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[John Griffith <john.griffith@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

For the many folks that don't know me, my name is John Griffith and I'd
like to announce my candidacy for Cinder PTL.

Qualifications:

I've been an active contributor to Nova since November of 2011, starting
out as many by adding a driver, but then began helping out anywhere and
everywhere I could. IRC questions/conversations, assigning bugs to myself
etc.  In addition I've been involved in multiple conversations with
customers interested in OpenStack and have been acting as an OpenStack
evangelist to a number of both small and large companies looking to deploy
OpenStack in public and private clouds.


Contribution over the last six months:

During the last summit I lead conversations around the idea of Cinder and
organized the effort to kick off the project. Since then I've been acting
as interim PTL for the Cinder project and have successfully driven the
effort to promote Cinder to core status as an OpenStack project. I'm
continually learning, and absolutely love doing the work!

While it's been a learning experience I have been fulfilling the
responsibilities or PTL, and dedicated every day to the success of the
project. I'm passionate about the success of Cinder and believe it has vast
potential and is critically important to OpenStack as a whole.


Most critical aspects for Cinder in the next 6 months:

The next six months are going to be defining for Cinder. The most important
thing is going to be showing a smooth transition from Nova-Volume to Cinder
is possible. There's a lot of concern regarding this subject and it's
something that I keep in mind with any change/fix or addition to the code.
Aside from the initial release, the critical aspects for Grizzly are going
to be gain momentum in terms of visibility and participation, focus on
quality and provide new features. Quality is my number one priority, and I
think there is a lot of potential to harden the core code in the project
and greatly improve the user experience as well as capabilities.


Philosophical ideas regarding being a PTL:

There are of course all of the items listed in the being a PTL guide. In
addition however I think it is very important for a PTL to be accessible in
a multitude of ways. This includes questions, helping people that want to
get involved with OpenStack and most of all listening to ideas/input. One
of the things that makes Open Source work is the vast pool of ideas and
suggestions from various views and backgrounds, keeping an open mind and
constantly challenging existing paradigms leads to a better project.
I believe it's crucial to build a strong core team, listen to input from
users, storage vendors and other developers and make something that is
truly better than anything else that's out there. I don't believe we should
strive to offer the *same* functionality as other cloud platforms, but
offer something that is MUCH better!



If you have any questions or there are any further details I can provide
don't hesitate to ask.

Thanks,
John

email:    john.griffith@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
irc:        jgriffith