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[election] [tc] TC Candidacy
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I wish to submit my candidacy for election to the OpenStack Technical
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Committee. I have never been elected to the Technical Committee before
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but, I have never believed that being elected is a requirement to
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participate in the deliberations. I have therefore been a frequent
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participant and a consistent follower of the activities of the TC.
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My focus on the TC would be (consistent with prior candidacies for the
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TC) to make it easier for people to deploy and use OpenStack, and make
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it easier for people to get involved in, participate, and contribute
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to OpenStack.
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I have been an active technical contributor to OpenStack for about
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four years[1], involved in Trove for that entire period of time. I have
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been the PTL for Trove for three cycles (Newton, Ocata and Pike). I
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was reelected for Queen but at the PTG that position was transitioned
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over to another member of the team[2] as I move my focus to a new DBaaS
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implementation for OpenStack (tenantively named Hoard).
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During these four years, I have been involved in a number of the
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initiatives of the TC including most significantly the Stewardship
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Working Group which began the process of writing the TC Vision
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document. I attended the first of the Stewardship training sessions in
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Michigan where the idea of the cross-project goals was conceived of
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(by Doug Hellmann and others), an initiative that I am strongly
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supportive of.
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I have also been active in activities to improve the overall
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participation in OpenStack, through mentorship, outreach to
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educational institions. This is a key aspect of my current role,
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employed at Verizon Wireless in the team that has built, and operates
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one of the largest OpenStack deployments around. The team now includes
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Brian Rosmaita, and Graham Hayes, and we are actively hiring more
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contributors to the team.
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I thank you for reading, and appreciate your vote.
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[1] http://stackalytics.com/?release=all&metric=commits&user_id=amrith
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[2] http://openstack.markmail.org/thread/txurdd5bhbzsebtq
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