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Howdy,
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My name is Joshua Hesketh and I would like to self nominate for the Technical
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Committee.
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I work for Rackspace Australia and have been involved in the OpenStack community
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since the Havana release circa 2013. I have been primarily working on the
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Infrastructure (infra) project where I am both a core contributor and root.
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Outside of OpenStack, I have experience leading various communities within the
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Oceania region. For six years I served the open source community as President
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and Treasurer of Linux Australia. During this time I helped to grow and scale
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the organisation from overseeing a single conference each year, to over eight.
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Additionally I've directly helped organise and run multiple Linux Australia
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Conferences (linux.conf.au), PyCon Australia Conferences, as well as OpenStack
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and cloud/infrastructure miniconfs.
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I am a strong proponent and advocate for free and open source software. I am
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also a strong believer in the Four Opens that make up OpenStack, and believe we
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lead the way for managing open clouds. I want to do all that I can to help
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further this mission.
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The Technical Committee has been doing a great job leading the community and I
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don't have a particular platform for radical change. Instead, I would like to
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help continue to strengthen and work on the committee with a focus on the
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following:
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- Enabling the community. The TC is here to serve the community and facilitate
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collaboration.
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- Protecting our values, in particular the Four Opens.
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- Continuing to investigate and evaluate alternative technologies and how we
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work with them. For example, evaluating and introducing new languages.
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- Promote collaboration with the wider open source community. For example,
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participating with communities such as kubernetes.
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- Easing pain for operators, deployers and users by helping to improve
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consistency across projects through OpenStack-wide goals.
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I would be glad to answer any questions during the candidacy period (and any
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time for that matter) and if elected I look forward to working in this new role.
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Thank you for your consideration,
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Joshua Hesketh
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