Thoughts on the first Kubernetes Steering Election

The first steering committee election for Kubernetes is now over.  Congratulations to Aaron Crickenberger, Derek Carr, Michelle Noorali, Phillip Wittrock, Quinton Hoole and Timothy St. Clair, who will be joining the newly formed Kubernetes Steering Committe.

If you're unfamiliar with what the SC does, you can check out their charter and backlog. I was fortunate to work alongside Paris Pittman on executing this election, hopefully the first of many "PB&J Productions".

To give you some backstory on this, the Kubernetes community has been bootstrapping it's governance over the past few years, and executing a proper election as stated in the charter was an important first step. Therefore it was critical for us to run an open election correctly.

Thankfully we can stand on the shoulders of giants. OpenStack and Debian are just two examples of projects with well formed processes that have stood the test of time. We then produced a voter's guide to give people a place where they could find all the information they needed and the candidates a spot to fill in their platform statements.

This morning I submitted a pull request with our election notes and steps so that we can start building our institutional knowledge on the process, and of course, to share with whomever is interested.

Also, a big shout out to Cornell University for providing CIVS as a public service.