Hi All, I realised I missed this important part of the election process - sending it to the list.

Hello Everyone,

I have been a member of the TC for a a year now, and I would like to renominate myself for another term on the TC. I have been working on OpenStack (mainly in Desigate - the DNS as a Service project) since Havana, which is when I started to get involved in the work of Technical Committee, for the Designate Incubation application.

I have been PTL for Designate for Mitaka, Newton, Ocata, Queens, Rocky, Stein and Train cycles, and a core for a longer period. I believe my experience working in a younger, smaller project within OpenStack is still a benefit, especially as we add more projects to the OpenStack Foundation (OSF) along side the original OpenStack project.

I have spent time recently working on a very large OpenStack cloud in a day to operations role, and I think that this experience is important to have on the Technical Committee. The experience that a lot of our users have is very different to what we may assume, and knowing how end users deal with bugs, deployment life cycles and vendors should guide us.

I have been involved in the discussion around the future goals this cycle, and I would like to try and keep driving this forward. I see goals as a real, tangible change that the TC can drive that helps the community as a whole.

I think the experience I have had (from both an operator perspective, and as the PTL of a small project that is struggling with contributor levels) is valuable.

I do think cycling out members of the TC is important, but I think that with the turn over we have is at a good level, and that I can still provide a fresh out look on the TC.

Thanks,

Graham

Additionally, I did want to address something that a few people have been asking about - my new employment :) Yes - I am no longer working for a company that has ties (direct or otherwise) to OpenStack. However they do have a strong open source culture, and are completely supportive of me spending some of my time on OpenStack and the TC. I really enjoy working with this community, and don't see myself going anywhere in the near or medium term. My new role has components in the same area (infrastructure as a service) , and I think the insight I will be gaining from this work will definitely benifit OpenStack, combined with my history of involvement and experience running production OpenStack clouds. I am happy to talk to anyone who has any concerns about this, ping me on IRC (mugsie), gr@ham.ie or reply to this thread. Thanks for your attention, and please remember to vote! - Graham