2024 SC Election Files (#1629)

* Adding SC 2024 election files

* Fix voter eligibility link

* Update elections/2024-SC/README.md

Co-authored-by: Paul Schweigert <paul@paulschweigert.com>

* Update elections/2024-SC/README.md

Co-authored-by: Paul Schweigert <paul@paulschweigert.com>

* Reflect latest schedule changes

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Co-authored-by: Paul Schweigert <paul@paulschweigert.com>

elections/2024-SC/OWNERS

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+# The OWNERS file is used by prow to automatically merge approved PRs.
+
+# Ignores /approve from SC members
+options:
+  no_parent_owners: true
+
+approvers:
+- geekygirldawn
+- jberkus
+- creydr
+reviewers:
+- geekygirldawn
+- jberkus
+- creydr

elections/2024-SC/README.md

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+---
+title: "Knative Steering Committee Election - 2024 Voters Guide"
+linkTitle: "2024 Voters Guide"
+weight: 30
+type: "docs"
+---
+
+# 2024 Voters Guide - Knative Steering Committee Election
+
+## Purpose
+
+The role of this election is to fill out the two (2) seats due for election
+this year on the [Knative Steering Committee]. Each elected member will serve a
+two (2) year term.  
+
+## Background
+
+This election will shape the future of Knative as a community and project. The
+Knative Steering Committee (SC) is responsible for the general health of the
+Knative community, as well as establishing and coordinating other working groups.
+
+## Eligibility
+
+Please refer to the [SC Election Charter] for:
+
+- [Eligibility for candidacy]
+- [Eligibility for voting]
+
+The list of eligible voters is stored [in the community repository](./voters.yaml), but it is easier
+to check if you are eligible by logging into [Elekto]. See Voting Process below for more details.
+
+## Schedule
+
+| Date         | Event                    |
+| ------------ | ------------------------ |
+| November 20  | Announcement of Election, call for nominations, exceptions |
+| December 2   | All candidate nominations due by 00:00 UTC (5:00pm Pacific) |
+| December 5   | Election Begins via Elekto UI |
+| December 17  | Voter exception requests due by 23:59 UTC (4:59pm Pacific) |
+| December 20  | Election Closes by 23:59 UTC (4:59pm Pacific) |
+| January 7    | Announcement of Results |
+
+## Election Officers
+
+In an effort to run a fair and transparent election, the following people
+have been asked by the Steering Committee to run this election:
+
+- [Dawn Foster](/~https://github.com/geekygirldawn)
+- [Christoph Stäbler](/~https://github.com/creydr)
+
+You can reach us by emailing elections@knative.team
+
+## Candidacy Process
+
+**Nomination**
+
+If you want to stand for election for a Steering Committee Seat, open a PR against the
+[knative/community repository](/~https://github.com/knative/community) to include
+your candidate profile in the `/elections/2024-SC` folder, with the following
+filename format:
+
+```
+candidate-githubid.md
+```
+
+This profile should include:
+
+* Your name
+* Your company affiliation (employer or otherwise)
+* Your contributions to Knative
+* Why you are running
+
+You can find [a sample template in the folder](./nomination-template.md).
+
+Once you have created the PR, you may email knative-dev@googlegroups.com and/or knative-users@googlegroups.com
+*once* to let people know about your candidacy and encourage endorsements as
+comments on the PR. Please use a text similar to the text below for your email in order to
+encourage endorsements in Github and not on the mailing list:
+
+```
+Fellow Knative community members,
+
+My name is {your name} and I am running for Steering Committee.  You can read
+my profile here: {link to PR}.  If you support my candidacy, please endorse me
+by commenting on that PR.  Please do not reply to endorse me on this list.
+```
+
+After a candidate has met all election requirements, the Election Officers will
+merge the profile PR.
+
+If you want to nominate someone else, you may do so, but PLEASE talk to them
+first.
+
+**Campaigning**
+
+Please refer to the [SC Election Charter] and understand
+that we care deeply about [limiting corporate campaigning]. The election
+officers and members of the steering committee [pledge to recuse] themselves
+from any form of electioneering.
+
+You should be running as a "brand free" individual, based on your contribution
+to the project as a member of this community, outside of whatever corporate
+roles you may hold.
+
+## Voting Process
+
+Elections will be held using [Elekto], an online voting tool created
+as a CNCF internal project. As a reminder it relies on GitHub Oauth to log you
+in to vote, instead of relying on email. More details on voting are in the [Elekto documentation].
+
+Thus, when you go to [Elekto] you will be prompted to log in your GitHub account.
+Please do so, and then click on "Explore Election" to look at the list of 
+elections.  From there you can click on the "2023 Knative SC Election."
+
+The election page will, among other things, tell you if you are eligible to vote,
+via a button at the top of the screen. Due to limitations in our contributor
+data, many contributors may have been unfairly missed; if you are one of these,
+please [file a voting exception] by the deadline listed above so that we can
+enfranchise you.
+
+As candidates file their candidate statements in the community repo, they will
+become visible in the [Elekto] UI.  You may click through to any candidate
+to see their profile.
+
+Once the vote begins, you will be able to rank the candidates in the order of
+your preference, and submit your ballot.  When you submit, you will be offered
+a chance to set a password, which is required if you want the ability to return
+and re-cast your ballot before the election close deadline found above.
+
+Employer diversity is encouraged, and thus maximal representation will be
+enforced as spelled out in the [SC Election Charter].
+
+Elekto is being run on an OpenShift instance operated by Red Hat's Open Source 
+Practice Office.  Individual ballot data is encrypted, and not retrievable by 
+anyone except the voter, or in aggregate form.
+
+### Decision
+Ballots are compiled by Elekto and all candidates are ranked using the [Condorcet]
+method, Schultze variant.
+
+The newly elected body will be announced on the knative-dev mailing list.
+
+Following the mailing list post, the raw voting results and winners will be published on the
+[Knative Blog].
+
+For more information, definitions, and/or detailed election process, please refer to
+the [SC Election Charter].
+
+[Knative Steering Committee]: /~https://github.com/knative/community/blob/main/STEERING-COMMITTEE.md
+[SC Election Charter]: /~https://github.com/knative/community/blob/main/mechanics/SC.md
+
+[limiting corporate campaigning]: /~https://github.com/kubernetes/steering/blob/master/elections.md#limiting-corporate-campaigning
+[pledge to recuse]: /~https://github.com/kubernetes/steering/blob/master/elections.md#steering-committee-and-election-officer-recusal
+
+[Elekto]: https://elections.knative.dev
+[Elekto documentation]: https://elekto.dev/docs/
+
+[Knative Blog]: https://knative.dev/blog/
+[voters.md]: ./voters.yaml
+
+[Eligibility for candidacy]: /~https://github.com/knative/community/blob/main/mechanics/SC.md#candidate-eligibility
+[Eligibility for voting]: /~https://github.com/knative/community/blob/main/mechanics/SC.md#voter-eligibility
+
+[file a voting exception]: https://elections.knative.dev/app/elections/2023-SC/exception
+[Condorcet]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condorcet_method

elections/2024-SC/election.yaml

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+name: Knative 2024 SC
+organization: Knative
+start_datetime: 2024-12-05 00:00:01
+end_datetime: 2024-12-20 23:59:00
+no_winners: 2
+allow_no_opinion: True
+delete_after: True
+show_candidate_fields:
+  - affiliation
+  - owners
+election_officers:
+  - geekygirldawn
+  - jberkus
+  - creydr
+eligibility: All Knative contributors with more than 25 contributions in the last 12 months are eligible to vote
+exception_description: If you should be eligible to vote, and find that you are unable to, please fill out the exceptions form.    Otherwise, contact elections@knative.team.
+exception_due: 2024-12-17 23:59:00

elections/2024-SC/nomination-template.md

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+-------------------------------------------------------------
+name: Your Name
+ID: GithubID
+info:
+  - affiliation: Employer or other org affiliation
+-------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Please copy this file and rename it `candidate-GithubID.md` and then PR it into 
+the election directory.  Please do not use @ characters in the YAML header.
+
+Here's a paragraph about my contributions to Knative.
+
+Here's a paragraph about why I'm running.

elections/2024-SC/voters.yaml

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+eligible_voters:
+- ahmetcihank
+- aliok
+- asr2003
+- astelmashenko
+- bobymcbobs
+- braunsonm
+- cali0707
+- cardil
+- christophd
+- ckcd
+- converge
+- creydr
+- davidhadas
+- dharmjit
+- dilipgb
+- dprotaso
+- dsimansk
+- erakin575
+- evankanderson
+- firatbezir
+- gabo1208
+- gauron99
+- houshengbo
+- ikavgo
+- izabelacg
+- jrangelramos
+- kahirokunn
+- kauzclay
+- krsna-m
+- leo6leo
+- lkingland
+- maschmid
+- matejvasek
+- matzew
+- mdwhitley
+- mgencur
+- mmejia02
+- nainaz
+- nak3
+- navinag1989
+- neerajnagure
+- nkreiger
+- norbjd
+- octonawish-akcodes
+- parth721
+- pastequo
+- pawarpranav83
+- pierdipi
+- prajjwalyd
+- prashantrewar
+- prushh
+- psschwei
+- rahul-kumar-prog
+- rahulii
+- retocode
+- rhuss
+- ricardozanini
+- sadath-12
+- saschaschwarze0
+- satyampsoni
+- shivamgupta2020
+- shravaniak
+- skonto
+- upodroid
+- valen-mascarenhas14
+- xiangpingjiang
+- yijie-04
+- yuzisun
+- zazzscoot
+- zhouhaibing089