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+# Alex Pollitt
+
+I am excited to have been nominated for the steering committee. I recognize that doing
+the role justice will be a demanding and time consuming commitment, but I would like 
+to do my part to help maintain and foster the growth of this amazing community of 
+contributors and users.
+
+For those of you who don’t know me, I am one of the founders of Tigera, the company behind 
+Calico, and active contributors to flannel, CNI, Kubernetes, and Istio. I’ve been working 
+with the Kubernetes community since 2014 and have great respect for everyone I’ve had the 
+chance to get to know along the way.
+
+Since the early days of the project, when friends used to ask, “which container orchestrator 
+would you bet on?”, my answer was always Kubernetes – not because of the great design 
+principles, but because of how the founding team and those already contributing welcomed 
+others to take part and collaborate with an equal voice to move the project forward.  For me,
+“Kubernetes” means the people and how they work together, as much as technology.
+
+One example I experienced was the k8s-sig-net efforts to agree a network policy API.  In 
+other communities, this might have descended into vendors trying to get one up on each 
+other.  Instead there was true collaboration, focusing on technical merit and meeting the needs 
+of future users.  It was awesome to play a part in that process and even though it was just one 
+small corner of Kubernetes it’s a great illustration of why I love working in this community.
+
+If elected, I promise to do my utmost to foster and facilitate this kind of diverse, vendor 
+neutral, merit based collaboration, empower and support contributors to shape the project, 
+and maintain the spirit of this awesome community as it grows.