ajak's manifesto

I'm ajak, John Helmert III (the third). My dad and his dad both share
the "John Helmert" name with me, thus I'm the third person with the
name.

I started using Gentoo in 2018 and I've been working on Gentoo
security February/March of 2020 at the beginning of the pandemic. I
become an official developer about a year later, in February 2021. I
graduated with my 4 year computer science degree in May 2022. Since
joining Gentoo, I've joined and made contributions to several other
projects (arm, proxy-maint, virtualization, infra) and also became the
Security deputy lead. I maintain various minor packages and am a
co-maintainer of QEMU.

I've devoted a great deal of time to Gentoo, and I would like to see it
continue to be a relevant Linux distribution. Council members should
also want this, and they should feel strongly about how to ensure
it. Naturally this will give rise to conflict, but the council should
be capable of making progress even through conflict.

As active members of the Gentoo community, council members should not
only be able to keep up with the appropriate meeting tasks but also
continue to push development forward.