From 830738316d1a0377f9126db85b5d21a7c25a08b9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mohammed Naser Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2019 14:19:24 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Add Mohammed Naser candidacy for TC Change-Id: I4cc233c166710c20f21d5358cfb1ab0a96f58cce --- candidates/train/TC/mnaser@vexxhost.com | 65 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 65 insertions(+) create mode 100644 candidates/train/TC/mnaser@vexxhost.com diff --git a/candidates/train/TC/mnaser@vexxhost.com b/candidates/train/TC/mnaser@vexxhost.com new file mode 100644 index 00000000..8eef4e4e --- /dev/null +++ b/candidates/train/TC/mnaser@vexxhost.com @@ -0,0 +1,65 @@ +Hi everyone: + +First of all, thank you very much for giving me the opportunity to be part of +the technical committee over the past term within the OpenStack project +governance. I’ve also taken the vice chair role which I have had to serve for +sometime during the time that our chair (Doug) was out of the office. + +In my candidacy email for my last term, there was a few things that I brought +up which I think are still very important, as well as a few others which I +think we’ve made great progress in. I’d like to start talking about those +first. + +I still believe that it’s really important to have a contact with the users +and deployers, something that we’re slowly getting better at. I have found +that having some of those very large operators that sit in our technical +committee meetings at the PTG super productive, because they bring an +important perspective to the technical committee. + +As I help manage a public cloud and several private clouds all over the world, +I’ve seen a lot of stories about OpenStack experiences, shortcomings and +seeing how users consume OpenStack. It’s a very eye opening experience and +it’s built up a strong basis to be able to formulate technical decisions and +understanding the impact it has on all of our different users. I think this +information is a really strong asset. + +I mentioned that we needed to work on improving our bridges with other +communities such as Kubernetes. I’ve helped add and provide resources for +OpenLab to help bring CI for the Kubernetes OpenStack cloud provider, worked +on Magnum changes to help better integrate and test the project and even added +resources which allowed Magnum to run full functional Kubernetes tests in it’s +gate (with a work in progress of adding conformance tests). While the TC is +about governance, I also think it’s important for us to get some work that +gets the critical moving pieces running done. + +I’ve also worked with a few teams in order to help and somehow mediate a +discussion to facilitate the split of the placement service and provided +operator feedback, participated in the split meetings and helped to push +things in the direction to make it happen. However, learning a few lessons +in the way about how we might go about doing something like this in the future. + +I’ve also increased my engagement with our APAC community by speaking more +often with them over WeChat. There is a tremendous amount of knowledge and +wonderful community of people who want to participate. I’ve tried my best to +also build a ‘bridge’ by sharing things that might make sense for them to see +from our mailing lists (for example, the most recent one about our upcoming +release name). + +For the upcoming term, I think that we should work on increasing our +engagement with other communities. In addition, providing guidance and +leadership for groups and projects that need help to merge their features, +even if it involves finding the right person and asking them for a review. + +I’d like to personally have a more “hands-on” approach and try to work more +closely with the teams, help shape and provide input into the direction of +their project (while looking at the overall picture). I’d also like us to try +and be more engaged with the other OSF projects such as Kata containers, +StarlingX, Airship and Zuul. While the last one is our darling that was +created out of our use, I think providing a bridge with the others would +provide a lot of value as well. + +Thank you for giving me the opportunity to serve as part of your technical +committee, I hope to be able to continue to help over the next term. + +Regards, +Mohammed