Individual Member Profile
Ghanshyam Mann
Loving the OpenSource Software. Keen to contribute in development of OpenStack with new ideas and features.
- NEC - From 2011-10-24 (Current)
I'm involved in the following OpenStack projects: Compute Service (Nova),Identity service (Keystone),Block Storage (Cinder),The OpenStack Integration Test Suite (Tempest),The OpenStack RBAC Integration Test Suite (Patrole)
- Consistent and Secure Default Policies in OpenStack
- Users / Operators adoption of QA tools / plugins
- Ussuri cycle community-wide goals discussion
- OpenStack Quality Assurance - Project Update - November 2019
- Planning & Defining Structure for ‘Help most needed’ list
- Users / Operators adoption of QA tools / plugins
- OpenStack QA - Project Onboarding
- OpenStack QA - Project Update
- OpenStack QA - Project Update
- Users / Operators adoption of QA tools / plugins
- OpenStack QA - Project Onboarding
- QA - Project Update
- QA - Project Onboarding
- Users / Operators adoption of QA tools / plugins
Ghanshyam is a candidate in the January 2022 Board Elections .
What is your relationship to OpenInfra, and why is its success important to you? What would you say is your biggest contribution to OpenInfra and/or OpenStack's success to date?
My engagement in OpenStack started in 2012 as a support engineer and developing operational tools. In 2014, I started working as a full-time upstream developer in OpenStack, and it has been a great opportunity for me since then. Currently, I am serving as a Chair of the OpenStack Technical Committee and Core developer in various projects like Nova, QA, and served as PTL for QA projects. Also, I am helping with onboarding the new contributors via various forums like Upstream Institute Trainings, First Contact SIG.
Open Infrastructure Foundation plays a vital role in building this healthy community by connecting developers, users, providers, and organizations. In addition, it provides an excellent platform for every stakeholder to work on the open-source software for infrastructure building. To summarize, OpenInfra is a vital pillar to add business value to the Cloud Ecosystem.
My most significant contribution is to serve as an upstream developer since 2014 to improve the software quality by understanding the use case and requirements. Also leading in community-wide goals (common improvement in all the OpenStack Projects) for OpenStack projects, which help bring more consistency and improve usability and maintenance. I have also provided help in onboarding new contributors in the community via First Contact SIG, Upstream institute training across the globe.
Describe your experience with other non profits or serving as a board member. How does your experience prepare you for the role of a board member?
I have not served as a board member yet, but I have attended and engaged in board meetings and Technical members' roles in Joint leadership discussions for a few years now, which helped me understand its structure. In addition, being an upstream developer for many years, I completely understand the need and gap in the community to build or improve the software closer to the use case and requirements. From other governance experience, I am currently serving as Chair of the OpenStack Technical Committee.
What do you see as the Board's role in OpenInfra's success?
The board plays a vital role in any foundation. For OIF, it is also important to provide transparency and openness in the community, which helps attract more and more organizations to become members and help involve new contributors. It also supports and guides the OpenInfra foundation in various planning and activities with a wide range of experience and expertise, which provides a centric mission and motivation to be engaged together to build the open-source software.
What do you think the top priority of the Board should be in 2022?
OpenInra is growing continuously and attracting business globally. Therefore, the board will constantly be playing an important role, and a few of the top priorities can be:
Keep Driving the strategic planning for the foundation and community. It involves engagement and attracting more new members in the OpenInfra family and keeping track of all things/resources required by all the Open Infra projects like OpenStack, Kata Containers, Airship, Zuul, and StarlingX. Maintaining a healthy community is the overall goal and success for everyone. Nowadays, we need more contributors to help in the community, especially in OpenStack, not just in the projects used at production but also in the basic maintenance of community in support projects like CI/CD, QA, release. Therefore, strategic planning can be helpful to solve the current issues faced by the OpenInfra projects.
Collaborating around the adjacent technology and communities is much needed to build and grow together. Kubernetes is a good example of it. Having such communities more closure in governance and community work can help both communities solve their issues. One good example of this collaboration technically is OpenStack Technical Committee and Kunertes Steering Committee meeting frequently and sharing their experiences.
Ghanshyam has already been nominated by:
- Prakash Ramchandran
- Ignesius Thambyraj
- Ruturaj Kadikar
- Trinath Somanchi
- Vaidyanath Manogaran
- Digambar Patil
- Mark Collier
- Amy Marrich
- Jean-Philippe Evrard
- Allison Price
