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+I would like to submit my candidacy for the Technical Committee for the
+upcoming election.
+
+I have been contributing to OpenStack since the Havana cycle [1], mainly in
+Designate. I have also sporadically gotten involved with the TC, and its
+meetings since Designate applied for incubation all the way back in Atlanta.
+
+I have been PTL for Designate for Mitaka, Newton, Ocata and the Queens cycle,
+and a core for a longer period. I was also PTL for the Global Load Balancing
+before it was an unfortunate early casualty of the recent reshuffling within
+sponsoring organizations in the community.
+
+As part of previous projects, I was both a developer and a heavy user of
+OpenStack. As part of contributing to the Kubernetes OpenStack integration
+we ran into a lot of the problems that impact our users, and people who
+try to integrate with us.
+
+I believe that we all ready have a great base structure in place to help
+OpenStack evolve, and part of that is too have a group of people from different
+companies, backgrounds, genders and cultures to drive the project in the
+Technical Committee.
+
+I believe my experience working in a younger, smaller project within
+OpenStack is a benefit, along with the experience of working on software as an
+end user of OpenStack I can help us ensure the Technical Committee is mindful
+of the unique challenges these projects and users can face.
+
+I have not traditionally been shy about broaching these topics in the past [2]
+[3][4], but I feel it is time I started follow through, and help guide the
+resolution for these questions, and I now have an employeer who is supportive
+of me spending more time in the community.
+
+I do really like this community, and I want us to grow, expand and evolve the
+software we write, without changing what we stand for.
+
+Thank you for taking the time to read this,
+Graham Hayes (mugsie)
+
+1 - http://stackalytics.com/?release=all&metric=commits&user_id=grahamhayes
+2 - http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2016-July/099285.html
+3 - http://graham.hayes.ie/posts/openstack-designate-where-we-are/
+4 - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/312267/ (and related discussion)
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