term.</p><p>We would now like to invite members from outside our Contribution Seat holders to stand for election. <a href=https://github.com/istio/community/blob/master/steering/elections/2025/README.md>Nominations are due by February 23</a>.</p><h3 id=voters>Voters</h3><p>Eligibility to vote is defined in the charter as either:</p><ul><li>a project member who has had at least one Pull Request merged in the past 12 months, or</li><li>someone who has submitted the <a href=https://forms.gle/WRgXEwdqR166eghTA>