Re: TOF elections for 2026H1

Hi Everyone

I'm Brad Bishop (radsquirrel) and this is my TOF election campaign note.  I've been hacking away on OpenBMC since 2015, sometimes furiously, although for the last few years not so much (although I'm ramping back up).  I implemented phosphor-objmgr, phosphor-inventory-manager, phosphor-hwmon, phosphor-rest-server, phosphor-dbus-monitor, and probably some other things.  This was all long ago - I'm happy to report that most of these components have lost favor for other code or have been re-written, all by people much smarter than me.

For awhile I was the sole OpenBMC maintainer and then I was the TSC chair from 2018-2022.  I was the architect behind the creation of this TOF working group that I am now seeking a seat on, and after it was established I held a seat for a couple of years.  In all these roles I was an advocate for shared ownership and fairness, a consequence of which is the diverse developer community OpenBMC has today.

Quite simply I want to be on the TOF because a significant part of my career has been invested in OpenBMC and its community and I am connected to the code and the people.  Some ideas/things I stand for:

- copying what works from other successful open source communities
- sharing ownership
- removing barriers
- upstream first
- a monorepo
- adopting rust

but ultimately I just want to participate and help the community be the best it can.

Thank you for your support.
-Brad