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OpenStackers,
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I would like to submit my candidacy to serve on the TC.
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Back in 2010, I was sitting in the rally room at Rackspace Blacksburg when our
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leaders told us that we were going to open source some of our cloud software
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along with Nasa. At the time; I was starstruck. Open source software had given
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me the opportunity to have a career, and now, I was getting to see a new
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project born. It'd be 2014 before I would actually get to work on OpenStack,
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but that moment is seared in my memory as something special.
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Twelve years later -- eight of them spent working in and around OpenStack, I
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find myself in a position to serve the project that I looked at with such wide
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eyes early in my career.
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One of OpenStack's true strengths has always been diversity of ideas and
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contributions. My main motivation in running for TC is to ensure that we hang
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on to that strength for as long as possible. I believe that having more
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independent voices on the TC is one way we can do that.
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What enables me to be an independent voice? My employer, G-Research Open Source
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Software, supports the operation of OpenStack without it being a part of their
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core business. OpenStack is a tool used, just like so many other companies, as
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part of their workflow to get things done. This is important because it
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demonstrates what they're not: a vendor, hosting service, or reseller of
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OpenStack -- but just a company that is built with OpenStack as an
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infrastructure piece. This means I can leave my "upstream hat" on 24/7 -- a
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luxury that is rare in open source.
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The last eight years working on OpenStack, and Ironic specifically, have been
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formative to my career, and to me personally. I have made and connected with
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friendships that will hopefully outlast the computers we all provision
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together. The OpenStack community has always been kind to me, and if given the
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opportunity, I'll do everything I can to repay that kindness and ensure the
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community remains welcoming during my tenure on the TC.
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Thanks for reading,
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Jay Faulkner
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IRC: JayF |