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Join us for short interviews with .NET Foundation Board of Director Candidates. Ask live Q&A.
Hosted by: Heather Downing
Candidates: Layla Porter, Rainer Stropek, Shawn Wildermuth, Mitchel Sellers
View candidates - https://dotnetfoundation.org/about/election/candidates
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A
Hello
layla
welcome
hi
heather
well,
just
for
everybody
watching.
I
would
love
for
you
to
just
introduce
yourself
your
name
and
where
you're
from.
B
A
B
I'm
really
nosy
and
I
like
to
know
everything
that's
going
on,
I
hate
being
out
the
loop,
so
I
think
it
would
have
to
be
invisibility
because
then
I
could
just
sneak
in
everywhere
and
listen
in
on
everything
and
know
everything,
and
that
would
really
help
with
my
curiosity.
So
I
think
it
would
have
to
be
invisibility.
A
A
So,
let's
start
off
with
probably
the
biggest
question.
Why
are
you
running
for
a
position
on
the.net
foundation
board?
Well,.
B
I
am
really
passionate
about
dotnet
and
in
particular
c
sharp,
so
I
actually
changed
careers
about
six
years
ago
to
be
a
developer.
So
I'm
one
of
these
you
know
lots
and
lots
of
developers
are
starting
now
with
a
career
change.
They
haven't
gone
to
do
a
computer
science
degree,
and
things
like
that.
So
I
feel
like
I
represent
those
people.
I
also
represent
our
female
colleagues
and
everything,
so
I
think
that's
really
important
to
see
females
in
in
these
positions.
B
So
I
wanted
to
run
to
represent
women
and
developers
from
different
paths
to
technology,
and
I
just
I
I
love
helping
new
developers
into
the
dot
net
ecosystem,
but
it's
really
hard
so
I'd
love
to
make
a
difference
in
helping
more
developers
come
into
dot,
net
and
c
or
f,
sharp
or
xamarin
or
whatever
they
want
to
do,
but
just
make
it
more
accessible
to
more
people
so
yeah.
That
would
be
pretty
awesome.
If
I
could
do
that.
B
So
I've
been
a
meetup
organizer
for
must
be
about
three
years
now
and
our
meetup
is
part
of
the
dot
net
foundation.
So
I've
been
working
on
bringing
dotnet
to
my
local
community
working
with
other.net
community
leaders.
So
that's
my
main
background
with
the.net
foundation
is
through
the
community
of
meetups.
A
B
No,
I
seem
to
do
a
lot.
I'm
a
very
busy
person
say
heather
you
and
I
met
on
conferencing,
so
I
do
lots
of
conferencing
all
over
well,
europe
and
and
north
america
generally,
and
as
I
I
speak,
about.net
predominantly
c
sharp.
I
also
blog
and
my
new
thing
since
covert
has
been
a
streaming
on
twitch.
So
I'm
part
of
the
live
coders
team
regularly
streaming
on
all
things.net
really
and
playing
with
things
building
the
the
online
community
since
we've
had
to
go
online,
so
there's
lots
of
contributions.
A
Exciting,
I
know
that
I'm
getting
ready
to
go
on
twitch,
it's
a
big
step.
You
know,
because
it
reminds
me
of
doing
one
of
those
eight-hour
workshops
in
person
is
that
you
know
you're
trying
to
get
everybody
on
the
same
page
and
show
them
something
and
everything
inevitably
breaks.
Some
might
say:
that's
the
thrill
of
being
live
or
being
on
stage
in
person.
It's
terrifying
to
me
so
kudos
to
you
for
being
one
of
the
live,
coders
team,
so
yeah.
What
other
experience
do
you
have?
B
So
I've
had
a
lot
of
different
careers
over
the
years,
so
I
have
a
lot
of
different
experiences
that
I
hope
to
bring
to
the
board.
One
of
the
big
ones
is
that
I
am
super
organized.
B
I
am
known
as
the
organizer
at
work
and
if
something
needs
organizing
or
arranging
they
come
to
me-
and
I
usually
get
it
done,
so
I'm
very
good
at
that,
and
I'm
just,
I
think,
I'm
very
empathic
and
I
would
love
to
like
bring
more
people's
views
in
and
listen
and
learn
and
help
make
the
community
a
growing,
improving
community.
And
I
think
that's
what
I
can.
I
can
bring.
A
B
So
I
think
something
that
would
be
really
good
is
to
help
encourage
more
new
developers
coming
in
I've,
tried
to
build
workshops
and
run
meetups
to
help
new
developers,
whether
they're
coming
from
another
language
or
completely
new
to
programming,
and
it's
really
hard,
and
I
think,
if
we
want
to
keep
it
current,
keep
moving
forward.
We're
making
a
really
great
start,
especially
with
net
core
and
the
cross
platform.
So
I'm
coming
from
a
web
dev
background.
B
So
that's
going
to
be
my
experience
and
I
think
we
can
really
make
better
experiences
both
for
meetup
organizers
and
new
people,
and
and
give
them
tools
and
ways
to
help,
encourage
and
and
grow
the
community
right
from
our
grassroots
right
up.
So
I
I
would
love
to
see
the.net
foundation
supporting
more
meetups,
giving
them
the
tools
to
help
grow
the
community
and
make
everything
more
accessible.
B
I
think
letting
people
know
that
we're
open
source
and
cross-platform
is
a
really
big
issue.
I
still
get
people
going,
hang
on
you're
developing
on
a
mac.
What
how
can
you
do
that?
So
I
still
think
there's
this
old
mindset
of
the
old
microsoft
that
you
have
to
be
on
windows
that
you
have
to
do
this,
and
I
think
we
need
to
keep
spreading
that
that
word
and
and
experience
that
it
is
modern
it.
It
can
be
done
on
on
macs
and
linux,
and
the
cool
kids
can
do.net
and
it's
so
varied.
B
A
B
I
do
think
just
coming
forward
open
sourcing
it
and
making
it
cross-platform
has
been
the
biggest
move.
I
I
think
out
of
everything
that
has
really
made
it
accessible
to
so
many
more
people
and
I
think
that's
the
biggest
move
to
be
honest
and
the
documentation.
The
documentation
is
really
good,
but
documentation
is
a
living
breathing
thing
and
it
can
always
be
improved
and
that's
no
small
thing
either
the
microsoft
dots
are
great,
but
they
can
always
be
better.
B
Oh,
my
goodness,
I
did
a
photo
processor
for
a
talk
in
january
and
I
built
that
in
azure
functions
and-
and
I
actually
built
that
for
a
fellow
mvp,
elise
carson.
We
did
this
super
fun
toolkit
ndc,
london,
together
and
she
taught
me
xamarin,
live
on
stage,
I'd
never
done
xamarin
before
and
it
was
just
so
much
fun
and
so
inspiring,
and
so
many
women
came
up
to
us
afterwards.
B
I'm
like
this
was
amazing,
and
so
that
brought
that
brought
me
real
joy
and
we
had
pictures
that
had
sparkly
overlays
on
them,
so
we
we
sprinkled
some
sparkle
on
it,
so
that
was
probably
one
of
the
most
fun
things
I
built.
I
really
enjoyed
doing
that.
I.
B
I
was
actually
asked
this
in
an
interview
question
a
couple
of
years
ago
and
I
think
I'd
have
to
be
a
dog.
That
sounds
really
weird,
but
I'm
not
weird.
B
I'm
super
positive,
I'm,
like
generally
a
happy
person,
so
you
can
imagine
my
tail
is
always
wagging,
I'm
quite
full
of
energy,
and
I
really
just
like
making
people
happy
and
pleasing
people
and
and
yeah.
I
think
a
dog
would
just
yeah.
I
and
I
love
dogs.
You
know
dogs
on
my
life,
I
love
them
so
yeah.
I
think
yep
dog
definitely
and
I'm
very
loyal
and
dogs
are
very
loyal,
so
yeah.
Where
can
they
find
you
on
twitter?
B
You
can
find
me
layla
codes
it
and
you
can
find
me
on
twitch
on
layla
codes.
It
so
yeah,
I'm
I'm
on
most
social
media
as
layla
codes.
It
so
yeah.