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Great job leading the app catalog and looking forward for all these new features!




On 9/11/15, 12:23 PM, "Christopher Aedo" <doc at aedo.net> wrote:

>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
>
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