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Friends, Colleagues, and Fellow Community Members, lend me your ears (or eyes
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as the case may be).
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I am pleased to submit for your consideration my candidacy for the technical
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committee (TC).
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You may know me from such projects as Keystone, and the “From Camera to Couch”
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segment of Jonathan Bryce’s opening keynote at the Vancouver OpenStack Summit.
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I have been an active contributor to OpenStack and have served in a leadership
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role since August of 2013 (as core contributor for Keystone and PTL for two
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cycles). During my time contributing to OpenStack I have been focused on
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improving the interoperability between clouds, improving the cross
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communication between projects, and collecting (both direct and indirect)
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feedback from the many deployers and users of OpenStack.
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With some distance from being PTL of Keystone, I feel that it is time to
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refocus my contributions to OpenStack and work to improve the community in a
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different but also very important manner.
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The most important thing we can do as a community is to continue to improve
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the feedback loop from those who are actively using OpenStack. This means
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that we need to continue to clearly hear the deployers and improve the story
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around running OpenStack (at small, medium and large scales). We also need to
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improve the voice of the end user (those who are utilizing the actual APIs
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themselves on a daily basis); as a community we continually improve our
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ability to hear feedback on the projects in the Big Tent, but we must also
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be mindful that the demand for OpenStack (especially by the end users) is
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what makes it more compelling. The TC provides an overarching vision and
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encourages the continued inclusion of the many different facets of our
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community.
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I believe that with the initiatives like the API Working Group and the
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Product Working group, we can make OpenStack significant better and more
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compelling. I hope to see the TC continue to encourage cross project
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communication, move the “recommendations” provided from the API Working
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Group from advisory towards a stronger “tenants of OpenStack API design”,
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and work towards codifying a slightly more opinionated OpenStack. These
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changes will serve the project for a long time to come.
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So in short here is what aim to do as a member of the TC:
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* Encourage a strong vision for OpenStack as a whole, ensuring new projects
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and old are at home in the “Big Tent”; this includes help in eliminating
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bureaucratic red tape for inclusion in OpenStack as possible while making
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sure OpenStack still feels like a cohesive ecosystem
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* Continue to encourage and drive solid interoperability between deployments
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(via defcore and working to drive the API working group recommendations to
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something more firm).
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* Provide mentorship (both directly and through reaching out to the
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community) to new contributors. As a member of the TC it is important to
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lead by example especially when it comes to bringing in new members to the
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community
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* Continue to be an advocate for both the deployers and the end users and
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working to continue to improve the feedback loop between this part of our
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community and the developers.
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* Work with the rest of the TC, the Foundation, and the Board to continue
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solidifying the “what is OpenStack” and how it fits into the needs of the
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many consumers of “cloud” technologies.
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Finally, I look forward to continuing to be part of this amazing Open Source
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community for many more development cycles.
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Thanks for your time, consideration, and contributions to this community.
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Cheers,
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Morgan Fainberg
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IRC: "morgan" (or "notmorgan")
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Review History: https://review.openstack.org/#/q/reviewer:morgan.fainberg%2540gmail.com
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Commit History: https://review.openstack.org/#/q/owner:morgan.fainberg%2540gmail.com
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