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Statement of Intent – I would like to continue to help grow Tungsten Fabric into a diverse community of both users and developers.
Name: Ian Rae
Represented Group – Community Committee
Short Biography – I put up my hand at an OpenContrail meetup and volunteered to help marshall the project into an open source foundation, culminating in the relatively recently accepted Tungsten Fabric project under the LFN. I am the founder and CEO of CloudOps, which just might be the oldest independent cloud engineering firm that helps service providers build and operate clouds, and helps large enterprises and software firms adopt public clouds. CloudOps team members have been ambassadors for projects under the Apache Foundation, OpenStack, and CNCF. We run countless meetups and workshops helping educate and support open source software. My personal background is leading engineering at tech startups, running enterprise IT, and studying evolution using genetics. I sit on the board of directors of the non-profit Genome Canada, and the publicly traded airline Air Transat. Also I love ultimate (frisbee).
Statement of Intent – My goal with TF is to help the community achieve escape velocity in terms of market adoption. Our mission at CloudOps is helping our customers own their destiny in the cloud(s) and we believe open source based software is the key. We also believe networking is the hardest problem, especially in a multi-cloud world. I will focus on helping increase the accessibility of TF and building a diverse community by spreading with word about the project and encouraging contributions of all kinds (especially documentation!), all the while establishing and protecting the independence of this important open source project.