From fe726ce6344dce0435d74c726eff1e3652dccb38 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Samuel Cassiba Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2018 12:34:02 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Add TC candidacy for Samuel Cassiba Change-Id: Id8db5b8f3995dbb75a45dff003388b113d0ddb5a --- candidates/stein/TC/samuel@cassi.ba | 40 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 40 insertions(+) create mode 100644 candidates/stein/TC/samuel@cassi.ba diff --git a/candidates/stein/TC/samuel@cassi.ba b/candidates/stein/TC/samuel@cassi.ba new file mode 100644 index 00000000..7419b9d8 --- /dev/null +++ b/candidates/stein/TC/samuel@cassi.ba @@ -0,0 +1,40 @@ +Hello everybody, + +I am announcing my candidacy to be a member of the OpenStack Technical +Committee (TC). + +I have been involved in open source since I was a brash youth on the +Internet in the late 1990s, which amounts to over half my life at this +point. I am a self-taught individual, cutting my teeth on BSDs of the +period. I operated in that area for a number of years, becoming a +'shadow' maintainer under various pseudonyms. As time progressed, I +became comfortable attributing my work to my personal identity. o/ + +My direct involvement with OpenStack began during the Folsom release, as +an operator and deployer. I focused my efforts on automation, eventually +falling in with a crowd that likes puns and cooking references. In my +professional life, I have served as developer, operator, user, and +architect, which extends back to the birthplace of OpenStack. + +I am a founding member of Chef OpenStack[0], where I have dutifully +served as PTL for five releases. My community involvement also extends +outside the OpenStack ecosystem, where I serve as a member of Sous +Chefs[1], a group dedicated to the long-term care of critical Chef +community resources. + +Though my hands-on experience goes back several releases, I still view +things from the outside-looking-in perspective. Having the outsider +lens is crucial in the long-term for any consensus-driven group, +regardless of that consensus. + +Regardless of the election outcome, this is me taking steps to having a +larger involvement in the overall conversations that drive so much of +our daily lives. At the end of the day, we're all just groups of people +trying to do our jobs. I view this as an opportunity to give back to a +community that has given me so much. + +Thank you for your attention and consideration, +Samuel Cassiba (scas) + +[0] https://docs.openstack.org/openstack-chef/latest/ +[1] https://sous-chefs.org/