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+Hello again friends,
+
+I'm running again for a second term on the Technical Committee. (For the
+record, I don't plan to seek a third term next year.) I've been part of the
+OpenStack community since 2012, and as well as a TC member I am also a core
+reviewer for Heat and (since very recently) Oslo.
+
+I think of the TC as effectively the 'core reviewer' team for a larger group of
+folks who participate in the governance of OpenStack (a group that I think we
+should be aiming to expand even further). I'm deeply grateful to the community
+for giving me the opportunity to work with what is a fantastic team of people.
+
+Here's what I've been up to in the past year on the TC:
+
+- I supported Julia's initiative to spread constructive code-review techniques
+by distilling some of our annual endless threads on code-review etiquette
+into a linkable page in the Project Teams Guide.[1] A number of people, in one
+case an entire team, told me that they'd tweaked their approach to code review
+after getting ideas from this document. (This feedback is *much* appreciated by
+the way, because from the TC perspective it can be very hard to tell the
+difference between achieving lazy consensus and shouting into the void.)
+
+- I wrote the draft of and edited contributions to what became the Vision for
+OpenStack Clouds,[2] contacted every affected team to explain what it meant
+for them individually, and presented it to the OSF Board in Berlin for their
+feedback as well.
+
+- I helped drive the definition of a process for determining which versions of
+Python3 should be tested in a release.[3] That should help us make the
+transitions smoothly in future, though it unfortunately started too late for
+Stein.
+
+- I've been actively engaged with members of the OSF Board on the topic of the
+process for adding new Open Infrastructure projects to the Foundation, by
+passing on feedback from foundation members and from the TC's own experience
+with evaluating project applications, and trying to publicise the board's
+position in the community.[4]
+
+It's hard to imagine being able to get any of those done without being a TC
+member. As I've written elsewhere,[5] because the TC is the only project-wide
+elected body, leading the community to all move in the same direction is
+something that cannot happen without the TC. I plan to continue trying to do
+that, and encouraging others to do the same. Thanks for your consideration.
+
+cheers,
+Zane.
+
+[1] https://docs.openstack.org/project-team-guide/review-the-openstack-way.html
+[2] https://governance.openstack.org/tc/reference/technical-vision.html
+[3] https://governance.openstack.org/tc/resolutions/20181024-python-update-process.html
+[4] https://www.zerobanana.com/archive/2018/06/14#osf-expansion
+[5] http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-discuss/2019-January/001841.html