• Announcing Istio’s 2026 Steering Committee Elections With Contribution Seats allocated, members are now invited to stand for election to our four Community Seats. • The Istio Steering Committee oversees the administrative aspects of the project, including governance, branding, marketing, and working with the CNCF. • Every year, the leaders in the Istio project estimate the proportion of the hundreds of companies that have contributed to Istio in the past year, and uses that metric to proportionally allocate nine Contribution Seats on our Steering Committee. • Then, four Community Seats are voted for by our project members, with candidates being from companies that did not receive Contribution Seats. • We are pleased to share the result of this year’s calculation, and to kick off our Community Seat election. • Contribution seats The calculation for the 2026-2027 term reflects the deep investment of our vendors in the Istio open source project.

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  • Announcing Istio’s 2026 Steering Committee Elections With Contribution Seats allocated, members are now invited to stand for election to our four Community Seats. The Istio Steering Committee oversees the administrative aspects of the project, including governance, branding, marketing, and working with the CNCF. Every year, the leaders in the Istio project estimate the proportion of the hundreds of companies that have contributed to Istio in the past year, and uses that metric to proportionally allocate nine Contribution Seats on our Steering Committee. Then, four Community Seats are voted for

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