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[Monty Taylor <mordred@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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

On 03/15/2013 07:08 PM, Carl Perry wrote:
> Greetings -
> 
> I would like to run for a TC seat as well. My platform is a focus on
> deployment and operations for OpenStack. I'm not going to mince words:
> deploying OpenStack is hard. Maintaining it is even harder. I don't
> think it needs to be this way. I spent two years designing and deploying
> a cloud based on OpenStack and it really seemed much harder to do than
> it should have been, especially when you factor in configuration
> management tools.
> 
> I would like to promote a more operational approach to the decisions
> made inside the OpenStack community. Some of it is easy, some of it is
> hard. I don't expect things to change overnight, but I do feel that a
> course correction is needed, that it's going to need to come from a
> whole project approach as well as code contribution, and that now is the
> time to make it.
> 
> As I said, I spent the last two years as an implementor of OpenStack
> with the DreamCompute project at DreamHost and have now moved on to a
> new position as a solutions architect at Midokura. These positions have
> given (and continue to give) me a customer perspective of what it takes
> to deploy, maintain, and upgrade OpenStack in production. While my
> company supports me and my desire to run for the TC, I'm running
> independent of my company in order to keep a vendor neutral approach.
> 
> Thanks for your time!
>   -Carl
> 
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