Hi friends, I'm throwing my name out there for a position on the TC, if you'll have me. I've been around OpenStack since 2014, when I began working on a bare metal cloud powered by Ironic. Since then, I've been a core reviewer for Ironic and spent three cycles as PTL. I've also spent this time developing and operating OpenStack at large scale at Rackspace and Yahoo^WOath^WVerizon Media. I've never been a member of the TC, but have spent a lot of time in meetings, office hours, IRC channels, and face to face meetings with the TC, over various iterations of its members. I care deeply about OpenStack, and believe that I can help shape the future. I'll be honest, I don't have specific objectives I want to accomplish as a TC member, that I can platform on. Things I do care about doing are: Make/keep the OpenStack community a happy place to be (as happy as people can be while working, anyway). I believe that this community is somewhat family-like, and we all have each other's best interests in mind. We seem to be collaborating better than we have in a long time, and I'd like to keep improving on that. I'd love to continue the work that folks have started to encourage more cross-project feature collaboration. Encourage more part-time contributors. People like someone scratching an itch in their lab at home, a user getting curious about a bug, or an operator that finds an edge case. I think it's easier for these types of people to contribute today than it has been in the past, but I believe we can keep improving on this. Our onboarding process can continue to improve. We should have more people willing to walk a new contributor through their first patch (kudos to the people doing this already!). And folks shouldn't have to spend thousands of dollars attending a summit to gain influence in the community. On that note, I should be clear that I won't be at the Denver summit, and probably not Shanghai. Purely personal reasons, my employer still has my back with upstream contributions. I believe my experience as a downstream dev, upstream dev, operator, IRC addict, and wanna-be thought leaderer makes me a decent fit to help drive the community forward. Thanks for reading, and thanks in advance for voting, even if it's not for me. // jim