I am announcing my candidancy for the Technical Committee. For nearly 10 years, I had been the owner of a small web hosting and VPS hosting company. There, I provided leadership and managerial duties, in addition to architecting and implementing our own (open source) virtualization/cloud management solution, an effort we began in 2006.
For over a year, I've been at Cloudscaling helping deliver similar automation technology to others. I have been a contributor to Nova since Cactus, but recently have become more involved in openstack-common. I believe in providing fault-tolerant / resilient, scalable architecture, modular software design, and a security-minded approach to implementation. To date, most of my contributions have been to advance these points. In Folsom, I contributed a ZeroMQ-based RPC driver to provide scalability and fault tolerance. In Cactus, I had contributed a simple, but extensive, fix to utils.execute as a significant security improvement. I intend to make further such improvements to the scalability and security of OpenStack, both directly, and through leadership. Furthermore, I have lent my voice to security-related topics such as improving rootwrap, configuration-drive / metadata injection, and own a blueprint to introduce message signing in Grizzly. At summits, I have aimed to voice the promotion of scalable patterns and security-mindedness. In Grizzly, besides message signing, I would like to see improvements in the database handling, increased cooperation with eventlet coroutines, and a more extensive security review with subsequent fixes. I also believe that reasonable tradeoffs in the architecture have been made at times, but that these are owed re-evaluation, because continued improvements mean that valid decisions do not necessarily remain valid in an evolving architecture. I believe that OpenStack requires leaders with experience 'in the trenches' of operations, implementation, and of course, leadership. I ask for your trust, and your votes, in this coming Technical Committee election. Thank you, Eric Windisch _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp