Dear OpenStack,
Tomorrow will be my final day working at StackHPC before I move to a new role outside of the OpenStack community.
My journey with OpenStack began at Cray 10 years ago, trying to coerce a very fresh Ironic project into managing a rack of PCs and resulting in the SNMP power driver [1]. Since then I moved to StackHPC where I've deployed and maintained many OpenStack systems of different sizes, generally with an element of High Performance Computing (HPC).
I've been lucky enough to have had the opportunity to get involved in upstream OpenStack development. Over time I grew from contributor to Kolla & Ironic core to Kolla PTL for 5 cycles. I attended several summits and PTGs, and this really helped in working out how to navigate and get more involved in the community. More recently I have been more focussed on downstream than upstream work, but still marvel at the way so many people around the world come together to volunteer their time and effort to build complex software ecosystems.
I'd like to thank everyone in this community who has helped me over the years. It really is a special place.
To anyone standing on the sidelines wondering how to get more involved - speak up on IRC, join the PTG, triage bugs, review some code. It doesn't need to take up too much of your time. If you're like me you'll feel self-conscious at first, and unsure about the value you're providing. But keep at it, and over time you'll become an important part of the community.
All the best, Mark
On September 19, 2024 6:42:42 AM Mark Goddard mark@stackhpc.com wrote:
Dear OpenStack,
Tomorrow will be my final day working at StackHPC before I move to a new role outside of the OpenStack community.
My journey with OpenStack began at Cray 10 years ago, trying to coerce a very fresh Ironic project into managing a rack of PCs and resulting in the SNMP power driver [1]. Since then I moved to StackHPC where I've deployed and maintained many OpenStack systems of different sizes, generally with an element of High Performance Computing (HPC).
I've been lucky enough to have had the opportunity to get involved in upstream OpenStack development. Over time I grew from contributor to Kolla & Ironic core to Kolla PTL for 5 cycles. I attended several summits and PTGs, and this really helped in working out how to navigate and get more involved in the community. More recently I have been more focussed on downstream than upstream work, but still marvel at the way so many people around the world come together to volunteer their time and effort to build complex software ecosystems.
I'd like to thank everyone in this community who has helped me over the years. It really is a special place.
To anyone standing on the sidelines wondering how to get more involved - speak up on IRC, join the PTG, triage bugs, review some code. It doesn't need to take up too much of your time. If you're like me you'll feel self-conscious at first, and unsure about the value you're providing. But keep at it, and over time you'll become an important part of the community.
All the best, Mark
Thanks Mark for your many years of service to OpenStack and to Ironic specifically. I'll miss you both upstream and downstream.
- Jay Faulkner
Thanks for all your hard work and best of luck on your next endeavour!
You will be surely missed.
Best regards, Michal
On 19 Sep 2024, at 15:41, Mark Goddard mark@stackhpc.com wrote:
Dear OpenStack,
Tomorrow will be my final day working at StackHPC before I move to a new role outside of the OpenStack community.
My journey with OpenStack began at Cray 10 years ago, trying to coerce a very fresh Ironic project into managing a rack of PCs and resulting in the SNMP power driver [1]. Since then I moved to StackHPC where I've deployed and maintained many OpenStack systems of different sizes, generally with an element of High Performance Computing (HPC).
I've been lucky enough to have had the opportunity to get involved in upstream OpenStack development. Over time I grew from contributor to Kolla & Ironic core to Kolla PTL for 5 cycles. I attended several summits and PTGs, and this really helped in working out how to navigate and get more involved in the community. More recently I have been more focussed on downstream than upstream work, but still marvel at the way so many people around the world come together to volunteer their time and effort to build complex software ecosystems.
I'd like to thank everyone in this community who has helped me over the years. It really is a special place.
To anyone standing on the sidelines wondering how to get more involved - speak up on IRC, join the PTG, triage bugs, review some code. It doesn't need to take up too much of your time. If you're like me you'll feel self-conscious at first, and unsure about the value you're providing. But keep at it, and over time you'll become an important part of the community.
All the best, Mark
Thanks for everything over the years Mark! Good luck on your next adventure and don't be a stranger!
Amy
On Thu, Sep 19, 2024 at 8:41 AM Mark Goddard mark@stackhpc.com wrote:
Dear OpenStack,
Tomorrow will be my final day working at StackHPC before I move to a new role outside of the OpenStack community.
My journey with OpenStack began at Cray 10 years ago, trying to coerce a very fresh Ironic project into managing a rack of PCs and resulting in the SNMP power driver [1]. Since then I moved to StackHPC where I've deployed and maintained many OpenStack systems of different sizes, generally with an element of High Performance Computing (HPC).
I've been lucky enough to have had the opportunity to get involved in upstream OpenStack development. Over time I grew from contributor to Kolla & Ironic core to Kolla PTL for 5 cycles. I attended several summits and PTGs, and this really helped in working out how to navigate and get more involved in the community. More recently I have been more focussed on downstream than upstream work, but still marvel at the way so many people around the world come together to volunteer their time and effort to build complex software ecosystems.
I'd like to thank everyone in this community who has helped me over the years. It really is a special place.
To anyone standing on the sidelines wondering how to get more involved - speak up on IRC, join the PTG, triage bugs, review some code. It doesn't need to take up too much of your time. If you're like me you'll feel self-conscious at first, and unsure about the value you're providing. But keep at it, and over time you'll become an important part of the community.
All the best, Mark
Thank you Mark for all your work on OpenStack. Stackalytics is ranking you today as the 18th most active committer across all releases [1], which is really impressive. But it isn't just code, tests and docs that you contributed. It is also a lot of time spent leading projects, triaging bugs, mentoring new people…
We will miss you! All the best for your next adventure.
Cheers, Pierre
[1] https://www.stackalytics.io/?release=all&metric=commits
On Thu, 19 Sept 2024 at 15:42, Mark Goddard mark@stackhpc.com wrote:
Dear OpenStack,
Tomorrow will be my final day working at StackHPC before I move to a new role outside of the OpenStack community.
My journey with OpenStack began at Cray 10 years ago, trying to coerce a very fresh Ironic project into managing a rack of PCs and resulting in the SNMP power driver [1]. Since then I moved to StackHPC where I've deployed and maintained many OpenStack systems of different sizes, generally with an element of High Performance Computing (HPC).
I've been lucky enough to have had the opportunity to get involved in upstream OpenStack development. Over time I grew from contributor to Kolla & Ironic core to Kolla PTL for 5 cycles. I attended several summits and PTGs, and this really helped in working out how to navigate and get more involved in the community. More recently I have been more focussed on downstream than upstream work, but still marvel at the way so many people around the world come together to volunteer their time and effort to build complex software ecosystems.
I'd like to thank everyone in this community who has helped me over the years. It really is a special place.
To anyone standing on the sidelines wondering how to get more involved - speak up on IRC, join the PTG, triage bugs, review some code. It doesn't need to take up too much of your time. If you're like me you'll feel self-conscious at first, and unsure about the value you're providing. But keep at it, and over time you'll become an important part of the community.
All the best, Mark
Thank you Mark for your valuable contribution to OpenStack and especially to Kayobe. We will greatly miss you.
On Thu, Sep 19, 2024 at 4:42 PM Mark Goddard mark@stackhpc.com wrote:
Dear OpenStack,
Tomorrow will be my final day working at StackHPC before I move to a new role outside of the OpenStack community.
My journey with OpenStack began at Cray 10 years ago, trying to coerce a very fresh Ironic project into managing a rack of PCs and resulting in the SNMP power driver [1]. Since then I moved to StackHPC where I've deployed and maintained many OpenStack systems of different sizes, generally with an element of High Performance Computing (HPC).
I've been lucky enough to have had the opportunity to get involved in upstream OpenStack development. Over time I grew from contributor to Kolla & Ironic core to Kolla PTL for 5 cycles. I attended several summits and PTGs, and this really helped in working out how to navigate and get more involved in the community. More recently I have been more focussed on downstream than upstream work, but still marvel at the way so many people around the world come together to volunteer their time and effort to build complex software ecosystems.
I'd like to thank everyone in this community who has helped me over the years. It really is a special place.
To anyone standing on the sidelines wondering how to get more involved - speak up on IRC, join the PTG, triage bugs, review some code. It doesn't need to take up too much of your time. If you're like me you'll feel self-conscious at first, and unsure about the value you're providing. But keep at it, and over time you'll become an important part of the community.
All the best, Mark
participants (6)
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Amy Marrich
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Jay Faulkner
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Maksim Malchuk
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Mark Goddard
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Michał Nasiadka
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Pierre Riteau