technical aspects of the project.
Some direct responsibilities of steering members to consider as you are deciding whether to run or who to vote for:
- Establishing and enforcing principles to guide the Istio project.
- Fostering an environment for a healthy and happy community of developers, contributors, vendors, and users.
- Defining, evolving, and defending a Code of Conduct.
- Setting marketing and advocacy direction for the project; establishing a publishing schedule and vetting content, encouraging and assisting community members in creating content for conferences, fostering an ecosystem of vendors.
- Providing neutral mediation as appropriate to try to resolve non-technical disputes that arise as part of the project.
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| July 18 | Announcement of Election and publication of voters.yaml |
| July 30 | Candidate bios and voting exception forms due by 2359 UTC (5pm PDT) |
| July 31 | Election begins via Elekto UI |
| August 13 | Election closes at 2359 UTC (5pm PDT) |
| week of August 14 | Winners announced |
Eligibility for candidacy is defined in the Steering Committee charter as a project member who does not work for a Company that holds a Contribution Seat.
Members from Google, IBM, Red Hat and Huawei are therefore ineligible to stand in this election.
If you want to stand for election, open a PR against the istio/community repository to include
your candidate profile in the /steering/elections/2023 folder, with the file named in the format candidate-yourname.md. We have included a template file as an example. This profile should include:
- Your name
- Your GitHub ID
- Your company affiliation (employer or otherwise)
- Your contributions to Istio
- Why you are running
Once you have created the PR, you may encourage endorsements as comments on it. 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 confirm their interest first.
Eligibility to vote is defined in the Steering Committee charter as either:
- a project member who has had at least one Pull Request merged in the past 12 months, or
- someone who has submitted the voting exception form and has been accepted by the steering committee as having standing in the community.
Elections will be held using Elekto, an online voting tool created for the CNCF. Elekto has one critical advantage over CIVS, which is that it uses GitHub OAuth to log you in to vote, instead of relying on email.
Thus, when you go to Elekto, you will be prompted to log in your GitHub account. You will then be able to click on "Explore Election" to look at the list of elections, and select the "2023 Istio Steering Committee Election."
The election page will, among other things, confirm if you are eligible to vote, via a button at the top of the screen.
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 August 13th.
All data is stored on cloud infrastructure maintained by the election officers, and is not shared with third parties. Individual ballot data is encrypted, and not retrievable by anyone except in aggregate form.
The top four candidates who are employed by a unique Company (as defined in the Charter) shall be deemed to be elected.
- Cameron Etezadi, Google
- Ram Vennam, Solo.io