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Hi all,
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I am thrilled to nominate myself as a candidate for ironic PTL for Pike cycle.
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Most of you should know me by now — I’m Jay Faulkner, aka “JayF” on freenode
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IRC. I have been in the tech industry for 10 years, starting as a systems
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administrator and working my way up the ladder. Since 2014, my primary focus
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has been working on bare metal clouds, culminating in my position today as a
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full-time ironic developer.
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Many PTL nominees post an agenda with their nomination email — I won’t do that
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here. The project has been run very well, as evidenced by us achieving almost
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75% of our stated goals by the end of the last two cycles (newton and ocata).
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If elected PTL, I would try to maintain the productive environment we've
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built, and work as a facilitator, organizer, and servant, working towards the
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goals the community will set for Pike.
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My experience with ironic has been varied, starting with my work on Rackspace
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OnMetal, the first public cloud offering including ironic, a short stint as
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manager of that development team, and now as full-time upstream developer.
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These perspectives have provided me with the communication skills and
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technical context needed to be PTL. Ironic lives on the border between
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software and hardware, which allows me to use my operational experience toward
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designing new features. Some tangible examples of this include the introduction
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of both cleaning and the initial agent deploy driver features. Furthermore,
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I learned how to empathize with businesses trying to integrate with OpenStack
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during my tenure as a manager.
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One of the reasons I wanted to run for PTL is to keep as many ironic
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contributors doing what they do best: writing code. In my time on the project,
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I've found I can contribute best by taking care of issues that can get in the
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way of progress such as fixing gate breakages, working to help and mentor new
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contributors, triaging bugs, and reviewing code. Another example of my
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initiative on these types of issues is my work on cross-project items, such as
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my work as documentation liason, and working on our CI jobs. By taking on these
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items and more as PTL, I hope to act as a force multiplier for my
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ironic colleagues.
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Working full time on OpenStack Ironic, and open source in general, has been
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one of the most rewarding times of my career. The community around ironic has
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always been friendly, and I view my fellow contributors as co-workers and
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friends. I cherish the time I’ve had collaborating with you all, and hope to
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be given the opportunity to continue to work with everyone as PTL during Pike.
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Thank you for your consideration.
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Sincerely,
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Jay Faulkner
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