From 17c5574c3256806661db26b9115f35f2737fccf7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jeremy Stanley Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2016 18:59:54 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Adding Jeremy Stanley candidacy for TC Change-Id: I04c39cdbd79340871d4732bead5d5a8eaa1827bf Signed-off-by: Jeremy Stanley --- candidates/ocata/TC/fungi.txt | 69 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 69 insertions(+) create mode 100644 candidates/ocata/TC/fungi.txt diff --git a/candidates/ocata/TC/fungi.txt b/candidates/ocata/TC/fungi.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000..dd369af8 --- /dev/null +++ b/candidates/ocata/TC/fungi.txt @@ -0,0 +1,69 @@ +Most of you probably know me as "that short dude in the Hawaiian +shirt and long hair." I'll answer to "Jeremy," "fungi" or even just +"hey you." I'm starting my third cycle as PTL of the Infrastructure +team, and have been a core reviewer and root sysadmin for +OpenStack's community-maintained project infrastructure for the past +four years. I've also been doing vulnerability management in +OpenStack for almost as long, chaired conference tracks, and given +talks to other communities on a variety of OpenStack-related topics. +I help with elections, attend and participate in TC meetings and +review proposed changes to governance. I have consistent, strong +views in favor of free software and open/transparent community +process. + + https://wiki.openstack.org/user:fungi + +I see OpenStack not as software, but as a community of people who +come together to build something for the common good. We've been +fortunate enough to experience a bubble of corporate interest which +has provided amazing initial momentum in the form of able software +developers and generous funding, but that can't last forever. As +time goes on, we will need to rely increasingly on effort from +people who contribute to OpenStack because it interests them, rather +than because some company is paying them to do so. The way I see it, +we should be preparing now for the future of our project: +independent, volunteer contributors drawn from the global free +software community. However, we're not succeeding in attracting them +the way some other projects do, which brings me to a major +concern... + +OpenStack has a public relations problem we need to solve, and soon. +I know I'm not the only one who struggles to convince contributors +in other communities that we're really like them, writing free +software under transparent processes open to any who wish to help. +This skepticism comes from many sources, some overt (like our +massive trade conferences and marketing budget) while others +seemingly inconsequential (such as our constant influx of new +community members who are unfamiliar with free software concepts and +lack traditional netiquette). Overcoming this not-really-free +perception is something we absolutely must do to be able to attract +the unaffiliated volunteers who will continue to maintain OpenStack +through the eventual loss of our current benefactors and well into +stabilization. + +Prior to OpenStack, I worked for longer than I care to remember as +an "operator" at Internet service, hosting and telecommunications +providers doing Unix systems administration, network engineering, +virtualization and information security. When I first started my +career, you couldn't be a capable systems administrator without a +firm grasp of programming fundamentals and couldn't be a good +programmer without understanding the basics of systems +administration. I'm relieved that, after many years of companies +trying to tell us otherwise, our industry as a whole is finally +coming back around to the same realization. Similarly, I don't +believe we as a community benefit by socializing a separation of +"operators" from "developers" and feel the role distinction many +attempt to strike between the two is at best vague, while at its +worst completely alienating a potential source of current and future +contributions. + +What causes software to succeed in the long run is not hype, +limitless funding or even technical superiority, it's the size and +connectedness of its community of volunteers and users who invest +themselves and their personal time. The work we're doing now is +great, don't get me wrong, but for it to survive into the next +decade and beyond we need to focus more on building a close-knit +community of interested contributors even if it's not in the best +interests of industry pundits or vendor product roadmaps. + +OpenStack is people. If we lose sight of that, it's over.