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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">Hey ya’ll,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">Let’s get this election session started!
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">I have enjoyed working on this project, and would love to continue to contribute any way I can. Please find my candidacy PR at [1].<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">[1] - https://github.com/kata-containers/community/pull/117<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">PS: If anyone needs encouragement to submit their candidacy, please reach out! I’d love to have a diverse group of contributors and users on the committee!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">Name: Eric Ernst<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">Email: eric.ernst@intel.com<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">Background:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">I am a senior software engineer in Intel's Open Source Technology Center, acting both as a contributor<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">as well as a technical lead for the Intel-team contributing to Kata Containers. Before Kata, I spent time working<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">on Clear Containers, and prior to that spent a few years working on Linux kernel.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">Since the initial discussions of creating Kata started I have been an active contributor and advocate for the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">project, both in code and in the greater Kata community/ecosystem. While I do work within<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">a silicon company, one of my primary goals for helping guide Kata has been developing a neutral and<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">diverse contribution base. Aside from having a stable, compatible, and viable technical basis for the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">project, I think a healthy and robust community is key to sustained success.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">Over the last year, I have served as a member of the Kata Containers architecture committee. The project has<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">matured a lot over the last year, with expanding production usage and user-base. Despite this, we still have a lot of room<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">for development, continuing to improve our density and security profile, all while providing improved manageability
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">and serviceability for users who are deploying Kata. Beyond this work, we will need to focus on attaining and addressing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">input from end-users, as well as adapting to and influencing the cloud native ecosystem.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">In other words, we still have a lot of fun work to do! I look forward to continuing to contribute to the project.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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