CDF TOC Project Representatives 2023 Nomination process starts today

[micmarti85]

Hi CDF Community,

The CDF TOC Project Representatives 2023 Nomination process starts today. The nomination period starts on May 22, 2023 and ends on June 5, 2023. 4 of the 9 CDF TOC seats are elected from CDF Project representatives per charter. Each CDF Project may nominate a maximum of one project representative to run for these seats. Nominations must be made under this GitHub issue.

Please make sure you check with the people you are nominating before you nominate the person. The assumption is that they have accepted their nomination from the project.

Required information for nominations:

• Name of the Candidate
• Project which the Candidate is Nominated By
• Candidate Title
• Candidate Affiliation
• Candidate Bio
• Nomination Statement

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Please take a look at the pull request to see additional eligibility criteria. Election Process and Timeline

[TracyRagan]

Steve Taylor Ortelius CTO DeployHub

Steve Taylor is seen as a visionary and industry leader in the area of microservices, open-source security, Kubernetes, DevOps process improvement, software build and release, and software supply chain. Steve was designing continuous delivery pipelines for Fortune 1000 companies before the term ‘continuous integration’ was ever used. He is the mastermind behind OpenMake Meister, a build automation solution that has served its customers for over 20 years. Steve is also the architect of DeployHub, the first security and pipeline evidence catalog. Steve is a primary contributor to the Ortelius CDF project, the Pyrsia CDF project, and currently serves as a CDF TOC Board Member. Steve received the CDF Top Contributor award for 2023, and Top Pyrsia Contributor for 2023.

Nominee Statement: “DevOps pipelines must continually evolve. The CDF TOC is critical in identifying new tools and practices that support a modern dynamic pipeline process, like CDEvents. It has been an honor serving on the CDF TOC. This task involves a collaborative and open-minded approach to CI/CD, and active development involvement in CDF projects. It is in this area that I excel. It would be an honor to continue to serve the CDF open-source community and bring forward modern DevOps and supply chain practices based on CDF, OpenSSF, and CNCF open-source tooling.”

[oleg-nenashev]

I am going to nominate @MarkEWaite in the Jenkins community. I had an action item to do the public nomination on the dev list, but I am completely behind

[e-backmark-ericsson]

I'll nominate myself as the representative for CDEvents, as it was blessed in our CDEvents project meeting earlier today.

• Emil Bäckmark

• CDEvents

• CI/CD Architect

• Ericsson

• Candidate Bio Emil is a CI/CD architect at Ericsson. In that role Emil has been architecting production systems over several years for various internal and external solutions. He has a strong drive for automation in CI/CD pipelines and for interoperability amongst the tools in the CI/CD landscape. Emil is a maintainer of the Eiffel event protocol and is also a co-founder and current co-chair of the SIG Events community and the CDEvents project in the CD Foundation. He has been active in the CD Foundation since late 2019, and was one of the early members of the SIG Interoperability that started early the year after. He has also been a member in the CDF TOC as end-user representative for Ericsson during the last year.

• Nomination Statement Emil is volunteering for the TOC as a representative for the CDEvents project. With his involvement in interoperability in general, and with his experience from managing CI/CD systems based on Jenkins, Spinnaker and the Argo projects at Ericsson, he has the ability to contribute to the technical drive of the CD Foundation through the TOC. It is critical for CDF that the CDEvents project is represented on the TOC since there is a strong drive in CDF to make its projects compliant with CDEvents.

[afrittoli]

I would like to nominate myself as the representative for Tekton. My nomination is proposed by the Tekton Governing Board and supported by the Tekton community.

• Name: Andrea Frittoli
• Project: Tekton
• Title: Open Source Advocate
• Affiliation: IBM
• Candidate Bio: Andrea Frittoli is a Developer Advocate at IBM and an open source enthusiast. Andrea has more than ten years of experience contributing to open source software, serving various communities in leadership roles. Andrea is Tekton maintainer and a member of the project governing board. He currently serves on the CD Foundation TOC as Tekton representative as well as chair of the TOC. He's a maintainer representative for the CD Foundation governing board.
• Nomination Statement: The technical oversight committee serves the CD Foundation technical community by supporting existing CDF projects through their lifecycle, helping new projects join the foundation and promoting collaboration within the CD Foundation community as well with other organisations. I'm honoured to serve on this mission today, and, if elected, I will continue to drive the values of collaboration and transparency. I will also continue to promote and advocate for interoperability in the continuous delivery space.

[dsanyika]

• Name: Cameron Motevasselani

• Project: Spinnaker

• Title: Engineering Manager

• Affiliation: Armory, Inc.

• Candidate Bio: As an Engineering Manager at Armory and Chair of the Technical Oversight Committee for Spinnaker, Cameron is deeply passionate about the CI/CD space. Cameron thrives on streamlining software development processes, driving automation, and enabling rapid and reliable software releases. With a focus on scalability and extensibility, Cameron drove the plugin framework adoption into the Spinnaker project. Cameron manages Armory's data pipeline, ensuring efficient and future-proof solutions. Engaging with the community and fostering collaboration are integral to Cameron's work. Cameron has spoken at multiple community events and conferences, actively sharing knowledge and driving industry-wide improvements. With a passion for continuous improvement and an agile mindset, Cameron am dedicated to advancing software delivery practices and making a positive impact in the CI/CD field.

• Nomination Statement: The long term success of the CDF is not just about the projects and services that are housed and built, it is not just about the guidelines and best practices it provides, it will be about community and the people who can build and maintain the interest and awareness of the goals and objectives. To that end I’d like to nominate Cameron Motevasselani. Cameroon has demonstrated skills in leadership and community building that can and will impact the TOC as soon as he is selected. He will not only extend and contribute to continuous delivery technology, he will us help us grow the community by reaching consumers and developers with needs and interest in our space.

[jithine]

I would like to nominate Alan Dong as the representative for Screwdriver. His nomination was discussed within Screwdriver community meetup and is supported by the community.

Name of the Candidate: Alan Dong

Project which the Candidate is Nominated By: Screwdriver

Candidate Title: Senior Software Engineer

Candidate Affiliation: Yahoo Inc

Candidate Bio:

Alan has a track record of over six years of dedicated work with Screwdriver, demonstrating his unwavering commitment to excellence. His passion for the open-source community has been a driving force since his college years, showcasing his enduring enthusiasm for collaborative innovation. Furthermore, Alan's exceptional expertise has earned him the privilege of delivering enlightening talks at prestigious events such as cdCon in both 2020 and 2021. Moreover, Alan's invaluable contributions to the Screwdriver UI repository firmly establish him as a key contributor in advancing the user interface to new heights of functionality and usability.

Nomination Statement:

Alan is offering his services as a valuable addition to the esteemed team of CDF TOC Project Representatives. His extensive knowledge and expertise in the dynamic realm of CI/CD make him an ideal candidate to make significant strides in shaping the future of the CICD landscape. At Yahoo Alan manages internal Saucelabs community which consists of a group of Yahoo engineers dedicated for Code quality of Web applications via automated UI Functional testing, and whose workflow is tightly integrated with CI/CD process driven by Screwdriver.

[MarkEWaite]

Name of the candidate: Mark Waite

Project nominating the candidate: Jenkins

Candidate title: Manager

Candidate affiliation: CloudBees, Inc

Candidate Bio:

Mark is a member of the Jenkins governing board, a Jenkins core maintainer, a member of the Jenkins infrastructure team, a member of the Jenkins release team, and a maintainer of Jenkins plugins, including the git plugin and many others. He's served in the past as Jenkins documentation officer and is one of the co-authors of the "Improve a plugin" tutorial with its accompanying video series.

Mark has been an active Jenkins contributor for many years. His first contributions were in community discussions and mailing lists. Those early contributions grew into code contributions, then project leadership roles.

Nomination statement:

I'll bring my best efforts to help the technical oversight committee as it provides project oversight, and technical community decisions for the CDF. I am grateful for the CDF support of open source projects and hope to serve those projects as a member of the TOC.

[micmarti85]

Nominations have closed! Thanks to everyone who participated! Stay tuned for candidate announcements on June 8th!

June 8 | Candidates announced | Nominated candidates are announced -- | -- | -- June 12 | Voting opens | Ballots are sent to eligible voters June 26 | Voting closes | Last day to submit a ballot June 28 | Announcement | Successful project representatives announced July 1 | Term Begins | New project representatives beging their term