Open Stack

Tom,

The OpenStack community is a family, and you will always be part of it. You’ve made a huge impact bootstrapping the User Committee, empowering operators and generally growing the user community. The silver lining is that you’ve also helped grow many new leaders in the community to help carry forward this important work.

We hope you stay close to OpenStack, but regardless I think you’ve officially achieved AUC status for life...and it sounds like we’ll have a good crew to cheers you in Sydney! :)

To the community,

Tom will be on board through the end of the year to help transition while we work to fill his shoes on the Foundation staff. In the meantime, the User Committee leaders are good points of contact for community organizing, and you can get in touch with them through the UC mailing list and regular IRC meetings. 

We also have quite a few members of the Foundation staff who work closely with the UC and across the community, including Allison Price (working with the UC on the User Survey & Superuser), Anne Bertucio (working with Shamail & product team on the Roadmap efforts), Chris Hoge (focused on testing and working across communities like Kubernetes), Mike Perez (cross project developer coordinator), Kendall Nelson (upstream development coordinator & upstream institute), Ildiko Vancsa (telecom, OPNFV liaison, upstream institute), Jimmy McArthur (supporting the Forum & AUC designation), David Flanders (working with the public cloud working group and “closing the app gap”) and Sonia Ramza (intern helping communicate with Ambassadors & user group leaders). I’ve copied them on this email so that their contact info is handy.

Please know we’re here and always available to serve the community, and feel free to reach out to me directly if you have any questions or concerns.

Cheers,
Lauren


> On Oct 4, 2017, at 9:20 AM, Tom Fifield <tom at openstack.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Tom here, on a personal note.
> 
> It's quite fitting that this November our summit is in Australia :)
> 
> I'm hoping to see you there because after being part of 15 releases, and travelling the equivalent of a couple of round trips to the moon to witness OpenStack grow around the world, the timing is right for me to step down as your Community Manager.
> 
> We've had an incredible journey together, culminating in the healthy community we have today. Across more than 160 countries, users and developers collaborate to make clouds better for the work that matters. The diversity of use is staggering, and the scale of resources being run is quite significant. We did that :)
> 
> 
> Behind the scenes, I've spent the past couple of months preparing to transition various tasks to other members of the Foundation staff. If you see a new name behind an openstack.org email address, please give them due attention and care - they're all great people. I'll be around through to year end to shepherd the process, so please ping me if you are worried about anything.
> 
> Always remember, you are what makes OpenStack. OpenStack changes and thrives based on how you feel and what work you do. It's been a privilege to share the journey with you.
> 
> 
> 
> So, my plan? After a decade of diligent effort in organisations euphemistically described as "minimally-staffed", I'm looking forward to taking a decent holiday. Though, if you have a challenge interesting enough to wrest someone from a tropical beach or a misty mountain top ... ;)
> 
> 
> There are a lot of you out there to whom I remain indebted. Stay in touch to make sure your owed drinks make it to you!
> 
> +886 988 33 1200
> tom at tomfifield.net
> https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomfifield
> https://twitter.com/TomFifield
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 
> 
> Tom
> 
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