Hello folks, I'd like to recap the status of Ask OpenStack, one of the most visited web properties in openstack.org domain. TL;DR The project needs lots of love if we want it to survive. Volunteers are needed to drive its progress. I had a long roadmap for that project, from implementing new languages (Japanese, Korean, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese to start) to improve the spam filters, improve the UI/UX, etc but all those requests had to wait for two major work: 1) complete the OpenStackID provider so that Ask OpenStack could use it 2) upgrade the code to newer upstream releases At turn, these 2 work items depended on putting Ask fully under openstack-infra umbrella. That took almost a year but finally that the project's infrastructure is finally fully managed via a puppet module http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack-infra/puppet-askbot/ The software is consumed directly upstream from https://github.com/ASKBOT/askbot-devel and the html skin is pulled from http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack-infra/askbot-theme/ So all the pieces are now in place for the roadmap to resume progressing. Issue is that I don't have time anymore to drive that effort. There are issues open that haven't been addressed. The spam/moderation issues are the most pressing ones. The list of open issues is on: https://bugs.launchpad.net/openstack-community/+bugs?field.tag=askproject I hope that someone can step up to take ownership of this project and drive it forward, considering that the Foundation has in place a contract with the main developer of Askbot that can be leveraged. Cheers, stef