iners and leaders in the project, and we are delighted to have them join the Steering Committee.</p><h2 id=proposed-changes-to-election-timing>Proposed changes to election timing</h2><p>Our charter currently allocates Contribution Seats in February and holds the Community Seat election in July. We previously <a href=https://github.com/istio/community/pull/609#issuecomment-877302152>anticipated a situation</a> where people would change seat types mid-term, and this has now come to pass.</p><p>We will therefo