2013 Board Election: Candidate List
Candidates On The Ballot
The candidates on this list have the 10 nominations required to be on the election ballot and have completed the application.
Tim Bell
Nominated by: Adriel Cabrera Allison Randal Zane Bitter Egle Sigler Richard Fontana Allison Price Tristan Goode Joseph George Mark Collier Shane Wang
Tim is responsible for the group at CERN, the European Laboratory for particle physics, which manages the compute infrastructure for 13,000 physicists around the world to support fundamental research. He previously worked as a Unix kernel developer at IBM along with managing large scale Unix production deployments and services for Deutsche Bank in Europe.
His team is running the CERN OpenStack cloud which has been in production since July 2013 and is currently around 280,000 cores. This cloud provides processing power to analyse the data from the Large Hadron Collider and other experiments which produce around 60PB a year. The practical experiences are shared on the blog at http://openstack-in-production.blogspot.fr/
Rob Hirschfeld
Nominated by: Adriel Cabrera Egle Sigler Anand Shah Shane Wang Vladimir Popovski Mark Smith Terri Schlosser Laurence Brockman Willard Dennis Shamail Tahir
I've been involved in OpenStack since the earliest days with a focus on ops and building the infrastructure that powers cloud and storage.
On the board, I've lead the DefCore initative and founded the Product Working Group. I also work to help screen and coach new Gold Members. I am a strong advocate for operators and interoperability.
I believe that the OpenStack community is service by having a clearly defined core. I feel that we need to do a better job defining and building an ecosystem around the project.
I maintain an open balanced perspective and respect other people's points of view.
You can read more about my thoughts and positions regarding OpenStack and Cloud on my blog: http://RobHirschfeld.com.
