I'm announcing my candidacy for a position on the OpenStack Technical Committee. I'm ChangBo Guo(AKA gcb)[1], currently working for EasyStack, leading developers' upstream contribution on OpenStack in the company. I have been working on the OpenStack since 2012, firstly focused on Nova and then focus on Oslo, also contributed to several other projects[2]. I've been serving as the PTL of Oslo (OpenStack Common libraries) for Pike and Queens. During the last 5 years, as a developer I have the chance to talk with users/operators, meeting users/operators' requirements and making OpenStack more useful are important, that's the key factor to make OpenStack successful. OpenStack has huge potential customers though some companies adjust their investment on OpenStack. We have some progress on shortening the feedback loop like building SIG(Special Interest Group) to involve more users. Not all the users can raise their requirements easily due to the barrier like language. TC may need work with UC to find more ways to collect users/operators' requirements like we have 'Top 5 help wanted list' in development cycle. OpenStack is the first open source project I contributed, I've learned a lot from community leaders in the past 5 years and guided some new contributors how to work with other world wide contributors. It's not a easy to be productive for a new contributor especially for whom without open source experience. In last several cycles some key contributors changed their work, not focus on OpenStack, in the other side, some new contributors couldn't find 'the right way' to contribute, posting trivial repeated patches, we're facing the challenge! Though we have program 'OpenStack Upstream Institute' to training new contributors, that's not enough for new contributor, because not all new contributors can attend the the OpenStack Summit. TC may host more online events to invite community leaders to communicate with new contributors, and help new contributors to contribute in 'the right way'. As a TC member I want to focus on shortening the feedback loop and guiding new contributors. Thank you for your consideration! ChangBo Guo(gcb) [1] https://www.openstack.org/community/members/profile/14945/changbo-guo [2] http://stackalytics.com/report/users/glongwave