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Hello,
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My name is James Gu and I'd like to announce my candidacy for election to
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the Airship Technical Committee.
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I've been in technical lead/product owner role within SUSE cloud group. Most
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recently, I was leading a team to develop an Airship based technology preview
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of SUSE OpenStack Cloud integrating with SUSE Container as a Service Platform
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and SUSE Enterprise Storage. Prior to that, I led the SUSE OpenStack
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monitoring, metering and logging team, contributing to projects such as
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Monasca. My involvement in cloud computing and OpenStack started much earlier
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while I was at Hewlett Packard, in many areas from orchestration to disaster
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recovery.
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In Airship 1.0, my team has primarily focused on enabling multi-distro support
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in Airship. Working with AT&T and the rest of the Airship and OpenStack Helm
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community, we believe multi-distro support is critical to help expand the
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Airship user base and avoid lock-in. We have involved in projects such as
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Armada, Shipyard, Deckhand, Pegleg and Treasuremap.
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I am a strong advocate for Airship as the foundation for software defined
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infrastructure. One of the key things SUSE believes in is making open source
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easier for everyone. Airship makes it easier for enterprises to build highly
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available cloud environment, and to upgrade, manage and maintain those
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environments to ensure that business critical applications are able to meet
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their business demands for both speed an availability.
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If I am elected, I am going to bring the perspective from a Linux distro
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company, our use cases within Airship, to ensure it meets the needs of SUSE's
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diverse customer base. SUSE is committed to the successes of Airship 2.0, and
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delivery of containerized OpenStack on Airship 2.0. I will also champion
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Airship within SUSE. Investigating and integrating Cluster API and Metal3 in
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Airship 2.0 is of much interest and business importance to me as SUSE looks to
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expand Airship use as the foundation from software payload to baremetal,
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network, storage and Kubernetes. SUSE team, and myself personally, are very
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excited at the opportunity of collaborating and contributing more in the 2.0
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roadmap, key features, UI, and helping Airship grow into OpenStack foundation.
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Thank you in advance for your consideration.
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James Gu
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