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Hello Kata Citizens,

On behalf of Steve Horsman and myself, Fabiano Fidêncio, as the
approved election officials, it's a pleasure to announce that the Kata
Containers architecture committee elections for April 2023 are open!

There are four Architecture Committee seats up for election. The seats
up for election are currently filled by:
 * `Peng Tao (@bergwolf)
 * Samuel Ortiz (@sameo)
 * `Newly introduced seat
 * `Newly introduced seat

The timeline for the election process is:
 * Election officials approved by AC: March 28th, 2023
 * April 05, 15:00 UTC - April 12, 2023 14:59 UTC: Candidate nominations open
 * 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

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 April 12th 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]. Please also send a message to the
kata-dev ML (kata-dev at lists.katacontainers.io) with this same info,
declaring your
candidacy.

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 process!

Bin & Samuel.

[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-2023-04
[3] https://github.com/kata-containers/community/tree/main/elections
[4] https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/KataArchCommElections-Spring-2023

Best Regards,
--
Fabiano Fidêncio