I've been a Gentoo developer since 2016 and would like to try and lay out my
vision for Gentoo going forward. Gentoo, like any other free software
community, thrives when three major components all come together:

1. Individual initiative
All great changes (multilib, python-r1, lua-r1, pkgcore, linux-mod-r1, etc.)
in Gentoo have been spearheaded by individuals. In order to foster a culture
of individual incentive, I believe developers in general but council members
especially should work towards recruiting strong candidates. I have recruited
a few developers in the last years, and hope to increase my recruiting this
year again. The flip-side of strong individuals is that they can also wreak
havoc, either through tactical sandbagging or procedural shenanigans. I
believe we in the council should find the right balance between harnessing the
strengths of great individuals without strong individuals foisting their
visions on the community. The complement of initiative is accepting a common
consensus.

2. Teamwork
Even with the best individuals and brilliant ideas, executing on these
requires individuals working towards a common goal. Not every idea is perfect,
but a trade-off of many contradictory goals. Once we as a community have
agreed upon a solution, the council should use its soft power (that is, not
compulsion!) to improve uptake of an agreed upon solution. We need to avoid
catastrophic breakdowns such as the games team embarking on a grand empire
building mission, isolating itself from the rest of the community. I love
working with other Gentoo developers and hope to meet more at conferences!
Only a healthy team can implement a great idea.

3. Quality
Gentoo always needs to hold itself to the highest standard. At the end of the
day, our mission is to produce a great distribution that works for our users.
Quality is the single most important attribute our users expect from us. Many
a great idea has been put forward to solve a problem, but if it ultimately
only provides a single developer's niche use case to the detriment of our
users, we need to convince said developer that they might have not considered
the impact on our users.

I won't make promises that I cannot keep, but I hope we can finally dissolve
the foundation in the upcoming council term so that we as a community can do
what we're best at: producing the best Linux distribution there is. I welcome
users approaching me and asking me questions.