Add 2026 Bootstrap Steering Committee election materials

elections/2026/nomination-template.md

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+-------------------------------------------------------------
+name: Full Name
+ID: GitHubID
+info:
+  employer: Your employer or "Independent"
+  affiliation: Other organizations you contribute on behalf of (or "None")
+-------------------------------------------------------------
+
+<!--
+Please copy this template to "candidate-<githubid>.md" in this directory and
+fill out each section below.
+
+Reminders, per https://github.com/prometheus/governance/blob/main/GOVERNANCE.md:
+- You must be an Organization Member in good standing per ROLES.md to run.
+- No more than 2 seats may be held by employees or contractors of the same
+  organization. Please be accurate about your employer and any other
+  affiliations that materially direct your Prometheus work — this matters for
+  how votes resolve under the company-cap rule.
+- Terms are 2 years, staggered. There are no term limits.
+-->
+
+## Eligibility
+
+- [ ] I have read the
+  [Governance document](https://github.com/prometheus/governance/blob/main/GOVERNANCE.md)
+  and the
+  [Code of Conduct](https://github.com/prometheus/docs/blob/main/code-of-conduct.md),
+  and agree to uphold them if elected.
+
+## Teams
+
+<!--
+List the Prometheus teams and sub-projects you are a member of, and your role
+(member, maintainer, team lead). See https://prometheus.io/community/ and the
+team files under https://github.com/prometheus/docs.
+-->
+
+-
+
+## What I have done
+
+<!--
+A narrative of your contributions to Prometheus and the wider ecosystem. Useful
+things to cover:
+- How long you have been contributing and in which areas (server, TSDB,
+  Alertmanager, client libraries, exporters, PromQL, remote-write, docs,
+  community, releases, security, infrastructure, etc.).
+- Notable design proposals, features, or refactors you led or shepherded.
+- Cross-project work (OpenMetrics, OpenTelemetry, CNCF, downstream projects).
+- Community-facing work: mentoring, conference talks, dev summits, triage,
+  release management, incident response.
+
+Concrete links beat adjectives.
+-->
+
+## What I'll do
+
+<!--
+Your platform. What do you see as the most important things for Prometheus
+over the next 2 years, and what specifically would you push on as a Steering
+Committee member? Steering scope is governance, project health, and
+cross-team coordination — not setting technical direction inside teams. Be
+specific about what you would actually do.
+-->
+
+## Resources about me
+
+- GitHub: [@GitHubID](https://github.com/GitHubID)
+- Talks / writing:
+  -
+- Social / contact:
+  -

elections/2026/steering-committee-election.md

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+# Prometheus 2026 Bootstrap Steering Committee election
+
+This document lays out the 2026 Bootstrap Steering Committee election process
+per the Prometheus [Governance document](../../GOVERNANCE.md). This is the
+**bootstrap election** described in
+[Migrating from the old governance](../../GOVERNANCE.md#migrating-from-the-old-governance):
+it elects all 7 seats at once, after which the new governance comes into
+effect.
+
+The 3 highest-voted candidates will serve **2-year terms**; the next 4 will
+serve **1-year terms** to establish the staggered cycle.
+
+Election schedule:
+
+* **14 May 2026** — call for nominations opens; voters list published; this
+  document announced
+* **4 June 2026 23:59 UTC** — final deadline to submit nominations
+* **8 June 2026** — official nominees list published; deadline to request a
+  voter eligibility review
+* **11 June 2026 to 25 June 2026** — voting takes place
+* **2 July 2026** — results announced; new Steering Committee seated;
+  governance comes into effect
+
+We highly encourage participation in this election cycle to ensure that the
+community is well-represented by the Steering Committee.
+
+# TL;DR
+
+* If you are willing to nominate yourself: read the
+  [Governance document](../../GOVERNANCE.md) and confirm you are ready for the
+  commitment. Submit a candidate page based on the
+  [nomination template](./nomination-template.md) before 4 June 2026 23:59
+  UTC.
+* If you are an active community member: confirm that you are on the
+  [voters list](./voters-list/write-access.csv), or request a review via
+  [this form](https://forms.gle/tasSbJ9cQdsfj5GV9) before 8 June 2026 23:59
+  UTC if you believe you should be eligible but are not listed.
+* Vote between 11 June 2026 and 25 June 2026 23:59 UTC using the link the
+  Election Officers will send to eligible voters.
+* Keep being awesome and contributing to the project!
+
+# Vacancies
+
+There is no sitting Steering Committee — the new governance comes into effect
+once this bootstrap election concludes. **All 7 seats are up for election in
+this cycle.**
+
+Per the
+[migration section of the Governance document](../../GOVERNANCE.md#migrating-from-the-old-governance):
+
+* The 3 highest-voted candidates will serve **2-year terms** (until the
+  regular 2028 election).
+* The next 4 highest-voted candidates will serve **1-year terms** (until the
+  regular 2027 election), establishing the staggered cycle.
+
+# Voting process
+
+Anyone can track the 2026 election process via the election announcements
+issue (TBD — to be opened in
+[prometheus/governance](https://github.com/prometheus/governance/issues) by
+the Election Officers; questions and progress updates will live there).
+
+Per the migration section of the Governance document, the Election Officers
+for the bootstrap are picked by the existing Prometheus team members (rather
+than by a Steering Committee, since none exists yet). For this election they
+are:
+
+* **Arianna Vespri** ([@vesari](https://github.com/vesari))
+* **Goutham Veeramachaneni** ([@gouthamve](https://github.com/gouthamve))
+* **Joe Adams** ([@sysadmind](https://github.com/sysadmind))
+
+All three are Organization Members in good standing, are eligible to vote,
+are not running in this election, and have made a public promise of
+impartiality.
+
+We strive for transparency in the election process and hold the community's
+interests as our priority. All documents and assets related to the 2026
+election process will be public, and notes for any meetings held as part of
+this process will be recorded and distributed.
+
+Per the [Governance document](../../GOVERNANCE.md#voting-procedure),
+elections are held using a ranked **Condorcet** voting method. For this
+election the Election Officers have selected
+[CIVS](https://civs1.civs.us/) (Condorcet Internet Voting Service), using
+**Condorcet with Instant Runoff Voting (IRV) as the tie-breaker**. CIVS
+supports ranked Condorcet ballots and provides standard tie-breaking via IRV;
+voting is private (no individual's vote is revealed).
+
+# Nominations
+
+Per [the Governance document](../../GOVERNANCE.md#candidate-eligibility),
+Organization Members eligible to vote may stand for election. **Candidates
+must self-nominate.** There are no term limits.
+
+To nominate yourself, copy [`nomination-template.md`](./nomination-template.md)
+to `candidate-<githubid>.md` in this directory, fill it out, and submit it as
+a Pull Request to the
+[prometheus/governance](https://github.com/prometheus/governance) repository
+before **4 June 2026 23:59 UTC**.
+
+The template asks for:
+
+* Full name and GitHub ID
+* Employer and any other affiliations that materially direct your Prometheus
+  work (this matters for the company-cap rule below)
+* An eligibility checkbox confirming you have read the Governance document
+  and the Code of Conduct
+* The Prometheus teams and sub-projects you are a member of
+* A narrative of what you have done and what you would push on as a Steering
+  Committee member
+* Links so voters can learn more about you
+
+Nominees should also send a preferred contact email address to the Election
+Officers — it will be kept private and used only for candidate communications
+as the election process proceeds. Contact via the email addresses listed on
+the Election Officers' GitHub profiles, or by tagging all three on the
+nomination PR.
+
+# Voter Eligibility
+
+All [Organization Members](../../ROLES.md#member) are eligible to vote. The
+voter roll for this election is captured under [`voters-list/`](./voters-list/)
+in this directory:
+
+* [`write-access.csv`](./voters-list/write-access.csv) — canonical voter
+  list, derived from accounts with write access across the
+  [prometheus](https://github.com/prometheus) and
+  [prometheus-community](https://github.com/prometheus-community) GitHub
+  organizations.
+* [`write-access-raw.csv`](./voters-list/write-access-raw.csv) — full
+  per-org / per-repo provenance behind the canonical list.
+* [`manifest.json`](./voters-list/manifest.json) — record of every API call
+  used to assemble the list, with timestamps and counts.
+* [`main.go`](./voters-list/main.go) (with `go.mod` / `go.sum`) — the
+  `collect-write-access` tool used to generate the lists, so anyone can
+  reproduce the result.
+
+Per the migration section of the Governance document, eligibility for the
+bootstrap election may include members and maintainers who are inactive
+under the regular activity requirements; that is intentional, and they may
+still participate in this vote.
+
+If you believe you should be eligible to vote but are not on the list,
+please submit an eligibility review request via this form:
+[https://forms.gle/tasSbJ9cQdsfj5GV9](https://forms.gle/tasSbJ9cQdsfj5GV9),
+before **8 June 2026 23:59 UTC**. Eligibility review requests are private;
+only the Election Officers will have access to this information.
+
+# Vote
+
+Voting will be conducted via [CIVS](https://civs1.civs.us/) using ranked
+Condorcet with IRV tie-breaking. Eligible voters listed in
+[`write-access.csv`](./voters-list/write-access.csv) will receive a unique
+voting link by email at the address associated with their GitHub account (or
+the address provided through the eligibility-review process).
+
+Each voter ranks the candidates in order of preference. CIVS computes the
+Condorcet winner(s) and uses IRV to break any cycles or ties.
+
+The Election Officers will accept late requests to re-send the voting link.
+We encourage pre-registration via the eligibility-review process to minimize
+the effort required to run this election.
+
+Voting is private: nobody — including the Election Officers — will know any
+individual's vote.
+
+# Results
+
+Voting will close at **25 June 2026 23:59 UTC**. The Election Officers will
+publish the full CIVS results, then apply the company-representation cap.
+
+Per the
+[Governance document](../../GOVERNANCE.md#limitations-on-company-representation),
+no more than 2 seats may be held by employees or contractors of the same
+organization (or conglomerate). If the raw ranking would result in more than
+2 people from the same organization being seated, the lowest-ranked
+candidate(s) from that employer are skipped until representation is at most
+2.
+
+Once the 7-seat slate is finalized:
+
+* The **top 3** by Condorcet ranking serve **2-year terms** (through the
+  regular 2028 election cycle).
+* The **next 4** serve **1-year terms** (through the regular 2027 election
+  cycle).
+
+Results will be announced by **2 July 2026** (within 1 week of voting close).
+On that date the new Steering Committee is seated, the
+[Committee members](../../GOVERNANCE.md#committee-members) table in
+GOVERNANCE.md will be filled in by PR, and the new governance comes into
+effect.
+
+# Schedule
+
+| Date                       | Activity                                                                                                                                       |
+|----------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
+| 14 May 2026                | This document announced; call for nominations opens; voters list published; announced via [prometheus-developers](https://groups.google.com/g/prometheus-developers) and [prometheus-users](https://groups.google.com/g/prometheus-users) |
+| 4 June 2026 23:59 UTC      | End of call for nominations                                                                                                                    |
+| 8 June 2026                | List of nominees finalized and announced; deadline to request a voter eligibility review                                                       |
+| 11 June 2026               | Voting period begins (CIVS links sent)                                                                                                         |
+| 25 June 2026 23:59 UTC     | Voting ends                                                                                                                                    |
+| 2 July 2026                | Results announced; new Steering Committee seated; governance comes into effect                                                                 |

elections/2026/voters-list/go.mod

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+module collect-write-access
+
+go 1.25
+
+require github.com/google/go-github/v66 v66.0.0
+
+require github.com/google/go-querystring v1.1.0 // indirect
+

elections/2026/voters-list/go.sum

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