candidate(campaign-2021): geoffrey huntley

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+title: Geoffrey Huntley
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+# .NET Foundation Campaign: Geoffrey Huntley
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+## Why I'm running
+
+I think change is needed.
+
+## Who am I?
+
+You may know me as the guy who (literally and figuratively) put his Microsoft MVP award [in the shredder](https://www.crn.com.au/news/microsoft-pushes-mvps-influencers-to-spruik-azure-in-lead-up-to-aws-reinvent-563623). If you want someone who is biased towards open-source maintainers over the interest of Microsoft then I'm your guy.
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+I live, work and play outside of the .NET ecochamber and am known for always looking into other ecosystems for ideas to bring back home. 
+
+There's unfinished business and I now have capacity 🧡
+
+## Experience with the Foundation
+
+If you know, you know. I was the core maintainer of one of the [earliest projects to join the .NET Foundation](https://dotnetfoundation.org/blog/2017/08/08/welcome-reactiveui-to-the-net-foundation). 
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+## What are my goals for the .NET Foundation?
+
+Focus the .NET Foundation on the [needs of open-source maintainers](https://medium.com/open-collective/funding-open-source-how-webpack-reached-400k-year-dfb6d8384e19). As a industry we haven't established the conditions where companies are readily able to mitigate risks related to software being produced by unpaid volunteers. The free software community has spent a lot of time and effort at discussing user freedoms however they have been almost silent on the unintended consequences.
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+The .NET ecosystem due to it's adoption by [billion dollar business](https://github.com/Fody/PropertyChanged/issues/270#issuecomment-320145654) faces unique challenges. Simon Cropp of Fody summarised it best with:
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+> How about this. point me to one significant contribution your billion dollar business has made to any open source project in the past month and i will go to the effort of supporting .NET 4.0
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+
+## Links
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+* [Personal Blog](https://www.ghuntley.com/the-office)
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+## Contact Information
+
+* [Twitter](https://twitter.com/geoffreyhuntley)
+* [GitHub](https://github.com/ghuntley)
+* [NuGet](https://www.nuget.org/profiles/ghuntley)
+* [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/geoffreyhuntley)