I'm a BSD UNIX developer. I've been a committer with several BSD projects for a number of years, mostly doing kernel-level work.

I'm also a big fan of nginx, and I'm in the top-15 of nginx answerers on Stack Overflow, as well as top-9 of nginx answerers on Server Fault.

I've given talks at all the major BSD conferences, in England, Canada, France, Tokyo, Serbia, as well as nginx.conf in California and Texas.

When it comes to moderation, I believe in free speech and in non-intervention.

My name is Kusalananda, and I would be happy to serve as your moderator.

I've been a registered user on the site for about 7.5 years, with more active participation since 2016. I've been primarily interested in questions relating to shell scripting and standard Unix command line tools. For a more in-depth introduction, please see my answer to the Meta question "Getting to know you [...]".

During the last couple of years, as I've started to get to know people here, I've come to enjoy the community more and more, to the point where I care about it and its individuals.

What I hope I would bring:

• A diplomatic way of communicating.
• Carefully explained decisions.
• Availability (I'm often here).
• A broader-than-Linux perspective.
• More answers.

What I'd like U&L to be:

• A friendly and inclusive place.
• A source of relevant and high quality information (in terms of both questions and answers).
• Somewhere where people grow, both in terms of Unix wizardry skills, but also in terms of ability to transmit these to others.

Good evening everyone! My nick's John WH Smith and I would like to nominate myself in this election. To tell you a bit about myself, I am a CS PhD student and teacher, and have been part of the U&L community for (checks profile) 5-ish years now. As you might see on my profile, I do not really have a topic preference on this website, although I would say I usually go for questions which revolve around basic sysadmin tasks. This is actually one of the few hobbies I have been able to keep in spite of my schedule, and I have/have had the pleasure to manage a few machines on a voluntary basis for some non-profit websites.

As far as Unix and Linux are concerned, they are among the topics I find most fascinating in my field, along with the open source movement, computer science history and computer networks design. Obviously though, my current work has absolutely nothing to do with any of those! Regarding this nomination, I believe this would be a good way for me to keep contributing on a schedule which makes writing my typically verbose answers more difficult. I therefore hope to join you, and will in any case see you in the next phase, be it as a candidate or a voter!

Seeing there aren't that many nominees, I'd like to nominate myself, too.

I've using unix.SE as a sort of a hobby for about three years now, mostly answering questions. Instead of concentrating on that, I would be interested in doing a different kind of work for the community. Which I'll probably do more in any case, regardless of the results here.

I usually try to be patient in explaining things and have some sense of fairness, though it's somewhat hard to gauge one's behaviour objectively. I think rules are useful to have, but should often have some leeway in how they're interpreted.

_{(Sorry for the late nomination, I was a bit busy IRL and I'm not too keen on pushing myself in general either.)}

I have no experience with the moderation of a community. No understanding of how things go around here and meet none of the basic "requirements" a moderator should have.

I do have though a deep love of the work and effort people have put into these wonderful typesetting technologies and the time to dedicate to helping.

Stack Exchange does not exist to be a cold dry look up for information devoid of human touch. It is a site that exists to push people to be better and to excel at programming.

As a moderator I would encourage discussion and growth. Use my technical skills and understanding to learn who it is that is leading us in the right direction. Get my safe dry and boring opinion about what is a "proper" response out of the way of the community growing.

&& to make people confident in themselves and acknowledge their value and their right in existing and expressing themselves.

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A welcoming community of aggressive Linux men, women, and $insert_gender, together focused on engineering, technology, the improvement of people`s lives.

Thank you for your time it would be a privilege to help preserve it.

Ever since discovering this site 3+ years ago, I've found it to be valuable -- both as a place where I can learn even more about UNIX and as a place where I can help teach others about UNIX while solving their problems. I've enjoyed helping the site through answers, edits, tag maintenance, flags, comments, and Meta posts. As a moderator, I would appreciate being able to help the site more directly: by handling flags, guiding discussions, and keeping tags organized.

Why me?

• I’m slow.

I’m relatively newer to the site and I’m used to the fact that I don’t know how everything works. As a result, I’m always consulting the help pages and the FAQs and the previous Meta discussions. I am always curious to figure out where others are coming from so that I can find where a misunderstanding started.

• I’m apparently already doing the work, why not get paid for it?

Wait, there’s no pay? :)

Keeping the site clean is the main way I feel I can contribute. The real answerers on the site provide the raw helpfulness; I just dust the corners by capitalizing the I’s & such; I do that because I think that keeps our value to the greater community high.