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I would like to propose my candidacy for the OpenStack Technical
Committee.<br>
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I originated and led the Heat project with a small team of core
developers from Red Hat in early 2012. I am also a core member of
the Heat team and have contributed to Heat's progress through
incubation and integration status. My original vision for the
leadership of the Heat project was based upon the book "The Starfish
and The Spider" [1] in which decentralized organizations such as
OpenStack harness natural consequences of emergent [2] systems.<br>
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I have a strong first-hand grasp of organizing small groups into
producing great results and plan to act as a facilitator to projects
that are seeking incubation or have become incubated and need a bit
further help making their way into Integrated status in OpenStack.
My main objective serving in the Technical Committee is to help
drive the growth of OpenStack through new project integration and
growth. I am also a firm believer in transparency and would strive
to help the community in general understand the consensus and
decisions of the Technical Committee.<br>
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I have a strong background in this area - having originated the open
source projects Corosync [3] which serves as the underpinnings of
high availability in Linux and other platforms as well as Heat which
is near and dear to all of us working in OpenStack. Given the
success of both these projects which require a high degree of
transparency and decentralized leadership, I believe I am a good
match for serving the OpenStack community via the Technical
Committee.<br>
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I would appreciate your vote for growing new OpenStack projects into
full integrated status and improved TC transparency by serving the
OpenStack community in the Technical Committee.<br>
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Kind Regards,<br>
-steve<br>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Starfish_and_the_Spider">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Starfish_and_the_Spider</a><br>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence</a><br>
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<a href="https://github.com/corosync/corosync">https://github.com/corosync/corosync</a>
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