Open Stack

Howdy folks,

I'd like to propose myself for oslo PTL for the mitaka cycle,

For those that don't know me I've been involved in openstack for ~4 years,

Have worked at yahoo! for ~7 years, ~4 of the last years have been 
getting openstack adopted in yahoo! (where it is now used by everyone, 
and is a common word/name/project all employees know about, quite a 
change from when ~three other engineers and myself started investigating 
it ~4 years ago). It has been quite the journey (for myself, others and 
yahoo! in general) and I've been pretty active in oslo for ~2 years so I 
thought it might be a good time to try to run and see how I can help in 
a PTL role (this also ensures nobody else in oslo-core burns out).

I contribute to many projects (inside and outside of openstack):

- http://stackalytics.com/report/users/harlowja

Created/maintain/co-maintain/contributor/core to the following:

(not directly openstack, generally useful to all)
- https://kazoo.readthedocs.org
- https://redis-py.readthedocs.org
- https://cloudinit.readthedocs.org
- https://fasteners.readthedocs.org
- https://pymemcache.readthedocs.org
- https://pypi.python.org/pypi/zake
- https://pypi.python.org/pypi/doc8
- https://pypi.python.org/pypi/retrying
(mainly created for usage by openstack, but not limited to)
- https://anvil.readthedocs.org
- http://docs.openstack.org/developer/futurist/
- http://docs.openstack.org/developer/automaton/
- http://docs.openstack.org/developer/debtcollector/
- http://docs.openstack.org/developer/taskflow/
- http://docs.openstack.org/developer/tooz/
(created for usage by openstack)
- oslo.messaging
- oslo.utils
- oslo.serialization
- oslo.service
- (all the other 'oslo.*' libraries)
(and more...)

I feel I can help bring a unique viewpoint to oslo and openstack in 
general; one of increasing exposure and general usefulness of oslo 
libraries outside of openstack; fostering community inside and outside 
and continuing to make oslo and openstack the best it can be.

Some of the things that I would like to focus on (not inclusive of all 
the things):

- Increasing outreach to consuming projects so that they can benefit 
from the oslo libraries, code and knowledge (and patterns) that have 
been built up by these libraries; perhaps some kind of bi-weekly blog 
about oslo?
- Improving our outreach to others in the wider world (even ones not in 
the big tent); the python community is a big world and it'd be great to 
make sure we do our part there as well.
- Asking the hard questions.
- Being jolly.

Thanks for considering me,

Any questions/comments/feedback, please let me know and I'll do my best 
to answer them :-)

-Joshua Harlow