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<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;">Fellow Barbicaneers,</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;">I'd like to nominate myself to serve as Barbican PTL for the Ocata cycle.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;">After talking it over with Doug (redrobot), I know I have a mentor in place. After talking it over with my employer, I know I will have the time and resources to dedicate to this position.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;">I first started working on Barbican in the Kilo release. You were all welcoming and supportive to this stranger who wandered into your midcycle. I was immediately impressed by your dedication
to the project and your willingness to mentor me in all things OpenStack.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;">First and foremost, I want to maintain this culture in Barbican.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;">My goals for the Ocata cycle are:</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;">1) Grow the Barbican team of contributors and core reviewers.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;">2) Collaborate with other OpenStack projects with joint blueprints, especially signing as a service (Designate) and container based install (Kolla).</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;">3) Improve our project maturity index by addressing documentation and process items. [1]</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;">4) Maintain our high standards for code reviews and unit and functional tests.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;">5) Be diligent with backporting bug fixes to stable releases.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;">Thank you in advance for this opportunity to serve.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;">Also, thanks to Doug Mendizábal for his leadership over the last four cycles and his offer to support me in this endeavor.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;">--Dave McCowan (dave-mccowan)</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;">[1] https://www.openstack.org/software/releases/mitaka/components/barbican</p>
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