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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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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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