Approval of RFC 8

Membership Request following the New Candidate Process explained HERE

Including application below:

Hi, I'm Sam Elamin. I have been working on substrate-based chains for close to 2 years now.

I am currently leading Imbue Network whose code is all open source.

Additionally, I founded the Substrate Devs channel on Telegram which is a great resource for educating new developers and getting them up to speed. This channel is bridged to Matrix and has many subject matter experts from Parity

I am a very passionate and keen advocate of interoperability and I feel I can add value in guiding that vision to fruition.

My Contributions to the core ecosystem are mostly around warp-syncing parachains:

• paritytech/cumulus#1909
• paritytech/polkadot#6334
• paritytech/substrate#12761
• paritytech/zombienet#723
• paritytech/zombienet#673

In addition, here is how I am contributing to the wider ecosystem:

• Education around substrate throughout the ecosystem
• Discussions on Forum
• Polkadot and substrate advocate who is very active in the community
• Runtime development for parachains

Educational content:

Activity on StackExchange answering and asking questions: https://substrate.stackexchange.com/users/18/sam-elamin

I want to apply for rank 1.

Address: FXkcePu7sUd8TbfSasW4MTs5grMptqupFFGpkBKT7veoePm

Hi @RTTI...5220 thank you so much for posting this on my behalf

Really keen on joining the fellowship, and I am here to answer any questions or concerns