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+Hi,
+
+I am declaring my candidacy for the Technical Committee.
+
+I have been working on OpenStack since 2012, primarily as core
+reviewer on and contributor to Nova and Glance, but also in various
+other projects such as Oslo (oslo.versionedobjects, oslo.messaging),
+Placement, Grenade, and devstack.
+
+I have been on the TC for a year now, and have been focused on keeping
+the TC aware and involved with day-to-day developer-facing issues,
+such as gate performance. That has gone well and yielded improvement
+in reducing spurious failures across multiple projects, as well as
+paring down of duplicative testing and addressing other performance
+issues. In the next cycle, we are coming up against the deprecation of
+our logstash framework due to lack of support, which may be the next
+big push we need to make to keep critical developer infrastructure
+available.
+
+--Dan