# Election 2024 ## Summary of process This is the 2nd election to happen for the ArviZ project. The election process should now be stabilized and described at {ref}`council_selection`. ## Process details ### Nominations for the RV Council (April 12th) A GitHub issue within the [arviz-project](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz-project) repository has been created for nominations to take place: https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz-project/issues/49 The nomination period closed on April 27th with 6 people having been nominated. ### First round election (April 27th) The {ref}`first round of the election ` started after that, with Claudia Alvarado from NumFOCUS acting as election moderator. Voting forms were sent to everyone elegible to vote and it was open until May 9th. ### Election result (May 9th) The council elected from the first round election fulfilled all requirements established in the ArviZ governance. Consequently, no {ref}`tie breaking election ` was needed. Results from the election were the following: | Vote | Oriol Abril Pla | Ari Hartikainen | Seth Axen | Colin Carroll | Andy Maloney | Osvaldo Martin | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| | Yes | 14 | 12 | 14 | 15 | 8 | 14 | | Neutral | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 2 | | No | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | with a participation of 16 people out of the 46 who could vote. Following the selection criteria outlined in {ref}`the governance page `, from these votes a 5 people council is elected, comprised of: * @OriolAbril * @aloctavodia * @ColCarroll * @ahartikainen * @sethaxen