Open Stack

Confirmed.

On 10/07/2013 08:24 PM, Doug Hellmann wrote:
> I am announcing my candidacy for a position on the OpenStack Technical 
> Committee.
>
> I have been programming in Python professionally for 15 years, in a 
> variety of application areas, and am currently the development lead 
> for DreamHost's OpenStack-based public cloud project, DreamCompute. I 
> am a member of the Python Software Foundation, have been on the PyCon 
> Program Committee, and was Editor in Chief of Python Magazine. In June 
> of 2011, I published "The Python Standard Library by Example".
>
> I started contributing to OpenStack in 2012, just before the Folsom 
> summit. I am a core reviewer and one of the founding members of the 
> Ceilometer project, and a core reviewer for the requirements and 
> unified command line interface projects. I am on the stable release 
> maintenance team for Grizzly, am part of the team working on the 
> Python 3 transition, and have contributed to several of the 
> infrastructure projects. I will be the PTL for the Oslo project 
> starting with the Icehouse release.
>
> These development activities, combined with our deployment work at 
> DreamHost, have given me a unique cross-project perspective into 
> OpenStack, and reinforced for me the importance of consistency across 
> our components. One of the roles of the technical committee is to 
> encourage projects to find commonalities and adopt consistent 
> approaches or tools to make the project run more smoothly for all 
> contributors and users. Using consistent libraries, coding style, and 
> implementation patterns helps integrate new developers with our 
> community more quickly and encourages existing developers to 
> participate in more than one project. Using consistent tools helps our 
> infrastructure team create and maintain the automated systems that 
> have made OpenStack's impressive development velocity possible. 
> Consistent configuration tools also help packagers and deployers 
> consume what we are producing, making adoption easier. Consistent APIs 
> and UIs make it easier for end users to choose OpenStack clouds, 
> either public or private, over other options.
>
> In addition to my code contributions, I am especially proud of the 
> work over the last year that went into bringing Ceilometer through 
> incubation to become an integrated project. Because we were one of the 
> earliest projects to go through formal incubation, much of the process 
> was still being developed as we were navigating it. I learned a lot 
> while contributing to that discussion. There are still some open 
> questions about how mature a project must be to enter incubation, and 
> what level of integration is needed before graduation. I look forward 
> to addressing those questions as we continue to grow as a community.
>
> I share the view of many of the other candidates that OpenStack should 
> not limit itself to today's definition of IaaS. The history of 
> computing is a progression of different levels of abstraction, and 
> what we consider "platform" today may become "infrastructure" tomorrow.
>
> I have found the OpenStack community to be the most welcoming group I 
> have interacted with in more than 20 years of contributing to open 
> source. I'm excited to be a part of OpenStack, and look forward to 
> continuing to contribute in whatever way I am able.
>
> Doug
>
>
> My commit history: 
> https://review.openstack.org/#/q/owner:doug.hellmann%2540dreamhost.com,n,z
>
> My review history: 
> https://review.openstack.org/#/q/reviewer:doug.hellmann%2540dreamhost.com,n,z
>
> My Ohloh account: https://www.ohloh.net/accounts/doughellmann
>
> My blog: http://doughellmann.com/
>
>
>
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