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Who should our beta moderators be?

Robotics StackExchange has been in public beta for a week now, and soon it will be time for us to get our first crop of moderators, as explained in the “Moderator Pro Tempore” blog post:

About a week into the public beta, we will seek out members who are deeply engaged in the community’s development; members who:

Have a reasonably high reputation score to indicate active, consistent participation.
Show an interest in their meta’s community-building activities.
Lead by example, showing patience and respect for their fellow community members in everything they write.
Exhibit those intangible traits discussed in A Theory of Moderation.

Each beta site has (approximately) three moderators on a temporary, short-term appointment. Moderators Pro Tem focus and expedite the essential needs of each new site, both in terms of regular moderator activies and as a liaison of the growing community with the Stack Exchange team. By the end of Beta, the community will be better suited to hold their own elections.
Although the moderators pro tempore will ultimately be selected by Stack Exchange, the purpose of this post is to seek out and propose candidates:

Each nomination should be posted as an answer and it should include (at minimum) a link to the user's main and meta profile so we can check out their activity.
Self nominations are encouraged, step up if you feel you can help.
If you are nominated by someone else you should edit the answer and let us know if you accept or decline (explanation optional). If a nominee declines we will not delete the answer, as to not have someone else nominate them again.
If you are nominating someone else, please mark the post as Community Wiki before saving. Meta doesn't allow suggested edits, so your nominee may be blocked from accepting the nomination.
The nominations are not binding to Stack Exchange or the nominees. If you are being considered by Stack Exchange, you will get an official confirmation email at one point. 
Before nominating someone or accept / decline a nomination, you should read A Theory of Moderation thoroughly to find out what's generally expected from moderators.

If you would like to learn more about the role, please drop into our chat room where you can ask about the role from other moderators (they appear with a blue name in the chat room). Another chatroom called The Assembly was created specifically for users and moderators to discuss moderation activities, moderators from all over the network are there to answer your questions.
Once again, please don't hesitate to step up and self-nominate!. 

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I'd like to nominate Mark Booth (meta, Network & Area 51) as a pro tem mod for this site. Mark has been participating in site-building for this site on area51 and has continued to do so on this meta. Besides, he seems to be well versed with the topic, as is evident from his contributions on main. He's also been around the network for pretty long -- so he probably is familiar with most policies.
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Thanks Manishearth, I would be happy to accept the nomination and help out with moderation during our beta period, at least until community elections can take place.
I worked in the robotics and mechatronics industry for around 6 years and worked in the laser scribing industry (more mechatronics) for another 6, so mine is a more industrial perspective, but I have recently started building my first RepRap. As such I'm starting to see robotics from a hobby perspective too.
I created the Digital Fabrication proposal over on Area 51 partially in response to the apparent difficulty in getting a Robotics proposal off the ground, but I am keen for Robotics to be the home to all levels of questions, from hobbyist through industrial to research.
I have been active on the stack exchange system for almost 4 years, and have 1k rep on 6 sites, so although I never been a moderator before I believe that I have a reasonable grasp of what is required of one.
I believe in firm but fair moderation, and hope that my comments, edits and flags so far bear that out. I also hope that Robotics can be a relatively tolerant so that we can build a thriving, vibrant community of roboticists.

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This post is both a nomination and an example of a nomination to get the rest of you started :)

I'd like to nominate myself, Mainshearth (main|meta), for this position.
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I'm Manish, a first-year engineering student. I've always had a passion for robotics, and for the past few months I've been working with others on various  robotics projects (brainstorming/design/fabrication ... everything). I'm no expert in Robotics, but it's going to take up a significant chunk of my attention for the next few years at least -- and I love the topic. Thus, I'm pretty interested in this site; I may not be able to contribute high-level answers, but I can certainly ask questions. And of course read through others' posts, I've learned quite a bit already from this site that way.

I'm a moderator on  Chemistry.SE, so I know my way around the tools pretty well (as well as having participated heavily in site-building). I've also participated heavily on the mother meta, so I'm quite familiar with most SE policies.
If I'm elected, I'd like to continue focussing on site-building (I'm more of a meta-person), as well as doing the standard moderator jobs (handling flags/approving edits/closing/editing/commenting --at this stage of the site, we don't have enough high-rep community members to handle these things).

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I'd like to nominate Rocketmagnet (main | meta) who has been very active on this site, during definition and since entering beta.
Clearly a man who knows the subject, and an asset to the site.
I hope you feel able to accept this nomination
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