Hi Jay, Hi Openstack Community. First, let me say thank you for your service as a TC member and thank you for the questions. I am currently a Mirantis employee and I am lucky enough to be involved full time in upstream Openstack. Most of the time I try to make Openstack-Helm better and have been serving as the PTL of this project during the last three release cycles. For TC activities I think I can spend about 5 hours a week. I haven't been involved a lot in all these governance discussions recently and frankly I don't have any revolutionary vision. My understanding is that Openstack is currently in quite good shape from both technical and organizational perspectives (stable, well tested, clear release cycle, open, diverse and friendly community). IMO we all as a community should continue doing what we have been doing during the last 5 years. Although the cloud computing industry as a whole is evolving towards the hybrid model, Openstack is an essential part of the ecosystem and I see the significant interest in Openstack both from traditional and new users. As an example our #openstack-helm Slack channel is slowly growing and I am happy to see people helping each other with their deployments. I hope as a TC member I'll be able to bring valuable opinions to the governance discussions. On Thu, Aug 29, 2024 at 1:19 PM Jay Faulkner <jay@gr-oss.io> wrote:

Hello all,

First of all, I'm incredibly happy that the community has stepped up and provided us the opportunity to avoid any issues at all around company affiliations this cycle. Thank you to all the new folks who have run for the TC and helped with this.

My two questions are simple:

How much of your workweek is spent focused on upstream OpenStack? How much of that time will be available to use for TC-related activities?

Thanks, Jay Faulkner

-- Best regards, Kozhukalov Vladimir

Le jeu. 29 août 2024 à 20:19, Jay Faulkner <jay@gr-oss.io> a écrit :

Hello all,

First of all, I'm incredibly happy that the community has stepped up and provided us the opportunity to avoid any issues at all around company affiliations this cycle. Thank you to all the new folks who have run for the TC and helped with this.

I second this, I'm happy here to see new folks running for the election.

My two questions are simple:

How much of your workweek is spent focused on upstream OpenStack?

Excellent question. I wouldn't be honest if I would say "100%" since I'm involved with good reasons on multiple downstream efforts (as a reminder, my diligence requires myself to also share the voice of my employer) but my past experience speaks as me being someone highly dedicated to the community. That said, I don't think this is a fair metric that we should pounder for the election : part-time contributors are also key to the projects for the contributions they can provide. How much of that time will be available to use for TC-related activities?

Very good question too : I told my management that I expect around 2 hours per week for serving that position. At least one hour is required due to the weekly meeting but another hour should be considered given the asynchronous tasks we may have (including but not exhaustively gerrit reviews and resolution proposals of course). More time could be dedicated to that activity if I consider it valuable to both the community and my employer. -Sylvain (who tried to be as pragmatic as possible)

Thanks, Jay Faulkner