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Hi all,
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I am announcing my candidacy for a position on the OpenStack Technical Committee.
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I have been an active contributor to OpenStack manuals since the beginning of 2014, and have been a core member
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since early 2015. I am currently employed by SUSE to work on SUSE OpenStack Cloud and OpenStack. You may
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know me better as asettle on IRC.
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Over these last 3 years, I have been privileged to be a part of this community focusing primarily on OpenStack
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documentation and have been vocal about treating documentation as a first-class citizen [0]. My key achievement
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was working as the elected PTL for documentation in 2017 [1] where I initiated moving the documentation out of the
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OpenStack-manuals repository and into the individual project repositories.
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My annoucement may be considered quite brazen, as I have just returned to the community after a year-long hiatus
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working on the virtualization side of the world in a product operations role, however I am keen to support and work
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for this community with a renewed sense of enthusiasm.
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My experience in the OpenStack sphere has revolved around documentation, making me a traditionally unlikely
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candidate for the position on the TC. My role as documentation core and PTL has provided me with a broad
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view of OpenStack projects, how they work, and who you all are. I believe the perspective I will bring to the TC
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will be unique and helpful, as my time with OpenStack has been primarily focused on the integration and communication
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of all projects.
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The technical committee is designed to provide technical leadership for OpenStack as a whole [2] and I
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believe this to be true. Over the years, there has been an unspoken consensus that we are all aiming for the success of
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OpenStack as free and open software, fully developed and used by a welcoming and supportive community. I hope to
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stand as a member of the TC and further promote this statement.
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Drawing on my past experience as a communicator, documentor, collaborator, breaker of (my own) feet, and all round
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cool person, I am aiming to focus on the following three things: breaking down barriers between projects (new and old) and
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contributors (new and old); the openness of the community and maintaining that focus; and embracing change.
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Thank you for your consideration,
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Alex
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[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-class_citizen
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[1] https://github.com/openstack/election/blob/master/candidates/pike/Documentation/asettle.txt
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[2] https://www.openstack.org/foundation/tech-committee/
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