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I am announcing my candidacy for a position on the OpenStack Technical
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Committee.
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I am currently employed by HP to work 100% upstream on OpenStack. I
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started contributing to OpenStack in 2012, not long after joining
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Dreamhost. In the time since, I have worked on a wide variety of
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projects within the community. I am one of the founding members of the
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Ceilometer and unified command line projects. I am also part of the
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team working on the Python 3 transition, and have contributed to
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several of the infrastructure projects. I formally joined the Release
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Management team at the start of Liberty, and have been working on
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updating processes and tools to make releases easier for all project
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teams. I will be PTL of the Release Management team for the Mitaka
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cycle. I served as PTL for the Oslo project for three terms, and I
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have served on the Technical Committee for the last two years. In
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addition to my technical contributions, I helped to found and still
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help to organize the OpenStack meetup group in Atlanta, Georgia.
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I characterize most of my recent work as enabling others in the
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community. As Oslo PTL I helped the team complete its transition from
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copy-and-paste sharing to true shared libraries by creating new
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processes and tools. Ceilometer was one of the earliest projects to
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need to interact with a significant number of the other projects at a
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code level, and my experience on that team led me to establish the
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Oslo liaison program when we recognized a similar need as adoption of
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Oslo libraries expanded. That pattern has been reused by many of the
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other cross-project teams to establish formal lines of communication
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to address our community’s growth. The self-service release review
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tools the release management and infrastructure teams are building now
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are another effort to remove process bottlenecks by enabling project
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teams to manage their own releases.
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During my past terms on the TC, I worked to find compromise positions
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and clarity, incorporating the views of other committee members while
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tempering them with my own. Several times I wrote the first draft of
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policy changes on contentious topics, moving abstract arguments to
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discussions of concrete terms. This was especially true for the shift
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from the incubation to “big tent” governance models late in 2014. I
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prepared several alternate versions of the policy changes before an
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approach was found that appealed to all committee members. Iteration
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for the win.
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All of these experiences have given me a unique cross-project
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perspective into OpenStack, and reinforced for me the importance of
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communication between project teams to smooth out the integration
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points and remove friction. Improving communication and cross-project
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efforts is a key role for the Technical Committee. For example, during
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Mitaka I will be working to support the interoperability goals of the
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community by ensuring the DefCore committee have and understand all of
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the input from project contributors to set the right technical
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direction, and that the contributors in turn understand the issues
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raised from within the DefCore committee so we can add or modify
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features to improve interoperability between OpenStack deployments.
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The OpenStack community is the most exciting and welcoming group I
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have interacted with in more than 20 years of contributing to open
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source projects. I'm looking forward to continuing to being a part of
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the community and serving the project.
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Thank you,
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Doug
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Review history: https://review.openstack.org/#/q/reviewer:2472,n,z
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Commit history: https://review.openstack.org/#/q/owner:2472,n,z
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Stackalytics: http://stackalytics.com/?user_id=doug-hellmann
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Foundation: http://www.openstack.org/community/members/profile/359
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OpenHUB: https://www.openhub.net/accounts/doughellmann
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Freenode: dhellmann
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Website: https://doughellmann.com
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