community/elections/2020/TOC

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2020 Voters Guide - Knative TOC Election

Purpose

The role of this election is to fill out the three (3) seats due for election this year on the Knative Technical Oversight Committee. Each elected member will serve a two (2) year term.

Background

This election will shape the future of Knative as a community and project. While WGs help shape the individual direction of the project, the [TOC Charter] covers the technical direction, health of the project and community as a whole.

Eligibility

Please refer to the TOC Election Charter for:

• Eligibility for candidacy
• Eligibility for voting and Eligible voters list (not in charter)

Schedule

Date	Event
April 13	Announcement of Election
April 24	All candidate nominations and voting exception forms due by 0000 UTC (5pm Pacific)
April 27	Election Begins via email ballots
May 11	Election Closes by 0000 UTC (5pm Pacific)
May 13	Announcement of Results at Knative Community Meeting

Candidacy Process

Nomination

If you want to stand for election, send an email to knative-steering@googlegroups.com with the subject line "TOC Nomination: Your Name (@yourgithub)".

If you want to nominate someone else, you may do so, but PLEASE talk to them first.

Campaigning

Please refer to the TOC 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.

Voting Process

Knative members in voters.md will receive a ballot via email. If you are not on that list and feel you have worked on Knative in a way that is NOT reflected in GitHub contributions, you can use the voter exemption form to ask to participate in the election.

Elections will be held using time-limited Condorcet ranking on CIVS using the Schulze method. The top vote getters will be elected to the open seats.

Employer diversity is encouraged, and thus maximal representation will be enforced as spelled out in the TOC Election Charter.

You will be ranking your choices of the candidates with an option for "no opinion". In the event of a tie, a coin will be flipped.

The election will open for voting the morning April 27, 2020 via email and end two weeks after on May 11, 2019 at 00:00am UTC. You will receive an email to the address on file at the start of the election from "Knative Steering Committee (CIVS Poll Supervisor)" <civs@cs.cornell.edu>, make sure it passes spam filters if necessary. Detailed voting instructions will be addressed in email and the CIVS polling page. Please note that email ballots might be unreliable, so you are encouraged to contact the steering committee if you do not receive a ballot by May 1.

Decision

The newly elected body will be announced in the Knative Community Meeting on May 13, 2020.

Following the meeting, 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 TOC Election Charter.

Nominees

Name	Organization/Company	GitHub
Adam Harwayne	Google	@harwayne
Grant Rodgers	Google	@grantr
Lionel Villard	IBM	@lionelvillard
Markus Thömmes	Red Hat	@markusthoemmes
Michael Maximilien	IBM	@maximilien
Nghia Tran	Google	@tcnghia
Roland Huss	Red Hat	@rhuss