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layout: blog
title: '2018 Steering Committee Election Results'
date: 2018-10-15
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**Authors**: Jorge Castro (Heptio), Ihor Dvoretskyi (CNCF), Paris Pittman (Google)

## Results
The [Kubernetes Steering Committee Election](https://kubernetes.io/blog/2018/09/06/2018-steering-committee-election-cycle-kicks-off/) is now complete and the following candidates came ahead to secure two year terms that start immediately:

* Aaron Crickenberger, Google, [@spiffxp](https://github.com/spiffxp)
* Davanum Srinivas, Huawei, [@dims](https://github.com/dims)
* Tim St. Clair, Heptio, [@timothysc](https://github.com/timothysc)

## Big Thanks!

* Steering Committee Member Emeritus [Quinton Hoole](https://github.com/quinton-hoole) for his service to the community over the past year. We look forward to
* The candidates that came forward to run for election. May we always have a strong set of people who want to push community forward like yours in every election.
* All 307 voters who cast a ballot.
* And last but not least...Cornell University for hosting [CIVS](https://civs.cs.cornell.edu/)!

## Get Involved with the Steering Committee
You can follow along to Steering Committee [backlog items](https://git.k8s.io/steering/backlog.md) and weigh in by filing an issue or creating a PR against their [repo](https://github.com/kubernetes/steering). They meet bi-weekly on [Wednesdays at 8pm UTC](https://github.com/kubernetes/steering) and regularly attend Meet Our Contributors.

Steering Committee Meetings:

* [YouTube Playlist](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL69nYSiGNLP1yP1B_nd9-drjoxp0Q14qM)

Meet Our Contributors Steering AMA’s: 

* [Oct  3 2018](https://youtu.be/x6Jm8p0K-IQ)
* [Sept 5 2018](https://youtu.be/UbxWV12Or58)