Howdy folks, I'd like to submit myself as a candidate for the OpenStack TC,
The reasons why are varied (and longer than I can list here) but it really comes to my desire to see OpenStack succeed and prosper and exist (in whatever shape and form) going forward in a way that is sustainable for the companies consuming *and* contributing to OpenStack. I believe the TC as it exists helps (or can help) act as a guiding force that ensures that sustainable future (along with everyone involved in OpenStack). In my honest opinion times ahead are going to be a little ‘scary' for some as alternative tooling (such as containers and container services) come into existence that offer similar (and yes sometimes more uniform and better) functionality than what we have via the diverse set of OpenStack components. I personally don't see that as bad, but what I do see it being is a thing called 'evolution' and we need to ensure we have a strong set of leaders that is helping ensure our relevance (whatever it may be) going forward. I feel we need to ask the 'hard' questions like: - Where does the diverse set of OpenStack projects & components have value in this evolution? - Is it better to align with some other community and create alliances (a *united* cloud nation for example) that work well for both/all? - Why have we been resistant to such things before? What can we do better going forward... - Are we learning from from operator difficulties, distributed system best practices (and other successful large scale distributed systems) so that we can architect and develop smart & sustainable solutions that *out of the box* have zero to no operational difficulties? - How do we get there (while still keeping our own ship afloat)? - And more... This may involve some changes in how our community operates and the outreach to other communities that are becoming more popular and widely used (and yes we may even need to slim down a little). I personally feel it is the job of TC leadership to help guide our community in this regard (and to make it a goal of *all* folks in our community to do outreach, to produce great & innovative code and products and projects that can be valuable beyond 'just being useful in OpenStack'). Because one thing evolution has shown is that if we don't try to evolve (and this evolution may be uncomfortable for some) that we *may* (there's no fate but what we make) quickly become obsolete. So instead we probably need to do some really deep thinking around various questions like 'where does the community see itself in 3-5 years'? TLDR; I'm hoping that being on the TC with others that I can help raise these kinds of questions and encourage the discussion (along with others) that starts to ask these hard and likely uncomfortable questions (and hopefully we can offer a clear(er) path for the general community as a result). Overall I hope we as a community try to rally behind a sustainable future where the majority understands our future evolution and the majority can get behind it and help *all* of us get there (it’s highly likely there will be a minority who will likely not be in agreement, that IMHO is ok and natural). Thanks for my consideration, FYI, harlowja on IRC, feel free to find and chat with me if you want :) -Josh __________________________________________________________________________ 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