Hello Everyone!
I am once again declaring my candidacy for the Technical Committee.
This last year I have learned so much about OpenStack and our amazing community. There is never a shortage of work to be done and I feel there is still a lot I can do to help the community as a part of the TC.
I served as TC Vice Chair during the second half of my term and I felt like I was able to do a lot to help support Mohammed, the chair and other members of the TC. My work in coordinating the new office hours and our time at the upcoming PTG will enable the future TC to be more accessible and productive. I also lead the community goal to improve the onboarding documentation, further lowering the barrier for new contributors.
If elected, I will continue bridging our community with the kubernetes community. I am actively facilitating the conversations between the TC and the k8s Technical Steering Committee at the upcoming PTG meetings to share insight between both of our communities and generally share knowledge about keeping open source communities healthy.
I would also like to take a more active role in pushing the unification of the community around a single CLI to simplify openstack operations to better support our users and lessen the load on developers. I think a good first step would be to work with the CLI/SDK team to build a list of items that are blocking project teams from fully implementing all their features in the openstack client. From there we can figure out what is missing from the list, which teams are affected by which blocking items and prioritize what needs to be worked on first.
Thank you for your time and consideration.
As I said in my platform last year, I love this community and all the awesome people in it, serving on the TC is a great experience and an honor.
-Kendall Nelson (diablo_rojo)