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Hi All,
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I would like to announce my candidacy for a seat on the OpenStack Technical
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Committee for the upcoming year.
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I'm working for the OpenStack Foundation as Ecosystem Technical Lead where
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my responsibility is to help our members to succeed with OpenStack both as
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software and community. My main focus areas are Telecom/NFV, on boarding
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and collaboration with adjacent communities.
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I joined the community nearly four years ago. By my contributions I’m the constant
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voice of usability and maintainability aspects while encouraging collaboration within
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and between project teams.
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During the past few years I’ve been leading the activities to add the Cinder volume
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multi-attach functionality to Nova, which turned into a collaborative activity between
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the two teams to simplify the interaction between the two services [1]. By this work
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we are increasing maintainability of the code bases and stability of the services.
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Driven by the experiences of this work I see cross-project collaboration as an area
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to further improve. As part of the TC I would like to continue driving cross-project
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activities, where I would like to help with making the interactions between the teams
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more efficient to ensure end-to-end feature implementation and continuous code
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maintenance and improvement.
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I’m one of the drivers of the Upstream Institute activities to provide guidance to
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newcomers to the community. As our community is a continuously changing
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environment it is crucial to be welcoming and ensure we distribute the knowledge
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about our processes and code base while remaining open to transfer responsibilities
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to newer community members. As a TC member I would like to help the project
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teams to share and maintain this mindset to help the contributor ecosystem to
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remain healthy and balanced and our teams to become more efficient.
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In the course of my current role within the Foundation I continuously learn about the
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goals and challenges of our ecosystem companies who are productifying, distributing
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and operating OpenStack. It is very important to keep a close feedback loop between
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our users, operators and developers in order to define our focus and priorities to features
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requests and issues that are in high demand. At the same time it is also crucial to keep
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OpenStack an innovative environment which is open to explore new emerging technologies
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and also integrates well with other communities in the ecosystem. If I get elected to the
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TC I would like to help collaborating with organizations on different fields, from
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standardization (i.e. ETSI NFV) through SDN/NFV (i.e. OPNFV) to the research and
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scientific area.
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As an example I’ve been involved in OPNFV [2] for about two and a half years and I’m
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also one of their ambassadors [3]. I’m continuously working on to find the connection
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points between the two communities [4] to build a large ecosystem which fits OpenStack's
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current priorities in the sense of actively supporting and being the foundation for NFV. As
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part of the TC I would like to continue to help the ongoing joint activities to create
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an interoperability test suite for the NFV area and have OPNFV’s CI system integrated
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with OpenStack to get close to immediate feedback while developing new Telecom
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and NFV related features. As the adoption of OpenStack in the Telecom area is
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continuously growing and operators are looking at OpenStack as a main building
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block for their systems, I would like to serve as a representative in the technical
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driving force of OpenStack, who can operate as a translator to build a common
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roadmap.
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Last but not least, I would like to increase diversity in the TC, but more importantly
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my goal is to add fresh blood to the group driving this community. In my
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opinion it is crucial to constantly revisit items from a different perspective and
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let new voices articulate their views and ideas in order to see the big picture. Long
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term this can ensure that OpenStack keeps its adaptability to continue to be a
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smoothly functioning ecosystem providing a stable, successful and continuously
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evolving software package.
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Thank you for reading through my thoughts. It is an honor to be part of OpenStack,
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which is why I would like to take part in helping to further the efforts of providing a
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package that can serve the whole industry and which is backed up by a growing
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and smoothly functioning ecosystem.
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Thank you for your consideration.
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Best Regards,
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Ildikó (ildikov)
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[1] http://stackalytics.com/?release=all&user_id=ildiko-vancsa&metric=person-day
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[2] https://www.opnfv.org
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[3] https://www.opnfv.org/community/ambassadors
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[4] https://www.openstack.org/summit/austin-2016/summit-schedule/events/7510
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