Merge pull request #25 from codesections-forks/codesections-nomination

codesections nomination

nominations/2020/codesections.md

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+From a purely technical level, I am not the most qualified person to serve on
+the Raku Steering Council.  If you were selecting candidates with the deepest
+knowledge of the Raku language or the longest membership in the Raku community,
+then you wouldn't select me.
+
+Nevertheless, there are three reasons why selecting me for the RSC would benefit
+the Raku community:
+
+ * **The perspective of a new user**: I know what it is like to come to Raku in
+   2020; I just did so myself.  I appreciate exactly where the roadblocks – and
+   the delights! – can be.  I have tremendous respect for those who have been
+   coding Raku for years, and I have a lot to learn from them.  Yet, for Raku to
+   have the impact it deserves, we'll need to appeal to developers who program
+   in other languages, including not only Perl but also as many other languages
+   as possible.  Unlike 81.5% of the respondents to the [recent user
+   survey](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdRPBdn1iRN_sT8BMNMOBhVbEY1u8ngZWVwLyM37sqsa4OLwQ/viewanalytics),
+   I did not come to Raku with extensive Perl experience – or indeed any at all.
+   Instead, the two languages I've programmed professionally are JavaScript (the
+   [most widely
+   used](https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2020#most-popular-technologies)
+   programming language) and Rust (a quickly growing language that StackOverflow
+   users have selected as their [most loved
+   language](https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2020#most-loved-dreaded-and-wanted)
+   for five years in a row).  I very much hope to help our language grow by
+   bringing these perspective to the RSC.
+
+ * **Excitement, energy, and time**: I am a self-employed software developer in
+   my early 30s and work full time developing Free/Open Source Software.  I
+   firmly believe that Raku is a tremendous contribution to the FOSS community,
+   and am currently [devoting a significant amount of my
+   time](https://github.com/Raku/doc/graphs/contributors?from=2020-08-09&to=2020-09-20&type=c)
+   to improving the language and ecosystem in any way I can – and I'm just
+   getting started.  Being able to focus on free software without the time
+   commitment of a $DAYJOB is, to put it mildly, _extremely_ helpful.
+
+ * **I'm also an attorney**: The RSC, in addition to providing technical
+   leadership, will likely also confront more mundane, administrative tasks.  I
+   believe my background could be helpful here.  Before discovering my passion
+   for coding and free software, I worked as an attorney at [one of the most
+   well-regarded law firms](https://www.davispolk.com/firm) in New York City.
+   Though I've maintained my law license, I no longer practice law and wouldn't
+   be interested in representing the RSC.  Still, having a perspective on US law
+   could be helpful – after all, legal and licensing issues [do come
+   up](https://github.com/Raku/problem-solving/issues/193) from time to time.
+
+Whether or not I am selected for the RSC, I look forward to contributing to the
+Raku community in the months and years ahead.  Just yesterday, my first Rakudo
+pull request [was merged](https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/pull/3878), and my
+first blog post about Raku was featured in the [Rakudo weekly
+news](https://rakudoweekly.blog/2020/08/31/2020-35-election-candidacies/).  I am
+sure that both will be just the first of many, and I look forward to building
+our language together.

nominations/2020/voting-form.md

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 [ ] Aleks-Daniel Jakimenko-Aleksejev (@AlexDaniel)
 [ ] Brian Duggan (@bduggan)
+[ ] Daniel Sockwell (@codesections)
 [ ] Elizabeth Mattijsen (@lizmat)
 [ ] Jonathan Worthington (@jnthn)
 [ ] Juan-Julián Merelo-Guervós (@JJ)