Add Sebastian Strollo as a candidate for 2023 board election

priv/posts/eef/20230225015013_election-2023.md

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 - [Thomas Depierre](#thomas-depierre)
 - [Kiko Fernandez-Reyes](#kiko-fernandez-reyes)
 - [Alistair Woodman](#alistair-woodman)
+- [Sebastian Strollo](#sebastian-strollo)
 
 <h3 id="thomas-depierre">Thomas Depierre</h3>
 
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 ### Why vote for him?
 
 I’m happy to help the community. I enjoy working with my board colleagues. I have connections to many open source projects and standards bodies and I have experience with not-for-profit as well as for-profit companies; their boards; and the process and bureaucracy associated with running such companies – basically, “I know how to wash the bottles and take the empties out."
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+<h3 id="sebastian-strollo">Sebastian Strollo</h3>
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+<img src="/images/volunteers/sebastian-strollo.jpg" width="175" height="175" alt="member photo" />
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+_outgoing board member and secretary and treasurer_
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+Sebastian Strollo has been an Erlang programmer since 1991, when he was introduced to the language by its authors at the Ericsson Computer Science Laboratory. Intrigued by the language and the lab, he stayed on, seeing Erlang through internal Ericsson use, and then being part of making it open source in 1998.
+He has since been part of several successful Erlang startups, most recently Tail-f Systems, which was acquired by Cisco in 2014. Currently, Sebastian is a co-founder and developer at a new startup called Avassa, where Erlang is being leveraged to bring the cloud experience to the edge.
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+### Why vote for him?
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+I currently hold the roles of secretary and treasurer in the foundation. In this all-volunteer capacity, I ensure that we follow our bylaws, write minutes of board meetings, and maintain records. I also manage the bookkeeping of the foundation. Additionally, I participate in the sponsorship working group. I view my role on the board of EEF as someone who keeps the mechanics of the foundation running as smoothly as possible, allowing our members and working groups to flourish.
+During my current term on the board, I was part of successfully obtaining EEF’s 501(c)(3) (US non-profit) status and established routines for granting stipends and acquiring new sponsors to get EEF off the ground. If re-elected, I will focus on professionalizing the foundation’s day-to-day routines to allow our members and working groups to focus on growing our community and doing valuable work. Thank you for being a member of EEF, and I hope you will let me serve on the board for another term.
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