hi folks, i'd like to announce my candidacy for the OpenStack Technical Committee. as a quick introduction, i've been a contributor in OpenStack for the past few years, focused primarily on various Telemetry and Oslo related projects. i was recently the Project Team Liaison for the Telemetry project, and currently, i'm an engineer at Huawei Technologies Canada where i work with a team of developers that contribute to the OpenStack community. my views on what the next steps for OpenStack are are not unique. i share the idea: OpenStack needs to refine its mission. this is not to dissuade developers from continuing to build upon and extend the existing projects but i think OpenStack should concern itself with the core story first before worrying about extended use cases. Also, i believe that the existing projects in OpenStack are too siloed. coming from a project that interacts with all other services, it's quite apparent that projects are focused solely on their own offerings and ignoring how it works globally. tighter collaboration between projects i believe will help make integration easier and more efficient. similar to how services within a project just work together, projects should just work together. in many ways i see the Technical Committee as the Cross Project Liaisons some of us are searching for. rather than act as Guardians of "what is OpenStack", i think the TC should take a more active role in the projects and work together with the PTLs to ensure that the "Cloud" story makes sense. PTLs and TC members should work side by side to identify gaps in the story rather than the current interaction agreement of "you're in. we'll talk if stuff hits the fan". understandly the Cloud story is different to many people so i'll employ the strategy i've used previously: listen to others, share the decision, share the blame, and claim the success. thanks for you time.