2023 Istio Steering Contributor Seats (#12580)

* 2023 Istio Steering Contributor Seats

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* Add IBM member

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* Apply suggestions from code review

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* additional review comments

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* add second member from Huawei

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* fix order

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* Fix order of members

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* Apply suggestions from code review

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* Update content/en/blog/2023/steering-contribution-seat-results/index.md

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content/en/blog/2023/steering-contribution-seat-results/index.md

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+---
+title: "Announcing the Contribution Seat holders for 2023"
+description: The Istio Steering Committee welcomes contributors from Google, IBM, Huawei and Red Hat.
+publishdate: 2023-02-06
+attribution: "Faseela K, for the Istio Steering Committee"
+keywords: [istio,steering,governance,community,contributor]
+---
+
+The [Istio Steering Committee](https://github.com/istio/community/blob/master/steering/README.md) consists of 9 Contribution Seats, proportionally allocated based on corporate contributions to the project, and 4 elected Community Seats.
+
+Last year, we [elected four members](/blog/2022/steering-election-results/) to the community seats. It's now time to announce the companies who fuel our growth by selecting the Contribution Seat members. As per the [Steering charter](https://github.com/istio/community/blob/master/steering/CHARTER.md), every February we look at which companies have made the most contributions to Istio based on an [annually agreed metric](https://github.com/istio/community/blob/master/steering/CONTRIBUTION-FORMULA.md).
+
+According to our [seat allocation process](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1IIms6OT1DgJ_lbn5433sy5wvqNBIIQgQHoWZvpShSXk/edit#gid=1365082320), this year Google will be allocated 5 seats and IBM/Red Hat will be allocated 2. As the third largest contributor to Istio in the last 12 months, we are pleased to announce that Huawei has earned two Contribution Seats.
+
+Based on this, here is the complete list of Istio Steering Committee members, including both the Contribution and Community Seats:
+
+- [Ameer Abbas](https://github.com/ameer00) (Google)
+- [Craig Box](https://github.com/craigbox) (ARMO)
+- [Rob Cernich](https://github.com/rcernich) (Red Hat)
+- [Iris Ding](https://github.com/irisdingbj) (Intel)
+- [Cameron Etezadi](https://github.com/cetezadi) (Google)
+- [Jianpeng He](https://github.com/zirain) (Huawei)
+- [John Howard](https://github.com/howardjohn) (Google)
+- [Faseela K](https://github.com/kfaseela) (Ericsson Software Technology)
+- [April Kyle Nassi](https://github.com/thisisnotapril)(Google)
+- [Justin Pettit](https://github.com/justinpettit) (Google)
+- [Christian Posta](https://github.com/christian-posta) (Solo.io)
+- [Cale Rath](https://github.com/ctrath) (IBM)
+- [Zhonghu Xu](https://github.com/hzxuzhonghu) (Huawei)
+
+Our sincerest thanks to Louis Ryan, Srihari Angaluri, Kebe Liu and Jason McGee, all long-time contributors to the Istio project, whose terms have come to an end.
+