Add TC candidacy for Ghanshyam Mann

Change-Id: I9b8bf8ffe2fbf5affd9f83848f3d1e815f099275

candidates/stein/TC/gmann@ghanshyammann.com

@@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
+Hi All,
+
+I’d like to announce my candidacy for OpenStack Technical Committee position.
+
+I am glad to work in OpenStack community and would like to thank all the
+contributors/leaders who supported me to explore new things which brings
+out my best for the community.
+
+Let me introduce myself, briefly. I have joined the OpenStack community
+since 2012 as operator and started as full time upstream contributor since
+2014 during mid of Ice-House release. Currently, I am PTL for the QA Program
+since the Rocky cycle and active contributor in QA projects and Nova. Also I
+have been randomly contributing in many other projects specially on Tempest
+plugins for bug fix and tempest compatibility changes.
+
+Along with that, I am actively involved in programs helping new contributors
+in OpenStack. 1. As mentor in the Upstream Institute Training since Barcelona
+Summit (Oct 2016)[1] 2. FirstContact SIG [2] to help new contributors to onboard
+in OpenStack. It's always a great experience to introduce OpenStack upstream
+workflow to new contributors and encourage them to start contribution. I feel
+that is very much needed in OpenStack because of current movement of experience
+contributors.
+
+TC direction has always been valuable and result oriented in technical debt or
+efforts towards Diversity of community. This kind of work/position never been easy
+task specially in such a big community like OpenStack. By observing the TC work
+from past couple of years, I am very much motivated to help in this direction in
+order to contribute more towards cross projects and collaboration among projects
+or people.
+
+Below are the key areas I would like to Focus as TC:
+
+* Share Project teams work for Common Goals:  Every cycle we have TC goals and some
+  future direction where all the projects needs to start working. Projects try to do
+  their best in that but big challenge for them is resource bandwidth. In Current
+  situation, It is very hard for projects teams to accommodate those work by themselves.
+  Project team are shrinking and key members are overloaded. My Idea is to form a
+  temporary team of contributors under Goal champion and finish those common area work
+  during starting of cycle (so that we can make sure to finish the work well on time and
+  test throughout the cycle). That temporary team can be formed with volunteers from any
+  project team or new part time contributors with help of OUI or FirstContact SIG etc.
+
+* Cross-project and cross-community testing: I would like to work more on collaboration
+  of testing effort across projects and community. We have plugins approach for testing
+  in OpenStack and I agree that which is not perfect at this stage. I would like to work
+  on more collaboration and guidelines to improve that area.  From QA team point of view,
+  I would like QA team to do more collaborative work for all the projects for their proper
+  testing.  And further, extend the testing collaboration among adjacent communities.
+
+* Encourage new leaders:  new contributors and so new leaders are much required in
+  community. Some internal or external leadership program etc can be very helpful.
+
+Regardless of the results of this election I will work hard towards above directions
+and help community at my best.
+
+Thank you for your reading and consideration.
+
+Ghanshyam Mann (gmann)
+
+* Review:  http://stackalytics.com/?release=all&metric=marks&user_id=ghanshyammann&project_type=all
+* Commit:   http://stackalytics.com/?release=all&metric=commits&user_id=ghanshyammann&project_type=all
+* Foundation Profile: https://www.openstack.org/community/members/profile/6461
+* Website: https://ghanshyammann.com
+* IRC (Freenode): gmann
+
+[1] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/OpenStack_Upstream_Institute_Occasions
+      https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/OpenStack_Upstream_Institute
+[2] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/First_Contact_SIG