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Gerrit username: aotto IRC Nick: adrian_otto Change-Id: Ib33ec25ef2a8469a481550a8ade19dcfd0e035d1
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I am announcing my candidacy for a seat on the OpenStack Technical
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Committee. My name is Adrian Otto, and I've had the honor of
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working on and with OpenStack since it was conceived. Since our
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first Design Summit on July 13-16 2010, I have been thrilled to be
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a part of our movement together. We have come a long way since
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then, from a hopeful open source project with our friends at
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Rackspace and NASA to a thriving global community that has set the
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definitive standard for cloud software.
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Over the past seven years, I have viewed OpenStack as my primary
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pursuit. I love our community, and the way we embrace the “four
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opens”. Along this journey, I have done my very best to push the
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limits of our innovative spirit, and pursue new and exciting ways
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of using software defined systems to make possible what we could
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have only imagined when we started. I have served our community as
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an innovator and as a PTL for the good part of the past 5 years. I
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served as the founding PTL of OpenStack Solum, and pivoted to
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become the founding PTL of OpenStack Magnum. I currently serve in
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this role today. Each of these project pursuits were aimed at
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making OpenStack technology more easily automated, more efficient,
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and combining it with cutting edge new technologies.
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I am now ready to embark on a wider mission. I’m prepared to
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transition leadership of Magnum to my esteemed team members, and
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pursue a role with the OpenStack TC to have an even more profound
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impact on our future success. I have a unique perspective on
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OpenStack governance, by repeatedly using our various processes and
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applying our rules, guidelines, and values as they have evolved to
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I deeply respect the OpenStack community, our TC, and their
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respective membership. I look forward to serving in an expanded
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role, and helping to make OpenStack even better than it is today.
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I will support efforts to:
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1) Make OpenStack a leading platform for running the next generation
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of cloud native applications. This means making sensible and secure
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ways of allowing our data plane and control plane systems to
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integrate. For example, OpenStack should be just as good at
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running container workloads as it is for running bare metal and
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virtualized ones. Our applications should be able to self heal,
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scale, and dynamically interact with our clouds in a way that’s
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safe and effective.
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2) Expand our support for languages beyond Python. Over the past
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year, our TC has taken productive steps in this direction, and I
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would like to further advance this work so that we can introduce
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software written in other languages, such as Golang, in a way
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that’s supportable and appropriate for our community’s growing
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needs.
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3) Advocate for inclusivity and diversity, not only for software
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languages but for contributors from all corners of the Earth. I
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feel it’s important to consider perspectives from various
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geographies, cultures, and of course from each gender. I want to
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maintain a welcoming destination where both novice and veteran
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contributors will thrive.
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4) Continue our current work on our “One Platform” pursuit, and help
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to refine which of our teams should remain in openstack, and which
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should not. I will also work to contribute to documenting our
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culture and systems and clearly defining “how we work”. For an
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example of this, see how we recently did this within the Magnum
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team [1]. We can borrow from these ideas and re-use the ones that
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are generally useful. This reference should give you a sense of
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what we can accomplish together.
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I respectfully ask for your vote and support to pursue this next
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ambition, and I look forward to the honor of serving you well.
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Thanks,
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Adrian Otto
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[1] https://docs.openstack.org/developer/magnum/policies.html
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