From e84e3f92dbb4324b754dc4eec701268b87565450 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ildiko Vancsa Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2016 01:59:13 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Adding Ildiko Vancsa candidacy for TC IRC nick: ildikov Change-Id: I16b51d8352abadb34b6ec35462f7ac1c835256b9 --- candidates/newton/TC/Ildiko_Vancsa.txt | 90 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 90 insertions(+) create mode 100644 candidates/newton/TC/Ildiko_Vancsa.txt diff --git a/candidates/newton/TC/Ildiko_Vancsa.txt b/candidates/newton/TC/Ildiko_Vancsa.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000..985002fb --- /dev/null +++ b/candidates/newton/TC/Ildiko_Vancsa.txt @@ -0,0 +1,90 @@ +Hi All, + +I would like to throw my hat in the ring to be part of the OpenStack Technical +Committee. + +I'm working at Ericsson, where I'm coordinating the OpenStack related activities +across the company. I started to contribute to OpenStack more than two years ago +by adding rich query functionality to Ceilometer. Since then I got nominated as +a core reviewer in the project, where beyond other contributions, I became the +constant voice of usability aspects and backward compatibility. Among other +projects I'm contributing to Nova and OpenStack Manuals as well[1]. + +I would like to increase diversity in the TC group, but more importantly my +goal is to add fresh blood to the forum driving this community. In my +opinion it is very important 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 just as being a stable and +successful software package. + +In the course of my current role within Ericsson I encourage and follow the +contribution activities of my colleagues, by which I have a good oversight on +how OpenStack works as a community. Driven by my colleagues' and my own +experiences I see cross-project collaboration as an area, where notwithstanding +the already ongoing great work there is still room for further improvements. As +part of the TC I would like to participate in driving cross-project activities, +where I plan to focus on the on-boarding aspects. In my opinion it is very +important to spend time educating newcomers and helping to rapidly build up +competencies regarding processes likewise in the realm of technology and +coding abilities and guidelines. As part of this mission I would continue to +invest energy in bringing sessions on stage at the OpenStack Summits[2][3] to +share the lessons I learnt during the past two and a half years. It is key to +explain to people how the community really works beyond the well-documented +processes and tools that we are using every day. The devil is in the details, as +always. + +I mentioned adaptability earlier, which I feel being a very important aspect as +it outlines the ability to constantly change when needed. In my view operating +OpenStack as Big Tent is a good approach, although I think it is important to +check the principles and review criteria to evaluate the new project +candidates to rationalize the current review process. I also got the impression +that the idea behind the tags is being devalued due to proliferation. I have +similar feelings regarding governance on project level. In my view it is very +important to give guidelines on how the teams can efficiently operate, but it is +time consuming and destroys the focus of the TC to spend much energy on giving +detailed descriptions and regulations on how these groups should work within +OpenStack. Among others I would like to revisit the aforementioned items to make +the responsibilities and activities of the TC more clear and make the group even +more efficient. + +As an employee of a Telecom vendor I would like to bring in the NFV mindset to +OpenStack to be part of the daily discussions as opposed to being a mysterious +abbreviation that introduces competing priorities. 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. I think it +is very important 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. + +I'm involved in OPNFV[4] and it is part of my mission to find the connection +points between the two communities[5] to build a large ecosystem which fits +OpenStack's current priorities[6] in the sense of actively supporting and being +the foundation for NFV. As a benefit for us we can use the test environment and +test frameworks to see how OpenStack operates in a fully integrated environment +on top of different hardware platforms. OPNFV brings integration and functional +testing to a different level which is an important feedback to our community and +a good checkpoint to our users. As more and more Telecom operators are looking +at OpenStack as a main building block of 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. + +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 bringing this community +further to provide 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.openstack.org/summit/openstack-paris-summit-2014/session-videos/presentation/tales-from-the-ship-navigating-the-openstack-community-seas +[3] https://www.openstack.org/summit/austin-2016/summit-schedule/events/8065 +[4] https://www.opnfv.org +[5] https://www.openstack.org/summit/austin-2016/summit-schedule/events/7510 +[6] http://www.openstack.org/assets/telecoms-and-nfv/OpenStack-Foundation-NFV-Report.pdf \ No newline at end of file