Open Stack

Greetings -

I would like to run for a TC seat as well. My platform is a focus on 
deployment and operations for OpenStack. I'm not going to mince words: 
deploying OpenStack is hard. Maintaining it is even harder. I don't 
think it needs to be this way. I spent two years designing and deploying 
a cloud based on OpenStack and it really seemed much harder to do than 
it should have been, especially when you factor in configuration 
management tools.

I would like to promote a more operational approach to the decisions 
made inside the OpenStack community. Some of it is easy, some of it is 
hard. I don't expect things to change overnight, but I do feel that a 
course correction is needed, that it's going to need to come from a 
whole project approach as well as code contribution, and that now is the 
time to make it.

As I said, I spent the last two years as an implementor of OpenStack 
with the DreamCompute project at DreamHost and have now moved on to a 
new position as a solutions architect at Midokura. These positions have 
given (and continue to give) me a customer perspective of what it takes 
to deploy, maintain, and upgrade OpenStack in production. While my 
company supports me and my desire to run for the TC, I'm running 
independent of my company in order to keep a vendor neutral approach.

Thanks for your time!
   -Carl