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+layout: page
+authors: ["Trevor Keller"]
+teaser: "Congratulations to the 2025 Steering Committee"
+title: "HPC Carpentry Elections: 2025"
+date: 2025-07-01
+time: "12:00:00"
+tags: ["HPC Carpentry", "Elections"]
+---
+
+[Democratic elections for the HPC Carpentry Steering Committee successfully
+completed on 1 July 2025, with 10 ballots cast](
+https://secure.electionbuddy.com/results/ZWYKK574NT5Z).
+The Steering Committee members are:
+
+## Alan O'Cais
+
+Currently the technical manager of MultiXscale, an EuroHPC centre of
+Excellence. Previously acted as the Software Manager of E-CAM, an EU Centre
+of Excellence in computing applications, while at Juelich Supercomputing
+Centre (JSC). Also previously managed the user software and application
+environment on the multi-PFlop JURECA hybrid cluster system at JSC. Between
+2010 and 2015, was primarily focused within the LinkSCEEM-2 project helping
+to develop a Virtual Research Community in Computational Science in the
+Eastern Mediterranean region.
+
+Maintainer of EasyBuild and EESSI, contributor to a number of open source
+projects (in particular Magic Castle, which is relevant for HPC Carpentry).
+
+## Annajiat Alim Rasel
+
+Annajiat serves as a senior lecturer and coordinator of undergraduate
+programs at Computer Science and Engineering within the School of Data and
+Sciences, the largest school at BRAC University (BRACU), Bangladesh, under
+the umbrella of the world’s largest NGO, BRAC. He is continuously learning
+from the students and colleagues. He is grateful for having co-taught courses
+on problem-solving, parallel, distributed, and high-performance computing
+(HPC), natural language interfaces and processing, data science, modeling and
+simulation, machine vision, ethical hacking, etc., along with
+interdisciplinary workshops, training events, being a coach for APAC HPC-AI
+Competition, ACM ICPC, etc. With kind contributions by HPC Carpentry
+community members like Alan O'Cais (multiXscale & CECAM), Benson Muite
+(Kichakato Kizito), Wirawan Purwanto (ODU), M. Abdur Rahman (BRACU),
+Md. Intekhabul Hafiz (BRACU), and many others, he was able to co-teach the
+HPC-related pilot workshops that had a profound impact on inspiring and
+assisting underrepresented and underserved researchers and learners. The
+Carpentries community has been a source of immense growth for him. He is
+thankful to have had the opportunity to learn from everyone while serving the
+global community.
+
+He has served as an instructor, instructor trainer, mentor, curriculum
+advisor, member of the executive council (EC, now transitioned into the board
+of directors), instructor trainers leadership committee, code of conduct
+committee (CoCc), instructor development committee, steering committee for
+HPC carpentry curriculum development, organizing committee for CarpentryCon,
+etc. Having joined the CoCc in 2022 and then the EC, he had the opportunity
+to serve both groups as an EC liaison to the CoCc during 2022–2023. He
+returned as a CoCc member in 2024 to continue the commitment of fostering a
+safe and inclusive learning environment. Looking ahead, he is passionate
+about bridging the digital divide, particularly through ICT4D, with a focus
+on ICT4ED. He believes in the power of open science, open educational
+resources, free/libre open-source software, tools, and good practices for
+research, development, engineering, and education. This includes promoting
+diversity, democracy, transparency, localization, accessibility, and other
+aspects of FAIR and CARE principles. Together, he dreams to ensure a safer
+community of practice, empower the community members, and build a larger
+Carpentries community in Bangladesh, Asia, and worldwide.
+
+## Andrew Reid
+
+I operate a small HPC cluster at NIST, and my ulterior motive for all of this
+is getting better users for my cluster and others. I feel very strongly that
+the wider availability of HPC resources has not been matched by a greater
+understanding of how to use them, and that this is an important skills gap in
+many fields, and might be most acute for small research teams or
+informally-assembled clusters, although this is hard to measure. I'm a huge
+fan of the open-source continuous-improvement model of the Carpentries
+broadly, and look forward to bringing that spirit to the HPC world.
+
+## Trevor Keller
+
+I assist Andrew with a research cluster and data storage at NIST, and have a
+strong interest in helping scientists overcome barriers to using HPC
+resources. I have served on the HPC Carpentry Steering Committee since its
+inception, and enjoy preparing massive PRs to implement sweeping changes to our
+lessons. I am excited for the Lesson Program Incubation process to advance, and
+look forward to incorporating more workshop feedback to improve our offerings.
@@ -13,22 +13,15 @@ decision-making. Matters requiring acute executive action are addressed by our
 Steering Committee which is also the collective point of contact for The
 Carpentries proper.
 
-Unless otherwise specified, the style, governance, and rules of HPC Carpentry
-default to the [The Carpentries Bylaws][cc-bylaw].
-
-## Steering Committee
-
-HPC Carpentry is a global volunteer community. Executive decisions are made by
-a five-member Steering Committee, which also serves as the point of contact for
-The Carpentries.
-
-As of June 22, 2023, the Steering Committee members are:
+As of July 1, 2025, the Steering Committee members are:
 
 * Trevor Keller, NIST ([@tkphd](https://github.com/tkphd))
 * Andrew Reid, NIST ([@reid-a](https://github.com/reid-a))
 * Alan O'Cais, CECAM ([@ocaisa](https://github.com/ocaisa))
 * Annajiat Alim Rasel, BRAC ([@annajiat](https://github.com/annajiat))
-* Wirawan Purwanto, ODU ([@wirawan0](https://github.com/wirawan0))
+
+Unless otherwise specified, the style, governance, and rules of HPC Carpentry
+default to the [The Carpentries Bylaws][cc-bylaw].
 
 ## Elections