Dear all,

I'm announcing my candidacy for a position on the OpenStack Technical
Committee.

I'm Rico Lin. I have been in this community since 2014. And been
deeply involved with technical contributions [1], I start from working
with heat, which allows me to work on integration and management resources
from multiple projects.
I have served as Heat PTL for two years. Which allows me to learn
better on how we can join users and operators' experiences and requirements
and integrated with development workflow and technical decision processes.


Here are my major goals with this seat in TC:
* Cross-community integrations (K8s, CloudFoundry, Ceph, OPNFV)
* Provide guidelines
* Strong the structure of SIGs
* Application Infra
* Cross-cooperation between Users, Operators, and Developers
* Diversity

I'm already trying to put my goals to actions, still would really hope to join
Technical Committee to bring more attention to those domains and get more
actions taken.

And of couse to take fully responsible for all TC's responsibilities besides
above goals.

Thank you for your consideration.

Best Regards,
Rico Lin (ricolin)
IRC: ricolin
Twitter: @ricolintw
https://www.openstack.org/community/members/profile/33346/rico-lin
http://stackalytics.com/?release=all&user_id=rico-lin&metric=person-day


Here I put some explanations for my goals:

- Cross-community integrations (K8s, CloudFoundry, Ceph, OPNFV):
This is a long-term goal for our community, but would really like to see this
getting more scenario for use cases, and a more clear target for development.
As we talk about Edge, AI, etc. It's essential to bring real use cases
into this integration( like StarlingX bring some requirements cross-projects
to real use cases).
On the other hand, K8s SIG, Self-healing SIG, FEMDC SIG are all some nice
place for this kind of interacting and integrating to happen.
We also just start auto scaling SIG, which will also make a good candidate
to achieve such missing too.


- Provide unified guidelines and features:
We now have `Guidelines for Organisations Contributing to OpenStack` [4].
This is something I believe is quite important for showing how can
organizations interacting with OpenStack community correctly. I try to work
on the same goal from event to event as well (give presentations like [5]).
There are some other guidelines that need to update/renew as well (most of us,
who already reading ML and work in the community for long, might no longer
require to read guidelines, but remember, whoever try to join now a day, still
require an up-to-date guideline to give them hints).
To have unified guidelines (and even features), allows whoever lose track with
communiy, can come back easily. Also it's confused for users and ops when they
try to figure out how they can achieve a task (like doing auto-scaling) in
OpenStack. And I pretty sure it's pice of cake for experienced ops, as much as
I'm pretty sure it is very possible for other ops to encounter with a lot of
confusion.


- Strong the structure of SIGs/WGs:
As I show in above two goals, SIGs/WGs plays some important roles. I do like to
trigger discussions on how can we strengthen the structure of SIGs. Make them
more efficient and become someplace for users and ops can directly interact with
developers. For real use cases like an Edge computing use case issue, or an
atomatic healing service issue. I can't think of a better place than FEMDC SIG
and Self-healing SIG to record and target these issues. We might be able to
allow Opts to feedback issues on SIG's StoryBoard and ask project teams to
connect and review with it. There might be multiple ways to do this. So
would really like to trigger this discussion. On the other hand, for some other
task that don't require much long-term tracking. We will definitely have some
way for all to easily start their communication, tests and development
(like the `pop-up team` Thierry Carrez currently proposing). Which (IMO) will
not have to deal with structure set up at all.


- Application Infra:
We've updated our resolution with [3] and saying we care about what
applications needs on top of OpenStack. As for jobs from few projects are
taking the role and thinking about what application needs, we should provide
help with setting up community goals, making resolutions, or define what are
top priority applications (can be a short-term definition) we need to focus on
and taking action items/guidelines and finding weaknesses, so others from
the community can follow (if they agree with the goals, but got no idea on what
they can help, IMO this will be a good stuff).

- Cross-cooperation between Users, Operators, and Developers:
We have been losing some communication cross Users, Operators, and Developers.
And it's never a good thing when users can share use cases, ops shares
experiences, developers shares code, but they won't make it to one another not
if a user provides developers by them self. In this case, works like StoryBoard
should be in our first priority. We need a more solid way to bring user feedback
to developers, so we can actually learn what's working or not for each
feature. And maybe it's considerable, to strengthen the communication between
TCs and UCs (User Committee). We take some steps (like merge PTG and
Ops-meetup) to this goal, but I believe we can make the interacting more active.

- Diversity:
I have a long term question here. So how can you encourge people from the
entire global to vote, and to care about some technology is relatively
stable and old?
It's not just about we're losing attractiveness (which is normal for any open
source at the end), but also we're not as friendly as we think on globalization
issue. If a new non-native developers cames in, do we actually expect him/she
to be able to know what to vote, where are resources, what's the best way to
trigger a cross-project idea?
To try to bridge up across user group and technical team across global is not
just something TC should be doing, but IMO TC definitely have their
responsibility and roles in it.
As for the reason why I should join, well...
The math is easy. [2] shows we got around one-third of users from Asia (with 
75% of users in China). Also IIRC, around the same percentage of developers.
But we got 0 in TC. The actual works are hard. We need forwards our
technical guideline to developers in Asia and provide chances to get more
feedback from them, so we can provide better technical resolutions which
should be able to tight developers all together. Which I think I'm a good
candidate for this.


[1] http://stackalytics.com/?release=all&user_id=rico-lin&metric=person-day
[2] https://www.openstack.org/assets/survey/OpenStack-User-Survey-Nov17.pdf
[3] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/447031/5/resolutions/20170317-cloud-applications-mission.rst
[4] https://docs.openstack.org/contributors/organizations/index.html
[5] https://www.slideshare.net/GuanYuLin1/embrace-community-embrace-a-better-life