To: TOC list and the announcements channel on DiscordFrom: Brian Behlendorf <bbehlendorf@linuxfoundation.org>
Reply-To: election@lists.hyperledger.org
To: TSC
Subject: Hyperledger TSC TOC Election Candidates and Start of Voting
Dear Hyperledger Community Members,
candidates and how to vote
I'd like I am pleased to announce the following slate of candidates for the 2020-2021 2022 Hyperledger Technical Steering Oversight Committee (TSCTOC) election. You are voting to elect 15 people from the 29 candidates listed below:
- Andrei Lebedev, Soramitsu
- Aneena Ann Alexander, Saintgits College of Engineering
- Angelo De Caro, IBM
- Arnaud J Le Hors, IBM
- Artem Barger, IBM
- Arun S M, Walmart
- Baohua Yang, Oracle
- Bobbi Muscara, Ledger Academy
- Bruno Vavala, Intel
- Chris Gabriel, Hyperchain Labs
- Chris Hoeppler, Bosch
- Christopher Hempel, Esatus
- Danno Ferrin, Consensys
- Dave Enyeart, IBM
- Gari Singh, IBM
- Grace Hartley, Consensys
- Hart Montgomery, Fujitsu
- María Teresa Nieto, Telefonica
- Mark Wagner, Redhat
- Nathan George, Kiva
- Peter Somogyvari, Accenture
- Rebecca Aspler, Unbound Tech
- Sara Garifullina, Soramitsu
- Sean Young, Independent
- Sownak Roy, Accenture
- Taku Shimosawa, Hitachi
- Tracy Kuhrt, Accenture
- Troy Ronda, SecureKey
- William Katsak, Taekion
- Yuxiang Liu, MediConCen
You will be using Cornell's CIVS system, using the Condorcet-IRV completion rule. It is a ranked voting system that allows you to weight candidates by placing them in an order of preference.
There are 17 people running this year. As a reminder, with the recent changes to the Charter there will be 6 people selected for the TOC based on the votes of maintainers and then the Governing Board will select 5 more people from the list of nominations.
This election is a chance for you to influence the direction and character of the Hyperledger community. I encourage you to take the time to read the following candidate statements linked from this email and consider your vote carefully. The nominees are:
You will be using the Helios election tool. It is a voting system that is integrated with Github.
Details about how to vote have been sent through Github to all eligible voters on Monday, November 1 and voting will remain open A ballot will be sent by email to all registered voters by the start of voting. Voting will begin at 12:01 AM Pacific Daylight Time (GMT -7) on Saturday, September 26th 2020 and continue until 11:59 PM Pacific Daylight Time (GMT -7) on Saturday, October 10th 2020.Wednesday, November 30. If you are expecting a voter and do not see this ballot by Monday morningballot and don't see one, first check your spam boxes as it may come from an unrecognized source. If you don't find it there, please send an email to election@lists.hyperledger.org.The TSC is responsible for setting the direction and character of the Hyperledger community across all its technical projects. This is your chance to influence that direction and character. The TSC should represent a broad range of voices from across the Hyperledger community. I encourage you to take the time to read the candidate statements linked from this email and consider your vote carefully.
Thank you,Brian Behlendorf
Executive Director, Hyperledger @ The Linux Foundation