elections/2021/kurtakov.xml

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	<name>Aleksandar Kurtakov</name>

	<title>Technical Lead</title>

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	<email>akurtakov@gmail.com</email>

	<phone>+359898452961</phone>

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	<contact>Country: Bulgaria, City: Pazardzhik, Address: 4400, 11 Sveti Arahangel Str.</contact>

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	<p>Eclipse Tools PMC lead<br>
	Eclipse PMC member<br>
	Eclipse Architecture and Planning Councils member<br>
	Project Lead of Eclipse Platform, Linux Tools and Tycho projects<br>
	Committer on CDT, CBI, DLTK, aCute, Corrosion, EPP, ShellWax, WildWebDeveloper, Equinox, m2e, PDE<br>
	Full details at <a href="https://accounts.eclipse.org/users/akurtakov#tab-projects" target="_blank">akurtakov-projects</a></p>
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		<p>Committer representatives should be well aware of all the daily issues committer face first hand - infrastructure, processes, tools and technologies. I have a passion about improving the priority given to these things as a project exists thanks to its contributors and their needs should have highest priority in order for a project to stay successful.
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The best way to measure community growth is via contributor growth as more contributors ensures the longevity of the project. Gaining more contributors is a time-consuming task which should be taken seriously by every project. It's our duty to share best practices and success stories in this area more widely, and encourage projects struggling in the area to adapt new tactics.
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As a committer representative my goal is to be the voice of everyone who has ideas about how to make our day-to-day routines simpler and less daunting. Even if you consider an idea that came to you as too wild to be considered seriously, it's worth sharing as it has the potential to save hours and days when scaled it to the number of projects and committers. I will always be available for such discussions.</p>
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  <p>Aleksandar got involved in the Eclipse ecosystem as a downstream integrator in Linux distributions. This naturally grown into contributing to and maintaining Linux specific tools with special interest on release engineering and ease of building. At some point he authored an alternative build system for Eclipse Platform which was used by majority of Linux distributions shipping packages for Eclipse IDE until the needed changes managed to be properly put in the regular build system. System integration focus grown even further into becoming one of the main SWT developers and contributions to a good number of different projects to streghten their integration and with underlying operating system and release engineering procedures. Exposure to such a diversive group of issues and development areas was key in becoming part of Eclipse Planning and Architecture Councils, become part of PMC and lead various projects.</p>
	<p>He works for Red Hat with special interest in system integration, maintenance improvements and overall community welcoming and growing.</p>
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	</bio>

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	<affiliation>Red Hat Inc.</affiliation>

</boardmember>