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We now have an official name for the U release. This updates the candidate directory and config to reflect that. Change-Id: I3e74f10dc41ff4e7b2882cde2a382770c82f4ce3
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Hello Everyone :)
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I am declaring my candidacy for the TC election.
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Roles like PTL and TC member are incredibly important when it comes to enabling
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others’ success and removing roadblocks that stand between contributors (new or
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established) and the work they want to do. Much of the work I have done over the
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years has had this focus, and as an elected member of the TC I think I could have
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an even larger impact.
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A little background on me: I have been working on OpenStack since 2015 (Liberty
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release). I started with getting involved organizing and mentoring in the Women of
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OpenStack’s mentoring programs and developing Cinder before branching out to
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os-brick and on to other roles. Since then, I have been involved in many different
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projects and efforts focused on supporting the larger community.
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Highlights:
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- Onboarded over 300 global contributors as instructor at OpenStack Upstream
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Institute (OUI) building our contributor community in places like Brazil, Korea,
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and Vietnam[1]
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- Developed the curriculum of OUI, including the Contributor Guide[2].
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- Evolved OpenStack’s various mentoring programs[3] and actively participated in
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them, including our community’s involvement in the Outreachy Program[4].
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- Established the First Contact SIG[5].
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- Coordinated the community’s ongoing migration to StoryBoard from Launchpad
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- Presided over 5 releases of (Pike-Train) technical elections (both PTL and TC) as
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an election official
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- Served on the Release Management, Cinder, & Infrastructure (StoryBoard) teams
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- Helped organize Forums, PTGs, and other in-person gatherings
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- Collaborated with the k8s community to improve both our community’s various
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onboarding programs
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My experience teaching Upstream Institute and running the First Contact SIG has
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helped me build skills that will be beneficial as a TC member, such as making
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connections between new contributors and existing projects or efforts. This ability
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to make connections and start conversations will support our community’s cross
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project efforts as they continue to be a challenge that I will help the TC overcome.
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My previous work has afforded me the opportunity to interact with almost every
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OpenStack project and understand how they operate differently from one another.
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Each project has its own culture; understanding that and how to engage with each
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of them is incredibly important for the Technical Committee to achieve selected
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community goals and other cross project efforts.
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As a member of the TC, I will seek to lower the barrier to entry to roles like contributor
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or even PTL. There is a lot of duplicate and stale information for setting up the accounts
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and tools needed to get started which should be cleaned up. Individual project
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contributor documentation[6][7] doesn’t exist for all the projects currently and would be
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valuable. Individual project PTL guides (similar to the Release Management process
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doc[8]) would also benefit our community as it would smooth the transition from one
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PTL to another and minimize the loss of tribal knowledge, especially when these
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transitions happen in the middle of a cycle. I’ve proposed this contributor
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documentation focus as a community goal for the U release[9]. Anything we can
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do to make a cohesive path for new community members to work their way to roles
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like PTL will ensure the health and success of our future.
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I love this community and all the awesome people in it, serving on the TC would be a
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great experience and an honor.
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Thank you,
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Kendall (diablo_rojo)
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Review history: https://review.opendev.org/#/q/reviewer:16708,n,z
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Commit history: https://review.openstack.org/#/q/owner:16708,n,z
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Foundation Profile: https://www.openstack.org/community/members/profile/35859/
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Freenode: diablo_rojo
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[1] https://docs.openstack.org/upstream-training/
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[2] https://docs.openstack.org/contributors/
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[3] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Mentoring
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[4] https://www.outreachy.org/
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[5] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/First_Contact_SIG
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[6] https://docs.openstack.org/swift/latest/development_guidelines.html
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[7] https://docs.openstack.org/nova/latest/contributor/index.html
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[8] https://releases.openstack.org/reference/process.html
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[9] https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/PVG-u-series-goals
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