OCI TOB Election 2024

[amye]

A new year means a new election:

Call for Nominations will open on December 18, 2023 and end on Mon, Jan 15, 2024 Call for Votes will open Tue, Jan 16, 2024 and end on Tue, January 23, 2024. Vote winner will be announced on Wednesday, January 24th.

Each OCI member can submit up to one candidate for nomination, which they are then voted upon by OCI membership. Here are the relevant sections from the OCI charter: https://github.com/opencontainers/tob/blob/main/CHARTER.md

e. The TOB shall be composed of nine (9) individuals elected for their expertise, contribution to the advancement of container technologies and are considered to be thought leaders in the OCI ecosystem. Anyone may be elected to the TOB, regardless of whether the individual is an employee of an OCI Member, so long as they are an OCI TDC participant. A TOB member is elected as an individual and not as a representative of his or her employer. No more than two (2) TOB members may be employed by the same entity or its affiliates. Affiliates shall be defined as entities owning 50% or more of an entity, or owned by or under common ownership with each other. TOB members may not designate alternative representatives.

f. TOB members shall be split into two (2) groups, serving for a term of two (2) years on a staggered basis, where one group is elected each year. The initial TOB will have four (4) TOB members who will only serve for a term of one year and five (5) TOB members that serve for a term of two (2) years.

g. The initial TOB shall be established through a nomination and election process. The first group from which four (4) TOB members shall be elected, will be nominated and elected by the current TDC maintainers, initially identified in Section 4(e), and serve for a period of one (1) year. Each TDC maintainer may nominate up to two (2) candidates for election, except that only one (1) nominee may be employed by the TDC maintainer’s own company. The second group from which five (5) TOB members shall be elected, will be nominated and elected by the OCI Members and serve for a period of two (2) years. Each OCI Member may nominate one (1) candidate for election.

The 5 TOB slots open are:

Josh Dolitsky [Chainguard] (term date: 1/29/2022 - 1/29/2024) Phil Estes [AWS] (term date: 1/29/2022 - 1/29/2024) Jon Johnson [Chainguard] (term date: 1/29/2022 - 1/29/2024) Nisha Kumar [Oracle] (term date: 1/29/2022 - 1/29/2024) Samuel Karp [Google] (term date: 1/29/2022 - 1/29/2024) [Chair]

[hallyn]

Hi @amye - is there a googleform which should be used? I don't see it in the issue, whereas I do in issues for some past elections.

[amye]

Try this: https://forms.gle/u8AXw4zmbq96sRZv8

[amye]

Nominations will remain open through Jan 16, the 15th is a US holiday.

[tianon]

Just to make sure it's clear, this is the round with nominations by OCI Members (as in companies, not maintainers), right?

[amye]

Correct. This is the member nominated group: "The second group from which five (5) TOB members shall be elected, will be nominated and elected by the OCI Members and serve for a period of two (2) years."

[caniszczyk]

In 2025 it will alternate back to the 4 slots dedicated for the maintainers :)

On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 5:20 PM Amye Scavarda Perrin < @.***> wrote:

Correct. This is the member nominated group: "The second group from which five (5) TOB members shall be elected, will be nominated and elected by the OCI Members and serve for a period of two (2) years."

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[amye]

Congratulations to our new TOB members:

• Giuseppe Scrivano
• Ramkumar Chinchani
• Phil Estes
• Samuel Karp
• Sajay Antony

Note: we had the exact right number of candidates nominated, no election will be held.