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Dear OpenStack users and developers,
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I'm re-submitting my candidacy for a position in the OpenStack TC for the
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upcoming 6 months.
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I believe that being involved in many facets surrounding OpenStack makes me
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a good candidate to be a member of the technical committee.
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On one of the most important sides, the community: I have spoken to countless
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users, potential users of OpenStack and continue to have conversations about
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why users choose OpenStack and the reason why they do not want to use it. I
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think having this external feedback is extremely beneficial in order to take
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the best decisions, as those users are impacted by our very decisions.
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At the same time, thinking about developers who work hard on our community
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to produce the awesome technology we work on: I have personally been one of
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them and continue to be one of them. I have started contributing to OpenStack
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since 2011 across many projects and I am the current PTL for the Puppet
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OpenStack team. In addition, I continue to assist and fix any issues that I
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see at hand, helping out the infrastructure team when needed as well.
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Finally, one of the critical points is deployers: I have architected, operated
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and deployed our public cloud with OpenStack since 2011, in addition to many
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other private cloud deployments. Our public cloud has a long history, having
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started it's life early and undergone many upgrades. I have personally
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overseen all those upgrades and brought feedback directly back to projects
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as well as including bug fixes for the projects.
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I believe strong leadership comes from setting an example. With the involvement
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in the community, working with the developers and being a deployer myself that
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contributes back, I believe that it puts me in a unique position to understand
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many parts of the equation that helps us take the best decisions in order to
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have a sustainable technical future for the OpenStack projects.
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I strongly believe that we have the most solid fundamental infrastructure
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software at the moment. However, I think that the focus should increase in
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working with other external communities which depend on infrastructure to
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increase our implementations. For example, working with Kubernetes in order
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to strengthen the cloud providers and perhaps get even more integration features
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such as auto-scaling. This will solidify OpenStack as the best set of
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infrastructure services in the market.
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In addition, I believe that we should put more effort and try to encourage
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more work on projects which abstract existing complicated software into a
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service. The few projects that come into mind are Magnum (deploying container
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orchestration services) and Sahara (big data platforms). Those projects can
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help make OpenStack a single centralized unit where users can get infrastructure
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but easy access to services, on-demand, built with best practices and integrated
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with the external tools as explained in the paragraph above.
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As I continue from my past nomination email which I do believe strongly in, I
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think that we need to work to solidify OpenStack for new use cases such as
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edge computing. By encouraging our developers to keep this new use cases for
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our users, I think that we can spark a big new interest in the OpenStack
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platform in general as the ideal place to host your workloads.
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For me, OpenStack is a wonderful community filled with awesome people who are
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all extremely supportive of each other and work together. I am extremely
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proud to be part of this wonderful community and I hope that by becoming an
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elected TC, I can help the success of all OpenStack projects from my experience.
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Thank you very much for taking the time to read this and I wish the best of
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luck to all other candidates.
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Regards,
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Mohammed Naser
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