If you have any questions about the election, nomination, or you think you should be eligible to vote but are not showing up in the online check tool, please email election@lists.hyperledger.org
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The Hyperledger Charter §4.a.ii defines the technical steering committee.
- Steady State: After the Startup Period, there shall be a nomination and election period for electing Contributors or Maintainers to the TSC. The TSC voting members shall consist of fifteen (15) elected Contributors or Maintainers chosen by the Active Contributors. An Active Contributor is defined as any Contributor who has had a contribution accepted into the code base during the prior twelve (12) months. The TSC shall approve the process and timing for nominations and elections held on an annual basis.
- Maintainers: Contributors who have the ability to commit code and contributions to a project’s main branch on an HLP project. A Contributor may become a Maintainer by a majority approval of the existing Maintainers.
- Contributors: Anyone in the technical community that contributes code, documentation or other technical artifacts to the HLP codebase.
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The Community Architecture team gathers this information together first by running This tool is run against "all" and "labs" to harvest from github everyone that has contributed to the code bases in the past year. The CA's also email all of the work groups' Chairs to determine who has contributed other Documentation or technical artifactsby exporting contribution data from the Linux Foundation's Insights metrics dashboard. This dashboard tracks activities from people who have contributed to the community Github and Confluence tools. There is also a form where people can petition about other technical contributions that have been made.
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A: First determine if you or the other person is eligible, see above. If you are nominated somebody other than yourself, please contact them first and ask if they would like to be nominated. Then send an email to the election mailing list with the subject "TSC Election Nomination" with the following message:
Dear Election Committee,
I nominate myself/<nominee's name> for the TSC election. My/their email address is <email>.
Thanks,
<your name>
Q: Somebody nominated me for the TSC and I do not want to do it, what can I do?
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