Around a year ago, I announced my candidacy for the TC after a call for more contributors from a diverse employer base was made. I think a year later, it's more obvious than ever how important it is to have a diverse, independent technical committee. We have made huge progress on this front. We have six candidates for the four open TC positions, representing different independent companies utilizing OpenStack. This is a major improvement year over year.

If you've been in the community a while, you've probably worked with me and have an idea if you want to vote for me or not in this position. Whether elected or not, I'll continue my vocal support of OpenStack technologies in private meetings and on social media, I'll continue to invite people I meet interested in cloud to join our community -- not because it's my job (it is), but also because I'm proud of what we've built.

When I have those conversations with potential users or contributors, I highlight two things I admire about the OpenStack community: longevity -- there are not many large, distributed open source projects that have survived as long as we have, and the four opens -- putting openness out front as our face to the world is why I'll continue to be proud to represent OpenStack in the future -- as a TC member or not (you decide).

If someone does want to talk about a particular policy or thought process of mine, I'm happy to respond to comments here or via private email/IRC.

Thanks,

Jay Faulkner