confirmed On 04/21/2015 04:47 AM, Flavio Percoco wrote: > Greetings, > > I'm announcing my candidacy for the Technical Comitee Elections. > > I wish I could say I've served as a TC member before but I haven't. > However, there's always a first time for everything, isn't there? I'd > like for Liberty to be that chance for me to be honored with a seat in > OpenStack's Technical Comitee. > > I believe I've been part of OpenStack's community long enough to know > how it works, the mechanisms behind it and I believe I have a good > feeling of where it should be headed. Here are some things that I'd > love to help achieving as part of my work as a TC member: > > # Paradise's doors have been opened but no maps of it have been drawn: > > During the last cycles, the TC members have done an amazing job on > helping make our community more welcoming. The bar for inclusion has > be lowered to the point where projects are welcomed to join it as long > as they meet the minimum requirements established in our governance > repo. > > I believe this is an amazing step for our community but we're not > there yet. Unfortunately, opening our doors does not do the trick. In > order to keep this openness honest, we also need to provide a better > support for the projects that are joining our community. > > Therefore, I'd like to help moving the big tent effort forward and > start laying down the bases that will help providing support to > projects and guide them especially in moments where decisions like > this[0] need to be taken. > > [0] > http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2015-April/061967.html > > # Help with clearing the path where OpenStack is headed > > For better or for worse, one of the question I've been asked more > often, in the last couple of months, is: "Is OpenStack there yet? > What's next?" > > OpenStack is a cloud provider and as such it should strive to cover > enough use-cases to make cloud consumers'/providers' lives simpler. > There's more to a cloud than just compute, storage and networking. > There's more to cloud than just orchestration and meetering. As part > of my role as a TC member, I'd like to help our community grow in > other areas that might not be considered required but that are still > important for our mission. > > # Deployments / Ops > > OpenStack has come a long way on making deployments easier but again, > we're not there yet. With the new governance model, we won't just see > new *aaS services joining but also new tools[0] that are meant to help > with OpenStack's installation and maintenance. > > Along the lines of what I said in my point #2, I believe having tools > to install OpenStack is great but there's more to an OpenStack > deployment than just that. There's monitoring, upgrades, migrations, > etc. > > As part of my journey as a TC member (hopefully), I'd like to help > these projects by exploring and gathering the needs and feedback from > our community so we can guide these amazing efforts towards the right > solution that OpenStack needs. > > I believe OpenStack is taking giant steps towards a great success but > we need to be careful not to skip important things in between those > steps. I'd like to use my knowledge from my involvement in several > areas throughout OpenStack (and outside it) to help OpenStack moving > forward at the same - or at a better - pace. > > Thanks for your consideration, > Flavio > > P.S: If you're thinking. "Wait, this guy is nuts. He ran for 2 PTL > positions and he now wants to run for a TC position. Is he crazy?" One > answer to that could be, Yes. However, just to make sure it's clear to > everyone my current "time" situation, I'd like to share that I'm > "just" Zaqar's PTL - Nikhil is Glance's PTL - and my current > commitments allow me for dedicating to this position the time it > requires. > > > > __________________________________________________________________________ > OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev >
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