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[Monty Taylor <mordred@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I confirm that Thierry is eligible to run for a seat on the TC.

On 03/15/2013 11:32 AM, Thierry Carrez wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I'd like to run for reelection to one of the Technical Committee
> directly-elected seats.
> 
> For those who don't know me, I've been handling release management
> duties for OpenStack since November 2010, a work currently sponsored by
> the OpenStack Foundation. My involvement is mostly around project
> coordination, keeping a global view and trying to anticipate issues as
> our development community grows even larger. I'm also heading the
> Vulnerability Management team, which handles incoming security issues
> reports. On the development side, I authored the rootwrap framework
> which is being used by a few of our projects, and whenever I find some
> free time, I'm working on improving it.
> 
> I've been regularly elected by our community to the Project Policy Board
> and Technical Committee directly-elected seats for the last two years. I
> was heavily involved in the transition to our new governance, authored
> the Technical Committee charter, and have been chosen to chair it for
> the past 6 months.
> 
> I think it's important that the Technical Committee contains
> representation from the horizontal functions within the project (Docs,
> QA, Infrastructure, Vulnerability management, Release management...),
> since each project is already represented by the seats granted for all PTLs.
> 
> Over the last 30 months we grew from 2 projects to 10 projects, and I'm
> proud to be part of this community which successfully managed to handle
> growth and adoption while preserving our ideals of open design and open
> development.
> 
> The challenges ahead of us include accommodating further growth, resist
> fragmentation, and maintaining efficiency and coherence as we grow well
> past Dunbar's number. I hope that you place me in a position where I can
> help us through those challenges.
> 
> Thanks,
>