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+name: Paris Pittman  
+ID: parispittman  
+info:
+  - employer: Apple
+  - slack: paris
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+## SIGS
+- SIG Contributor Experience
+    - emeritus co-chair (8000 to 50000 contributors)
+    - subproject owner: events, mentoring, communication, community-mgmt, community
+- Steering Committee
+    - Liaison for: SIG Testing, Multicluster, Security, Storage, wg-data-protection 
+- SIG Docs
+- CNCF Governing Board: Kubernetes Representative
+## What I have done
+I’ve spent the last 50 months having the pleasure to serve the upstream community in some of the following ways:
+- Governance 
+    - Operations: 
+        - Building, growing, and maintaining our communication tools that allow for transparency and collaboration; also creating community, policy, and support systems for those who maintain them
+        - Revamped quarterly community meeting structure for SIGs to annual reports which levels up work to end users; better communication of our needs
+    - Policies: 
+        - Drafted Steerings current policy on term limits. Term definitions and limits help our succession plans and give new voices a path forward in the project. 
+        - Visibility of roles within the project on sig-governance.md and many other policies that involve inclusion and operations
+        - revamped sig-wg-lifecycle.md, sig-governance.md, and more
+    - Advocacy:
+        - I’m here to serve. I advocate for supporting our contributors and maintainers needs/interests; sometimes these interests intersect with social and human rights movements vs pure code and engineering topics. 
+- Contributor Growth and Sustainability 
+    - Growing our roles and supporting it’s leadership
+        - Build community for community group leaders (100+) via #chairsandtechleads, monthly meetings, onboarding, and other activities 
+        - Creation of additional roles within the project and the visibility of them
+    - Encouraging and drafting succession plans, identifying staffing gaps
+    - How we communicate as a project; bootstrapped the current upstream marketing team to help us with outreach and guidance 
+    - Creating and scaling mentoring programs (example: group mentoring) that aren’t 1:1 and/or lots of burden on owners/maintainers 
+## What I'll do
+In what would be my final term, I want to carry out projects still in flight and continue to progress Kubernetes forward within our values:
+- Grow and sustain a community of strong leaders via:
+    - more leadership training, 
+    - sustainable staffing models, 
+    - and advocate for their needs / reduce toil
+- Communication projects: 
+    - how we communicate our needs to end users and cncf community
+    - Add a communications/outreach/PR wrangler or like role to Steering to make sure we’ve communicated effectively 
+    - Community group health checks via annual reports:
+        - Relieve the administrative burden from chairs and automate some of the process from annual reports 
+- Continue to work with the entire Steering body to work on sustainable staffing with the Governing Board
+## Resources About Me
+- [parisinbmore on twitter](https://twitter.com/parisinbmore)
+- [emoji talk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8FOmOJwEBQ)
+- [contribex update](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSN3MrdNwrU)
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