Charter
4. Technical Oversight Committee (“TOC”)
a. Composition
i. Composition. The TOC voting members shall consist of eleven (11) individuals who are active within the scope of the Hyperledger Foundation and who have nominated themselves for the TOC and have been elected or appointed pursuant to Section 4.a.ii. or Section 4.a.iii. (such individuals for a particular election, the “TOC Nominees”).
ii. Elections. Elections will be administered and overseen by the TOC. All maintainers (or similar technical role in the case of Supported Projects that have different technical roles than TOC Projects) of any Technical Project who have been active in the past year will elect six (6) individuals from among the TOC Nominees to serve as TOC voting members.
iii. Appointments. For the purposes of ensuring appropriate diversity on the TOC and that the TOC has all of the relevant expertise concerning the scope of the Hyperledger Foundation’s technical activities, the Governing Board annually will appoint the remaining five (5) voting members of the TOC from among the TOC Nominees.
iv. As used in Sections 4.a.i. and 4.a.ii., “active” means having made at least one contribution accepted to any Technical Project during the prior 12 months.
v. At any time the TOC may vote to approve an alternate composition of the TOC, with the approval of the Governing Board.
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- - Formally announce the slate of candidates.
- - Open the vote using https://vote.heliosvoting.org/. A GitHub notification will be sent to eligible voters with information about casting their ballot. GitHub IDs will be used for the voters.
- - TOC will be notified via email that the vote is open.
- - Election closes at 1123:59 PM US/Pacific time (Dec. 1, 2022, 7:59 a.m. (UTC).)
- - The vote results will determine the 6 elected TOC members. These members will be removed from the appointment vote.
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The Governing Board will appoint 5 people from the list of TOC Nominees excluding the 6 elected TOC members. The Governing Board will be provided with the results of the election from the maintainers so that they can ensure appropriate diversity of the TOC during their vote.
Appointment Timeline
- - Open the vote using OpaVote, Condorcet IRV ranking/election method.
- - An email will be sent to the governing board informing them of the vote and to look for a separate email with the link. In addition, the results of the election from the maintainers will be provided to the Governing Board.
- - Reminder email sent to the governing board.
- 09 - Election closes at 11:59 PM US/Pacific time12 noon UTC
- - Email sent to the TOC mailing list announcing the newly elected and appointed TOC members.
TOC Chair/Vice Chair Election
- - Incoming TOC elects the new TOC chair and vice chair