Open Stack

It's time for the Community App Catalog to go through an official
election cycle, and I'm putting my name in for PTL.  I've been filling
that role provisionally since before the App Catalog was launched at
the Vancouver summit, and I would like to continue service as PTL
officially.  Now that we've joined the Big Tent[1], having a committed
leader is more important than ever :) .

I believe the App Catalog has tremendous potential for helping the
end-users of OpenStack clouds find and share things they can deploy on
those clouds.  To that end, I've been working with folks on extending
the types of assets that can live in the catalog and also trying to
make finding and consuming those assets easier.

Since we announced the Community App Catalog I've done everything I
could to deliver on the "community" part.  With the help of the
OpenStack Infra team, we moved the site to OpenStack infrastructure as
quickly as possible.  All planning and coordination efforts have
happened on IRC (#openstack-app-catalog), the dev and operators
mailing list, and during the weekly IRC meetings[2].  I've also been
working to get more people engaged and involved with the Community App
Catalog project while attempting to raise the profile and exposure
whenever possible.

Speaking of community, I know being part of the OpenStack community at
a broad level is one of the most important things for a PTL.  On that
front I'm active and always available on IRC (docaedo), and do my best
to stay on top of all the traffic on the dev mailing list.  I also
work with Richard Raseley to organize the OpenStack meetup in Portland
in order to reach, educate (and entertain) people who want to learn
more about OpenStack.

The next big thing we will do for the Community App Catalog is to
build out the backend so it becomes a more engaging experience for the
users, as well as makes it easier for other projects to contribute and
consume the assets.  In addition to the Horizon plugin[3][4] (check it
out with devstack, it's pretty cool!) we are thinking through the API
side of this and will eventually contribute the code to search, fetch
and push from the OpenStack Client.

All of this is to say that I'm eager and proud to serve as the
Community App Catalog PTL for the next six months if you'll have me!

[1] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/217957/
[2] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings/app-catalog
[3] https://github.com/stackforge/apps-catalog-ui
[4] https://github.com/openstack/app-catalog-ui