Hi Kata Containers community, On behalf of myself, Ildiko Vancsa (@ildikov), and Wainer dos Santos Moschetta (@wainersm), as the approved election officials, it's a pleasure to announce that the second Kata Containers Architecture Committee (AC) election in 2025 has now started! There are three[1] AC seats up for election in this round. The window is now open for candidates to post their submissions, and will remain open until October 10, 2025 14:59 UTC. The process to submit a nomination is as follows: 1) Review the responsibilities of the Architecture Committee members[2] 2) Between now and October 10th 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[3]. 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. Debate period: Note that 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 which then will be posted on the GH discussion board[4] - get your thinking caps on now in preparation... we shall then filter, review, and choose a set of suitable questions for the candidates. More details of the election process are outlined at [5]. Please let us know if you have any questions about running for a seat or the election process! Thank you, Ildiko Vancsa [1] https://github.com/kata-containers/community/tree/main/elections/arch-commit... [2] https://github.com/kata-containers/community/tree/main/elections#architectur... [3] https://github.com/kata-containers/community/tree/main/elections/arch-commit... [4] https://github.com/kata-containers/community/discussions [5] https://github.com/kata-containers/community/tree/main/elections