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On 10/07/2013 03:45 PM, John Griffith wrote:<br>
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I'd like to propose my candidacy for a seat on the OpenStack
Technical Committee.</div>
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I've been an ATC working full time on OpenStack for about a
year and a half now. I was currently re-elected as PTL for
the Cinder project which I started back in the Folsom release.
I've also had the privilege of serving on the TC as a result
of my role as PTL. My goal over the past year and a half has
been focused on building the Cinder project and getting it on
it's way to being a healthy, diverse and active community
driven project. During that time I've taken an active
interest in all things OpenStack, and over the next year I'd
like to continue growing that interest and participating more
in OpenStack and it's future as a whole.</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'courier
new',monospace">As far as my background, I'm not associated
with a specific OpenStack Distribution or a Service Provider,
but I am employed by a storage startup (SolidFire Inc)
specifically to contribute to OpenStack as a whole. I believe
that I have a slightly different (and valuable) perspective on
OpenStack. Coming from a device vendor, and a company that
implements an OpenStack private cloud in house, I have a
strong interest in the user-experience, whether that user be
the dev-ops or sys-admin's deploying OpenStack or the end-user
actually consuming the resources made available. My emphasis
is on compatibility, regardless of distribution, hardware
devices deployed, virtualization technologies used etc. I
spend a lot of my time talking and more importantly, listening
to a variety of folks about OpenStack, including vendors and
most of all folks that are implementing OpenStack. I like to
hear their feedback regarding what's working, what's not and
how we can do better. I'd like the opportunity to take that
feedback and help drive towards an ever improving OpenStack.</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'courier
new',monospace">I believe that the TC (as well as the role of
PTL) actually serves an important function in the community.
In both cases these roles in my opinion should take into
account acting as an advocate for the overall well being of
OpenStack and it's technical direction. It has nothing to do
with "titles" or "special benefits", it's just a lot of extra
hard work that needs to be done, and not everybody is willing
to do it, as well as providing a point of contact for folks
that are looking for technical answers or explanation.</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'courier
new',monospace">To me, this means much more than just voting
on proposed new projects. New projects and growth are
important to OpenStack however I don't think that uncontrolled
and disjointed growth in the form of new projects is a good
thing, in fact I think it's detrimental to OpenStack as a
whole. I personally would like to see the TC have more
involvement in terms of recommending/investigating new
projects before they're proposed or started by others. By the
same token, I'd also like to see the TC take a more active
role in the projects we currently have and how they all tie
together. I personally believe that having 10 or so
individual projects operating in their own silos is not the
right direction. My opinion here does NOT equate to "more
control", but instead should equate to being more helpful.
With the continued growth of OpenStack I believe it's
critical to have some sort of vision and some resources that
have a deep understanding of the entire eco-system.</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'courier
new',monospace">If you have any questions about my views,
opinions or anything feel free to drop me an email or hit me
up on irc.</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'courier
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John</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'courier
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'courier
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href="https://review.openstack.org/#/q/reviewer:%2522John+Griffith%2522,n,z"
style="font-family:arial">https://review.openstack.org/#/q/reviewer:%2522John+Griffith%2522,n,z</a></div>
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