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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- Self-nominations for the TSC election will open on 2020
Timeline
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- ✓ Send email to resolve duplicate email addresses to all contributors with multiple emails in our repos.✓ - 2020 The community architects will be running the eligibility scripts daily export contribution data from the Insights tool to gather the email addresses of contributors and updating update the eligibility check site. The export will not include data from the community's mailing list and chat channels.
- ✓ 2020 Publish the email template for submitting nominations and open the call for nominees.
- ✓ 2020 Email Communication sent to all eligible voters announcing the call for nominations (to include an email to the lists for projects, labs, WGs and SIGs plus communication through Github and the member and developer newsletters to reach anyone not on those lists). TSC will be notified via email that the announcement has gone out.
- ✓ Communication sent out about checking for eligibility to vote
- ✓ Email Communication about nominations and eligibility check sent to all eligible voters two days prior to the close of nominations as a reminder.
- ✓19 2020 Nominations close EOD Pacific✓ - . Go through activity log of the election list during the nomination period to see if any nomination statements were tagged as spam and rejected. Follow up with people as needed.
- ✓ - Send nominee checklist email to nominees to 1) confirm their nomination and 2) remind them to add a nomination statement page.
- ✓26 2020 Formally announce the slate of candidates.
- ✓ Open the TSC election voting via Condorcet.✓ Email OpaVote. An email will be sent to all eligible voters to notify them that voting is now open. with information about casting their ballot
- ✓ TSC will be notified via email that the announcement has gone out.
- ✓02 2020 Email sent to all eligible voters to remind them to vote.
- ✓ Email all opt-out members of our community personally to let them know the election is under way.✓ Email sent to all eligible voters two days prior to the close of voting as a reminder.
- ✓10 2020 Close voting 11:59 PM PDT/GMT-7
- ✓12 2020 Email sent to the TSC mailing list announcing the results of the election.
- →12 2020 - 18 2020 Incoming TSC elects new TSC chairperson.
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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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