I am standing as a candidate for a seat on the OpenStack Technical Committee. I have worked with OpenStack since the Diablo days and have done it full time since joining the OpenStack Infrastructure team during the Folsom cycle. During this time I have been an OpenStack developer, operator, and user. During the Newton cycle the TC began to work on community wide goals. I agree with Doug and others that this is a very important step for the TC and OpenStack to take. We should be able to collaborate on and solve large scale issues that affect our community. That said, I recognize that at the end of the day someone has to be making these changes. I have previously been involved in many community wide changes including parallelized unittesting, ElasticSearch and elastic-recheck, multinode testing, and most recently running our tests with TLS enabled. I know how difficult changes like this can be. Getting the critical mass of interest needed for reviews to happen and debugging when things go wrong can be very difficult. If I am elected to the TC my mission will be to ensure these goals get the visibility required to be successful, and that we actually work together to achieve these goals as a community. As an individual one of the best things about OpenStack for me is that I get to develop and use Free Software that solves real world problems for both myself and others. I think the best way for us to continue to do this is by working together to solve the hard technical problems we face. Let's make it happen. Thank you, Clark