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This is my announcement of candidacy for PTL of the Infrastructure project
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during the Newton cycle.
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With a background in Linux systems administration stretching back nearly a
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decade, I've been working on the Infrastructure team for just over three years
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and have spent the last year as core and root member of the team. Throughout my
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tenure on the team I've worked to support my fellow team mates and beyond
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through mentorship (including participation in formal programs like Outreachy)
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and one-on-one help with the components of our infrastructure. I've reached out
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and worked with teams like the i18n team to evaluate and determine how infra
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can support them.
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I've also spent a considerable amount of time through talks at conferences,
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articles and interviews sharing the mission, goals and innovative ways our
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operations team functions in an open fashion. I'm a firm believer in open
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source and very proud of how our team works. I have even started building
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relationships with other open source projects where they are adopting or have
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adopted an open model for infrastructure. I'm eager to see what we can learn
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from each other.
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I think we're in a very exciting time for the Infrastructure team. Our team is
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steadily growing with additional root and core members and we have projects
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like infra-cloud bringing in the interest and talents of even more contributors
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who bring a diversity of skills and backgrounds to our team. Additionally,
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efforts are continuing on projects like Zuulv3 to improve scalability and
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flexibility of our gating system, which is essential as the OpenStack community
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continues to grow. We're also continuing to make progress on the evaluation and
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launching of a new issue and task tracker. Making these and other projects feel
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supported and included is very important to me.
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My conversations with contributors, potential contributors and our downstreams
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over the past year has also made me keenly aware that effort by some of our
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team members could be well spent on our contribution story. Contributing to our
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Infrastructure team will never be easy, but my hope and belief is that there
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are ways we can make it a better experience with just some small adjustments.
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First we need data, so I'd like to solidly identify the pain points through
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discussion and candid feedback.
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Prior to and concurrent with my role on the infrastructure team, I spent six
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years on the Ubuntu Community Council, the community governance body for the
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Ubuntu project. Over this past cycle in the Infrastructure team I have worked
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with the current PTL, Jeremy Stanley, to fill in as meeting chair when he's
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unavailable and have assisted with some of the administrative work that keeps
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our team running.
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I have some big shoes to fill when reflecting on the excellent work and
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successes our past and current PTLs, but I am in a good position to handle the
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expectations and duties of Infrastructure PTL.
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I appreciate your consideration.
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Elizabeth K. Joseph (pleia2)
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