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Hi,
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I'm announcing my candidacy to continue as a member of the Technical Committee.
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When I ran a year ago, one of my goals was to foster more, and more
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transparent, communication among the many parts of the OpenStack community. The
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TC has made progress by being more overt and intentional in reaching out to
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others and sharing information in an active way. I helped, with my weekly TC
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Reports and other writing related to the TC [1], but there is plenty more to
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do, especially as the infrastructure as a service community grows and mutates
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to include CI/CD, Edge and container-related activities. Enough left to do that
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I would like to continue for another term.
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The growth of projects under the OpenStack Foundation umbrella will present
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opportunities and challenges. We'll be able to deal with those most effectively
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by having good communication hygiene: over communicating in a written and
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discoverable fashion.
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Changes in the shape of the community will impact the role of the TC and its
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members. The TC has been something of a high-level judiciary within the
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OpenStack technical community but increasingly will need to take on a role as a
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representative of the community that develops what has traditionally been known
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as "OpenStack" to the other nearby communities that are also now "OpenStack".
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My candidacy note from last year [2] remains relevant and a good expression of
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my opinions about governance and the overarching themes that concern me:
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communication, openness, lowering boundaries between people and platforms,
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maintaining developer sanity [3].
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If I'm elected again I intend to encourage engagement by continuing with the
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TC Report, making sure that we include the right people when making decisions,
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and using media that is accessible to people of many languages and time zones.
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I will also actively drive discussion and policy that leads to people who are
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users of OpenStack in the broadest sense finding it easier to be regularly
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active contributors to the open source projects which create OpenStack. We are
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making progress with this, but much of OpenStack is still the domain of (often
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overburdened) "professionals". Breaking into those domains needs to be simpler
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and encouraged for the benefit of all concerned.
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If you would like to look at my past voting record on governance changes that
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can be found here:
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https://review.openstack.org/#/q/project:openstack/governance+reviewedby:%22Chris+Dent+%253Ccdent%2540anticdent.org%253E%22
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If you would like me to continue, please vote for me in the upcoming elections.
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If you would like someone else, please vote for them. If you would like to
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give it a try yourself, then please run; you have until the end of the (UTC)
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day of April 17th to submit your candidacy. See the following for details:
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https://governance.openstack.org/election/#how-to-submit-a-candidacy
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Thanks for reading and your consideration.
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[1] https://anticdent.org/tag/tc.html
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[2] https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/election/plain/candidates/pike/TC/cdent.txt
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[3] https://anticdent.org/openstack-developer-satisfaction.html
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