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+title: Anthony Shaw (anthonyshaw) joins our team
+author: Tomaz Muraus
+tags:
+ - news
+ - new committer
+ - new PMC member
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+
+Please help us extend a warm welcome to our newest team member [Anthony
+Shaw][1]!
+
+The Project Management Committee (PMC) for Apache Libcloud has invited Anthony
+Shaw to join us as a committer and a PMC member and we are pleased to announce
+that he has accepted.
+
+Anthony has joined the community fairly recently, but he has already made a lot
+of [substantial contributions][2]. Those contributions range from new Dimension
+Data drivers and various related improvements to a proposal for a new [backup
+API][3] for Backup as a Service products and projects.
+
+While we are talking about the new backup API - we would like to encourage
+everyone who is either a service provider offering Backup as a Service product
+or a person interested in using this API to join us and [participate in the
+discussion][3]. The more feedback we get, the better and more widely applicable
+we can make this new API.
+
+For anyone who would like to know more about Anthony here is his short bio:
+
+> Anthony Shaw works for the global system integrator Dimension Data as Head of
+Innovation. Anthony has been working in the hosting/service provider industry
+for the last 10 years for MSPs within Europe, North America and Australia in
+various Product Management and Product Development roles. Anthony is an
+open-source advocate and has been promoting the Libcloud project internally to
+Dimension Data for the last 9 months as well as maintaining its driver.
+
+And in his own words:
+
+> I think we will continue to see consolidation in IaaS providers over the next
+12 months, so likelihood is the number of drivers will reduce, but the
+importance of being cloud agnostic to people is becoming more apparent as some
+are already being burnt by integrations into APIs that companies like Dell and
+Ninefold have pulled the plug on. Libcloud is a key project for developers not
+wanting to lock themselves too heavily to a vendor. I would also like to see
+expansion of additional services like backup, load balancing and containers so
+that users can still take advantages of these features through our driver.
+
+We are happy to have him in our team and we are looking forward to his future
+participation and contributions.
+
+[1]: https://github.com/allardhoeve
+[2]:
https://github.com/apache/libcloud/pulls?q=is%3Apr+author%3Atonybaloney+is%3Aclosed
+[3]: https://github.com/apache/libcloud/pull/629
