From 19a02cb27026c9e5d083799a9337867566677333 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mohammed Naser Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2018 14:03:22 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Add Mohammed Naser candidacy for TC Change-Id: I8436a2265f338450463ec572051b5a0255ece23d --- candidates/rocky/TC/mnaser@vexxhost.com | 66 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 66 insertions(+) create mode 100644 candidates/rocky/TC/mnaser@vexxhost.com diff --git a/candidates/rocky/TC/mnaser@vexxhost.com b/candidates/rocky/TC/mnaser@vexxhost.com new file mode 100644 index 00000000..c1a42b6e --- /dev/null +++ b/candidates/rocky/TC/mnaser@vexxhost.com @@ -0,0 +1,66 @@ +Dear OpenStack users and developers, + +I'm re-submitting my candidacy for a position in the OpenStack TC for the +upcoming 6 months. + +I believe that being involved in many facets surrounding OpenStack makes me +a good candidate to be a member of the technical committee. + +On one of the most important sides, the community: I have spoken to countless +users, potential users of OpenStack and continue to have conversations about +why users choose OpenStack and the reason why they do not want to use it. I +think having this external feedback is extremely beneficial in order to take +the best decisions, as those users are impacted by our very decisions. + +At the same time, thinking about developers who work hard on our community +to produce the awesome technology we work on: I have personally been one of +them and continue to be one of them. I have started contributing to OpenStack +since 2011 across many projects and I am the current PTL for the Puppet +OpenStack team. In addition, I continue to assist and fix any issues that I +see at hand, helping out the infrastructure team when needed as well. + +Finally, one of the critical points is deployers: I have architected, operated +and deployed our public cloud with OpenStack since 2011, in addition to many +other private cloud deployments. Our public cloud has a long history, having +started it's life early and undergone many upgrades. I have personally +overseen all those upgrades and brought feedback directly back to projects +as well as including bug fixes for the projects. + +I believe strong leadership comes from setting an example. With the involvement +in the community, working with the developers and being a deployer myself that +contributes back, I believe that it puts me in a unique position to understand +many parts of the equation that helps us take the best decisions in order to +have a sustainable technical future for the OpenStack projects. + +I strongly believe that we have the most solid fundamental infrastructure +software at the moment. However, I think that the focus should increase in +working with other external communities which depend on infrastructure to +increase our implementations. For example, working with Kubernetes in order +to strengthen the cloud providers and perhaps get even more integration features +such as auto-scaling. This will solidify OpenStack as the best set of +infrastructure services in the market. + +In addition, I believe that we should put more effort and try to encourage +more work on projects which abstract existing complicated software into a +service. The few projects that come into mind are Magnum (deploying container +orchestration services) and Sahara (big data platforms). Those projects can +help make OpenStack a single centralized unit where users can get infrastructure +but easy access to services, on-demand, built with best practices and integrated +with the external tools as explained in the paragraph above. + +As I continue from my past nomination email which I do believe strongly in, I +think that we need to work to solidify OpenStack for new use cases such as +edge computing. By encouraging our developers to keep this new use cases for +our users, I think that we can spark a big new interest in the OpenStack +platform in general as the ideal place to host your workloads. + +For me, OpenStack is a wonderful community filled with awesome people who are +all extremely supportive of each other and work together. I am extremely +proud to be part of this wonderful community and I hope that by becoming an +elected TC, I can help the success of all OpenStack projects from my experience. + +Thank you very much for taking the time to read this and I wish the best of +luck to all other candidates. + +Regards, +Mohammed Naser