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On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 9:46 AM, Anita Kuno <anteaya at anteaya.info> wrote:
> Please consider my candidacy for membership on the technical committee.
>
> My name is Anita Kuno. I consider my home project to be Infra but I tend
> to move around wherever I feel the need is greatest.
>
> I have worked on OpenStack since mid-grizzly starting as an intern with
> the GNOME Outreach Program for Women (which is now known as Outreachy)
> with my mentor Iccha Sethi. I moved around until I found Infra and have
> considered that my home base ever since, mostly because Infra, and my
> job, allows me so much flexibility.
>
> During the Hong Kong summit I launched myself into Neutron to see if
> there was anything I could do to support improvement, not because I knew
> anything about Neutron but because I live by the axiom don't ask anyone
> to do anything you wouldn't be prepared to do yourself. I realized that
> Neutron developers couldn't even find each other to talk to each other
> due to the crowd and organized a Neutron Tempest code sprint in Montreal
> in January 2014.
>
> Coming out of that, I have been involved with the third party ci space
> ever since, a difficult and demanding space and those involved with have
> many opinions on whether I have done and am doing a good job or a poor job.
>
> I split the project-config repo out of what was the Infra config repo
> (and is now system-config) at the end of Juno and have been a core
> reviewer on the project ever since. I was able to help Neutron split out
> their 'as a service' repos at the Sprint in Lehi in December last year
> due to having repo-split experience myself.
>
> I had known that the Nova-net to Neutron migration work was/is important
> and had attended the Paris summit session on the issue, which had some
> people indicate they would drive the work so stepped back believing it
> was taken care of. Until December when I saw that not enough work had
> taken place for anything to happen in Kilo. I got involved to support
> Oleg Bondarev's work and help find more people to provide design
> direction and feedback. We had a design and got some code written (way
> to go group) however the feedback from the ops summit was such that it
> became evident that the current solution even if finished would be
> insufficient to address the issue. I curtailed our work (with agreement
> of those at the meeting) in favour of opening a larger discussion on the
> mailing list. I consider the work those involved put in to be valuable,
> as it is possible we might not have gotten the level of detail in the
> feedback we currently have without the code, thank you to all who
> participated.
>
> At present I have agreed to chair the discussion in Vancouver for the
> session addressing Nova-net and Neutron. I ask that those involved and
> affected by this work find it in their hearts to bring a positive
> outlook to this issue. I'm grateful for your support.
>
> Last cycle I attended the Neutron, Keystone, Nova and Cinder mid-cycles,
> to help with third party work, the nova-net to neutron migration as well
> as helping project devs better understand how infra works and how to
> maximize efficient use of infra tools such as gerrit as well as how to
> offer an elastic-recheck fingerprint.
>
> I tend to gravitate towards work that needs to get done but which noone
> else wants to do. I have been operating from the belief that this is for
> the benefit of OpenStack. I will admit the big tent movement has thrown
> me off in regards to what is beneficial for OpenStack. Thierry's blog
> post helps in that regard. I would like to look and work on issues that
> affect the health of OpenStack long term including our vision of our
> targeted user.
>
> I am an astrologer at heart and as such look at large patterns and
> cycles of activity as well at their results. OpenStack is in a unique
> position to redefine software creation as a process that has outcomes
> that can be negotiated as beneficial for all concerned. The way it does
> so is by incorporating unlimited freedom with careful evaluation of
> structure and limits of resources by balancing culture and social
> responsibility to seeing and respecting both ends of the spectrum in
> actions. When we do this (and we have been able to) then everyone wins
> and feels nourished as a result. When one side of OpenStack (the freedom
> side, for instance) needs to accomplish its goal at the expense of the
> other side (careful evaluation of structure and limits of resources)
> then we all lose. It is a powerful energy structure and requires balance.
>
> I also served the technical committee as election official for 4
> election seasons. I want to thank you co-election officials for your
> guidance and support in that process, Monty Taylor, Thierry Carrez and
> Tristan Cacqueray (who is currently serving as an election official). I
> would also like to acknowledge Elizabeth K. Joseph who has replaced me,
> thank you to you as well, Elizabeth.
>
> Please feel free to ask me any questions if my post has failed to
> present my perspective and position. I will continue to serve OpenStack
> to the best of my ability regardless of what position the community
> chooses to bestow upon me.
>
> Thank you for reading this post, please be sure to participate in the
> election and cast your ballot,
> Anita.
>
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