Zeek LT election process for the 2022 and future elections - zeek

17 Nov 2021

Hello Everyone,

As you probably know, the next LT elections are coming up in a bit less 
than a year – the plan is to hold elections around August 2021. Half 
the current LT seats will be up for re-election.

The current election process is documented in our wiki at 
https://github.com/zeek/zeek/wiki/Zeek-Project--Leadership-Team----Process-….

It was first used in the 2020 election. In a nutshell, the current 
process allows community members to nominate themselves (or someone 
else) for a seat on the LT. After contacting all the nominees, the LT 
publishes the list of nominations and encourages the community to 
provide testimonials for the nominees. The current LT then votes on the 
candidates.

For the 2022 election the LT wants to update the above mentioned LT 
Process and Description document. As described in the document, we are 
hereby seeking community input.

Specifically, the LT Process and Description currently states that we 
want to have an open community election starting with the 2022 election.

The LT discussed this in the last few meetings. It is the opinion of the 
LT that at the current time there is not yet a sufficient number of 
community-led groups to have a meaningful broader voting process. Hence, 
we propose to remove the sentences that refer to changing the election 
process for the 2022 and following elections, keeping the current voting 
process. A future LT can revisit this topic, once there are more active 
members in community-led groups.

If you have any feedback about this change, please let us know within 
the next four weeks (by 2021-12-15), either by responding to this 
message, by mailing the LT at lt(a)lists.zeek.org, or by mailing me 
directly.

Thank you,
  Johanna Amann (for the Zeek LT)