# Core contributor nomination: Taimoor Ahmed **URL:** \ **Category:** Core Contributors\ **Created:** [November 15, 2024, 11:00am UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/core-contributor-nomination-taimoor-ahmed/14378 "2024-11-15T11:00:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![regis](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.openedx.org/regis/32/2640_2.png) [@regis](https://discuss.openedx.org/u/regis)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2024, 11:00am UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/core-contributor-nomination-taimoor-ahmed/14378/1 "2024-11-15T11:00:15Z")
Hello Open edX 👋 I am once again reaching to you for the nomination of a new coding core contributor and Open edX maintainer. Today, it is my pleasure to nominate @Taimur_Ahmed. You might not know Taimoor so well, but he is one of the popular people here at Edly. He was previously project lead of the Edly SaaS platform, where he made extensive changes to edx-platform, ecommerce, course-discovery and the credentials app. In particular, he has worked on a series of custom XBlocks and he has integrated both [authorize.net](http://authorize.net) and CowPay as payment gateways in the Ecommerce stack. More recently, Taimoor’s work has been instrumental in creating the [openedx/forum](https://github.com/openedx/forum) app, which will [replace cs\_comments\_service](https://github.com/openedx/cs_comments_service/issues/437) in Sumac. He is the one who implemented the storage backend-switching mechanism, to allow users to choose between MySQL and MongoDB, as well as the data migration scripts. In this project, I have come to greatly appreciate Taimoor’s technical abilities, communication abilities and his attention to details. I am eager to see Taimoor contribute to other repositories. In the meantime, and until he builds enough commit history, we are proposing that he becomes a maintainer of the following repositories: - [openedx/forum](https://github.com/openedx/forum): where he will work with @Ali_Salman29 (nominated [here](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/core-contributor-nomination-ali-salman/14339)) to maintain the new forum app. - [openedx/course-discovery](https://github.com/openedx/course-discovery): where he will help fulfill the [ongoing deprecation process](https://github.com/openedx/course-discovery/issues/4449) and contribute replacement APIs in edx-platform (or elsewhere). The comment period will last until November 29th. For this to pass, Taimoor needs 5 positive votes and no unaddressed concerns. ---
**Author:** ![Taimur\_Ahmed](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.openedx.org/taimur_ahmed/32/7363_2.png) [@Taimur\_Ahmed](https://discuss.openedx.org/u/Taimur_Ahmed)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2024, 11:44am UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/core-contributor-nomination-taimoor-ahmed/14378/2 "2024-11-15T11:44:26Z")
Thank you @regis for nominating me, looking forward to this opportunity and contributing within the Open edX community. ---
**Author:** ![Andres.Aulasneo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.openedx.org/andres.aulasneo/32/984_2.png) [@Andres.Aulasneo](https://discuss.openedx.org/u/Andres.Aulasneo)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2024, 12:39pm UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/core-contributor-nomination-taimoor-ahmed/14378/3 "2024-11-15T12:39:39Z")
+1 vote on my side ---
**Author:** ![feanil](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.openedx.org/feanil/32/37_2.png) [@feanil](https://discuss.openedx.org/u/feanil)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2024, 2:49pm UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/core-contributor-nomination-taimoor-ahmed/14378/4 "2024-11-15T14:49:12Z")
đź‘Ť from me. ---
**Author:** ![dave](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.openedx.org/dave/32/263_2.png) [@dave](https://discuss.openedx.org/u/dave)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2024, 4:07pm UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/core-contributor-nomination-taimoor-ahmed/14378/5 "2024-11-15T16:07:41Z")
đź‘Ť from me as well. ---
**Author:** ![Fayyaz\_Ahmed](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.openedx.org/fayyaz_ahmed/32/3499_2.png) [@Fayyaz\_Ahmed](https://discuss.openedx.org/u/Fayyaz_Ahmed)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2024, 10:31am UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/core-contributor-nomination-taimoor-ahmed/14378/6 "2024-11-18T10:31:35Z")
+1 from my side. I have been working alongside Taimoor for more than three years, and he has made several contributions to open edX for Edly. I am optimistic he will be a good addition to the core contributors list. ---
**Author:** ![Zia.Fazal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.openedx.org/zia.fazal/32/7735_2.png) [@Zia.Fazal](https://discuss.openedx.org/u/Zia.Fazal)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2024, 10:42am UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/core-contributor-nomination-taimoor-ahmed/14378/7 "2024-11-18T10:42:42Z")
đź‘Ť from me too. ---
**Author:** ![Awais\_Qureshi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.openedx.org/awais_qureshi/32/3040_2.png) [@Awais\_Qureshi](https://discuss.openedx.org/u/Awais_Qureshi)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2024, 9:23am UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/core-contributor-nomination-taimoor-ahmed/14378/8 "2024-11-19T09:23:16Z")
+1 from my side also. ---
**Author:** ![Felipe](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.openedx.org/felipe/32/60_2.png) [@Felipe](https://discuss.openedx.org/u/Felipe)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2024, 3:16pm UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/core-contributor-nomination-taimoor-ahmed/14378/9 "2024-11-19T15:16:30Z")
Great! I vote **yes** to the nomination of @Taimur_Ahmed as CC and maintainer of forum and discovery. It is fantastic to see good support for the new forum app.