Hi All,

I'd like to announce my candidacy for the Technical Committee.

For those of you who do not know me, I've been involved with OpenStack from the very early days of the project.  I've attended many OpenStack summits and Project Teams Gatherings over the years and have been privileged to help the project grow from its small beginnings to the established cloud platform that it has now become.

I was the main driver behind migration of the OpenStack Charms to its current home as an official OpenStack project which I then led for many cycles as PTL and I remain an active core developer on this project.

I'm the current PTL of Sunbeam which was accepted into OpenStack last year as a new incubating project, providing a reboot of the charmed approach to deploying OpenStack utilising the many new projects that have appeared since we started the OpenStack Charms project back in 2011.

I also work as part of the team responsible for the packaging and distribution of OpenStack as part of Ubuntu.

I have been a member of the TC for the last year providing a voice from a deployment tooling and distribution perspective. I would like the opportunity to continue in this role providing what I believe is a valuable perspective to the technical governance of the OpenStack project.  In particular I think we need to address some of the challenges around the general health of wider ecosystem dependencies of OpenStack to ensure that we move forward onto a stable base benefiting operators, distributors and developers.

Thank you for taking the time to consider my candidacy for this role.

Regards

James Page (irc:jamespage)