From 64e26b4e175c7bd94a346864b08f1ed76e06db8d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chris Dent Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2018 17:37:59 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Adding Chris Dent candidacy for TC Change-Id: Ifd01f2f2e550bddb51d6ee4ee3968a51b9dd3162 --- candidates/rocky/TC/cdent@anticdent.org | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 57 insertions(+) create mode 100644 candidates/rocky/TC/cdent@anticdent.org diff --git a/candidates/rocky/TC/cdent@anticdent.org b/candidates/rocky/TC/cdent@anticdent.org new file mode 100644 index 00000000..0967a18e --- /dev/null +++ b/candidates/rocky/TC/cdent@anticdent.org @@ -0,0 +1,57 @@ + +Hi, + +I'm announcing my candidacy to continue as a member of the Technical Committee. +When I ran a year ago, one of my goals was to foster more, and more +transparent, communication among the many parts of the OpenStack community. The +TC has made progress by being more overt and intentional in reaching out to +others and sharing information in an active way. I helped, with my weekly TC +Reports and other writing related to the TC [1], but there is plenty more to +do, especially as the infrastructure as a service community grows and mutates +to include CI/CD, Edge and container-related activities. Enough left to do that +I would like to continue for another term. + +The growth of projects under the OpenStack Foundation umbrella will present +opportunities and challenges. We'll be able to deal with those most effectively +by having good communication hygiene: over communicating in a written and +discoverable fashion. + +Changes in the shape of the community will impact the role of the TC and its +members. The TC has been something of a high-level judiciary within the +OpenStack technical community but increasingly will need to take on a role as a +representative of the community that develops what has traditionally been known +as "OpenStack" to the other nearby communities that are also now "OpenStack". + +My candidacy note from last year [2] remains relevant and a good expression of +my opinions about governance and the overarching themes that concern me: +communication, openness, lowering boundaries between people and platforms, +maintaining developer sanity [3]. + +If I'm elected again I intend to encourage engagement by continuing with the +TC Report, making sure that we include the right people when making decisions, +and using media that is accessible to people of many languages and time zones. + +I will also actively drive discussion and policy that leads to people who are +users of OpenStack in the broadest sense finding it easier to be regularly +active contributors to the open source projects which create OpenStack. We are +making progress with this, but much of OpenStack is still the domain of (often +overburdened) "professionals". Breaking into those domains needs to be simpler +and encouraged for the benefit of all concerned. + +If you would like to look at my past voting record on governance changes that +can be found here: + +https://review.openstack.org/#/q/project:openstack/governance+reviewedby:%22Chris+Dent+%253Ccdent%2540anticdent.org%253E%22 + +If you would like me to continue, please vote for me in the upcoming elections. +If you would like someone else, please vote for them. If you would like to +give it a try yourself, then please run; you have until the end of the (UTC) +day of April 17th to submit your candidacy. See the following for details: + +https://governance.openstack.org/election/#how-to-submit-a-candidacy + +Thanks for reading and your consideration. + +[1] https://anticdent.org/tag/tc.html +[2] https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/election/plain/candidates/pike/TC/cdent.txt +[3] https://anticdent.org/openstack-developer-satisfaction.html