The Election Committee announces the third Steering Committee election

The Election Committee announces the third Steering Committee election

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Another year has passed since the Nix community voted in the second Nix Steering Committee. As some of their terms are coming to an end, the community must once again cast their ballots to form the next SC.

Call to action
  • If you are an automatically eligible voter, check your email in the voter list:https://github.com/NixOS/SC-election-2026/edit/main/eligible.csv
  • If you are not automatically eligible but significantly contributed to the official projects in one way or another, you may ask for an exception
    • Who can vote?

    The constitution defines a process for automatic voter eligibility based on the number of commits and merge actions in merged PRs opened by a person in any of the projects inside the NixOS GitHub organisation.

    • The minimal number of commits for automatic eligibility is 25
    • The minimal number of merges for automatic eligibility is 1
    • The eligibility window is the past 4 years from and to 1 Aug (see table below for exact dates)
    Who can run?

    Nominees and endorsers must themselves be eligible voters.

    How to request an exception

    People who have contributed to the official projects in a verifiable and substantial[1] way may send us an email at elections@nixos.org.

    • Provide references to contributions
    • Specify which email address you wish to use for voting

    A non-exhaustive list of examples of contributions:

    • participation in official teams
    • infrastructure maintenance
    • organisation of official events
    • maintenance of official third-party accounts (e.g. social media)
    • significant contribution to important PRs under overall PR authorship of other users
    How to become a candidate

    The outline of the candidate process is as follows:

    Please read the linked documentation for in-depth descriptions of the process.

    Comparison to last year’s election

    Automatic voter email discovery

    In response to feedback from last year, we reintroduced automatic discovery of voter emails (e.g. last year’s emails, maintainer list entries).

    All automatically eligible voters need to verify the email they wish to use in the eligible voter list:https://github.com/NixOS/SC-election-2026/edit/main/eligible.csv

    This can be any email, it does not need to correspond to their commits or maintainer entry.

    You will only be able to vote if you have a valid email in the voters file.

    If for whatever reason an automatically eligible voter can not open this PR using the corresponding GitHub account, please send us an email at elections@nixos.org.

    Same vote tallying system

    We will use OpaVote for vote tallying in addition to voting.

    We will use STV in order to fulfil the requirement of proportional-representation considerations, and we have chosen Meek STV as the specific version.

    Allowing questions to candidates before the candidate list is finalised

    We are opening candidate nominations and submission of questions at the same time.

    You may ask questions before all the candidates have been confirmed.

    You may mention specific candidate(s) in your question at any time after they have accepted their nomination. You don’t have to wait for any other step to be complete.

    Conflict of interest (CoI) handling

    The constitution disallows multiple people sharing the same CoI holding a seat on the SC immediately after the election.

    As the constitution does not forbid two candidates from sharing the same CoI, we may need to re-tally the votes until a group without shared CoIs is found.

    To allow verifiable re-tallying, we will make the anonymised list of ballots public. We reserve the right to use a local open-source Meek STV implementation in the case that re-tallying is necessary.

    Campaigning

    Election campaigning in official spaces is only allowed in applications and candidate Q&A - and in accordance to their format.

    Campaigning in any other official spaces, or not following the appropriate format, will be considered off-topic and removed.

    The EC and the moderation team have agreed to continue this practice from last year’s election.

    TimelineDescriptionStart dateEnd dateContribution window2022-08-01T00:00:01 UTC2026-08-01T00:00:01 UTCCandidate self-nominations, nominations, acceptances, and endorsements2026-09-242026-10-14Submission of questions from eligible voters to candidates2026-09-242026-10-14Exception requests2026-09-242026-10-14Candidates’ answers to the questions2026-09-242026-10-14Voting2026-10-152026-11-01Election Committee (EC)

    The EC is the temporary team to administer the election from start to finish. Its primary mission is to ensure legitimacy of the election.

    The election committee for this election consists of:

    For any questions, concerns or suggestions about this election, reach out to the election committee:

    Best regards,

    1. The constitution defines substantial contributions as roughly corresponding to at least 25 commits ↩︎

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