Abstract

This document describes the schedule and other details of the January2019 election for the Python steering council, as specified inPEP 13. This is the first steering council election.

Returns officer

In future elections, the returns officer will be appointed by theoutgoing steering council. Since this is the first election, we haveno outgoing steering council, andPEP 13 says that the returns officeris instead appointed by the PSF Executive Director, Ewa Jodlowska.She appointed Ee Durbin.

Schedule

There will be a two-week nomination period, followed by a two-weekvote.

The nomination period is: January 7, 2019 through January 20, 2019

The voting period is: January 21, 2019 12:00 UTC through February 4, 2019 12:00UTC (The end of February 3, 2019Anywhere on Earth)

Candidates

Candidates must be nominated by a core team member. If the candidateis a core team member, they may nominate themselves.

Once the nomination period opens, candidates will be listed here:

1. Brett Cannon
2. Alyssa (Nick) Coghlan
3. Barry Warsaw
4. Guido van Rossum
5. Victor Stinner
6. Yury Selivanov
7. David Mertz
8. Łukasz Langa
9. Benjamin Peterson
10. Mariatta
11. Carol Willing
12. Emily Morehouse
13. Peter Wang
14. Donald Stufft
15. Travis Oliphant
16. Kushal Das
17. Gregory P. Smith

Voter Roll

All active Python core team members are eligible to vote.

Ballots will be distributed based on theThe Python Voter Roll for thiselection[1].

While this file is not public as it contains private email addresses, theComplete Voter Roll by name is available.

Election Implementation

The election will be conducted using theHelios Voting Service.

Results

Of the 96 eligible voters, 69 cast ballots.

The top five vote-getters are:

• Barry Warsaw
• Brett Cannon
• Carol Willing
• Guido van Rossum
• Alyssa (Nick) Coghlan

No conflict of interest as defined inPEP 13 were observed.

The full vote counts are as follows:

Copyright

This document has been placed in the public domain.

Complete Voter Roll

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