Merge "Add Sylvain Bauza candidacy for TC"

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+Howdy folks,
+
+I wasn't thinking to provide my name for the TC election but unfortunately I
+only see a very few proposals that makes me a bit afraid. Given I love
+OpenStack and I think the Technical Comittee is more important than my personal
+values, I throw my hat now in the ring.
+
+In case you don't know me, I'm Sylvain Bauza (bauzas on IRC), working on
+OpenStack since... wow, 6 years already ? In 2013, I was an operator for a SME
+company when I wanted to use some cloud for our CI and our developers and I
+discovered OpenStack. After 6 months working on it as an operator, I knew it
+would be my new life for more than what I know. I moved to another company and
+became a developer creating a new project which was named Climate. You probably
+know about this project if I tell you the new name : Blazar. Yeah, Blazar is 6
+years old too and I'm super happy to see this project be now important with new
+companies and developers on it.
+After 1 year on it, I changed again my position and became a Nova developer,
+eventually becoming nova-core. Time flies and now I'm still there, happy with
+what OpenStack became. Of course, it changed. Of course, we have less.
+But honestly, I haven't seen more operators using it previously than now, which
+means that we succeeded as a team to make OpenStack useful for our users.
+
+I will be honest and say that I now work more on downstream for our customers
+than upstream with the Nova community. If you see my upstream involment, it
+slowly decreased from the last cycles but don't think I'm out of the band.
+After all, that means that people use our code, right? Also, that doesn't
+necessarly mean that I'll stop working upstream, it's just a balance that needs
+to be challenged, and be sure that if I'm a TC member, I'll take care of this
+balance.
+
+Enough words about me. I guess you're more interested in knowing about what I
+think is important for a TC membership. Well, I have a few opinions.
+
+ - first, OpenStack is used from startups with a few servers to large cloud
+ providers with +200K hosts. That's where we succeeded as projects. I think
+ it's very important to make sure that service projects run from 0 to X
+ smoothly and make it a priority if not.
+
+ - secondly, the user experience is very important when it comes to talk to
+ service projects. Having consistent and versioned APIs is important, albeit
+ also client usage. We have microversions in place, but the story isn't fully
+ done yet.
+
+ - thirdly, I think we won the complexity game. Deploying OpenStack is now
+ smoothier than before, but there are still bumps on the road, and I think
+ the TC is the place to arbitrate between the understandable will of having
+ more and the reasonable concern about upgrades and deployment concerns.
+
+ Those three items aren't exhaustive of course. We all have opinions and I'm
+ just one of the many. By the way, if you read up to here, ask yourself :
+ if you care about OpenStack, why wouldn't you propose your name too ?
+
+Thanks,
+-Sylvain