Anyone can stand for election (and existing members can stand for re-election). Prospective candidates simply need to nominate themselves by submitting a forum post (ideally five paragraphs or less) in the governance zcg-elections category, announcing their candidacy, and outlining why they believe they should be elected.
The deadline for nominations is 09:00 UTC on Friday 13th December 2024. The deadline for nominations has now passed. A list of the candidates standing for election is below, and the candidates have been added to the @ZCG_Candidates forum group.
Read this blog post, which contains important information about the election process, the process of becoming a ZCG Committee member (which includes completing a conflict of interest declaration), and
Announce your candidacy by posting in the ZCG Elections category
Reply to this topic with a link to your candidacy announcement. We will add you to the @ZCG_Candidates group, and add a link to all candidacy announcements in this top post in the order received.
All candidates will receive the title “ZCG Candidate” during the duration of the campaign so users can easily identify users that are standing for election.
If potential candidates have any questions about the role or the election process, please post them in this topic.
Any questions for the individual candidates should be posted in their individual candidacy topics to avoid everyone asking/answering questions in this thread.
I hope seating for a fourth term on ZCG and having this position to use as a form of leverage and communications tool is considered by the leader of shielded labs and the community.
During past polls, these emails have sometimes been flagged as spam. If you can’t find it, please check your spam folder (and hit the “Not Spam” button to help reduce the likelihood of future messages getting flagged as spam).
The poll will close at 09:00 UTC on 1st January 2025, so make sure you vote before you ring in the New Year!
Congratulations to @aquietinvestor who is re-elected to the ZCG Committee, and to @zerodartz and @artkor who will be joining the Committee.
Thank you also to @ambimorph, @tokidoki, @lisa001 (Chidi) and @kworks for volunteering to serve the community, and to both @ambimorph and @BrunchTime (who decided not to run for re-election) for their service as members of the Committee.
Thank you to everyone who supported my candidacy—I’m sincerely grateful for the trust and confidence you’ve placed in me. I appreciate the opportunity to continue serving as a committee member and will work hard to support the community’s goals and priorities. I’m excited to work with @artkor and @zerodartz who are long-time active members of the community and bring valuable perspectives and experience to the committee.
ZCG is now a majority non-US, globally distributed committee, which is a great step toward broader representation of the community. In fact, it’s so distributed that scheduling a meeting at a reasonable hour for everyone might be a challenge, haha!
I also want to say a huge thank you to @BrunchTime and @ambimorph for their service to ZCG. It’s been a pleasure working with both of them over the past three and two years, respectively. They both brought unique perspectives and energy to the committee, and I’ve learned a lot from working with them. I’m grateful for the effort they put into their roles.
2025 is going to be an exciting year for Zcash, and I’m looking forward to all that lies ahead.
