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On 10/07/2013 08:24 PM, Doug Hellmann wrote:<br>
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<div>I am announcing my candidacy for a position on the
OpenStack Technical Committee.</div>
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<div>I have been programming in Python professionally for 15
years, in a variety of application areas, and am currently the
development lead for DreamHost's OpenStack-based public cloud
project, DreamCompute. I am a member of the Python Software
Foundation, have been on the PyCon Program Committee, and was
Editor in Chief of Python Magazine. In June of 2011, I
published "The Python Standard Library by Example".</div>
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<div>I started contributing to OpenStack in 2012, just before
the Folsom summit. I am a core reviewer and one of the
founding members of the Ceilometer project, and a core
reviewer for the requirements and unified command line
interface projects. I am on the stable release maintenance
team for Grizzly, am part of the team working on the Python 3
transition, and have contributed to several of the
infrastructure projects. I will be the PTL for the Oslo
project starting with the Icehouse release.</div>
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<div>These development activities, combined with our deployment
work at DreamHost, have given me a unique cross-project
perspective into OpenStack, and reinforced for me the
importance of consistency across our components. One of the
roles of the technical committee is to encourage projects to
find commonalities and adopt consistent approaches or tools to
make the project run more smoothly for all contributors and
users. Using consistent libraries, coding style, and
implementation patterns helps integrate new developers with
our community more quickly and encourages existing developers
to participate in more than one project. Using consistent
tools helps our infrastructure team create and maintain the
automated systems that have made OpenStack's impressive
development velocity possible. Consistent configuration tools
also help packagers and deployers consume what we are
producing, making adoption easier. Consistent APIs and UIs
make it easier for end users to choose OpenStack clouds,
either public or private, over other options.</div>
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<div>In addition to my code contributions, I am especially proud
of the work over the last year that went into bringing
Ceilometer through incubation to become an integrated project.
Because we were one of the earliest projects to go through
formal incubation, much of the process was still being
developed as we were navigating it. I learned a lot while
contributing to that discussion. There are still some open
questions about how mature a project must be to enter
incubation, and what level of integration is needed before
graduation. I look forward to addressing those questions as we
continue to grow as a community.</div>
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<div>I share the view of many of the other candidates that
OpenStack should not limit itself to today's definition of
IaaS. The history of computing is a progression of different
levels of abstraction, and what we consider "platform" today
may become "infrastructure" tomorrow.</div>
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<div>I have found the OpenStack community to be the most
welcoming group I have interacted with in more than 20 years
of contributing to open source. I'm excited to be a part of
OpenStack, and look forward to continuing to contribute in
whatever way I am able.</div>
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<div>Doug</div>
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<div>My commit history: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://review.openstack.org/#/q/owner:doug.hellmann%2540dreamhost.com,n,z">https://review.openstack.org/#/q/owner:doug.hellmann%2540dreamhost.com,n,z</a></div>
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<div>My review history: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://review.openstack.org/#/q/reviewer:doug.hellmann%2540dreamhost.com,n,z">https://review.openstack.org/#/q/reviewer:doug.hellmann%2540dreamhost.com,n,z</a></div>
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<div>My Ohloh account: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.ohloh.net/accounts/doughellmann">https://www.ohloh.net/accounts/doughellmann</a></div>
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<div>My blog: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://doughellmann.com/">http://doughellmann.com/</a></div>
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