7th Bi-Annual Community Contributor Awards April 30, 2019 Open Infrastructure Summit Denver
The ‘Does anyone actually use this?’ Trophy It turns out that not only do people use Open Infrastructure, some of those that do put in the effort to assist with the sanity of others.
The ‘Does anyone actually use this?’ Trophy - Stig Telfer Stig was my manager at Cray from 2013-2015 where we worked on bold a new project to adopt OpenStack as the infrastructure management layer across all of Cray's HPC products - storage appliances, clusters & supercomputers. Stig left to found StackHPC, based on an open and community-driven approach to using and improving OpenStack for Scientific computing. Stig founded and co-chairs the Scientific SIG, which continues to be a successful group, bringing together people with similar needs. This group produced two versions of the book 'The Crossroads of Cloud and HPC: OpenStack for Scientific Research' (available here: https://www.openstack.org/science/). I joined the company in 2016. StackHPC remains true to the principles of open development, community involvement, and advancing the cause of Scientific computing on OpenStack.
The ‘Does anyone actually use this?’ Trophy - Stig Telfer (continued) Stig works tirelessly to shepherd and corral the Scientific OpenStack SIG. He's always willing to pitch-in with any OpenStack or Open Infrastructure-related meetup or event, going above and beyond every time. He's continually putting in extra effort to further understanding of both OpenStack and Ceph at extreme scale, sharing learnings and results with the rest of the community, often engaging with upstream in order to help progress the quality of software that the rest of us get to use. He's also one of the nicest, most honest people you're ever likely to meet.
Bug Czar Award For the individual who does the most to deal with the bugs no matter how big and ugly.
Bug Czar Award - Sławek Kapłoński Slawek has been on point for debugging and fixing a variety of Neutron gate failures during this cycle. Without Slawek we would have a bunch of bugs sitting around impacting our ability to merge code that all need triaging, debugging and fixing. Thankfully we have had Slawek on deck to deal with that for us. In particular bugs that end up affecting many tempest runs and represent a real bug in neutron failing to plug vifs properly on instances. Slaweq was able to debug this and get a fix sorted out Like https://bugs.launchpad.net/neutron/+bug/1808171
Open Infrastructure Shield For those that are pushing to keep Infrastructure projects compatible, open, and available to everyone worldwide.
Open Infrastructure Shield - Allison Randal Allison was instrumental in getting the project confirmation guidelines drafted and confirmed so the OSF pilot projects could become top-level projects. She lead countless discussions, readily answered questions in public forums and really guided the community through this process. I had to put openstack as the project, but really, she contributed to the future success of all OSF projects. This was not an easy or quick task - the entire community - from Kata and Zuul down to Airship and StarlingX and other open source projects looking to be successful benefited from her hard work and leadership.
Friends of Mike Rowe, Doers of the Dirty Jobs ‘Hard-working people who earn an honest living doing the kinds of jobs that make civilized life possible for the rest of us.’
Friend(s) of Mike Rowe, Doer(s) of the Dirty Jobs - Carlos Venegas Munoz & Marco Vedovati In a community driven project, having a volunteers to do what needs to be done versus what is interesting is critical. Release and packaging work is not super sexy, but is super important and is often a thankless job. Marco and Carlos continue to fix and improve the Open Build System (OBS) for Kata Containers. This is critical to make it easier to package Kata for multiple Linux distributions. Both Carlos and Marco continue to drive integration into OSVs, as well as making significant improvements to Kata Containers release and packaging infrastructure. Thank you for always volunteering and proactively doing what it takes to help drive the project and community further.
Mentor of Mentors For serious efforts in sharing knowledge with others. It’s easy enough to solve problem yourself, but teaching others how to solve problems is no easy feat.
Mentor of Mentors - Samuel de Medeiros Queiroz It wouldn't be fair for Samuel to just recognize him for one thing since he has been contributing to the community for several years and in different ways. Samuel has been a really strong advocate on OpenStack in Brazil, being one of the referents in the whole of latin america. He helped organizing OpenStack Days in Brazil [0], an event that has brought OpenStack to hundreds of individuals in Brazil and in the area. Every year this event has gained a lot of traction and helped lots of people to learn about OpenStack. He is also a great mentor, he has been a mentor for Outreachy in the past and he now acts as a coordinator for this internship continuing with the effort that has started back in 2013. He also participated in other mentoring efforts, including the Women of OpenStack lunch and learn events and the Upstream Training. Last but not least, as an engineer he has done really important contributions to the Keystone project and made of that project what it is nowadays. Samuel is a great example of someone that loves the OpenStack community, and because of that, I believe he deserves a recognition. [0] http://openstackbr.com.br/events/2018/
Hero of the People Some people stand up for the masses and work to make leadership better. Some people we are happy to call our hero. They make sure community members are heard and understood.
Hero of the People - Ian Jolliffe Ian has attended 10 OpenStack Summits and is a member of the StarlingX TSC, and he recently served as a member of the Edge Track Programming Committee for the Denver Summit. His contribution to the Track included a focus on case studies and technical solutions, which also resulted in more 5G content, which is an emerging topic at the Summit. Ian is on the StarlingX Technical Steering Committee, he is doing a great job on organizing the group and making sure they spend time on all relevant topics when they meet. He is actively representing the community on various industry events, has a great attention to detail and is nice to work with.
Bonsai Caretaker These people keep pressing the button to feed the tamagotchi, keeping it alive.
Bonsai Caretaker(s) - Gabriela Cervantes Tellez & Salvador Fuentes Gabriela and Salvador have single handedly kept the Kata Continuous Integration running, constantly updating old tests, creating new tests, bringing up new hardware configurations to test against, and constantly adapting to the changing ecosystem which Kata works and is tested with. This work is too often a thankless job, and it is one of the most important parts of our Kata’s success.
The Giving Tree Award Always around to give you what you need and help you keep moving forward.
The Giving Tree Award - James O. D. Hunt James is investing a lot of time in explaining new contributors what are the steps needed to get their patches merged. James is also likely the person that more than anybody else spend the time to make PRs advance (reviews, suggestions, pinging...). Finally when there is new potential issues coming out, he is proactive in tracking it in GitHub and pinging the relevant people for a opinion/solution.
The Key to Stack City In some countries, such as the United States, an ornamental key – the "Key to the City" – is presented to esteemed visitors, residents, or others whom the city wishes to honour. The Key to Stack City is reserved for those that have done much for OpenStack and are truly a friend to all those in the community.
The Key to Stack City - John Dickinson John not only binds the community together, for many he is the *embodiment* of the community. He is often a contributor's first contact with Swift and always helpful and welcoming, whether on IRC or in person. He has undoubtedly had the most influence over Swift's culture, working tirelessly to ensure that contributors' perspectives and motivations are understood and represented. This both empowers contributors and allows him to recommend collaborators when he sees interests align. As a result, Swift's community tends to have high levels of trust and camaraderie. John regularly challenges norms. Whether examining human processes, technical challenges, or even just the layout of a room, John is driven to find what works best for the community. While he will give consideration to what has worked for other teams (both within OpenStack and beyond it), he is willing to change tack if an idea doesn't seem to be working out. He will not accept something "because that's how it's always been done."
The Key to Stack City - John Dickinson (continued) I always appreciate his honesty and feedback when it comes to our events. He's never held back and honestly we take that feedback and it helps us make our events better Longest Running PTL, a record that is very unlikely to ever be bested.
That’s All Folks! See you next Open Infrastructure Summit!
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