Hello Kata Citizens, On behalf of Wainer Moschetta and myself, Fabiano Fidêncio, as the approved election officials, it's a pleasure to announce that the "Candidate nomination period" for the Kata Containers architecture committee elections is now closed. Wainer joined me on this effort as an election official as Steve Horsman had to leave for reasons to be seen later in this email. As it's been known, we have 4 positions opened and we've had 6 very good candidates running for those 4 seats: * Archana Shinde: https://github.com/kata-containers/community/blob/main/elections/arch-commit... * Feng Wang: https://github.com/kata-containers/community/blob/main/elections/arch-commit... * Jeremi Piotrowski: https://github.com/kata-containers/community/blob/main/elections/arch-commit... * Samuel Ortiz: https://github.com/kata-containers/community/blob/main/elections/arch-commit... * Steve Horsman: https://github.com/kata-containers/community/blob/main/elections/arch-commit... * Tao Peng: https://github.com/kata-containers/community/commit/75cd2ac8c1563c45362d77b1... Please, from Tomorrow (April 13th, 2023), feel free to send questions for the Q&A/Debate period, and remember that you, as a potential candidate, is very welcome to also send your questions. :-) The remaining timeline for the election process is: * April 13, 15:00 UTC - April 23, 2023 14:59 UTC: Q&A/Debate period * April 24, 15:00 UTC - May 01, 2023 14:59 UTC: Voting open * May 02, 2023, results announced A reminder on 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 the election process! [1] https://github.com/kata-containers/community/tree/master/elections#architect... [2] https://github.com/kata-containers/community/tree/main/elections/arch-commit... [3] https://github.com/kata-containers/community/tree/main/elections [4] https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/KataArchCommElections-Spring-2023 Best Regards, -- Fabiano Fidêncio