2026 Bootstrap Steering Committee Election

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Hello Prometheus community,

Under the new Prometheus governance, we are holding a bootstrap election to seat the first Steering Committee.

TLDR / Action items:

• Anyone who is a maintainer of github.com/prometheus and github.com/prometheus-community repos / projects is eligible to vote and stand in the elections.
• Nomination period until 8 June 2026. Voting between 15 June – 29 June 2026
• Ensure your email is available in MAINTAINERS.md of the relevant repos
• Opt-in to receive a ballot at https://civs1.civs.us/cgi-bin/opt_in.pl

All 7 seats are up for election. The 3 highest-voted candidates will serve 2-year terms; the next 4 will serve 1-year terms, establishing the staggered cycle going forward. Full details, including the company-representation cap and tie-breaking rules, are in the election document: 2026 Steering Committee Election

Schedule

18 May 2026 — Call for nominations opens (today); voters list published
8 June 2026 23:59 UTC — Deadline to submit nominations
12 June 2026 — Official nominees list published; deadline to request a voter eligibility review
15 June – 29 June 2026 — Voting period (closes 29 June 23:59 UTC)
Soon after — Results announced; new Steering
Committee seated; new governance comes
into effect

To nominate yourself

Read the Governance document and confirm you are ready for the
commitment: https://github.com/prometheus/governance/blob/main/GOVERNANCE.md

If you're interested, add your nomination at candidate-<your-githubid>.md under elections/2026/, and open a PR
against prometheus/governance before 8 June 2026 23:59 UTC: nomination template

To vote

The canonical voters list is derived from accounts with write access across the prometheus and prometheus-community GitHub organizations:

https://github.com/prometheus/governance/blob/main/elections/2026/voters-list/write-access.csv

If you are a maintainer of a github.com/prometheus or github.com/prometheus-community repository, you are eligible to vote — but we can only reach you if your email is public. Please make sure your repository has a MAINTAINERS.md listing you with a contact email. If you believe you should be eligible but are not on the list, you can also submit a review request before 12 June 2026 23:59 UTC at: https://forms.gle/tasSbJ9cQdsfj5GV9

All existing prometheus-team members are automatically eligible.

Voting will be conducted via CIVS (Condorcet Internet Voting Service),
using ranked Condorcet with Instant Runoff Voting as the tie-breaker.
Voting is private — nobody, including the Election Officers, will know
any individual's vote.

To receive your ballot when voting opens on 15 June 2026, please opt
in via the CIVS form: https://civs1.civs.us/cgi-bin/opt_in.pl

Election Officers

Arianna Vespri (@vesari)
Goutham Veeramachaneni (@gouthamve)
Joe Adams (@sysadmind)

Please direct questions to the Election Officers, or to this issue.

Thanks for participating — and please take a moment to nominate
yourself or someone you'd encourage to run.

— The 2026 Bootstrap Election Officers