Results of the first Python Steering Council election

The governance model adopted by the Python community after Guido van Rossum stepped down included the election of a Steering Council. The first such election has just concluded; the council will be made up of Barry Warsaw, Brett Cannon, Carol Willing, Guido van Rossum, and Nick Coghlan.

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From:		"Ernest W. Durbin III" <ernest-AT-python.org>
To:		python-committers-AT-python.org
Subject:		2019 Steering Council Election Results
Date:		Mon, 4 Feb 2019 07:11:33 -0500
Message-ID:		<etPan.5c582bf5.152d90c4.470@python.org>
Archive-link:		Article

Voting closed at 2019-02-04 12:00 UTC as prescribed in [PEP
8100](https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-8100/).

Of 96 eligible voters, 69 cast ballots.

The top five vote-getters are:

- Barry Warsaw
- Brett Cannon
- Carol Willing
- Guido van Rossum
- Nick Coghlan

No conflict of interest as defined in PEP 13 were observed.

Eligible voters have received result notification emails from helios, and may return to the system
to audit/verify the results.

Thanks to all participants! It was an honor serving as the administrator for the governance votes.

-Ernest W. Durbin III

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