This election and nomination process is limited to those individuals who have committer rights on one or more OpenDaylight Projects. Any OpenDaylight Committer can nominate themselves, run for election, and vote in the election for the Committer-At-Large seats on the TSC. Details on the election process may be found here.
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Abhijit K
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Biography
Abhijit is the current TSC Chair for OpenDaylight. As the OpenDaylight TSC Chair, he has presented OpenDaylight at various conferences including ONS, North America, ONS Europe and Linux Foundation's OSN Networking Day in the Bay Area. He was the project lead for the OpenDaylight OpenFlow plugin project since its inception till the start of the Oxygen release as well as a committer on the TTP project. He was elected to the TSC in both the 2016 and the 2017 committer-at-large TSC elections. During the 2017 TSC term - he came up with and evangelized the idea of calendar based ODL release schedules which is now being implemented in Oxygen and beyond. He is technical lead for Ericsson OpenDaylight efforts and works in the Technology department for Ericsson's Cloud unit. In the past he had been an active member of the Forwarding Abstractions Workgroup (FAWG) at the Open Networking Foundation (ONF) and has contributed to and evangelized the main example table type pattern at the FAWG meetings/ONF member workdays. He has around 20 years of experience in networking software development as well as leading teams toward successful outcomes. Prior to joining Ericsson he led a 100+ person software development team at Blade Network Technologies into a successful integration into IBM via acquisition. He is an alumnus of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur.
Statement of Intent
As a member of the TSC, Abhijit is intending to drive the following issues:
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- Drive better coordination between service/protocol projects and app projects, also improve the coordination with kernel projects integration
- Encourage more female contributors to OpenDaylight, as part of the “Women in Opensource” initiative of Linux Foundation.
- Improve the visibility of OpenDaylight among students of Indian Universities, and encourage more participation in LFN Internship Programme
- Continue to Drive successful delivery of the various OpenDaylight projects, with quality.
- Improve OpenDaylight Documentation
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Biography
Venkatrangan is currently a committer to the Opendaylight and a Senior Test Engineer at Lumina Networks.
He has been contributing to Opendaylight since Hydrogen release.The contribution started with the VTN Project (currently archived), and then integration/test, releng/builder and the Netvirt Project.
He has participated in all phases of the project (vtn) from incubation to stable.
He has been instrumental in creating the openstack integration test for Opendaylight and also optimize fir reducing test execution times.
Projects
- Committer releng/builder and integration/test
Statement of Intent
- Continue to Work on delivery of different projects
- Add more use cases involving multiple projects in test jobs and help improve quality
- Participate with various other communities and help plan the integration with Opendaylight
- Help improve overall documentation