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Hello everybody,
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I am announcing my candidacy to be a member of the OpenStack Technical
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Committee (TC).
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I have been involved in open source since I was a brash youth on the
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Internet in the late 1990s, which amounts to over half my life at this
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point. I am a self-taught individual, cutting my teeth on BSDs of the
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period. I operated in that area for a number of years, becoming a
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'shadow' maintainer under various pseudonyms. As time progressed, I
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became comfortable attributing my work to my personal identity. o/
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My direct involvement with OpenStack began during the Folsom release, as
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an operator and deployer. I focused my efforts on automation, eventually
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falling in with a crowd that likes puns and cooking references. In my
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professional life, I have served as developer, operator, user, and
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architect, which extends back to the birthplace of OpenStack.
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I am a founding member of Chef OpenStack[0], where I have dutifully
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served as PTL for five releases. My community involvement also extends
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outside the OpenStack ecosystem, where I serve as a member of Sous
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Chefs[1], a group dedicated to the long-term care of critical Chef
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community resources.
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Though my hands-on experience goes back several releases, I still view
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things from the outside-looking-in perspective. Having the outsider
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lens is crucial in the long-term for any consensus-driven group,
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regardless of that consensus.
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Regardless of the election outcome, this is me taking steps to having a
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larger involvement in the overall conversations that drive so much of
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our daily lives. At the end of the day, we're all just groups of people
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trying to do our jobs. I view this as an opportunity to give back to a
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community that has given me so much.
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Thank you for your attention and consideration,
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Samuel Cassiba (scas)
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[0] https://docs.openstack.org/openstack-chef/latest/
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[1] https://sous-chefs.org/
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