If you have any questions about the election, nomination, or you think you should be eligible to vote but are not showing up in the online check tool, please email election@lists.hyperledger.org
Nominees
- Self-nominations for the TSC election will open on
Timeline
- ✓ Send email asking for lists of contributors to all working group and task force chairs.
- ✓ Send email to resolve duplicate email addresses to all contributors with multiple emails in our repos.
- ✓ - The community architects will be running the eligibility scripts daily to gather the email addresses of contributors and updating the eligibility check site.
- ✓ Publish the email template for submitting nominations and open the call for nominees.
- ✓ Email sent to all eligible voters announcing the call for nominations. TSC will be notified via email that the announcement has gone out.
- ✓ Email sent to all eligible voters two days prior to the close of nominations as a reminder.
- ✓ Nominations close EOD Pacific
- ✓ - Send nominee checklist email to nominees to 1) confirm their nomination and 2) remind them to add a nomination statement page.
- ✓ Formally announce the slate of candidates.
- ✓ Open the TSC election voting via Condorcet.
- ✓ Email sent to all eligible voters to notify them that voting is now open. TSC will be notified via email that the announcement has gone out.
- ✓ Email sent to all eligible voters to remind them to vote.
- ✓ Email all opt-out members of our community personally to let them know the election is under way.
- ✓→ Email sent to all eligible voters two days prior to the close of voting as a reminder.
- ✓ Close voting EOD Pacific
- Publish the results of the election.
- 11:59 PM PDT/GMT-7
- ✓11 Email sent to all eligible voters the TSC mailing list announcing the results of the election. TSC will be notified via email that the results have been sent out.11
- → - Incoming TSC elects new TSC chairperson.
Eligibility
The Hyperledger Charter §4.a.ii defines the technical steering committee.
- Steady State: After the Startup Period, there shall be a nomination and election period for electing Contributors or Maintainers to the TSC. The TSC voting members shall consist of fifteen (15) elected Contributors or Maintainers chosen by the Active Contributors. An Active Contributor is defined as any Contributor who has had a contribution accepted into the code base during the prior twelve (12) months. The TSC shall approve the process and timing for nominations and elections held on an annual basis.
- Maintainers: Contributors who have the ability to commit code and contributions to a project’s main branch on an HLP project. A Contributor may become a Maintainer by a majority approval of the existing Maintainers.
- Contributors: Anyone in the technical community that contributes code, documentation or other technical artifacts to the HLP codebase.
FAQ
Q: How does one qualify to be able to vote or be nominated?
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