diff --git a/candidates/mitaka/TC/Mike_Perez.txt b/candidates/mitaka/TC/Mike_Perez.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000..ef377a68 --- /dev/null +++ b/candidates/mitaka/TC/Mike_Perez.txt @@ -0,0 +1,92 @@ +Hi all! + +I'm announcing my candidacy for a position on the OpenStack Technical +Committee. + +On October 1st I will be employed by the OpenStack Foundation as +a Cross-Project Developer Coordinator to help bring focus and support to +cross-project initiatives within the cross-project specs, Def Core, The Product +Working group, etc. + +I feel the items below have enabled others across this project to strive for +quality. If you would all have me as a member of the Technical Committee, you +can help me to enable more quality work in OpenStack. + +* I have been working in OpenStack since 2010. I spent a good amount of my time + working on OpenStack in my free time before being paid full time to work on + it. It has been an important part of my life, and rewarding to see what we + have all achieved together. + +* I was PTL for the Cinder project in the Kilo and Liberty releases for two + cross-project reasons: + * Third party continuous integration (CI). + * Stop talking about rolling upgrades, and actually make it happen for + operators. + +* I led the effort in bringing third party continuous integration to the + Cinder project for more than 60 different drivers. [1] + * I removed 25 different storage drivers from Cinder to bring quality to the + project to ensure what was in the Kilo release would work for operators. + I did what I believed was right, regardless of whether it would cost me + re-election for PTL [2]. + * In my conversations with other projects, this has enabled others to want to + follow the same effort. Continuing this trend of quality cross-project will + be my next focus. + +* During my first term of PTL for Cinder, the team, and much respect to Thang + Pham working on an effort to end the rolling upgrade problem, not just for + Cinder, but for *all* projects. + * First step was making databases independent from services via Oslo + versioned objects. + * In Liberty we have a solution coming that helps with RPC versioned messages + to allow upgrading services independently. + +* I have attempted to help with diversity in our community. + * Helped lead our community to raise $17,403 for the Ada Initiative [3], + which was helping address gender-diversity with a focus in open source. + * For the Vancouver summit, I helped bring in the ally skills workshops from + the Ada Initiative, so that our community can continue to be a welcoming + environment [4]. + +* Within the Cinder team, I have enabled all to provide good documentation for + important items in our release notes in Kilo [5] and Liberty [6]. + * Other projects have reached out to me after Kilo feeling motivated for this + same effort. I've explained in the August 2015 Operators midcycle meetup + that I will make this a cross-project effort in order to provide better + communication to our operators and users. + +* I started an OpenStack Dev List summary in the OpenStack Weekly Newsletter + (What you need to know from the developer's list), in order to enable others + to keep up with the dev list on important cross-project information. [7][8] + +* I created the Cinder v2 API which has brought consistency in + request/responses with other OpenStack projects. + * I documented Cinder v1 and Cinder v2 API's. Later on I created the Cinder + API reference documentation content. The attempt here was to enable others + to have somewhere to start, to continue quality documentation with + continued developments. + +Please help me to do more positive work in this project. It would be an honor +to be member of your technical committee. + + +Thank you, +Mike Perez + + +Review History: https://review.openstack.org/#/q/reviewer:170,n,z +Commit History: https://review.openstack.org/#/q/owner:170,n,z +Stackalytics: http://stackalytics.com/?user_id=thingee +Foundation: https://www.openstack.org/community/members/profile/4840 +IRC Freenode: thingee +Website: http://thing.ee + + +[1] - http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2015-January/054614.html +[2] - https://review.openstack.org/#/q/status:merged+project:openstack/cinder+branch:master+topic:cinder-driver-removals,n,z +[3] - http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2014-October/047892.html +[4] - http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2015-May/064156.html +[5] - https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/ReleaseNotes/Kilo#OpenStack_Block_Storage_.28Cinder.29 +[6] - https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/ReleaseNotes/Liberty#OpenStack_Block_Storage_.28Cinder.29 +[7] - http://www.openstack.org/blog/2015/09/openstack-community-weekly-newsletter-sept-12-18/ +[8] - http://www.openstack.org/blog/2015/09/openstack-weekly-community-newsletter-sept-19-25/