Hi fellow Stackers, My name is Tobias Rydberg and I will by this email announce my candidacy for the OpenStack Technical Committee. For those who (yet) don't know me, I'm employed by the cloud provider City Network and through that I've been around and worked with OpenStack since 2014 when we as City Network started our OpenStack journey. I'm a simple person that speak my mind, love to have fun and get to know new people and technologies - and I have to say that being part of this community ticks a lot of those boxes. During the last couple of years I've been chair for the Public Cloud SIG (previously WG), and in that role you might have seen me hosting Forum sessions at all Summits since the Forum was introduced, spreading the word of why OpenStack is super important for public clouds (the Public Cloud Passport Program is a child of PC SIG) and what is still missing... ;-) Even though I'm a developer from the get go, I haven't done a lot of code contributions over the years, but I have tried to contribute in various other ways where being SIG chair is one, driving discussions in the Forums and being part of organising OpenStack days events (Nordic). So, what can I bring to the table? I believe that my background (and precent) with multiple years of running multiple public and private clouds will bring a lot of operator experience. We've over the years also been very focused to deliver OpenStack to customers with very high regulatory compliance demands, such as banks, health care, insurance industry, and as I see it, that is a pretty hot potato right now and I believe that will not cool down for some time. I my current role I have the blessing of talking a lot with customers building their services on top of OpenStack, listening to their experience and feedback - everything from how hard it can be to find the correct piece of documentation to limitations that hinders them from choosing OpenStack as a platform for their service - valuable feedback that not always reach the community. I think that the continued success of OpenStack (for at least 10 more strong years) lies in the hands of the "operators" - the people and the companies that live and breathe OpenStack - the people and the companies that have the experience how OpenStack operates in all the different use cases you can't predict in a public cloud. This is my first time running for a chair at the TC table, my experience of sitting in such chair is by that pretty limited, but I care a lot about this awesome community and I'm eager to learn and to do my fair share to make this community a success to the years to come... Thanks for taking the time to read and to consider my candidacy! Cheers, Tobias