Alex Martelli and I have been working on a Term Limits PEP and I am hoping that when it lands you will support it because the principal goal is to foster diversity and inclusion.
The current system heavily favors incumbents, leaving few to no open seats. One of the current Steering Council candidates for a second term has already sat on the PSF board for over a decade. That has created exclusion problems that is leadingthe PSF itself to work on reforms such as term limits:
It was unfortunate this time that Valeria Calderon, a PyLadies organizer based in Mexico City missed a board seat by a few votes. Other non-US based nominees such as Manuel Kaufmann who is Latin America Python Ambassador and Ngazetungue Muheue founder of Python Namibia also didn’t make the cut. All of them had the potential of bringing fresh voices and views about the needs of communities that we have in different parts of the world.
I expect that scenario to occur in our current SC election as well. With the approval voting system that Thomas put in place, it is likely that only one of the new aspirants (including you and me) will be elected. The two previous elections indicate that, except for yourself, those who are passed over will never run again.