Tag: new committer

Please help us extend a warm welcome to our newest team member Dimitris Moraitis!

The Project Management Committee (PMC) for Apache Libcloud has invited Dimitris Moraitis to join us as a committer and we are pleased to announce that they have accepted.

Dimitris is one of the founders and main contributors to the open source multi cloud management project called Mist.io.

Mist.io has been an early user and adopter of Libcloud. Over the years, Dimitris and the rest of the Mist.io team have contributed many changes and improvements to Libcloud.

For anyone who would like to know more about Dimitris here is his short bio:

Dimitris is an entrepreneur & engineer committed to open technologies. He holds a UoA CS BSc. He has been serving as the technical lead for organizations around the world since 2001. He’s the co-founder & CTO of Mist.io, the open source multicloud management platform. He’s particularly interested in DevOps, UX, AI/ML and the social impact of technology.

Please help us extend a warm welcome to our newest team member Miguel Caballer!

The Project Management Committee (PMC) for Apache Libcloud has invited Miguel Caballer to join us as a committer and we are pleased to announce that he has accepted.

Miguel has been part of the Libcloud community for many years now and during his participation he made various contributions to the project, majority of them focusing on our OpenStack drivers.

For anyone who would like to know more about Miguel here is his short bio:

Miguel Caballer is part of the Grid and High Performance Computing group of UPV since 2001. He is the lead developer of the Infrastructure Manager (IM), a tool that deploys complex and customized virtual infrastructures on IaaS Cloud deployments. He has participated in different research projects about the application of Grid and Cloud computing techniques to several areas of engineering. Other fields of interest include green computing.

And in his own words:

When I start the development of the IM (in python) I found that Libcloud was the best option to connect with different cloud back-ends using a single library and using the same basic set of functions calls. It has improved a lot in the last years adding extra functionality for each connector that makes it a really good alternative to native libraries. My main contributions has been mainly related with the OpenStack driver, one of the most user cloud providers by the IM tool. I’m very proud to be an Apache Libcloud team member and I will continue with my contributions.

Please help us extend a warm welcome to our newest team member Clemens Wolff!

The Project Management Committee (PMC) for Apache Libcloud has invited Clemens Wolff to join us as a committer and we are pleased to announce that he has accepted.

Clemens has participated in the Libcloud community for a while now and during his participation he made a number of high quality contributions to the project.

For anyone who would like to know more about Clemens here is his short bio:

Clemens Wolff is a tech lead in Microsoft’s Commercial Software Engineering team, enabling customers from around the world to create scalable, resilient and efficient software solutions applying relevant technologies and platforms, including cloud computing, highly scalable data engines, machine learning and analytics, and distributed messaging systems.

And in his own words:

I was introduced to Libcloud while working with a research group at Imperial College London on porting OKpy, an open source computer science classroom management system, from GCP to Azure. OKpy uses Libcloud which made migrating the object storage needs of the application a breeze. Since this initial exposure, I’ve been using Libcloud on many projects to ensure cross-cloud compatibility and to simplify testing via the local provider implementations. Most of my contributions have been about maintaining and updating the Azure implementation of Libcloud’s storage driver and building test automation to ensure that Libcloud can seamlessly be used with Azure.

We are happy to have him in our team and we are looking forward to his future participation and contributions.

Please help us extend a warm welcome to our newest team member Rick van de Loo!

The Project Management Committee (PMC) for Apache Libcloud has invited Rick van de Loo to join us as a committer and we are pleased to announce that he has accepted.

In the last couple of years Rick has contributed various high quality changes to the project and we are happy to have him on board.

For anyone who would like to know more about Rick here is his short bio:

Rick van de Loo is the lead developer on Hypernode, a highly automated and cloud agnostic hosting platform specialised for Magento built on top of Apache Libcloud. Since Rick started working on Hypernode he has seen it scale from double digits to thousands of servers, along the road orchestrating various high volume cross-provider migrations. His main focus is on platform stability and feature development, of which a large part has been integrating cloud APIs and working around their incompatibilities and unreliable nature.

And in his own words:

Since we started using Libcloud around four years ago the landscape has changed a lot. But even though container-based and serverless architectures have become more prominent, compute is still the cornerstone of cloud. Most of my contributions have been about standardising functionality across different compute providers and implementing new driver methods, mainly related to the AWS, DigitalOcean and OpenStack APIs. As an Apache Libcloud team member I will continue to contribute changes that help us scratch our own itch and encourage other members of the Hypernode team to do the same.

We are happy to have him in our team and we are looking forward to his future participation and contributions.

Please help us extend a warm welcome to our newest team member Anthony Shaw!

The Project Management Committee (PMC) for Apache Libcloud has invited Anthony Shaw to join us as a committer and a PMC member and we are pleased to announce that he has accepted.

Anthony has joined the community fairly recently, but he has already made a lot of substantial contributions. Those contributions range from new Dimension Data drivers and various related improvements to a proposal for a new backup API for Backup as a Service products and projects.

While we are talking about the new backup API - we would like to encourage everyone who is either a service provider offering Backup as a Service product or a person interested in using this API to join us and participate in the discussion. The more feedback we get, the better and more widely applicable we can make this new API.

For anyone who would like to know more about Anthony here is his short bio:

Anthony Shaw works for the global system integrator Dimension Data as Head of Innovation. Anthony has been working in the hosting/service provider industry for the last 10 years for MSPs within Europe, North America and Australia in various Product Management and Product Development roles. Anthony is an open-source advocate and has been promoting the Libcloud project internally to Dimension Data for the last 9 months as well as maintaining its driver.

And in his own words:

I think we will continue to see consolidation in IaaS providers over the next 12 months, so likelihood is the number of drivers will reduce, but the importance of being cloud agnostic to people is becoming more apparent as some are already being burnt by integrations into APIs that companies like Dell and Ninefold have pulled the plug on. Libcloud is a key project for developers not wanting to lock themselves too heavily to a vendor. I would also like to see expansion of additional services like backup, load balancing and containers so that users can still take advantages of these features through our driver.

We are happy to have him in our team and we are looking forward to his future participation and contributions.

Please help us extend a warm welcome to our newest team member Allard Hoeve!

The Project Management Committee (PMC) for Apache Libcloud has asked Allard Hoeve to join us as a committer and we are pleased to announce that he has accepted.

Allard has joined the community just recently, but he has already contributed some high quality changes and proposals.

We are happy to have him on our team and we are looking forward to his future contributions.

Please help us extend a warm welcome to our newest team member Eric Johnson!

The Project Management Committee (PMC) for Apache Libcloud has asked Eric Johnson to join us as a committer and a PMC member and we are pleased to announce that he has accepted.

Eric has been involved in the Libcloud community for a while now. He has made many substantial contributions to the Google Compute Engine drivers. On top of that, he also contributed to other projects which utilize Libcloud.

We are happy to have him on our team and we are looking forward to even better and more complete Google Compute Engine drivers.

The Project Management Committee (PMC) for Apache Libcloud has asked Sebastien Goasguen (sebgoa) to join us as a committer and a PMC member. We are pleased to announce that he has accepted.

Sebastien is no stranger to the Libcloud project. He has been contributing and actively participating in the Libcloud community for quite a while now.

On top of that, he is also a PMC member at the Apache CloudStack project and our local “CloudStack guy”.

We are happy to have him and some direct CloudStack expertise in our team.

The Project Management Committee (PMC) for Apache Libcloud has asked Alex Gaynor to become a committer and we are pleased to announce that they have accepted.

We are glad to have him as a committer. Everyone, please help us welcome him to the team :)

The Project Management Committee (PMC) for Apache Libcloud has asked Brian Curtin to become a committer and we are pleased to announce that they have accepted.

We are glad to have him as a committer. Everyone, please help us welcome him to the team :)

Source: mailing list.

The Project Management Committee (PMC) for Apache Libcloud has asked John Carr to become a committer and we are pleased to announce that they have accepted.

We are glad to have him as a committer and a PMC member. Everyone, please help me welcome him to the team :)

Source: mailing list thread.

The Project Management Committee (PMC) for Apache Libcloud has asked Mahendra Maheshwara to become a committer and we are pleased to announce that they have accepted.

Mahendra Maheshwara has joined the Libcloud community fairly recently, but he has already contributed multiple great patches - https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20LIBCLOUD%20AND%20reporter%20in%20(%22mahendra.m%22) .

Giving him commit access will allow him to more directly contribute to the project.

Everyone, please help me welcome him to the team :)

Source: mailing list thread.

The Project Management Committee (PMC) for Apache Libcloud has asked Ilgiz Islamgulov to become a committer and we are pleased to announce that they have accepted.

Ilgiz worked on the Libcloud REST GSoC project (http://libcloud.apache.org/gsoc-2012.html) this summer and he has made a great progress on it.

Giving him commit access will allow him to more directly contribute to the project and work on integrating Libcloud REST into main line.

Everyone, please help me welcome him to the team :)

Source: mailing list.

Hi all,

I just wanted to let everyone know that the Libcloud PMC has decided to invite a new committer - Hutson Betts (hbetts).

He has previously mostly contributed to the OpenNebula driver and the networking API.

We believe that granting him the committer status will allow him to more easily and directly contribute to the project.

Please help us welcome him!

Source: mailing list.