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diff --git a/events/elections/2021/candidate-parispittman.md b/events/elections/2021/candidate-parispittman.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..61e23ed2 --- /dev/null +++ b/events/elections/2021/candidate-parispittman.md @@ -0,0 +1,50 @@ +------------------------------------------------------------- +name: Paris Pittman +ID: parispittman +info: + - employer: Apple + - slack: paris +------------------------------------------------------------- +## 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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