<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Kata folk,<div><br></div><div>I am <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">declaring my candidacy for the AC!</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000">---</font></span></div><div><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000">Name: Eric Ernst</font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;min-height:14px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"></span><br></font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000">Email: eric_ernst at apple dot com</font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;min-height:14px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"></span><br></font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000">Background:</font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;min-height:14px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"></span><br></font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000">I am a senior software engineer at Apple, focused on cloud infrastructure, and despite a couple of exciting employer changes this year,</font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000">I continue to be very interested in this project, and engaged in the Kata community as a contributor.</font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;min-height:14px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"></span><br></font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000">Since the initial discussions of creating Kata started I have been an active contributor and advocate for the</font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000">project, both in code and in the greater Kata community/ecosystem. I am running again as I am very interested in this project's success in</font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000">the ecosystem, and am focused on making sure Kata continues to be a production-ready solution for providing stronger container isolation.</font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;min-height:14px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"></span><br></font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000">Over the last two years, I have served as a member of the Kata Containers architecture committee. As I stated last year, the project has</font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000">matured a lot, with expanding production usage and user-base. Even more so now, we have a lot of important changes this year:</font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000">Cloud Hypervisor VMM support, PodOverhead support in Kubernetes, cgroups-v2 support, cpuset support, rust-agent support, improved telemetry/observability,</font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000">virtio-fs support. Each of these are important improvements that make the project more attractive and viable for production use cases.</font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;min-height:14px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"></span><br></font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000">We still have a lot of interesting work to do, and I look forward to continuing to contribute to the project.</font></span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000"><br></font></span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000"><br></font></span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000"><br></font></span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000">Thanks,</font></span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000">Eric</font></span></p></div></div></div>