Open Stack

Hi, newly-elected and returning board members,

During the last meeting, Alan called for new volunteers to join board 
committees like the Compensation committee or the Finance committee.

While not strictly a committee, the Interoperability working group 
(formerly known as DefCore committee) is a OSF board working group that 
leads the definition of new versions of our Interoperability guidelines, 
which are used to grant the rights to use various trademarks such as 
"OpenStack-Powered platform".

The group was previously led by Egle Sigler and Mark Voelker, who as of 
2020 are no longer part of the board. Its main task is to get consensus 
on which APIs are necessary to be offered and which sections of code are 
necessary to be run to call your deployment "an OpenStack cloud". 
Technically, that translates into the definition of a set of Tempest 
tests matching the required API calls, so that products and deployments 
can assert the trademark through a suite of tools called RefStack.

This work is critical in driving interoperability between OpenStack 
deployments, which is an essential benefit of using OpenStack software 
in hybrid usage scenarios. Representing all facets of our community, the 
Board is uniquely positioned to define what that consensus looks like 
and evolve it over time.

Who is interested in participating in that workgroup ? I'm available to 
answer any question you may have about the process, and for questions I 
don't have the answer to, I copied Egle on this email so that she can 
bring additional context if needed.

Thanks!

-- 
Thierry Carrez (ttx)