{"id":5592,"date":"2014-01-23T11:00:51","date_gmt":"2014-01-23T17:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/?p=5592"},"modified":"2014-01-23T10:16:37","modified_gmt":"2014-01-23T16:16:37","slug":"open-mic-spotlight-james-slagle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/open-mic-spotlight-james-slagle\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Mic Spotlight: James Slagle"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"slagleOpenMic\"<\/a>This post is part of the OpenStack Open Mic series to spotlight the people who have helped make OpenStack successful. Each week, a new contributor will step up to the mic and answer five questions about OpenStack, cloud, careers and what they do for fun.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/em>James\u00a0Slagle lives in Boone, NC with his wife and 7 month\u00a0<\/em>old son. He enjoys outdoor activities like hiking, trail running,\u00a0<\/em>camping, and canoeing. He’s a Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat\u00a0<\/em>where he works primarily on the TripleO project for OpenStack. Follow him on twitter @slagle<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

1. Where is your happy place? Favorite place to visit, vacation, decompress?<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong>The mountains of NC. We were lucky enough to be able to move there a\u00a0couple years ago. The scenery, outdoor activities, colder climate, and\u00a0rural area are just a few of the reasons we like it here. Some might\u00a0say don’t move to where you like to vacation, because then it won’t be\u00a0special anymore. But, we still feel like we’re on vacation every time\u00a0we come home. Plus, I’m fortunate enough to be able to work from\u00a0home. The view out of my office beats a parking lot any day.<\/p>\n

2. If you couldn’t be a developer, what would your dream job be?<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong>Can I only pick one dream job? \ud83d\ude42 I’d like to own my beer brewery\u00a0someday. I enjoy spending time and working outdoors, so maybe a\u00a0forest ranger. I like building things with my hands too, so maybe a\u00a0wood worker. I also wouldn’t mind if my only job was to be a\u00a0professional runner, so I could train competitively for the marathon\u00a0or longer trail races. The good news is that, on a smaller scale, all\u00a0of those jobs are my everyday hobbies. And, I love being a developer\u00a0too, so in a lot of ways I already have my dream job.<\/p>\n

3. What behavior has helped get you the furthest as a developer?<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong>I think being fairly self-sufficient and not being afraid to dive into\u00a0the code to figure out how something works or how to fix a bug. That is\u00a0one of the main reasons that attracted me to open source software to\u00a0begin with. Going right along with that is having the knowledge to\u00a0know when the right time is to ask for help, so that you don’t get\u00a0stuck or in way over your head.<\/p>\n

4. What do you think is the coolest thing that’s happened with OpenStack\u00a0over the past three years?<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong>It’s growth and sustained momentum. As more people and companies\u00a0contribute and remain participants, they’re learning for themselves\u00a0what Openstack is and has to offer. That’s helping OpenStack to stand\u00a0on its own merits since it’s the contributors and users who are\u00a0helping spread the word. That reputation attracts even more new\u00a0growth. The ease with which you can have an impact in the community,\u00a0and learn for yourself what you can do with OpenStack, is much more\u00a0valuable than simply reading someone else’s opinion on the matter.<\/p>\n

5. How did you first get involved in OpenStack?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong>I believe it was a patch to Horizon or Keystone, I can’t remember. I\u00a0found that an easy way to get involved was to set up a development\u00a0environment and find something you don’t like, a bug, or something you\u00a0think can be improved. From there, I looked for a few bugs to fix on\u00a0Launchpad. Once I had dabbled in OpenStack a bit, I knew it was\u00a0something I wanted to work on full time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This post is part of the OpenStack Open Mic series to spotlight the people who have helped make OpenStack successful. Each week, a new contributor will step up to the mic and answer five questions about OpenStack, cloud, careers and what they do for fun.\u00a0 James\u00a0Slagle lives in Boone, NC with his wife and 7… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[474],"tags":[465],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5592"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5592"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5599,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5592\/revisions\/5599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}