Open Stack

Resending this since I got my wires crossed on last week and jumped the gun.
On Fri, Aug 3, 2018 at 9:30 AM Matt Van Winkle <mvanwinkle at salesforce.com>
wrote:

> Greetings OpenStack Operators and Users,
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> I’d like to take the opportunity to state my candidacy in the upcoming UC election. I have enjoyed the work we have been able to accomplish these last 12 months and I would like to serve another term to help continue the momentum.
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> After 6 years in Operations and Engineering for Rackspace’s public cloud, I have recently joined Salesforce to help with their OpenStack efforts. At both companies, I’ve had the distinct pleasure of serving a number of talented engineers and teams as they have worked to scale and manage the infrastructure. During this time, I’ve also enjoyed sharing ideas with and learning from other Operators running large OpenStack clouds in order to find new and creative ways to solve challenges
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> With respect to community involvement, my first summit was Portland and have made all but two since. I’ve also been very active in the Operators community since helping plan the very first meet-up in San Jose. I’ve given a few talks in the past and have served as track chair many times. After Paris, I began chairing the Large Deployments Team. This team, while inactive now, was a long running group of operators that shared many ideas on scaling OpenStack and has had some successes running feature requests to ground with dev teams. It’s been a distinct pleasure to work with such smart folks from around the community. Chairing LDT also led to an opportunity to join the Ops Meetup Team - working with others on planning Operator mid-cycles and Ops related Summit/Forum sessions.
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> I was fortunate enough to be part of the group that helped the old UC craft the bylaw changes that have expanded the committee and made it the elected body it is today. After serving as an election official in the first election, I chose to run for an open spot a year ago. Regardless of the outcome of this election, it is really awesome to see the evolution of the UC and how it’s able to better coordinate Operator and User efforts in guiding the community and the development cycle.
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> If re-elected, I hope to keep helping more Users and Operators understand how to take better advantage of the the various events and dev cycle to drive improvement and change in the software. The UC has a vision of seeing conversations at and Operators mid-cycle or from an OpenStack Days OPs session become specific topic submissions at the next summit. Conversely, we'd love this pattern to be regular enough that the Dev teams start proposing session ideas for certain feedback at upcoming OPs gatherings to complete the cycle. While there is still plenty of work to do to make these things a reality, the UC has been laying the ground work since the Dublin PTG. I'd like to serve another term so I can do my part to help keep making progress. Beyond that, I want to continue the great work of the UC members to date on being an advocate for the User with the Board, TC and community at large.
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> I appreciate the time and the consideration.
> Thanks!
> VW
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> Matt Van Winkle
> Senior Manager, Software Engineering | Salesforce
> Mobile: 210-445-4183
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Matt Van Winkle
Senior Manager, Software Engineering | Salesforce
Mobile: 210-445-4183
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