From 1ecf365010e3969ba9fe497af970435c5adb2cee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: John Griffith Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2016 22:25:39 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] Adding John Griffith candidacy for TC Change-Id: I9ba90439aeed435d38b9b9b281406cbfb982df30 --- candidates/ocata/TC/jgriffith.txt | 72 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 72 insertions(+) create mode 100644 candidates/ocata/TC/jgriffith.txt diff --git a/candidates/ocata/TC/jgriffith.txt b/candidates/ocata/TC/jgriffith.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000..c6c9f0a1 --- /dev/null +++ b/candidates/ocata/TC/jgriffith.txt @@ -0,0 +1,72 @@ +Hey Everyone, + +I'd like to announce my candidacy for a seat on the OpenStack Technical +comittee. + +Some of you may know me, I've been around the OpenStack community for a while +(longer than some, shorter than others). I'm not an "uber hipster", or a +"super cool bro-grammer", or even a "mega hacker" trying to write the most +clever code possible to impress everyone. + +I am however someone that has been contributing to OpenStack for about five +years now. Not only via code contributions, but services, support and +evangelism. I started the Cinder project with some great help from a few +other folks and did the best I could with that while forging ahead into +unknown territory. I use OpenStack on a daily basis in a number of private +clouds, have helped several average sized companies deploy and maintain +OpenStack clouds and have spent countless hours helping people get their +heads wrapped around the whole OpenStack Platform thing and how it might be +able solve some of their problems. + +I'm not going to try and claim that I have all the answers related to +OpenStack and the TC, in fact, I'm not even going to pretend to know what all +the questions are. I'm not going to tell you what a great person I am, or all +of my "great achievements" over the years. As we all know, people can write +up whatever wonderful things. People can say or write up just about anything +and promise the world without really having any idea what they're talking about. + +What I will say however, is that I believe OpenStack has changed dramatically +over the last few years. Some things for the better, some things... not so +much. While I think the past is extremely important for the experience it +gives, I think what's more important and critical is the future and where +OpenStack is going over the course of the next few years. + +OpenStack is a bit ambiguous for a lot of people that I talk to (both inside +and outside of the community). Even more unclear is what do we want to be in +another two years, three or even five? Do we want to just continue being a +platform that kinda looks like AWS or a "free" version of VMware? Do we want +our most popular topic at the key-notes to continue being customers telling +their story of "how hard" it was to do OpenStack? + +I think we're at an important cross-roads with respect to the future of +OpenStack. It's my belief that the TC has a great opportunity (with the +right people) to take input from the "outside world" and drive a meaningful +and innovative future for OpenStack. Maybe try and dampen the echo-chamber +a bit, see if we can identify some real problems that we can help real +customers solve. + +I'd like to see us embracing new technologies and ways of doing things. I'd +love to have a process where we don't care so much about the check boxes of +what oslo libs you do or don't use in a project, or how well you follow the +hacking rules; but instead does your project actually work? Can it actually +be deployed by somebody outside of the OpenStack community or with minimal +OpenStack experience? + +It's my belief that Projects should offer real value as stand-alone services +just as well as they do working with other OpenStack services. I should be +able to use them equally as well outside the eco-system as in side of it. +I believe the TC should consider driving issues like these and help guide the +future of OpenStack. + +If you like my philosophy (really that's all it is), or agree with it; I'd +love the opportunity to try and make some of this a reality. I can't promise +anything, except that I'll try to do what I believe is good for the community +(especially deployers and end-users). + +Feel free to ask me about my thoughts on anything specific, I'm happy to +answer any questions that I can as honestly as I can. + +Thanks, +John + +