# Vote to promote Hugo van Kemenade **URL:** \ **Category:** Committers\ **Tags:** promotion\ **Created:** [November 11, 2022, 8:35pm UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/vote-to-promote-hugo-van-kemenade/20990 "2022-11-11T20:35:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mariatta](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discuss.python.org/mariatta/32/30581_2.png) [@Mariatta](https://discuss.python.org/u/Mariatta)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2022, 8:35pm UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/vote-to-promote-hugo-van-kemenade/20990/1 "2022-11-11T20:35:59Z")
I would like to nominate Hugo van Kemenade for CPython core dev privileges. GitHub profile: [https://github.com/hugovk](https://github.com/hugovk) For the past few years @hugovk has been actively contributing to CPython, documentation, infrastructure and workflow. He is also a member of the PEP editors. He gained [Triage privileges](https://github.com/python/core-workflow/issues/417) this year on Jan 4, 2022. Since then he continued to be active and review various PRs, and is actively involved in the [docs community](https://github.com/python/docs-community). Currently he has 61 [merged PRs in CPython](https://github.com/python/cpython/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Amerged+author%3Ahugovk+). He’s been involved in hundreds of issues and PRs. I invited Hugo to attend the [core dev sprint in Sunnyvale](https://blog.python.org/2022/10/python-core-development-sprint-2022-311.html) last month, and I believe it was a positive and productive experience for all of us. Not only Hugo is active in CPython, he’s also maintains and contributes to many other Python libraries, including [pillow](https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow), and [black](https://github.com/psf/black). With his skills and experience, I believe Hugo would be a great addition to the core Python team. _Poll ([view on site](https://discuss.python.org/t/vote-to-promote-hugo-van-kemenade/20990/1))_ ---
**Author:** ![vstinner](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discuss.python.org/vstinner/32/15130_2.png) [@vstinner](https://discuss.python.org/u/vstinner)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2022, 5:45pm UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/vote-to-promote-hugo-van-kemenade/20990/2 "2022-11-12T17:45:47Z")
**+1 to promote Huge!** He is proactive on helping projects to handle incompatible changes: run code search, propose fixes, and add summaries on the related Python issues. That’s really helpful to make the newer Python versions a great success as soon as the Python 3.x.0 final release! ---
**Author:** ![Mariatta](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discuss.python.org/mariatta/32/30581_2.png) [@Mariatta](https://discuss.python.org/u/Mariatta)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2022, 9:52pm UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/vote-to-promote-hugo-van-kemenade/20990/3 "2022-11-19T21:52:56Z")
Thanks for voting! The poll closed yesterday with positive result: 97% of votes for Hugo’s promotion. I’ve written to steering-council yesterday for next steps. ---
**Author:** ![brettcannon](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discuss.python.org/brettcannon/32/34895_2.png) [@brettcannon](https://discuss.python.org/u/brettcannon)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2022, 7:45pm UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/vote-to-promote-hugo-van-kemenade/20990/4 "2022-11-21T19:45:44Z")
The SC met today and approved Hugo’s promotion! @Mariatta can you send me Hugo’s email so I can get details from them to turn on their privileges? ---
**Author:** ![Mariatta](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discuss.python.org/mariatta/32/30581_2.png) [@Mariatta](https://discuss.python.org/u/Mariatta)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2022, 9:06pm UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/vote-to-promote-hugo-van-kemenade/20990/5 "2022-11-21T21:06:05Z")
Thank you! I sent it to you via Discord DM ---
**Author:** ![hugovk](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discuss.python.org/hugovk/32/14505_2.png) [@hugovk](https://discuss.python.org/u/hugovk)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2022, 5:42am UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/vote-to-promote-hugo-van-kemenade/20990/6 "2022-11-23T05:42:02Z")
Thanks all for the support, and especially to @Mariatta for the nomination and mentorship! I’m happy to join the team and help out. 🚀 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/python1/original/1X/3aff56846ebe57781a163dfc748fd1417119d8ab.png) [@system](https://discuss.python.org/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2023, 8:36pm UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/vote-to-promote-hugo-van-kemenade/20990/7 "2023-11-11T20:36:30Z")
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