From b4ad81ce961f9c02ca17656456af3daf4588c48d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ildiko Vancsa Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2017 23:25:56 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Adding Ildiko Vancsa (ildikov) candidacy for TC Change-Id: I780b7235f353e1269857ee3c7f40b0eb4058db0f --- candidates/pike/TC/ildikov.txt | 93 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 93 insertions(+) create mode 100644 candidates/pike/TC/ildikov.txt diff --git a/candidates/pike/TC/ildikov.txt b/candidates/pike/TC/ildikov.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000..6b82c5aa --- /dev/null +++ b/candidates/pike/TC/ildikov.txt @@ -0,0 +1,93 @@ +Hi All, + +I would like to throw my hat in the ring to be part of the OpenStack Technical +Committee. + +I'm working for the OpenStack Foundation as Ecosystem Technical Lead where +my responsibility is to help our members to succeed with OpenStack both as +software and community. My main focus areas are Telecom/NFV and on boarding +new contributors. + +My OpenStack journey started more than three years ago by adding rich query +functionality to Ceilometer where I’m currently a core reviewer. By my contributions +I’m the constant voice of usability and maintainability aspects while encouraging +collaboration within and between project teams. Among other projects I’ve been +contributing to Cinder, Nova and OpenStack Manuals[1] as well. + +I would like to increase diversity in the TC group, but more importantly my +goal is to add fresh blood to the group driving this community. In my +opinion it is crucial to constantly revisit items from a different perspective and +let new voices articulate their views and ideas in order to see the big picture. Long +term this can ensure that OpenStack keeps its adaptability to continue to be a +smoothly functioning ecosystem providing a stable and successful software package. + +In the course of my current role within the Foundation I continuously learn +about the goals and challenges of our ecosystem companies who are productifying, +distributing and operating OpenStack. As my current focus turns more towards Telecom +vendors and operators, and NFV and SDN related use cases I see this as an area, +where notwithstanding the already ongoing great work there is still room for further +improvements. As a former employee of a Telecom vendor during the past few years I +saw and experienced the difficulties and even pain of trying to find the common +language between the two groups and making the contributions happen. While the +situation is improving, I think it is very important to continue to help the Telecom +industry in the transformation to fit into the cloud terminology and the open source +era. By this process OpenStack can leverage the advantages that this completely +different set of priorities and requirements could offer, such as increased stability +and advanced networking functionality, like how it was demonstrated in Barcelona +during the keynotes [2]. + +I’ve been involved in OPNFV [3] for about two years now and I’m also one of the +ambassadors [4]. I’m continuously working on to find the connection points between +the two communities [7] to build a large ecosystem which fits OpenStack's current +priorities in the sense of actively supporting and being the foundation for NFV. As +part of the TC I would like to continue to help the ongoing joint activities to create +an interoperability test suite for the NFV area and have OPNFV’s CI system integrated +with OpenStack to get close to immediate feedback while developing new Telecom +and NFV related features. As the adoption of OpenStack in the Telecom area is +continuously growing and operators are looking at OpenStack as a main building +block for their systems, I would like to serve as a representative in the technical +driving force of OpenStack, who can operate as a translator to build a common +roadmap. + +During the past few years I’ve been driving the activities to add the volume +multi-attach functionality to Nova, which turned into a collaborative activity between +the two teams to simplify the interaction between the two services. By this work +we are increasing maintainability of the code bases and stability of the services. +Driven by the experiences of this work I see cross-project collaboration as an area, +to further improve. As part of the TC I would like to continue driving cross-project +activities, where I would like to help with making the interactions between the teams +more efficient to ensure end-to-end feature implementation and continuous code +maintenance and improvement. + +I’m also involved in the Upstream Institute activities to provide guidance to +newcomers to the community. As our community is a continuously changing +environment it is crucial to be welcoming and ensure we distribute the knowledge +about our services and code base while remaining open to transfer responsibilities +to newer community members. To help build and maintain this mindset, we are +building a liaison team to participate in the training activities while also have the +constant awareness of on-boarding new members to the teams. As a TC member I +would like to help the project teams to share and maintain this mindset to help the +contributor ecosystem to remain healthy and balanced and our teams to become +more efficient. As part of this mission I would continue to invest energy in bringing +sessions on stage at the OpenStack Summits[5][6] to share the lessons I learnt +during the past three and a half years. + +Thank you for reading through my thoughts. It is an honor to be part of OpenStack, +which is why I would like to take part in helping to further the efforts of providing a +package that can serve the whole industry and which is backed up by a growing +and smoothly functioning ecosystem. + +Thank you for your consideration. + +Best Regards, +Ildikó (ildikov) + + +[1] http://stackalytics.com/?release=all&user_id=ildiko-vancsa&metric=person-day +[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dvh8q5m9Ahk +[3] https://www.opnfv.org +[4] https://www.opnfv.org/community/ambassadors +[5] https://www.openstack.org/videos/paris-2014/tales-from-the-ship-navigating-the-openstack-community-seas +[6] https://www.openstack.org/videos/video/how-to-become-an-advanced-contributor +[7] https://www.openstack.org/summit/austin-2016/summit-schedule/events/7510 +