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Hello People!
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I am tossing one of my hats into the ring to run for TC. Yes, I believe you
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could call me a "diversity candidate" as I'm not much of a developer any more,
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but I think my skills would be a great addition to the excellent people who are
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on the TC (past and present).
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My background: I am currently an architect with Huawei Technologies. My role
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is "OpenStack" and as such, I am liaison to many areas an groups in the
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OpenStack community and I am liaison to Huawei engineers and management for the
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OpenStack community. I focus energy on all parts of Software products that
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aren't directly writing code. I am an advocate for quality, for effective and
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efficient process, and for the downstream stakeholders (Ops, Apps developers,
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Users, Support Engineers, Docs, Training, etc). I am currently active in:
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• DefCore
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• RefStack
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• Product Working Group
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• Logging Working Group (cofounder)
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• Ops community
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• Peripherally, Tailgaters
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• Women of OpenStack
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• Diversity Working Group
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What I would like to help the TC and the community with:
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• Interoperability across deployed clouds begins with cross project
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communications and the realization that each engineer and each project is
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connected and influential in how the OpenStack ecosystem works, responds, and
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grows. When OpenStack was young, there were two projects and everyone knew
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each other, even if they didn't live in the same place. Just as processes
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become more formal when startups grow to be mid-sized companies, OpenStack
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has formalized much as it has exploded in number of participants. We need to
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continue to transform Developer, Ops and other community lore into useful
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documentation. We are at the point where we really need to focus our energies
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and our intelligence on how to effectively span projects and communities via
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better communications. I'm already doing this to some extent. I'd like to
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help the TC do that to a greater extent.
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• In the past two years, I've seen the number of "horizontal" projects grow
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almost as significantly as the "vertical" projects. These cross functional
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projects, with libraries, release, configuration management, docs, QA, etc.,
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have also grown in importance in maintaining the quality and velocity of
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development. Again, cross-functional needs are being address, and I want to
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help the TC be more proactive in identifying needs and seeding the teams with
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senior OpenStack developers (and user community advisors where useful).
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• The TC is the conduit between, translator of and champion for the
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developers to the OpenStack Board. They have a huge responsibility and not
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enough time, energy or resources to address all the challenges. I am ready to
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work on the challenges and help develop the strategic vision needed to keep on
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top of the current and new opportunities always arising and always needing some
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thoughtful analysis and action.
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That said, I have my own challenges to address. I know my company will support
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me in my role as a TC member, but they will also demand more of my time,
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opinions, presence and participation specifically because of the TC position.
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I also am still struggling to make inroads on the logging issues I've been
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attempting to wrangle into better shape. I've gotten lots of support from the
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community on this (thanks, folks, you know who you are;-), but it still gives
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me pause for thought that I, myself need to keep working on my effectiveness.
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Whether on the TC or not, I will continue to contribute as much as I can to the
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community in the ways that I do best. and you will continue to see me at the
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summits, the midcycles, the meetups, the mailing lists and IRC (hopefully more
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there as I'm trying to educate my company how they can provide us the access we
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need without compromising their corporate rules).
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Thank you for reading this far and considering me for service on the TC.
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--Rocky
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