Hello all!
My name is Jay Bryant and I am the Cloud Storage Lead for the Lenovo Cloud Technology Center. I am also the Cinder PTL and am active with OpenStack Upstream Institute. Most of my project activity has been in Cinder, Manila, Oslo and Documentation.
I have been active in OpenStack since January of 2013 and have had the opportunity to mentor a number of people in becoming active OpenStack contributors. I am happy to answer questions about your first patch, first talk as well as questions about how to review patches or participate in other ways. Can even provide guidance in getting your accounts set up and CLAs signed.
I am based in Rochester, Minnesota so I am at UTC -6.
My IRC nick is jungleboyj . I am pretty much always attached to IRC so please feel free to ping me any time between 9 am and 9 pm Central time. You can find me in the #openstack-mentoring channel or #openstack-cinder.
I look forward to helping out anyone who needs help!
Thanks!
Jay