<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">I confirm that Malini meets all of the requirements to be a candidate. I have added her to </span><font face="arial, sans-serif"><a href="https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Security/OSSG_Lead_Election_Spring_2014">https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Security/OSSG_Lead_Election_Spring_2014</a>.</font><br>
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On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 3:25 AM, Bhandaru, Malini K <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:malini.k.bhandaru@intel.com" target="_blank">malini.k.bhandaru@intel.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Hello OSSG Members!<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">I would be honored to lead our efforts as a group to making OpenStack more secure and making OSSG a first class OpenStack citizen.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Bryan and Robert have done an excellent job in raising the visibility of security as a cross cutting issue<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">across OpenStack projects, publishing a book, and chasing the nuances of each security issue in OSSAs and OSSNs.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Their shoes will be hard to fill. We have a great team and strong regulars and I hope to grow this core to include cores across the projects to be our security
eyes, ears and feature design sanitizers.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">A little about myself:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Malini Bhandaru is an Architect and Engineering Manager with the Open Source Technology Center in the Software and Services group at Intel. Over her five year
tenure at Intel she has worked on Xeon server power and performance aspects, faster implementations of hashing and encryption algorithms, and more recently on OpenStack. She is proud to be an author of the OpenStack Security Guide, of championing a key manager
in OpenStack, and in assisting other Intel cloud efforts. Prior to Intel she has worked on remote monitoring and management, e-commerce, speech recognition, and other products. Malini has a Ph.D. in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, from the University
of Massachusetts, Amherst. She enjoys gardening, cooking, and long walks.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Thanks!<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Hopping off my soap box<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Malini<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Bryan D. Payne [mailto:<a href="mailto:bdpayne@acm.org" target="_blank">bdpayne@acm.org</a>]
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, March 03, 2014 10:19 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:openstack-security@lists.openstack.org" target="_blank">openstack-security@lists.openstack.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Openstack-security] OSSG Lead Candidacy Kickoff<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="">Starting today, and going through March 12, we are accepting candidates for the OSSG Lead election. You can view the complete details on the election process here:<br>
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<a href="https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Security/OSSG_Lead_Election_Spring_2014" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Security/OSSG_Lead_Election_Spring_2014</a><br>
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* Candidates must be active members (as defined in the above link) of OSSG.<br>
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* Candidates must announce their intention to run by posting a message to this list with the subject "OSSG Lead Candidacy". Either Rob or I will respond to verify that the candidate is an active member and added to the election. All candidates will be added
to the election page linked above.<u></u><u></u></div><p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Cheers,<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">-bryan<u></u><u></u></p>
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