OCI TOB Election 2026 #148
Description
Time Flies When You're OCI... It's time for another TOB election 🎉
- Call for Nominations will open on Monday, December 8, 2025 and end on Friday, Jan 9, 2026
- Call for Votes will open Mon., January 12, 2026 and end on Mon., January 26, 2026.
- Vote winner will be announced on Tuesday, January 27th.
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:
- Sajay Antony [Microsoft] (term date: 1/29/2024 - 1/29/2026)
- Ramkumar Chinchani [Cisco] (term date: 1/29/2024 - 1/29/2026)
- Phil Estes [AWS] (term date: 1/29/2022 - 1/29/2026)
- Samuel Karp [Google] (term date: 1/29/2022 - 1/29/2026) [Chair]
- Giuseppe Scrivano [Red Hat] (term date: 1/29/2024 - 1/29/2026)
Nomination Form Responder URL: https://forms.gle/4hKBfrnni2wjtJbg8