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-----Original Message-----
From: Shamail [mailto:itzshamail at gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2015 12:18 PM
To: Barrett, Carol L
Cc: product-wg
Subject: Re: [Product] FW: [openstack-dev] [election][TC] TC Candidacy

Agreed. It might make sense to wait until the summit though. I'm sure he probably has a lot to ramp up on in preparation (as do we). :-)

> On Sep 30, 2015, at 1:14 PM, Barrett, Carol L wrote:
>
> FYI - In case you didn't see this email. Mike Perez is joining the OpenStack Foundation as the Cross-Project Developer Coordinator. Sounds like we should invite him into a team meeting when he gets going and discuss how we can collaborate.
>
> Thanks
> Carol
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Perez [mailto:thingee at gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2015 1:55 AM
> To: OpenStack Development Mailing List
> Subject: [openstack-dev] [election][TC] TC Candidacy
>
> Hi all!
>
> I'm announcing my candidacy for a position on the OpenStack Technical Committee.
>
> On October 1st I will be employed by the OpenStack Foundation as a Cross-Project Developer Coordinator to help bring focus and support to cross-project initiatives within the cross-project specs, Def Core, The Product Working group, etc.
>
> I feel the items below have enabled others across this project to strive for quality. If you would all have me as a member of the Technical Committee, you can help me to enable more quality work in OpenStack.
>
> * I have been working in OpenStack since 2010. I spent a good amount
> of my time working on OpenStack in my free time before being paid
> full time to work on it. It has been an important part of my life,
> and rewarding to see what we have all achieved together.
>
> * I was PTL for the Cinder project in the Kilo and Liberty releases
> for two cross-project reasons:
> * Third party continuous integration (CI).
> * Stop talking about rolling upgrades, and actually make it happen for
> operators.
>
> * I led the effort in bringing third party continuous integration to
> the Cinder project for more than 60 different drivers. [1]
> * I removed 25 different storage drivers from Cinder to bring quality to the
> project to ensure what was in the Kilo release would work for operators.
> I did what I believed was right, regardless of whether it would cost me
> re-election for PTL [2].
> * In my conversations with other projects, this has enabled others to
> follow the same effort. Continuing this trend of quality cross-project will
> be my next focus.
>
> * During my first term of PTL for Cinder, the team, and much respect
> to Thang Pham working on an effort to end the rolling upgrade
> problem, not just for Cinder, but for *all* projects.
> * First step was making databases independent from services via Oslo
> versioned objects.
> * In Liberty we have a solution coming that helps with RPC versioned messages
> to allow upgrading services independently.
>
> * I have attempted to help with diversity in our community.
> * Helped lead our community to raise $17,403 for the Ada Initiative [3],
> which was helping address gender-diversity with a focus in open source.
> * For the Vancouver summit, I helped bring in the ally skills workshops from
> the Ada Initiative, so that our community can continue to be a welcoming
> environment [4].
>
> * Within the Cinder team, I have enabled all to provide good
> documentation for important items in our release notes in Kilo [5] and Liberty [6].
> * Other projects have reached out to me after Kilo feeling motivated for this
> same effort. I've explained in the August 2015 Operators midcycle sprint
> that I will make this a cross-project effort in order to provide better
> communication to our operators and users.
>
> * I started an OpenStack Dev List summary in the OpenStack Weekly
> Newsletter (What you need to know from the developer's list), in
> order to enable others to keep up with the dev list on important
> cross-project information. [7][8]
>
> * I created the Cinder v2 API which has brought consistency in
> request/responses with other OpenStack projects.
> * I documented Cinder v1 and Cinder v2 API's. Later on I created the Cinder
> API reference documentation content. The attempt here was to enable others
> to have somewhere to start, to continue quality documentation with
> continued developments.
>
> Please help me to do more positive work in this project. It would be an honor to be member of your technical committee.
>
>
> Thank you,
> Mike Perez
>
> Official Candidacy: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/229298/2
> Review History: https://review.openstack.org/#/q/reviewer:170,n,z
> Commit History: https://review.openstack.org/#/q/owner:170,n,z
> Stackalytics: http://stackalytics.com/?user_id=thingee
> Foundation: https://www.openstack.org/community/members/profile/4840
> IRC Freenode: thingee
> Website: http://thing.ee
>
>
> [1] -
> http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2015-January/054614
> .html [2] -
> https://review.openstack.org/#/q/status:merged+project:openstack/cinde
> r+branch:master+topic:cinder-driver-removals,n,z
> [3] -
> http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2014-October/047892
> .html [4] -
> http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2015-May/064156.htm
> l [5] -
> https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/ReleaseNotes/Kilo#OpenStack_Block_Stor
> age_.28Cinder.29 [6] -
> https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/ReleaseNotes/Liberty#OpenStack_Block_S
> torage_.28Cinder.29 [7] -
> http://www.openstack.org/blog/2015/09/openstack-community-weekly-newsl
> etter-sept-12-18/ [8] -
> http://www.openstack.org/blog/2015/09/openstack-weekly-community-newsl
> etter-sept-19-25/
>
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