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[OpenStack Foundation] January 26, 2021 Board meeting
by Jonathan Bryce 03 Feb '21

03 Feb '21

Hi everyone, The Board of Directors will meet next week for the first meeting of 2021. We have a draft agenda posted on the wiki: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Governance/Foundation/26Jan2021BoardMeeting I’ve attached a meeting invite if you are interested in joining. Thanks, Jonathan

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[OpenStack Foundation] [Diversity] Diversity &Inclusion WG Meeting reminder Amy Marrich <amy@demarco.com> Mon, Jan 11, 7:49 AM to foundation, openstack-discuss, kata-dev, starlingx-discuss, airship-discuss, zuul-discuss The Diversity & Inclusion WG invites members of all OSF projects to our meeting today, at 17:00 UTC in the #openstack-diversity channel. The agenda can be found at https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/diversity-wg-agenda. Please feel free to add any other topics you wish to discuss at the meetin
by Amy Marrich 31 Jan '21

31 Jan '21

The Diversity & Inclusion WG invites members of all OSF projects to our meeting tomorrow, at 17:00 UTC in the #openstack-diversity channel. The agenda can be found at https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/diversity-wg-agenda. Please feel free to add any other topics you wish to discuss at the meeting. Thanks, Amy (spotz)

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[OpenStack Foundation] [all] IRC Channel Renames
by Kendall Nelson 27 Jan '21

27 Jan '21

Hello! So now that the OpenStack Foundation is now the Open Infrastructure Foundation, I think it time to take a look at some of the IRC channels we use. There are a few that come to mind that are used by the larger Foundation community- not just OpenStack anymore- that should probably be renamed[0]. Below is a list of the channels that come to mind and proposed new channel names. Please add to the list or suggest alternative names if you hate what I've come up with. My goal is to process these renames by the end of the year. - #openstack-ptg -> #oif-ptg - #openstack-forum -> #oif-forum - #openstack-diversity -> #oif-diversity - #openstack-board -> #oif-board - #openstack-foundation -> #oif - #openinfra-summit -> #oif-summit Look forward to everyone's thoughts! -Kendall (diablo_rojo) [0] https://docs.opendev.org/opendev/system-config/latest/irc.html#renaming-an-…

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[OpenStack Foundation] 2021 Individual Director election and Bylaws amendment results
by Jonathan Bryce 15 Jan '21

15 Jan '21

Hello everyone, The 2021 election of Individual Directors has closed. Results are available at the following link: https://www.bigpulse.com/pollresults?code=1341255rQeCqjpQQ9VHPtCLbqxF The Bylaws amendments have now been passed by the Individual Member class. The elected and appointed directors will be seated at the first Board meeting of the year which will be scheduled for January 26th. Congratulations to our new and returning directors, and thank you to everyone for joining in the process! Jonathan 210-317-2438 Individual Directors ----------------------------------------- Tim Bell Kurt Garloff Julia Kreger Sean McGinnis Amy Marrich Mohammed Naser Allison Randal Rico Lin Shane Wang Platinum Directors ----------------------------------------- Daniel Becker Gang Chen Ruan He Paul Miller Amar Padmanabhan Chris Price Xudong Ren Xu Wang Ryan Van Wyk Gold Directors ----------------------------------------- Johan Christenson ChangBo Guo Clemens Hardewig Li Kai Arkady Kanevsky Tytus Kurek Grace Lian Junwei Liu Shannon McFarland

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[OpenStack Foundation] [Diversity] Diversity &Inclusion WG Meeting reminder
by Amy Marrich 11 Jan '21

11 Jan '21

The Diversity & Inclusion WG invites members of all OSF projects to our meeting today, at 17:00 UTC in the #openstack-diversity channel. The agenda can be found at https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/diversity-wg-agenda. Please feel free to add any other topics you wish to discuss at the meeting. Thanks, Amy (spotz)

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[OpenStack Foundation] Hello,
by Armin Ranjbar 11 Jan '21

11 Jan '21

Dear Everyone, While being one of the OpenStack longtimers, I'm quite new to the governance aspects of the projects and since I was nominated for BoD, I thought that it actually might be a good idea to explain the rationale behind that decision. During the past decade, I have been Instilling the whole concept of open infrastructures with the highest government and corporate levels in Europe, including Telcos, Banks, Research institutes, federation (Such as GAIA-X), and large corporations, I learned while companies have a generally positive outlook when it comes to opensource infrastructures, training, interoperability and especially stability is always a major concern. It's my belief that there is a certain vertical that is missing on many large scale opensource projects, and that is the ability to work with and stay interoperable with enterprise/carrier-grade company requirements. this does not mean that any of our core values in terms of openness should change but in fact, embraced! I also learned that there is always a certain resistance to run open infrastructures on missing-critical systems, this is a matter of training, support, and reliability they don't expect to receive from the ecosystem, and not everyone is as brave as CERN. The following are what I think the focus should be on, and I can certainly help with regardless of election outcome: - Making open infrastructure more appealing to large scale companies, through doubling down on stability and interoperability, LTS, etc. - Establishing a better relationship with large consulting companies (specially big4) in order to create a better understanding of Open Infrastructure. - Focus on large-scale/carrier-grade infrastructures, better training, making a reliable open infrastructure a reality. - Focus on Migrations, there should be projects dedicated to migration from proprietary infrastructure to and from OpenStack, there are third-party tools but I think it's important to have one under the project itself. Thank you all, and best wishes for the new year. :) --- Armin ranjbar

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[OpenStack Foundation] 2021 Board elections and Bylaws amendments
by Jonathan Bryce 07 Jan '21

07 Jan '21

Hi everyone, Next Monday, January 11, the 2021 Individual Director elections will open. All members who are eligible to vote should receive an email ballot next week. You can review the candidates here: https://www.openstack.org/election/2021-individual-director-election/Candid… This year, the election will also include a set of amendments to the Foundation’s Bylaws. The amendments were approved unanimously by the Foundation Board in 2020. As a member class, the Individual Members must also approve these amendments. The Bylaws amendments fall into 3 primary categories: 1) Change certain aspects of corporate membership to allow more than eight Platinum Members and more than 24 Gold Members, as well as allowing the Board of Directors to create non-voting corporate memberships. Currently we expect to have nine Platinum Members for 2021. 2) Adjust the size of the Board of Directors so that it will continue to have an equal number of directors representing the Individual, Platinum and Gold Member classes as the number of Platinum Members may increase or decrease over time. If the amendments are approved, this would mean that each class would have nine Board seats for 2021 rather than eight currently. 3) A few cleanup items such as making references to “Technical Committee” more clear by specifying that certain provisions are dealing with the OpenStack project Technical Committee and proving the OpenStack Technical Committee a vote on future changes to those elements. I have attached a full redline of the amendments that will be up for consideration by the Individual members. Let me know if anyone has any questions, Jonathan

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