2022 TSC Chair election - Planning for May 1 ballot.

[mhdawson]

May is the month for TSC Elections. The proposed schedule is:

April 16 - Call for nominations
April 30 - Close nominations
May 1 - Open balloting
May 15 - Announce Results
May 16-29- Handover
May 30 (or earlier if handover complete) Transition complete

Sound good?

[Trott]

This is fine by me, but I also wouldn't mind a shorter timeframe. Like, I don't think we need to wait two weeks before opening the call for nominations, and I don't think we need to leave the call open for two weeks, and I don't think the balloting needs to be open for two weeks. All of those things strike me as "one week is plenty of time" kind of things.

[jasnell]

+1 to @Trott's suggestion for one week for each step.

[Trott]

Like I said, this is fine with me, but I would prefer this:

• April 4: Call for Nominations
• April 10: Close nominations
• April 11: Open balloting
• April 17: Close balloting
• April 18 Announce results and begin handover (if any is needed)

[gireeshpunathil]

looking at last election for prior arts:

• the current chair's tenure ends on May 30th, so any new schedule schould aim for transition by that date, not before?
• there was a discussion on multiple chairs / vice chair that was not pursued then, so if we stick to @mhdawson's proposed schedule, we have time to discuss and converge on this topic.

[mhdawson]

@Trott we can go for shorter timeline but as @gireeshpunathil says we should then start in May to target the tenure end of May 30.

[mhdawson]

Based on end of term being May 30 and suggestion for 1 week per step I suggest we do:

May 9: Call for Nominations
May 15 : Close nominations
May 16: Open balloting
May 23: Close balloting
May 24: Announce results and begin handover (if any is needed)

We can then repeat the same every May.

@gireeshpunathil maybe you can bring up the suggestion for a vice chair in the TSC meeting this week to get the discussion started. With this proposed schedule we have a three of weeks to discuss before we'd start the process.

[mhdawson]

Today was the day we agreed to open nominations and we agreed to vote on a chair and vice-chair position. If you would like to run please post in the issue and include which position(s) you would like to run for.

EDIT: Adding that the nomination period runs until May 15.