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<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">Hi all,</span><br></font></p>
<p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;min-height:15px"><font color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"></span><br></font></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">I'd like to submit my candidacy to be a member of the OpenStack Technical </font></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">Committee.</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;min-height:15px"><font color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"></span><br></font></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">My involvement with OpenStack began during the Diablo release. Since then I've </font></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">participated in various parts of the community, in both upstream and downstream </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">roles. Today I mainly focus on authorization and identity management.</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;min-height:15px"><font color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"></span><br></font></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">As your elected member of the Technical Committee, I plan to continue </font></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">advocating for cross-project initiatives and easing cross-project </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">collaboration wherever possible.</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;min-height:15px"><font color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"></span><br></font></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">One area where I'm heavily invested in this type of work is improving </font></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">OpenStack's authorization system. For example, I've championed a community goal </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">[0], which eases policy maintenance and upgrades for operators. I've also </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">contributed to the improvement of oslo libraries, making it easier for other </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">services to change policies and consume authorization attributes. I believe </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">isolating policy from service-specific logic is crucial in letting developers </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">securely implement system-level and project-level APIs. Finally, I worked to </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">revive a thread from 2015 [1] that allows us to deliver better support for </span><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">default roles out-of-the-box [2]. This will reduce custom policies found in </font></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">most deployments, enabling better interoperability between clouds and push </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">OpenStack to be more self-service than it is today. There is still more work to </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">do, but all of this makes API protection easier to implement while giving more </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">functionality and security to end-users and operators.</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;min-height:15px"><font color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"></span><br></font></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Based upon the few examples shared above, I think it's imperative to approach </font></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">cross-project initiatives in a hands-on manner. As a member of the TC, I plan </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">to spend my time helping projects close the gap on goals accepted by the TC by </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">contributing to them directly. Additionally, I want to use that experience to </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">collaborate with others and find ways to make achieving efforts across projects </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">more common than it is today, as opposed to monolithic efforts that commonly </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">result in burnout and exhaustion for a select few people.</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;min-height:15px"><font color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"></span><br></font></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Tracking Rocky community goals specifically shows that 50% of projects are </font></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">still implementing, reviewing, or have yet to start mutable configuration. 61% </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">are in the same boat for removing usage of mox. Some efforts take years to </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">successfully complete across projects (e.g. volume multi-attach, adopting new API versions).</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;min-height:15px"><font color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"></span><br></font></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Whether the initiatives are a focused effort between two projects, or a </font></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">community-wide goal, they provide significant value to everyone consuming, </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">deploying, or developing the software we write. I'm running for TC because I </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">want to do what I can to make cross-project interaction easier through </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">contributing and building necessary process as a TC member.</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;min-height:15px"><font color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"></span><br></font></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Thanks for reading through my candidacy. Safe travels to Denver and hopefully </font></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">I'll see you at the PTG.</span></p>
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<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Lance</font></span></p>
<p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;min-height:15px"><font color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"></span><br></font></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">[0] <a href="https://governance.openstack.org/tc/goals/queens/policy-in-code.html">https://governance.openstack.org/tc/goals/queens/policy-in-code.html</a></font></span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">[1] <a href="https://review.openstack.org/#/c/245629">https://review.openstack.org/#/c/245629</a></span><br></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000" style="" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">[2] <a href="https://review.openstack.org/#/c/566377">https://review.openstack.org/#/c/566377</a></font></span></p></div>