Hello Kata Citizens,

On behalf of myself, Steve Horsman, as the

approved election official, it's a pleasure to announce that the Kata

Containers architecture committee elections for October 2023 are open!

There are four Architecture Committee seats up for election. The seats

up for election are currently filled by:

* `Eric Ernst (@egernst)`

* `Fabiano Fidêncio (@fidencio)`

* `Gerry Liu (@jiangliu)`

* `Feng Wang`

The timeline for the election process is:

* October 09, 15:00 UTC - October 16, 2023 14:59 UTC: Candidate nominations open

* October 17, 15:00 UTC - October 24, 2023 14:59 UTC: Q&A/Debate period

* October 25, 15:00 UTC - November 01, 2023 14:59 UTC: Voting open

* November 02, 2023, results announced

The window is now open for candidates to post their submissions. The

process to submit a nomination is:

1) Review the responsibilities of the Architecture Committee members [1]

2) Between now and October 16th at 14:59 UTC, you can declare your candidacy for

one of the open seats by submitting a text file with your name (please put

your name as the file name), the reason for running, and your

platform/objectives to this folder [2].

Who can vote:

Anyone who has had a commit merged into the project in the last 12 months

will be eligible to vote. All eligible voters will receive an email with a

link to the voting system once the voting period opens.

More details of the election process are outlined at [3] and in the

etherpad at [4].

Note, once candidacy entry has closed and we enter the debate period. We

will be openly asking the candidates some questions around their candidacy.

The community is encouraged to submit questions via the election officials

and etherpad at [4] - get your thinking caps on now in preparation... we

shall then filter, review, and choose a set of suitable questions for the

candidates.

Please let us know if you have any questions about running for a seat or

the election proccess!

[1] https://github.com/kata-containers/community/tree/master/elections#architecture-committee-responsibilities

[2] https://github.com/kata-containers/community/tree/main/elections/arch-committee-2023-10

[3] https://github.com/kata-containers/community/tree/main/elections

[4] https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/KataArchCommElections-Fall2023