The Istio Steering Committee oversees the administrative aspects of the project, including governance, branding, marketing, and working with the CNCF. Every year, we estimate the proportion of the hundreds of companies that have contributed to Istio in the past year, and uses that metric to proportionally allocate the nine Contribution Seats on our Steering Committee. After that, four Community Seats are voted for by our project members, with candidates being from companies that did not recei...