Open Stack

On 01/09/2013 09:51 AM, Tim Bell wrote:
> Is the aim to provide co-ordination for the OpenStack user groups
> worldwide ?

That's one of the possible outcomes. The idea is to help user groups get 
started and continue getting ideas for their meetings. Also, one of the 
things we want to achieve is to give continuity to the conversations 
that start at the Design Summit: lots of topics get touched during the 
summits, blueprints are created but then between the 6 months of the 
release lots of these fall back into oblivion (it's normal) only to be 
picked up again after 6 months, with little progress made. One of the 
ideas thrown around is to start tracking these little 
discussions/blueprints and keep them hot for topics to spend at 
meeting/meetup time.

> Ryan, JC and I have been putting together the structure for the
> OpenStack user committee (as described on the foundation list at
> http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/foundation/2012-December/001289.html).
> As we have collected input from various parties, there is a proposal for
> part of the committee to consist of user group representatives from
> different geographies.

I think it's good to 'force' having a representation from other 
geographical places into the User Committee. We may need to add some 
formalisation also to the user groups this way.


Cheers,
stef