Team, Please consider my candidacy for Queens. I just realized how time flies, reading my previous two self nominations [1][2]. As a TC we have made significant strides in the last cycle[3] and my contributions have been around how we can do better working with adjacent communities and getting people from outside US involved and productive. We have significant challenges in both areas. Let's start with the one about engaging new potentially part-time contributors, the newly forming SIG around "First Contact" is something we need to pool our efforts into it. Encouraging activities around SIG-OpenStack in kubernetes (and the mirror SIG-Kubernetes proposed in OpenStack) is turning the corner seeing the level of interest at the PTG [5]. I fully intend to help in both areas so our Foundation can stay at the cutting edge and relevant in the current and emerging eco systems. Thanks, Dims [1] https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/election/plain/candidates/newton/TC/Davanum_Srinivas.txt [2] https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/election/plain/candidates/pike/TC/dims.txt [3] http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2017-October/122962.html [4] http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-sigs/2017-September/thread.html#74 [5] https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/queens-ptg-sig-k8s -- Davanum Srinivas :: https://twitter.com/dims