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Juno TC Candidacy

Post author:mikal
Post published:April 16, 2014
Post category:OpenStack

Another email archived for historical reasons. I'd also like to announce my TC candidacy. I am currently a member of the TC, and I would like to continue to serve. I first started hacking on Nova during the Diablo release, with my first code contributions appearing in the Essex release. Since then I've hacked mostly on Nova and Oslo, although I have also contributed to many other projects as my travels have required. For example, I've tried hard to keep various projects in sync with their imports of parts of Oslo I maintain. I work full time on OpenStack at Rackspace, leading a team of developers who work solely on upstream open source OpenStack. I am a Nova and Oslo core reviewer and the Nova PTL. I have been serving on the TC for the last year, and in the Icehouse release started acting as the liaison for the board "defcore" committee along with Anne Gentle. "defcore" is the board effort to define what parts of OpenStack we require vendors to ship in order to be able to use the OpenStack trade mark, so it involves both the board and the TC. That liaison relationship is very new and only…

Juno Nova PTL Candidacy

Post author:mikal
Post published:March 30, 2014
Post category:OpenStack

This is a repost of an email to the openstack-dev list, which is mostly here for historical reasons. Hi. I would like to run for the OpenStack Compute PTL position as well. I have been an active nova developer since late 2011, and have been a core reviewer for quite a while. I am currently serving on the Technical Committee, where I have recently been spending my time liaising with the board about how to define what software should be able to use the OpenStack trade mark. I've also served on the vulnerability management team, and as nova bug czar in the past. I have extensive experience running Open Source community groups, having served on the TC, been the Director for linux.conf.au 2013, as well as serving on the boards of various community groups over the years. In Icehouse I hired a team of nine software engineers who are all working 100% on OpenStack at Rackspace Australia, developed and deployed the turbo hipster third party CI system along with Joshua Hesketh, as well as writing nova code. I recognize that if I am successful I will need to rearrange my work responsibilities, and my management is supportive of that. The…

Havana Nova PTL elections

Post author:mikal
Post published:March 14, 2013
Post category:OpenStack

This is just a quick reminder that there are only a couple more days to vote in the Nova PTL elections for the Havana cycle. If you're eligible to vote, you should have a voting URL in your email. The candidates: Russell Bryant -- announcement Michael Still -- announcement The incumbent PTL, Vishvananda Ishaya, has chosen not to run.