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Re: TC candidacy

 

I confirm that Michael is eligible to run for a seat on the TC.

On 03/15/2013 11:27 AM, Michael Still wrote:
> Hi. I'd like to run for the TC Spring 2013 election. I am a senior
> software engineer at Rackspace in their OpenStack group, and have
> worked in a variety of "cloud devops" roles for the last seven years.
> I think my operations experience gives me an interesting perspective
> into where OpenStack should be going in the next few years.
> 
> My basic platform is the same as for the Nova PTL election [1] -- I
> think we need to get better at closing bugs, and selecting defaults
> which work "out of the box" for OpenStack deployers. We are blessed
> with a very engaged user community, and we need to focus us much as
> possible on giving new users a good experience.
> 
> I am an active Nova and Oslo core reviewer and frequently appear in
> the top ten contributors for Nova in a given month. I am a very active
> code reviewer, especially for Nova. I am also serve on the OpenStack
> Vulnerability Management Team. I strongly believe in the future of
> OpenStack and want to be part of that success in any way I can. For
> the last two years my non-OpenStack open source contributions have
> mainly been as Director for linux.conf.au 2013, which was the largest
> OpenStack event to be run in Australia so far.
> 
> Thanks,
> Michael
> 
> 1: http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2013-March/006417.html
> 
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