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I'm curious why we would limit participation in the User Committee. Seems that just as in the case of the various incubated and core projects, where participation is open to anyone willing to roll up their sleeves and contribute in a meaningful way (code, testing, reviews, bug triage, docs, localization, etc.), that the User Committee should be open to anyone who considers themselves as a user, by whatever definition we might establish.

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Christopher Ferris
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On Jan 13, 2013, at 12:15 PM, "Tim Bell" <Tim.Bell at cern.ch> wrote:

>  
> While we have not discussed the detailed structure of the user committee, a structure such as 3 reserved seats for elected user group representatives from Americas, APAC and EMEA has been mentioned. This could help funnel input and structure information cascading.
>  
> Tim
>  
> From: Yujie Du [mailto:duyujie.dyj at gmail.com] 
> Sent: 13 January 2013 17:16
> To: Stefano Maffulli
> Cc: community at lists.openstack.org
> Subject: Re: [openstack-community] Calling all user group and meetup organizers
>  
> Hi Stefano,
> 
> Is it stand for the Foundation or just discuss as APAC list?
>  
> 
> 2013/1/11 Stefano Maffulli <stefano at openstack.org>
> 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
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