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As my first year on the OpenStack Technical Committee draws to a
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close, I'm standing for reelection to a second term. I hold
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consistent, strong views in favor of free software and
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open/transparent community process, and vote my conscience on any
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matters brought before the TC. I have experience as a user, an
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operator and a developer, and do my best to accurately represent
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concerns from all these perspectives. I feel honored to have
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participated in the drafting of a TC vision, the decision to
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encourage more strategic investment from contributors through
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creation of a community-wide "help wanted" list, restructuring the
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TC meeting/discussion model to improve accessibility across
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time zones and cultures, and closer collaboration with the User
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Committee and adjacent communities through the emergence of
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role-neutral Special Interest Groups.
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My personal vision for OpenStack is that of a vibrant and diverse
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community packed with part-time and volunteer user-contributors
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working in harmony (but also occasional creative cacophony) toward
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well-defined common goals, and I intend to continue my efforts to
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achieve this regardless of whatever elected positions I may hold. In
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the past year I led the work to eliminate what I saw as a major
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source of pain and confusion for new contributor on-boarding: the
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technical requirement to join the OpenStack Foundation in order to
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be able to submit patches to official projects. Following in that
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theme, my primary goal for the coming year is to finally put an end
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to Contributor License Agreement enforcement for patch submissions
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(our long-awaited switch to Developer Certificate of Origin
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"Signed-off-by" footers in commit messages).
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Besides serving on the TC, I've been a core reviewer and root
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sysadmin on OpenStack's community-maintained project infrastructure
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for five years. I served the past two years as the Infrastructure
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Project Team Lead but recently stepped down so as to free up
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additional time to focus on broader community-wide governance. I've
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also been doing vulnerability management in OpenStack for over four
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years, regularly help with elections, chaired conference tracks
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several times, and given talks to other communities on a variety of
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OpenStack-related topics. I'm in regular attendance at two of the
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three weekly TC office hours, but am also happy to entertain
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concerns from anyone (publicly or in private) at any time; I love
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hearing from members of our community and attempting to find answers
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for you.
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