Individual Member Profile
Ghanshyam Maan
Loving the Open Source community. Trying my best to contribute to the development of Open Source software and communities.
- Red Hat - From 2025-04-28 (Current)
- Independant - From 2025-04-01 To 2025-04-27
- NEC - From 2011-10-24 To 2025-03-31
I'm involved in the following OpenStack projects: Compute Service (Nova),Identity service (Keystone),Placement service (Placement),The OpenStack Integration Test Suite (Tempest),Block Storage (Cinder),The OpenStack RBAC Integration Test Suite (Patrole)
- The OpenStack Technical Committee + Community Leaders interaction
- OpenStack RBAC: updates & operators feedback
- My Open Source Experience: Balancing Contributing Upstream with Daily Business Activities
- 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
- OpenStack QA - Project Update
- Planning & Defining Structure for ‘Help most needed’ list
- Users / Operators adoption of QA tools / plugins
- OpenStack QA - Project Onboarding
- Users / Operators adoption of QA tools / plugins
- OpenStack QA - Project Update
- OpenStack QA - Project Onboarding
- QA - Project Update
- QA - Project Onboarding
- Users / Operators adoption of QA tools / plugins
Ghanshyam is a candidate in the January 2025 Board Elections .
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. In past, I have served as Chair of the OpenStack Technical Committee, PTL of OpenStack QA. Currently, I am serving on an individual board of directors, a member of the OpenStack Technical Committee, and a core developer for various projects like Nova, QA, and many other projects.
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 improve software quality by understanding the use case and requirements. I have also led 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 been serving on an Individual Board of directors since 2022 and have been active in Board discussions. In addition, being engaged in the upstream community team for more than 10 years, I completely understand the need and gap in the community to build or improve the software closer to the use case and requirements.
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, providing a centric mission and motivation to be engaged in building open-source software.
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 engaging and attracting more new members to the OpenInfra family.
We have seen many changes in past, including the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) in the EU, AI, and economic challenges across the world. The Board should prepare the long-term sustainability path for the community, considering future situations and working towards that.
Along with the above high-level priority, I think the Board should continue to engage and help required by all the Open Infra projects, like OpenStack, Kata Containers, Airship, Zuul, and StarlingX. Maintaining a healthy community is everyone's overall goal and success. 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 the community in support projects like CI/CD, QA, and release. Therefore, strategic planning can be helpful in solving the current issues faced by the OpenInfra projects.
Ghanshyam has already been nominated by:
- Amy Marrich
- Allison Randal
- Mark Collier
- Kurt Garloff
- Jeremy Stanley
- Julia Kreger
- Seongsoo Cho
- Kavit Munshi
- Michal Nasiadka
- ChangBo Guo
