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Change-Id: I8bc8407dbc450c10598fdde5cea7f0a4be96c792 Signed-off-by: Graham Hayes <gr@ham.ie>
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Hello Everyone,
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I have been a member of the TC for 2 terms now, and I am running again for
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another term on the TC.
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I have been involved in OpenStack as a developer, operator, PTL, and TC member
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for a long time, and I think that I can continue to contribute to the community
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on the TC.
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I worked as the technical lead for the System Operations team in Verizon Cloud
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Platform, where we ran 90+ OpenStack installs across the world, ranging from
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3 compute micro regions where we needed edge style compute, to much larger
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footprints for core regions in the US. This gave me a unique viewpoint on how
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people use OpenStack for both small scale, and for large, real time mission
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critical telecommunications applications.
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Further back in my career, I was part of a team that ran the DNSaaS service in
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HP Cloud (based on Designate of course), which combined with my current role
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in Azure, where I am looking at how people use both on prem and external
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clouds, gives me a good insight into the needs of a cloud provider.
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My main focus over the last term has been trying to get a co-ordinated way for
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organizations to contribute to OpenStack - Graham's soap box at the Board
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face to face meetings has become a regular event. Thankfully, I think this
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has helped push this forward, and I know I have seen people getting involved
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in the projects I keep an eye on.
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I have also been involved in the design discussions around `Project Teapot`_
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which I think is a great way for OpenStack to help people scale and manage
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their data centers, while providing the services modern applications are
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starting to use. I firmly believe that something like Teapot is an important
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focus of development for OpenStack.
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I think the new `ideas repo`_ is a fantastic idea and encourage people to put
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what ever they think is a good idea for OpenStack in there. I will definitely
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be putting up some of the ideas I have talked about over the years in there.
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As a long time PTL of a project I know the pressures they can be under and can
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provide insight as we consider the future governance of the OpenStack project,
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and its sub projects.
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This has given me a lot of historical knowledge and context to why some things
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within our community are the way they are, and as we record this to avoid
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needing something as unreliable as a human brain (rst is a lot better :) ) I
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feel I can contribute to the discussion.
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Finally, I feel that over the years I have made it clear that I will speak out
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even if I know it will cause push back, and this has allowed me to receive
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frank and honest feedback from people in community who don't always wish to
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spend the mental energy, or pay the social tax of raising topics that can be
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controversial. I don't plan on changing this.
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Lastly, I have really enjoyed working in this community, it has given me a lot
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both personally and professionally, and I feel that I can still pay that back.
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If you agree, please vote for me in the up coming elections, if not please
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ask me questions in the next week or so, but for everyone, please vote for
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whoever you think will be the best for OpenStack.
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Thanks for taking the time to read this,
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- Graham
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.. _Project Teapot: https://governance.openstack.org/ideas/ideas/teapot/index.html
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.. _ideas repo: https://opendev.org/openstack/ideas |