Hi everyone: First of all, thank you very much for giving me the opportunity to be part of the technical committee over the past term within the OpenStack project governance. I’ve also taken the vice chair role which I have had to serve for sometime during the time that our chair (Doug) was out of the office. In my candidacy email for my last term, there was a few things that I brought up which I think are still very important, as well as a few others which I think we’ve made great progress in. I’d like to start talking about those first. I still believe that it’s really important to have a contact with the users and deployers, something that we’re slowly getting better at. I have found that having some of those very large operators that sit in our technical committee meetings at the PTG super productive, because they bring an important perspective to the technical committee. As I help manage a public cloud and several private clouds all over the world, I’ve seen a lot of stories about OpenStack experiences, shortcomings and seeing how users consume OpenStack. It’s a very eye opening experience and it’s built up a strong basis to be able to formulate technical decisions and understanding the impact it has on all of our different users. I think this information is a really strong asset. I mentioned that we needed to work on improving our bridges with other communities such as Kubernetes. I’ve helped add and provide resources for OpenLab to help bring CI for the Kubernetes OpenStack cloud provider, worked on Magnum changes to help better integrate and test the project and even added resources which allowed Magnum to run full functional Kubernetes tests in it’s gate (with a work in progress of adding conformance tests). While the TC is about governance, I also think it’s important for us to get some work that gets the critical moving pieces running done. I’ve also worked with a few teams in order to help and somehow mediate a discussion to facilitate the split of the placement service and provided operator feedback, participated in the split meetings and helped to push things in the direction to make it happen. However, learning a few lessons in the way about how we might go about doing something like this in the future. I’ve also increased my engagement with our APAC community by speaking more often with them over WeChat. There is a tremendous amount of knowledge and wonderful community of people who want to participate. I’ve tried my best to also build a ‘bridge’ by sharing things that might make sense for them to see from our mailing lists (for example, the most recent one about our upcoming release name). For the upcoming term, I think that we should work on increasing our engagement with other communities. In addition, providing guidance and leadership for groups and projects that need help to merge their features, even if it involves finding the right person and asking them for a review. I’d like to personally have a more “hands-on” approach and try to work more closely with the teams, help shape and provide input into the direction of their project (while looking at the overall picture). I’d also like us to try and be more engaged with the other OSF projects such as Kata containers, StarlingX, Airship and Zuul. While the last one is our darling that was created out of our use, I think providing a bridge with the others would provide a lot of value as well. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to serve as part of your technical committee, I hope to be able to continue to help over the next term. Regards, Mohammed -- Mohammed Naser — vexxhost ----------------------------------------------------- D. 514-316-8872 D. 800-910-1726 ext. 200 E. mnaser@vexxhost.com W. http://vexxhost.com