** Please do read the message before responding with your nominations. We have a process, and if you don’t follow the process, it makes everything harder for everyone. ** ** The process is to email centos-board-private at centos.org. Read on for more details. ** At the April Board of Directors meeting, we discussed the annual process of re-appointing the Board of Directors, as defined in our Governance documents. At that time, two directors indicated that they wished to step down, to focus on other things in their life and open the seats to new contributors. (Historical note: The last time a director resigned, the Board simply appointed replacements with no public process. We believe that greater transparency is needed in this new chapter of our existence as a project, and are committed to making that happen.) With two resignations, we have 8 Board seats filled. Our governance definition as it currently stands indicates 8 to 11 seats[1], so we’re still covered. However, we have decided to continue to seat 10 directors as part of the new Board. To this end, we come to you, the CentOS Community, for nominations for who should fill those seats. We ask that you send nominations to centos-board-private at centos.org and NOT to this list. There are several reasons for this: 1) Our governance indicates that the Board selects the next Board. We do not have any defined notion of project “membership” or a voting class of any kind, other than the Board itself. We do not wish to give any false impression that a public vote will be held on this list. 2) We do not wish for this to devolve into a bikeshed over proposed names. 3) We do not wish for individuals named to assume that they have any particular advantage over other nominees, nor do we wish for anyone to be shamed, embarrassed, or disappointed, if they are named and then not seated on the Board. The Board will collect those nominations, consider them at an upcoming meeting, and select the next Board at that time. We ask, if you wish to nominate someone, to consider the list of director requirements/recommendations listed at https://www.centos.org/about/governance/director-requirements/ Thank you for your participation in this important moment in our project’s history. Rich, for the CentOS Board of Directors [1] https://www.centos.org/about/governance/