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Statement of Intent – Being in an unique position of using Tungsten Fabric with a custom cloud management system, I intend to drive greater modularity and scalability within TF while ensuring it remains interoperable with reasonably different cloud orechestrators.
Name: Jim St. Leger
Represented Group - Community Committee
Short Biography: My day job is working at Intel in the Network Platforms Group driving open source strategy and marketing. My work is predominantly focused on networking projects that align to or support NFV and SDN including virtualization and container implementations as well as the network edge. I've been working on open source projects and in open source communities for nine years. Projects include DPDK (dpdk.org) which I was part of the original creation team and where I chair the governing board, Hyperscan (hyperscan.io, a high perf pattern matcher) which I helped transition from commercial SW to open source SW, Fast Data (FD.io) which I helped co-launch with Cisco, and several other projects where I've provided guidance, direction, and community and marketing assistance (SPDK, OVS-DPDK, etc.)
Statement of Intent: I want to help grow Tungsten Fabric as an open source project with a robust and diverse community. I feel that project growth is needed in the area of getting the TF consumers to be more vocal and involved in the community, the demand side, but also to build and expand the developer community including committers, reviewers, testers, and architects. One of my overarching themes will be to drive both awareness of TF but also to expand an improved out of the box experience to entice network engineers and developers to try TF.