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

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@gmail.com] Sent: 13 January 2013 17:16 To: Stefano Maffulli Cc: community@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@openstack.org <mailto:stefano@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 _______________________________________________ Community mailing list Community@lists.openstack.org <mailto:Community@lists.openstack.org> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/community -- --Ben OSI Individual Member OpenStack Foundation Board Member Co-founder and Leader of China OpenStack User Group( COSUG ) Mobile: +86 15921531026 WEIBO: http://weibo.com/u/1716287123 <http://www.weibo.com/u/1716287123?from=profile&wvr=4&loc=infweihao> TWITTER: https://twitter.com/ben_Duyujie LINKEDIN: cn.linkedin.com/in/duyujie <http://cn.linkedin.com/in/duyujie>

There is a difference between users who can help (all help is welcome!) and the actual committee itself. Comparing to the technical committee, there are PTLs and elected members which form the technical committee but many others take part. Input/Discussions/Debate should be with the community at large but a subset of the community is needed for the final review of options and decisions (on behalf of their electorate). I don’t think It is always possible to have an ‘all users’ vote on each topic. As I mentioned, none of this is decided yet (and comments are welcome on https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yD8TfqUik2dt5xo_jMVHMl7tw9oIJnEndLK8YqET...) but I think there is a need for a group of O(10) people nominated from the various constituents to act as a representative body. BTW, all communication between members of the user committee should be public as we have already started with the initial 3 members (the archives are at http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/user-committee/) Tim From: Christopher B Ferris [mailto:chrisfer@us.ibm.com] Sent: 13 January 2013 19:55 To: Tim Bell Cc: Yujie Du; Stefano Maffulli; community@lists.openstack.org Subject: Re: [openstack-community] Calling all user group and meetup organizers 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. Cheers, Christopher Ferris IBM Distinguished Engineer, CTO Industry and Cloud Standards Member, IBM Academy of Technology IBM Software Group, Standards Strategy email: chrisfer@us.ibm.com <mailto:chrisfer@us.ibm.com> Twitter: christo4ferris phone: +1 508 234 2986 <tel:+1%20508%20234%202986> On Jan 13, 2013, at 12:15 PM, "Tim Bell" <Tim.Bell@cern.ch <mailto:Tim.Bell@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@gmail.com] Sent: 13 January 2013 17:16 To: Stefano Maffulli Cc: community@lists.openstack.org <mailto:community@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@openstack.org <mailto:stefano@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 _______________________________________________ Community mailing list Community@lists.openstack.org <mailto:Community@lists.openstack.org> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/community -- --Ben OSI Individual Member OpenStack Foundation Board Member Co-founder and Leader of China OpenStack User Group( COSUG ) Mobile: +86 15921531026 WEIBO: http://weibo.com/u/1716287123 <http://www.weibo.com/u/1716287123?from=profile&wvr=4&loc=infweihao> TWITTER: https://twitter.com/ben_Duyujie LINKEDIN: cn.linkedin.com/in/duyujie <http://cn.linkedin.com/in/duyujie> _______________________________________________ Community mailing list Community@lists.openstack.org <mailto:Community@lists.openstack.org> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/community <smime.p7s>

This is for everybody. Look forward having you join us! Sean Roberts Infrastructure Strategy seanrob@yahoo-inc.com Direct (408) 349-5234 Mobile (925) 980-4729 701 First Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA, 94089-0703, US Phone (408) 349-3300 Fax (408) 349-3301 [http://forgood.zenfs.com/logos/yahoo.png] On 1/9/13 1:05 PM, "Tim Horgan" <tim.horgan@cit.ie<mailto:tim.horgan@cit.ie>> wrote: Hi Séan, I run the OpenStack Ireland meetup group, just wondering if your meeting is targeting only groups in the East Coast of the USA? Kind Regards, Tim On 9 Jan 2013, at 00:54, Sean Roberts <seanrob@yahoo-inc.com<mailto:seanrob@yahoo-inc.com>> wrote: We are going to have a planning meeting on Tuesday, 15 Jan 2012 11:00am to 1:00pm PST. RSVP via http://www.meetup.com/openstack/events/93593062/ Connect remotely via webex https://yahoomeetings.webex.com/yahoomeetings/j.php?ED=160663792&UID=492396097&RT=MiM0 If this time doesn't work for you, get ahold of me directly via skype:seanroberts66, email, mobile, irc:sarob, twitter:sarob, or carrier pigeon. Stefano and Thierry will be joining us. I want to get input from people that run user groups and meetups. See you then! Sean Roberts Infrastructure Strategy seanrob@yahoo-inc.com<mailto:seanrob@yahoo-inc.com> Direct (408) 349-5234 Mobile (925) 980-4729 701 First Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA, 94089-0703, US Phone (408) 349-3300 Fax (408) 349-3301 [http://forgood.zenfs.com/logos/yahoo.png] _______________________________________________ Community mailing list Community@lists.openstack.org<mailto:Community@lists.openstack.org> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/community Regards, Tim --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TIM HORGAN Head of Cloud Computing Centre of Excellence Extended Campus Office Cork Institute of Technology, Cork, Ireland phone: +353 214335120<callto:+353%2021%204335120> | mobile: +353 87 9439333<callto:+353%2087%209439333> twitter: @timhorgan<https://twitter.com/#%21/timhorgan> | skype: timothy.horgan<https://twitter.com/#%21/timhorgan> linkedin: http://ie.linkedin.com/in/timhorgan | web: http://cloud.cit.ie<http://cloud.cit.ie/> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

The scheduled webex still says it is for the 24th. You may want to adjust it so it will launch on time. (I will be in LA tomorrow so I have to dial in vs attending in person) Regards, Colin If you would like to schedule a time to speak with me, please click here to see my calendar and pick a time that works for your schedule. The system will automatically send us both an outlook meeting invite. Colin McNamara (858)208-8105 CCIE #18233,VCP http://www.colinmcnamara.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/colinmcnamara "The difficult we do immediately, the impossible just takes a little longer" On Jan 14, 2013, at 2:07 PM, Sean Roberts <seanrob@yahoo-inc.com> wrote:

Reminder for the global user group planning meetup, tomorrow, Tuesday, 15 Jan 2012 11:00am to 1:00pm PST http://www.meetup.com/openstack/events/93593062/ Join us!

Sean Roberts Infrastructure Strategy seanrob@yahoo-inc.com Direct (408) 349-5234 Mobile (925) 980-4729

701 First Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA, 94089-0703, US Phone (408) 349-3300 Fax (408) 349-3301

On 1/9/13 1:05 PM, "Tim Horgan" <tim.horgan@cit.ie> wrote:

...

Hi Séan,

I run the OpenStack Ireland meetup group, just wondering if your meeting is targeting only groups in the East Coast of the USA?

Kind Regards, Tim

On 9 Jan 2013, at 00:54, Sean Roberts <seanrob@yahoo-inc.com> wrote:

...

We are going to have a planning meeting on Tuesday, 15 Jan 2012 11:00am to 1:00pm PST. RSVP via http://www.meetup.com/openstack/events/93593062/ Connect remotely via webex https://yahoomeetings.webex.com/yahoomeetings/j.php?ED=160663792&UID=492396097&RT=MiM0 If this time doesn't work for you, get ahold of me directly via skype:seanroberts66, email, mobile, irc:sarob, twitter:sarob, or carrier pigeon.

Stefano and Thierry will be joining us. I want to get input from people that run user groups and meetups.

See you then!

Sean Roberts Infrastructure Strategy seanrob@yahoo-inc.com Direct (408) 349-5234 Mobile (925) 980-4729

701 First Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA, 94089-0703, US Phone (408) 349-3300 Fax (408) 349-3301

_______________________________________________ Community mailing list Community@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/community

Regards, Tim

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Hi, I am sorry that I may not able to join the meeting but the Hong Kong OpenStack User Group and Hong Kong Cyberport will be updating you any information if necessary. May I have a bit comment on the following agenda: Can the Foundation start working with some Universities for meeting space, sponsorship, and student participation? Is the Foundation interested in Phd thesis sponsorship I strongly agree on this point, since there is getting more university students and researchers who starts to explore the open source cloud softwares as most commercial cloud softwares/services on market are really expensive for them to get start. Also, university students and researchers are usually more sincere to explore the open source software because it is free and cloud computing is quite new for them. And this is a good starting point to educate them to contribute to open source stuffs rather than just using it as freeware. Should there be an OpenStack user group and/or meetup approval process? How do we clean up user groups and meetups that are abandoned? I think there must be have an official central coordinator to manage all the user groups. Thank you for the attention, and wish you all the best in year 2013. Regards, Bruce Lok Coordinator of HKOSUG Engineer | Technology Centre Hong Kong Cyberport Management Co. Ltd. Tel: +852 3166-3728 Fax: +852 3027-0099 From: Sean Roberts [mailto:seanrob@yahoo-inc.com] Sent: Tuesday, 15 January, 2013 07:26 To: OpenStack community; openstack Cc: Rob_Hirschfeld@Dell.com; Kamesh_Pemmaraju@dell.com; Andi_Abes@dell.com; trevor.lowing@gmail.com; stephon.striplin@dreamhost.com; carlp@hq.newdream.net; brent.scotten@rackspace.com; kmestery@cisco.com; lloydostack@gmail.com; freedomhui@gmail.com; duyujie.dyj@gmail.com; santiagoc120@outlook.com; sc360@kent.ac.uk; mohamed@egyptcloudforum.com; Ilkka.Turunen@jamk.fi; berendt@b1-systems.de; Bruce Lok; marton.kiss@xemeti.com; deepakgarg.iitg@gmail.com; frans@meruvian.org; tim.horgan@cit.ie; fenris@ubuntu.com; mypapit@gmail.com; muharem@lbox.cc; hang.tran@dtt.vn Subject: Re: [openstack-community] Calling all user group and meetup organizers Agenda for tomorrow's user group / meetup planning meeting * * Review of user group and meetup template * Meetups fit into the larger plan of user committee and summit to summit development how? * Where would be the location for social materials like videos, meetup logs, and other meeting related items? * Where do operators go to figure out how to run OpenStack in production? * Can the Foundation start working with some Universities for meeting space, sponsorship, and student participation? Is the Foundation interested in Phd thesis sponsorship? * If possible I like to get some supporters for a groups.openstack.org site, including content writers and some developer resources from the community. We have a lot of knowledge about running / starting an user group, and need to write it down, publish on the site and share it with newcomers. I think this is answered by the user group template information that will be published to http://wiki.openstack.org/OpenStackUserGroups. * Should there be an OpenStack user group and/or meetup approval process? How do we clean up user groups and meetups that are abandoned? Sean Roberts Infrastructure Strategy seanrob@yahoo-inc.com<mailto:seanrob@yahoo-inc.com> Direct (408) 349-5234 Mobile (925) 980-4729 701 First Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA, 94089-0703, US Phone (408) 349-3300 Fax (408) 349-3301 [http://forgood.zenfs.com/logos/yahoo.png] On 1/14/13 2:07 PM, "Sean Roberts" <seanrob@yahoo-inc.com<mailto:seanrob@yahoo-inc.com>> wrote: Reminder for the global user group planning meetup, tomorrow, Tuesday, 15 Jan 2012 11:00am to 1:00pm PST http://www.meetup.com/openstack/events/93593062/ Join us! Sean Roberts Infrastructure Strategy seanrob@yahoo-inc.com<mailto:seanrob@yahoo-inc.com> Direct (408) 349-5234 Mobile (925) 980-4729 701 First Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA, 94089-0703, US Phone (408) 349-3300 Fax (408) 349-3301 [http://forgood.zenfs.com/logos/yahoo.png] On 1/9/13 1:05 PM, "Tim Horgan" <tim.horgan@cit.ie<mailto:tim.horgan@cit.ie>> wrote: Hi Séan, I run the OpenStack Ireland meetup group, just wondering if your meeting is targeting only groups in the East Coast of the USA? Kind Regards, Tim On 9 Jan 2013, at 00:54, Sean Roberts <seanrob@yahoo-inc.com<mailto:seanrob@yahoo-inc.com>> wrote: We are going to have a planning meeting on Tuesday, 15 Jan 2012 11:00am to 1:00pm PST. RSVP via http://www.meetup.com/openstack/events/93593062/ Connect remotely via webex https://yahoomeetings.webex.com/yahoomeetings/j.php?ED=160663792&UID=492396097&RT=MiM0 If this time doesn't work for you, get ahold of me directly via skype:seanroberts66, email, mobile, irc:sarob, twitter:sarob, or carrier pigeon. Stefano and Thierry will be joining us. I want to get input from people that run user groups and meetups. See you then! Sean Roberts Infrastructure Strategy seanrob@yahoo-inc.com<mailto:seanrob@yahoo-inc.com> Direct (408) 349-5234 Mobile (925) 980-4729 701 First Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA, 94089-0703, US Phone (408) 349-3300 Fax (408) 349-3301 [http://forgood.zenfs.com/logos/yahoo.png] _______________________________________________ Community mailing list Community@lists.openstack.org<mailto:Community@lists.openstack.org> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/community Regards, Tim --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TIM HORGAN Head of Cloud Computing Centre of Excellence Extended Campus Office Cork Institute of Technology, Cork, Ireland phone: +353 214335120<callto:+353%2021%204335120> | mobile: +353 87 9439333<callto:+353%2087%209439333> twitter: @timhorgan<https://twitter.com/#%21/timhorgan> | skype: timothy.horgan<https://twitter.com/#%21/timhorgan> linkedin: http://ie.linkedin.com/in/timhorgan | web: http://cloud.cit.ie<http://cloud.cit.ie/> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Unfortunately I won't be able to attend this meeting either; please try to record it if possible or at least publish the meeting minutes. Thanks! On 01/15/2013 04:30 AM, Yujie Du wrote:

2013/1/15 Bruce Lok <brucelok@cyberport.hk <mailto:brucelok@cyberport.hk>>

Hi,____

I am sorry that I may not able to join the meeting but the Hong Kong OpenStack User Group and Hong Kong Cyberport will be updating you any information if necessary.____

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May I have a bit comment on the following agenda:____

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*Can the Foundation start working with some Universities for meeting space, sponsorship, and student participation? Is the Foundation interested in Phd thesis sponsorship____*

I strongly agree on this point, since there is getting more university students and researchers who starts to explore the open source cloud softwares as most commercial cloud softwares/services on market are really expensive for them to get start. Also, university students and researchers are usually more sincere to explore the open source software because it is free and cloud computing is quite new for them. And this is a good starting point to educate them to contribute to open source stuffs rather than just using it as freeware.____

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+1

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*Should there be an OpenStack user group and/or meetup approval process? How do we clean up user groups and meetups that are abandoned? ____*

I think there must be have an official central coordinator to manage all the user groups.____

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One more thing that I think would be discussed<app:ds:discuss> is that ,we have a lot of community events last year,but didn't use meetup.com <http://meetup.com> online services,due to the problems such as user habits.Can you give some advice?Or accept our own style as a user group meetup way?

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Thank you for the attention, and wish you all the best in year 2013.____

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Regards,____

*Bruce Lok____*

Coordinator of HKOSUG____

Engineer | Technology Centre____

Hong Kong Cyberport Management Co. Ltd.____

Tel: +852 3166-3728____

Fax: +852 3027-0099____

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*From:*Sean Roberts [mailto:seanrob@yahoo-inc.com <mailto:seanrob@yahoo-inc.com>] *Sent:* Tuesday, 15 January, 2013 07:26 *To:* OpenStack community; openstack *Cc:* Rob_Hirschfeld@Dell.com; Kamesh_Pemmaraju@dell.com <mailto:Kamesh_Pemmaraju@dell.com>; Andi_Abes@dell.com <mailto:Andi_Abes@dell.com>; trevor.lowing@gmail.com <mailto:trevor.lowing@gmail.com>; stephon.striplin@dreamhost.com <mailto:stephon.striplin@dreamhost.com>; carlp@hq.newdream.net <mailto:carlp@hq.newdream.net>; brent.scotten@rackspace.com <mailto:brent.scotten@rackspace.com>; kmestery@cisco.com <mailto:kmestery@cisco.com>; lloydostack@gmail.com <mailto:lloydostack@gmail.com>; freedomhui@gmail.com <mailto:freedomhui@gmail.com>; duyujie.dyj@gmail.com <mailto:duyujie.dyj@gmail.com>; santiagoc120@outlook.com <mailto:santiagoc120@outlook.com>; sc360@kent.ac.uk <mailto:sc360@kent.ac.uk>; mohamed@egyptcloudforum.com <mailto:mohamed@egyptcloudforum.com>; Ilkka.Turunen@jamk.fi <mailto:Ilkka.Turunen@jamk.fi>; berendt@b1-systems.de <mailto:berendt@b1-systems.de>; Bruce Lok; marton.kiss@xemeti.com <mailto:marton.kiss@xemeti.com>; deepakgarg.iitg@gmail.com <mailto:deepakgarg.iitg@gmail.com>; frans@meruvian.org <mailto:frans@meruvian.org>; tim.horgan@cit.ie <mailto:tim.horgan@cit.ie>; fenris@ubuntu.com <mailto:fenris@ubuntu.com>; mypapit@gmail.com <mailto:mypapit@gmail.com>; muharem@lbox.cc; hang.tran@dtt.vn <mailto:hang.tran@dtt.vn>

*Subject:* Re: [openstack-community] Calling all user group and meetup organizers____

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Agenda for tomorrow's user group / meetup planning meeting____

* __ __ * Review of user group and meetup template____ * Meetups fit into the larger plan of user committee and summit to summit development how? ____ * Where would be the location for social materials like videos, meetup logs, and other meeting related items?____ * Where do operators go to figure out how to run OpenStack in production?____ * Can the Foundation start working with some Universities for meeting space, sponsorship, and student participation? Is the Foundation interested in Phd thesis sponsorship?____ * If possible I like to get some supporters for a groups.openstack.org <http://groups.openstack.org> site, including content writers and some developer resources from the community. We have a lot of knowledge about running / starting an user group, and need to write it down, publish on the site and share it with newcomers. */ I think this is answered by the user group template information that will be published to http://wiki.openstack.org/OpenStackUserGroups. /*____ * Should there be an OpenStack user group and/or meetup approval process? How do we clean up user groups and meetups that are abandoned? ____

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*Sean Roberts* Infrastructure Strategy seanrob@yahoo-inc.com <mailto:seanrob@yahoo-inc.com>____

Direct (408) 349-5234 Mobile (925) 980-4729

701 First Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA, 94089-0703, US Phone (408) 349-3300 Fax (408) 349-3301

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On 1/14/13 2:07 PM, "Sean Roberts" <seanrob@yahoo-inc.com <mailto:seanrob@yahoo-inc.com>> wrote:____

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Reminder for the global user group planning meetup, tomorrow, Tuesday, 15 Jan 2012 11:00am to 1:00pm PST http://www.meetup.com/openstack/events/93593062/ ____

Join us!____

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*Sean Roberts* Infrastructure Strategy seanrob@yahoo-inc.com <mailto:seanrob@yahoo-inc.com>____

Direct (408) 349-5234 Mobile (925) 980-4729

701 First Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA, 94089-0703, US Phone (408) 349-3300 Fax (408) 349-3301

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On 1/9/13 1:05 PM, "Tim Horgan" <tim.horgan@cit.ie <mailto:tim.horgan@cit.ie>> wrote:____

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Hi Séan,____

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I run the OpenStack Ireland meetup group, just wondering if your meeting is targeting only groups in the East Coast of the USA?____

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Kind Regards,____

Tim____

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On 9 Jan 2013, at 00:54, Sean Roberts <seanrob@yahoo-inc.com <mailto:seanrob@yahoo-inc.com>> wrote:____

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We are going to have a planning meeting on Tuesday, 15 Jan 2012 11:00am to 1:00pm PST. RSVP via http://www.meetup.com/openstack/events/93593062/ Connect remotely via webex https://yahoomeetings.webex.com/yahoomeetings/j.php?ED=160663792&UID=492396097&RT=MiM0____

If this time doesn't work for you, get ahold of me directly via skype:seanroberts66, email, mobile, irc:sarob, twitter:sarob, or carrier pigeon.____

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Stefano and Thierry will be joining us. I want to get input from people that run user groups and meetups.____

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See you then!____

Best regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen -- Muharem Hrnjadovic <muharem@lbox.cc> // (public key id : B2BBFCFC)

Hi All, <snip> Hi, I am sorry that I may not able to join the meeting but the Hong Kong OpenStack User Group and Hong Kong Cyberport will be updating you any information if necessary. May I have a bit comment on the following agenda: Can the Foundation start working with some Universities for meeting space, sponsorship, and student participation? Is the Foundation interested in Phd thesis sponsorship I strongly agree on this point, since there is getting more university students and researchers who starts to explore the open source cloud softwares as most commercial cloud softwares/services on market are really expensive for them to get start. Also, university students and researchers are usually more sincere to explore the open source software because it is free and cloud computing is quite new for them. And this is a good starting point to educate them to contribute to open source stuffs rather than just using it as freeware. Should there be an OpenStack user group and/or meetup approval process? How do we clean up user groups and meetups that are abandoned? I think there must be have an official central coordinator to manage all the user groups. Thank you for the attention, and wish you all the best in year 2013. Regards, Bruce Lok Coordinator of HKOSUG Engineer | Technology Centre Hong Kong Cyberport Management Co. Ltd. Tel: +852 3166-3728 Fax: +852 3027-0099 From: Sean Roberts [mailto:seanrob@yahoo-inc.com] Sent: Tuesday, 15 January, 2013 07:26 To: OpenStack community; openstack Cc: Rob_Hirschfeld@Dell.com; Kamesh_Pemmaraju@dell.com; Andi_Abes@dell.com; trevor.lowing@gmail.com; stephon.striplin@dreamhost.com; carlp@hq.newdream.net; brent.scotten@rackspace.com; kmestery@cisco.com; lloydostack@gmail.com; freedomhui@gmail.com; duyujie.dyj@gmail.com; santiagoc120@outlook.com; sc360@kent.ac.uk; mohamed@egyptcloudforum.com; Ilkka.Turunen@jamk.fi; berendt@b1-systems.de; Bruce Lok; marton.kiss@xemeti.com; deepakgarg.iitg@gmail.com; frans@meruvian.org; tim.horgan@cit.ie; fenris@ubuntu.com; mypapit@gmail.com; muharem@lbox.cc; hang.tran@dtt.vn Subject: Re: [openstack-community] Calling all user group and meetup organizers Agenda for tomorrow's user group / meetup planning meeting * * Review of user group and meetup template * Meetups fit into the larger plan of user committee and summit to summit development how? * Where would be the location for social materials like videos, meetup logs, and other meeting related items? * Where do operators go to figure out how to run OpenStack in production? * Can the Foundation start working with some Universities for meeting space, sponsorship, and student participation? Is the Foundation interested in Phd thesis sponsorship? * If possible I like to get some supporters for a groups.openstack.org site, including content writers and some developer resources from the community. We have a lot of knowledge about running / starting an user group, and need to write it down, publish on the site and share it with newcomers. I think this is answered by the user group template information that will be published to http://wiki.openstack.org/OpenStackUserGroups. * Should there be an OpenStack user group and/or meetup approval process? How do we clean up user groups and meetups that are abandoned? Sean Roberts Infrastructure Strategy seanrob@yahoo-inc.com<mailto:seanrob@yahoo-inc.com> Direct (408) 349-5234 Mobile (925) 980-4729 701 First Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA, 94089-0703, US Phone (408) 349-3300 Fax (408) 349-3301 [http://forgood.zenfs.com/logos/yahoo.png] On 1/14/13 2:07 PM, "Sean Roberts" <seanrob@yahoo-inc.com<mailto:seanrob@yahoo-inc.com>> wrote: Reminder for the global user group planning meetup, tomorrow, Tuesday, 15 Jan 2012 11:00am to 1:00pm PST http://www.meetup.com/openstack/events/93593062/ Join us! Sean Roberts Infrastructure Strategy seanrob@yahoo-inc.com<mailto:seanrob@yahoo-inc.com> Direct (408) 349-5234 Mobile (925) 980-4729 701 First Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA, 94089-0703, US Phone (408) 349-3300 Fax (408) 349-3301 [http://forgood.zenfs.com/logos/yahoo.png] On 1/9/13 1:05 PM, "Tim Horgan" <tim.horgan@cit.ie<mailto:tim.horgan@cit.ie>> wrote: Hi Séan, I run the OpenStack Ireland meetup group, just wondering if your meeting is targeting only groups in the East Coast of the USA? Kind Regards, Tim On 9 Jan 2013, at 00:54, Sean Roberts <seanrob@yahoo-inc.com<mailto:seanrob@yahoo-inc.com>> wrote: We are going to have a planning meeting on Tuesday, 15 Jan 2012 11:00am to 1:00pm PST. RSVP via http://www.meetup.com/openstack/events/93593062/ Connect remotely via webex https://yahoomeetings.webex.com/yahoomeetings/j.php?ED=160663792&UID=492396097&RT=MiM0 If this time doesn't work for you, get ahold of me directly via skype:seanroberts66, email, mobile, irc:sarob, twitter:sarob, or carrier pigeon. Stefano and Thierry will be joining us. I want to get input from people that run user groups and meetups. See you then! </snip> Just a request, everyone might not be able to attend the meeting, it will be nice if a MOM or recorded audio of the meeting is available somewhere to understand what all was discussed and roadmap for the same. Also I would like to let you all know about OpenStack India and activities we undertook over last one year or so. Current state 1. Over 550 plus member 2. Meetings happen every month in one of the cities in the country. 3. Organized over 12 meetups & mini-conf. Reference : http://www.meetup.com/Indian-OpenStack-User-Group/ Thanks!! Atul Jha One of the coordinator -- OpenStack India User Group. http://www.csscorp.com/common/email-disclaimer.php

Hi Sean, Thanks for taking the initiative to organize this. I'd like to toss another agenda item if I may. I started, and currently help organize the Boston meetup, and we've been blessed with lots of local resources, both in terms of facilities and openstack enthusiasts. Feedback I've gotten from multiple folks is that it would be useful to make available technical experts on up and coming projects (ceilometer, heat, new quantum services , cinder etc). While in the past I coordinated with project PTL's to locate local experts, it might be more efficient (and less troubling to PTL's) to have a community effort around this. If local presence is less than possible, then various collaboration tools could work. After that long promo, the agenda item would be - how do UG's help with incubating projects, and what kind of support the Openstack community at large supports that? Regards, a. From: Sean Roberts [mailto:seanrob@yahoo-inc.com] Sent: Monday, January 14, 2013 6:26 PM To: OpenStack community; openstack Cc: Hirschfeld, Rob; Pemmaraju, Kamesh; Abes, Andi; trevor.lowing@gmail.com; stephon.striplin@dreamhost.com; carlp@hq.newdream.net; brent.scotten@rackspace.com; kmestery@cisco.com; lloydostack@gmail.com; freedomhui@gmail.com; duyujie.dyj@gmail.com; santiagoc120@outlook.com; sc360@kent.ac.uk; mohamed@egyptcloudforum.com; Ilkka.Turunen@jamk.fi; berendt@b1-systems.de; BruceLok@cyberport.hk; marton.kiss@xemeti.com; deepakgarg.iitg@gmail.com; frans@meruvian.org; tim.horgan@cit.ie; fenris@ubuntu.com; mypapit@gmail.com; muharem@lbox.cc; hang.tran@dtt.vn Subject: Re: [openstack-community] Calling all user group and meetup organizers Agenda for tomorrow's user group / meetup planning meeting * * Review of user group and meetup template * Meetups fit into the larger plan of user committee and summit to summit development how? * Where would be the location for social materials like videos, meetup logs, and other meeting related items? * Where do operators go to figure out how to run OpenStack in production? * Can the Foundation start working with some Universities for meeting space, sponsorship, and student participation? Is the Foundation interested in Phd thesis sponsorship? * If possible I like to get some supporters for a groups.openstack.org site, including content writers and some developer resources from the community. We have a lot of knowledge about running / starting an user group, and need to write it down, publish on the site and share it with newcomers. I think this is answered by the user group template information that will be published to http://wiki.openstack.org/OpenStackUserGroups. * Should there be an OpenStack user group and/or meetup approval process? How do we clean up user groups and meetups that are abandoned? Sean Roberts Infrastructure Strategy seanrob@yahoo-inc.com<mailto:seanrob@yahoo-inc.com> Direct (408) 349-5234 Mobile (925) 980-4729 701 First Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA, 94089-0703, US Phone (408) 349-3300 Fax (408) 349-3301 [http://forgood.zenfs.com/logos/yahoo.png] On 1/14/13 2:07 PM, "Sean Roberts" <seanrob@yahoo-inc.com<mailto:seanrob@yahoo-inc.com>> wrote: Reminder for the global user group planning meetup, tomorrow, Tuesday, 15 Jan 2012 11:00am to 1:00pm PST http://www.meetup.com/openstack/events/93593062/ Join us! Sean Roberts Infrastructure Strategy seanrob@yahoo-inc.com<mailto:seanrob@yahoo-inc.com> Direct (408) 349-5234 Mobile (925) 980-4729 701 First Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA, 94089-0703, US Phone (408) 349-3300 Fax (408) 349-3301 [http://forgood.zenfs.com/logos/yahoo.png] On 1/9/13 1:05 PM, "Tim Horgan" <tim.horgan@cit.ie<mailto:tim.horgan@cit.ie>> wrote: Hi Séan, I run the OpenStack Ireland meetup group, just wondering if your meeting is targeting only groups in the East Coast of the USA? Kind Regards, Tim On 9 Jan 2013, at 00:54, Sean Roberts <seanrob@yahoo-inc.com<mailto:seanrob@yahoo-inc.com>> wrote: We are going to have a planning meeting on Tuesday, 15 Jan 2012 11:00am to 1:00pm PST. RSVP via http://www.meetup.com/openstack/events/93593062/ Connect remotely via webex https://yahoomeetings.webex.com/yahoomeetings/j.php?ED=160663792&UID=492396097&RT=MiM0 If this time doesn't work for you, get ahold of me directly via skype:seanroberts66, email, mobile, irc:sarob, twitter:sarob, or carrier pigeon. Stefano and Thierry will be joining us. I want to get input from people that run user groups and meetups. See you then! 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Hi all. I am from Russian OpenStack Community. Hopefully can join meetup remotely. But anyway will be glad to participate in mailing list discussions. Ilya 2013/1/15 Frans Thamura <frans@meruvian.org>

hi all

I am from OpenStack Indonesia User Group..

love of to be part of the movement.

Hope can join the webex.

but I am glad , if you can share to mailing list first.

F

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Great! I will add some requirements that our community events needed. 2013/1/15 Stefano Maffulli <stefano@openstack.org>

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On 01/15/2013 03:15 PM, Andi_Abes@Dell.com wrote:

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Feedback I’ve gotten from multiple folks is that it would be useful to make available technical experts on up and coming projects (ceilometer, heat, new quantum services , cinder etc). While in the past I coordinated with project PTL’s to locate local experts, it might be more efficient (and less troubling to PTL’s) to have a community effort around this. If local presence is less than possible, then various collaboration tools could work.

This is definitely something we're doing. We have a project at the Foundation to create a 'spaker list' where organisers of events can go and select speakers based on their needs. Basically we're extending the Foundation's Members database to include information about availability to speak at events (with travelling options), topics the speaker is comfortable covering and more.

We're also working on a new tool to collect all the information about user groups around the world, to aggregate data in a single place ( groups.openstack.org) about existence of a group in a given geographic area (doh!), expertise, events, material produced, etc. Stay tuned for more. We have started tracking feature requests as blueprints on this launchpad project:

https://launchpad.net/**openstack-community<https://launchpad.net/openstack-community>

Please add your needs to it.

/stef

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Good work! If we can have a multi-language versions, it will be better for different areas to participate in. 2013/1/16 Sean Roberts <seanrob@yahoo-inc.com>

Here is my take on the first agenda item, user group / meetup template, for today's meeting. After we clean it up, this would become part of the http://wiki.openstack.org/OpenStackUserGroups page.

*Definition of a user group*: The OpenStack User Groups are informal associations of people around the world that meet to discuss about OpenStack, share knowledge and experiences. These are important entities for the OpenStack project as they help by spreading awareness, recruit developers and users and more. The user groups don't have a direct relation with the OpenStack Foundation even though the members of the user groups can be members of the OpenStack Foundation and/or be a member of the OpenStack User Committee.

*Starting up a new user group: *When starting a new group, you need to first ask what is the purpose of this group and is there another existing group that already serves these needs? It takes a lot of work to start and operate a well-run user group. You could instead focus your time in helping an existing user group. Make sure that you get an additional person to help you and act as a backup, so if you drop out for any reason, someone else will be there to take your place. We have been running a the San Francisco OpenStack user group for over two and half years (since OpenStack was formed) and we want to provide some guidance. The questions and answers below should help guide you to your happy user group place. Some user group owners that are willing to mentor new user groups and find that list here <-link here->

1. *User Group List:* Will your group be unique or can you lend your time to an existing user group rather than creating a new one? Look here for existing OpenStack user groups http://wiki.openstack.org/OpenStackUserGroups 2. *Topics: *What topics do you want to support? Architecture overview, hacking code, vendor support, production operations, blueprints, an excuse to drink beer, or all of the above? Review these active meetup locations for ideas http://www.meetup.com/openstack/events/past/, http://www.meetup.com/Openstack-Boston/events/past/, http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-Austin/events/past/, http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-LA/events/past/ 3. *Location: *This is critical part of your user group. Find a location that will be there long term. Start with contacting the OpenStack sponsoring companies in your area. Network with other OpenStack interested locals. Contact your local university. Are there any startup sharing locations near you? 4. *Materials: *There are some basic meeting materials and preparation you will want to go through. Food, drink, security, white boards, projectors, tables and chairs are the basics. The location you secured may have a few of these things, but don't assume they do. 5. *Sponsorship:* You may need to find a sponsor to pay for the location, food, and/or drink. Again, you can hit up your local OpenStack sponsoring company as a first option. 6. *Speakers:* Review the community speaker list here <-link here->, mark the speakers and dates you are interested in, and then contact your proposed speakers for their buyin. If you have your own speaker, feel free to add new speakers to the same list. 7. *Publish:* The recommended way for publishing your intent to meet is using http://meetup.com. Create a new meetup with the name starting with OpenStack, follow the example of the past SF Bay OpenStack meetups for content structure and configuration. Our meetups reoccur every one to two weeks. You probably want to create each event one at a time instead. Post the meetup description and meetup link to the OpenStack User Group community page http://wiki.openstack.org/OpenStackUserGroups 8. *Attendees:* Get attendees by announcing over openstack and openstack community mailing lists, linkedin, twitter, facebook, and/or google groups. 9. *Structure:* Structure your meetup through standard slidedeck or templates for each and by three common meetup types. 10. 1. *Beginner: *If you want to attract new users to OpenStack then you will want to discuss the architecture and the basics of how to use OpenStack. Mirantis has put together a good workflow presentation, review it here http://www.slideshare.net/mirantis/openstack-cloud-request-flow. You can create your own standard slidedeck as a speaking guide as well. 2. *Intermediate: *Developers and operators that want to understand how to make OpenStack production ready for their organization need a place to discuss developer setups. Review and share topics like details on APIs, where code gets installed, checking in code, and configurations. We call our intermediate level meetups Hackathons. We teach new guys how to use devstack, hold bug squash days, and focus on a blueprints. We are talking about making the first meetup of each month as bug squash competition between user groups for free summit passes and a quarterly install fest. We have plans to create tool kits/slidedeck for bug squash and intall fest. 3. *Advanced:* We tend to call this our devOps meetup. Our topics are generally about blueprints, advanced operations, or specific deep dive into part of OpenStack like Quantum. We have been discussing the idea of getting the PTLs involved with the Advanced meetups to promote blueprints needing help, status of the project, and anything else the PTL wants to talk about.

*Operating a user group:* You will need make a checklist of things to do and when. Below is the checklist for the SFBay OpenStack meetups.

1. *Establish dates and times *at least 6 months in advance 2. *Schedule speakers*, assistants at least a month in advance 3. *Schedule tweets and emails *to go out 7, 2, 1, and 0 days before the meetup reminding possible attendees of the meetup. Example below 1. T-7 day 13:00: 17May2012 SF South Bay OpenStack Advanced session meetup with Mike Pittaro Dell, #cloud @openstack RSVP via http://www.meetup.com/openstack/ 2. T-2 day 13:00: 17May2012 SF South Bay OpenStack Advanced session meetup with Mike Pittaro Dell, #cloud @openstack RSVP via http://www.meetup.com/openstack/ 3. T-1 day 13:00: 17May2012 SF South Bay OpenStack Advanced session meetup with Mike Pittaro Dell, #cloud @openstack RSVP via http://www.meetup.com/openstack/ 4. T-0 day 13:00: 17May2012 SF South Bay OpenStack Advanced session meetup with Mike Pittaro Dell, #cloud @openstack RSVP via http://www.meetup.com/openstack/ 4. *Schedule an email *to go out to the openstack-community@ilists.launchpad.net mailing list with the same content 5. *Book your meeting space *at least 1 month in advance 6. *Notify security *about the meetup and so they can provide directions so visitors do not get lost 7. *Order the food *at least 3 days in advance. A good gauge is about 50-70% of the RSVPs actually show up. Better topics get a higher percentage turnout. 8. *Prep the room* about an hour before the meetup. Check the AV equipment, power strips, seats, food, drink, and white boards are ready to go. 9. *Post Meetup:* After the meetup, send images [jpg] to <-link here->, video [mpg] to <-link here->, marketing updates to <-link here->, and/or update the User Group community page if necessary.

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On 1/15/13 7:30 AM, "Yujie Du" <duyujie.dyj@gmail.com> wrote:

Great! I will add some requirements that our community events needed.

2013/1/15 Stefano Maffulli <stefano@openstack.org>

...

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On 01/15/2013 03:15 PM, Andi_Abes@Dell.com wrote:

...

Feedback I’ve gotten from multiple folks is that it would be useful to make available technical experts on up and coming projects (ceilometer, heat, new quantum services , cinder etc). While in the past I coordinated with project PTL’s to locate local experts, it might be more efficient (and less troubling to PTL’s) to have a community effort around this. If local presence is less than possible, then various collaboration tools could work.

This is definitely something we're doing. We have a project at the Foundation to create a 'spaker list' where organisers of events can go and select speakers based on their needs. Basically we're extending the Foundation's Members database to include information about availability to speak at events (with travelling options), topics the speaker is comfortable covering and more.

We're also working on a new tool to collect all the information about user groups around the world, to aggregate data in a single place ( groups.openstack.org) about existence of a group in a given geographic area (doh!), expertise, events, material produced, etc. Stay tuned for more. We have started tracking feature requests as blueprints on this launchpad project:

https://launchpad.net/**openstack-community<https://launchpad.net/openstack-community>

Please add your needs to it.

/stef

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Find below the revised user group page based on feedback from last week's planning meeting. There are a few links that still need to be filled in. Definition of a user group: The OpenStack User Groups are informal associations of people around the world that meet to discuss about OpenStack, share knowledge and experiences. These are important entities for the OpenStack project as they help by spreading awareness, recruit developers and users and more. The user groups don't have a direct relation with the OpenStack Foundation even though the members of the user groups can be members of the OpenStack Foundation and/or be a member of the OpenStack User Committee. It is important to note that these user groups include developers, operators, end-users, ecosystem partners, and distribution providers. So we are defining a user more broadly than usual. Starting up a new user group: We have been running a the San Francisco OpenStack user group for over two and half years (since OpenStack was formed) and we want to provide some guidance. The questions and answers below should help guide you to your happy user group place. Some user group owners that are willing to mentor new user groups and find that list here <-link here->. 1. Join the OpenStack Community: Add yourself to openstack-community mailing list 2. User Group List: Will your group be unique or can you lend your time to an existing user group rather than creating a new one? It takes a lot of work to start and operate a well-run user group. You could instead focus your time in helping an existing user group. Look here for existing OpenStack user groups http://wiki.openstack.org/OpenStackUserGroups. 3. Get help: Make sure that you get an additional person to help you and act as a backup, so if you drop out for any reason, someone else will be there to take your place. 4. Audience: Who do you want to attract to your user group meetings? Figure out from below what attributes you are interested in. The OpenStack User Committee has defined different user attributes as roles, types of organizations, market segments, and geographies. Find the attributes and values here https://docs.google.com/a/yahoo-inc.com/document/d/1yD8TfqUik2dt5xo_jMVHMl7t.... We need to define another attribute OpenStack skill level. We assume there are three skill levels: beginner, intermediate, and advanced. * Beginner: If you want to attract new users to OpenStack then you will want to discuss the architecture and the basics of how to use OpenStack. Mirantis has put together a good workflow presentation, review it here http://www.slideshare.net/mirantis/openstack-cloud-request-flow. You can create your own standard slidedeck as a speaking guide as well. * Intermediate: We call this our hackathon meetup. Developers and operators that want to understand how to make OpenStack production ready for their organization need a place to discuss developer setups. Review and share topics like details on APIs, where code gets installed, checking in code, and configurations. We call our intermediate level meetups Hackathons. We teach new guys how to use devstack, hold bug squash days, and focus on a blueprints. We are talking about making the first meetup of each month as bug squash competition between user groups for free summit passes and a quarterly install fest. We have plans to create tool kits/slidedeck for bug squash and intall fest. * Advanced: We tend to call this our devOps meetup. Our topics are generally about blueprints, advanced operations, or specific deep dive into part of OpenStack like Quantum. We have been discussing the idea of getting the PTLs involved with the Advanced meetups to promote blueprints needing help, status of the project, and anything else the PTL wants to talk about. drive better quality developmentoutreach into python user groupsencourage code partipation, commits 5. Topics: Your topics will your different types of users want to listen and interact with based on the attributes above? You can review these active meetup locations for ideas http://www.meetup.com/openstack/events/past/, http://www.meetup.com/Openstack-Boston/events/past/, http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-Austin/events/past/, http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-LA/events/past/ 6. Location: This is critical part of your user group. Find a location that will be there long term. Start by contacting the OpenStack sponsoring companies in your area. Network with other OpenStack interested locals. Contact your local university, small technical colleges, and/or college extensions. Are there any startup sharing locations near you? 7. Materials: There are some basic meeting materials and preparation you will want to go through. Food, drink, security, white boards, projectors, tables and chairs are the basics. The location you secured may have a few of these things, but don't assume they do. Consider after-hours HVAC, lighting, and security. A small room can get hot, very quickly with the air conditioning turned off. Sometimes our security forgets and remotely locks our doors. 8. Sponsorship: You may need to find a sponsor to pay for the location, food, and/or drink. Again, you can hit up your local OpenStack sponsoring company as a first option. Consider ongoing commitment vs onetime event. Encourage long term participation by making sure the sponsor has something to gain through the user group. 9. Speakers: Review the community speaker list here <-link here->, mark the speakers and dates you are interested in, and then contact your proposed speakers for their buyin. If you have your own speaker, feel free to add new speakers to the same list. 10. Publish: The recommended way for publishing your intent to meet is using http://meetup.com. Create a new meetup with the name starting with OpenStack-, follow the example of the past SF Bay OpenStack meetups for content structure and configuration. Our meetups reoccur every one to two weeks. You probably want to create each event one at a time instead. Get attendees by announcing over openstack and openstack community mailing lists, linkedin, twitter, facebook, and/or google groups. Post your user group to the http://wiki.openstack.org/OpenStackUserGroups. Operating a user group: You will need make a checklist of things to do and when. Below is the checklist for the SFBay OpenStack meetups. 1. Establish dates and times at least 6 months in advance 2. Schedule speakers, assistants at least a month in advance 3. Schedule tweets and emails to go out 7, 2, 1, and 0 days before the meetup reminding possible attendees of the meetup. Example below * T-7 day 11:30: @OpenStack hackathon meetup happening next Thursday at #Yahoo Sunnyvale, RSVP http://meetup.com/Openstack, webex avail * T-2 day 11:30: @OpenStack hackathon meetup happening next Thursday at #Yahoo Sunnyvale, RSVP http://meetup.com/Openstack, webex avail * T-1 day 11:30: @OpenStack hackathon meetup happening tomorrow at #Yahoo Sunnyvale, RSVP http://meetup.com/Openstack, webex avail * T-0 day 11:30: @OpenStack hackathon meetup happening today at #Yahoo Sunnyvale, RSVP http://meetup.com/Openstack, webex avail 4. Schedule an email to go out to the openstack-community@ilists.launchpad.net mailing list with the same content 5. Book your meeting space at least 1 month in advance 6. Notify security about the meetup and so they can provide directions so visitors do not get lost 7. Order the food at least 3 days in advance. A good gauge is about 50-70% of the RSVPs actually show up. Better topics get a higher percentage turnout. 8. Prep the room about an hour before the meetup. Check the AV equipment, power strips, seats, food, drink, and white boards are ready to go. 9. Post Meetup: After the meetup, send images [jpg] to <-link here->, video [mpg] to <-link here->, marketing updates to <-link here->, and/or update the User Group page http://wiki.openstack.org/OpenStackUserGroups if necessary. Sean Roberts Infrastructure Strategy seanrob@yahoo-inc.com Direct (408) 349-5234 Mobile (925) 980-4729 701 First Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA, 94089-0703, US Phone (408) 349-3300 Fax (408) 349-3301 [http://forgood.zenfs.com/logos/yahoo.png] On 1/15/13 9:39 AM, "Sean Roberts" <seanrob@yahoo-inc.com<mailto:seanrob@yahoo-inc.com>> wrote: Here is my take on the first agenda item, user group / meetup template, for today's meeting. After we clean it up, this would become part of the http://wiki.openstack.org/OpenStackUserGroups page. Definition of a user group: The OpenStack User Groups are informal associations of people around the world that meet to discuss about OpenStack, share knowledge and experiences. These are important entities for the OpenStack project as they help by spreading awareness, recruit developers and users and more. The user groups don't have a direct relation with the OpenStack Foundation even though the members of the user groups can be members of the OpenStack Foundation and/or be a member of the OpenStack User Committee. Starting up a new user group: When starting a new group, you need to first ask what is the purpose of this group and is there another existing group that already serves these needs? It takes a lot of work to start and operate a well-run user group. You could instead focus your time in helping an existing user group. Make sure that you get an additional person to help you and act as a backup, so if you drop out for any reason, someone else will be there to take your place. We have been running a the San Francisco OpenStack user group for over two and half years (since OpenStack was formed) and we want to provide some guidance. The questions and answers below should help guide you to your happy user group place. Some user group owners that are willing to mentor new user groups and find that list here <-link here-> 1. User Group List: Will your group be unique or can you lend your time to an existing user group rather than creating a new one? Look here for existing OpenStack user groups http://wiki.openstack.org/OpenStackUserGroups 2. Topics: What topics do you want to support? Architecture overview, hacking code, vendor support, production operations, blueprints, an excuse to drink beer, or all of the above? Review these active meetup locations for ideas http://www.meetup.com/openstack/events/past/, http://www.meetup.com/Openstack-Boston/events/past/, http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-Austin/events/past/, http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-LA/events/past/ 3. Location: This is critical part of your user group. Find a location that will be there long term. Start with contacting the OpenStack sponsoring companies in your area. Network with other OpenStack interested locals. Contact your local university. Are there any startup sharing locations near you? 4. Materials: There are some basic meeting materials and preparation you will want to go through. Food, drink, security, white boards, projectors, tables and chairs are the basics. The location you secured may have a few of these things, but don't assume they do. 5. Sponsorship: You may need to find a sponsor to pay for the location, food, and/or drink. Again, you can hit up your local OpenStack sponsoring company as a first option. 6. Speakers: Review the community speaker list here <-link here->, mark the speakers and dates you are interested in, and then contact your proposed speakers for their buyin. If you have your own speaker, feel free to add new speakers to the same list. 7. Publish: The recommended way for publishing your intent to meet is using http://meetup.com. Create a new meetup with the name starting with OpenStack, follow the example of the past SF Bay OpenStack meetups for content structure and configuration. Our meetups reoccur every one to two weeks. You probably want to create each event one at a time instead. Post the meetup description and meetup link to the OpenStack User Group community page http://wiki.openstack.org/OpenStackUserGroups 8. Attendees: Get attendees by announcing over openstack and openstack community mailing lists, linkedin, twitter, facebook, and/or google groups. 9. Structure: Structure your meetup through standard slidedeck or templates for each and by three common meetup types. 10. * Beginner: If you want to attract new users to OpenStack then you will want to discuss the architecture and the basics of how to use OpenStack. Mirantis has put together a good workflow presentation, review it here http://www.slideshare.net/mirantis/openstack-cloud-request-flow. You can create your own standard slidedeck as a speaking guide as well. * Intermediate: Developers and operators that want to understand how to make OpenStack production ready for their organization need a place to discuss developer setups. Review and share topics like details on APIs, where code gets installed, checking in code, and configurations. We call our intermediate level meetups Hackathons. We teach new guys how to use devstack, hold bug squash days, and focus on a blueprints. We are talking about making the first meetup of each month as bug squash competition between user groups for free summit passes and a quarterly install fest. We have plans to create tool kits/slidedeck for bug squash and intall fest. * Advanced: We tend to call this our devOps meetup. Our topics are generally about blueprints, advanced operations, or specific deep dive into part of OpenStack like Quantum. We have been discussing the idea of getting the PTLs involved with the Advanced meetups to promote blueprints needing help, status of the project, and anything else the PTL wants to talk about. Operating a user group: You will need make a checklist of things to do and when. Below is the checklist for the SFBay OpenStack meetups. 1. Establish dates and times at least 6 months in advance 2. Schedule speakers, assistants at least a month in advance 3. Schedule tweets and emails to go out 7, 2, 1, and 0 days before the meetup reminding possible attendees of the meetup. Example below * T-7 day 13:00: 17May2012 SF South Bay OpenStack Advanced session meetup with Mike Pittaro Dell, #cloud @openstack RSVP via http://www.meetup.com/openstack/ * T-2 day 13:00: 17May2012 SF South Bay OpenStack Advanced session meetup with Mike Pittaro Dell, #cloud @openstack RSVP via http://www.meetup.com/openstack/ * T-1 day 13:00: 17May2012 SF South Bay OpenStack Advanced session meetup with Mike Pittaro Dell, #cloud @openstack RSVP via http://www.meetup.com/openstack/ * T-0 day 13:00: 17May2012 SF South Bay OpenStack Advanced session meetup with Mike Pittaro Dell, #cloud @openstack RSVP via http://www.meetup.com/openstack/ 4. Schedule an email to go out to the openstack-community@ilists.launchpad.net<mailto:openstack-community@ilists.launchpad.net> mailing list with the same content 5. Book your meeting space at least 1 month in advance 6. Notify security about the meetup and so they can provide directions so visitors do not get lost 7. Order the food at least 3 days in advance. A good gauge is about 50-70% of the RSVPs actually show up. Better topics get a higher percentage turnout. 8. Prep the room about an hour before the meetup. Check the AV equipment, power strips, seats, food, drink, and white boards are ready to go. 9. Post Meetup: After the meetup, send images [jpg] to <-link here->, video [mpg] to <-link here->, marketing updates to <-link here->, and/or update the User Group community page if necessary. Sean Roberts Infrastructure Strategy seanrob@yahoo-inc.com<mailto:seanrob@yahoo-inc.com> Direct (408) 349-5234 Mobile (925) 980-4729 701 First Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA, 94089-0703, US Phone (408) 349-3300 Fax (408) 349-3301 [http://forgood.zenfs.com/logos/yahoo.png] On 1/15/13 7:30 AM, "Yujie Du" <duyujie.dyj@gmail.com<mailto:duyujie.dyj@gmail.com>> wrote: Great! I will add some requirements that our community events needed. 2013/1/15 Stefano Maffulli <stefano@openstack.org<mailto:stefano@openstack.org>> [please join the mailing list and keep the CC limited: there are over 20 people in CC and mailman chokes http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/community] On 01/15/2013 03:15 PM, Andi_Abes@Dell.com<mailto:Andi_Abes@Dell.com> wrote: Feedback I’ve gotten from multiple folks is that it would be useful to make available technical experts on up and coming projects (ceilometer, heat, new quantum services , cinder etc). While in the past I coordinated with project PTL’s to locate local experts, it might be more efficient (and less troubling to PTL’s) to have a community effort around this. If local presence is less than possible, then various collaboration tools could work. This is definitely something we're doing. We have a project at the Foundation to create a 'spaker list' where organisers of events can go and select speakers based on their needs. Basically we're extending the Foundation's Members database to include information about availability to speak at events (with travelling options), topics the speaker is comfortable covering and more. We're also working on a new tool to collect all the information about user groups around the world, to aggregate data in a single place (groups.openstack.org<http://groups.openstack.org>) about existence of a group in a given geographic area (doh!), expertise, events, material produced, etc. Stay tuned for more. We have started tracking feature requests as blueprints on this launchpad project: https://launchpad.net/openstack-community Please add your needs to it. /stef _______________________________________________ Community mailing list Community@lists.openstack.org<mailto:Community@lists.openstack.org> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/community -- --Ben OSI Individual Member OpenStack Foundation Board Member Co-founder and Leader of China OpenStack User Group( COSUG ) Mobile: +86 15921531026 WEIBO: http://weibo.com/u/1716287123<http://www.weibo.com/u/1716287123?from=profile&wvr=4&loc=infweihao> TWITTER: https://twitter.com/ben_Duyujie LINKEDIN: cn.linkedin.com/in/duyujie<http://cn.linkedin.com/in/duyujie>

Hi, Unfortunately I might not be able to attend the meetup tonight (evening in Sweden), but would be glad to go through the minutes when they are made available. Kudos for the idea regarding an available speakers list, having experts at events makes them more attractive for participants. Regards, /Nico. On 15 January 2013 17:22, Sean Roberts <seanrob@yahoo-inc.com> wrote:

Agreed, creating a speaker list is on the to do list.

~sean

On Jan 15, 2013, at 6:16 AM, "Andi_Abes@dell.com" <Andi_Abes@dell.com> wrote:

Hi Sean,****

Thanks for taking the initiative to organize this.****

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I’d like to toss another agenda item if I may.****

I started, and currently help organize the Boston meetup, and we’ve been blessed with lots of local resources, both in terms of facilities and openstack enthusiasts. ****

Feedback I’ve gotten from multiple folks is that it would be useful to make available technical experts on up and coming projects (ceilometer, heat, new quantum services , cinder etc). While in the past I coordinated with project PTL’s to locate local experts, it might be more efficient (and less troubling to PTL’s) to have a community effort around this. If local presence is less than possible, then various collaboration tools could work. ****

After that long promo, the agenda item would be – how do UG’s help with incubating projects, and what kind of support the Openstack community at large supports that?****

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Regards,****

a.****

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*From:* Sean Roberts [mailto:seanrob@yahoo-inc.com <seanrob@yahoo-inc.com>]

*Sent:* Monday, January 14, 2013 6:26 PM *To:* OpenStack community; openstack *Cc:* Hirschfeld, Rob; Pemmaraju, Kamesh; Abes, Andi; trevor.lowing@gmail.com; stephon.striplin@dreamhost.com; carlp@hq.newdream.net; brent.scotten@rackspace.com; kmestery@cisco.com; lloydostack@gmail.com; freedomhui@gmail.com; duyujie.dyj@gmail.com; santiagoc120@outlook.com; sc360@kent.ac.uk; mohamed@egyptcloudforum.com; Ilkka.Turunen@jamk.fi; berendt@b1-systems.de; BruceLok@cyberport.hk; marton.kiss@xemeti.com; deepakgarg.iitg@gmail.com; frans@meruvian.org; tim.horgan@cit.ie; fenris@ubuntu.com; mypapit@gmail.com; muharem@lbox.cc; hang.tran@dtt.vn *Subject:* Re: [openstack-community] Calling all user group and meetup organizers****

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Agenda for tomorrow's user group / meetup planning meeting****

- ** ** - Review of user group and meetup template**** - Meetups fit into the larger plan of user committee and summit to summit development how? **** - Where would be the location for social materials like videos, meetup logs, and other meeting related items?**** - Where do operators go to figure out how to run OpenStack in production?**** - Can the Foundation start working with some Universities for meeting space, sponsorship, and student participation? Is the Foundation interested in Phd thesis sponsorship?**** - If possible I like to get some supporters for a groups.openstack.orgsite, including content writers and some developer resources from the community. We have a lot of knowledge about running / starting an user group, and need to write it down, publish on the site and share it with newcomers. * I think this is answered by the user group template information that will be published to http://wiki.openstack.org/OpenStackUserGroups. ***** - Should there be an OpenStack user group and/or meetup approval process? How do we clean up user groups and meetups that are abandoned? ****

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*Sean Roberts* Infrastructure Strategy seanrob@yahoo-inc.com****

Direct (408) 349-5234 Mobile (925) 980-4729

701 First Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA, 94089-0703, US Phone (408) 349-3300 Fax (408) 349-3301

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On 1/14/13 2:07 PM, "Sean Roberts" <seanrob@yahoo-inc.com> wrote:****

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Reminder for the global user group planning meetup, tomorrow, Tuesday, 15 Jan 2012 11:00am to 1:00pm PST http://www.meetup.com/openstack/events/93593062/ ****

Join us!****

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*Sean Roberts* Infrastructure Strategy seanrob@yahoo-inc.com****

Direct (408) 349-5234 Mobile (925) 980-4729

701 First Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA, 94089-0703, US Phone (408) 349-3300 Fax (408) 349-3301

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On 1/9/13 1:05 PM, "Tim Horgan" <tim.horgan@cit.ie> wrote:****

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Hi Séan,****

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I run the OpenStack Ireland meetup group, just wondering if your meeting is targeting only groups in the East Coast of the USA?****

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Kind Regards,****

Tim****

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On 9 Jan 2013, at 00:54, Sean Roberts <seanrob@yahoo-inc.com> wrote:****

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We are going to have a planning meeting on Tuesday, 15 Jan 2012 11:00am to 1:00pm PST. RSVP via http://www.meetup.com/openstack/events/93593062/ Connect remotely via webex https://yahoomeetings.webex.com/yahoomeetings/j.php?ED=160663792&UID=492396097&RT=MiM0 ****

If this time doesn't work for you, get ahold of me directly via skype:seanroberts66, email, mobile, irc:sarob, twitter:sarob, or carrier pigeon.****

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Stefano and Thierry will be joining us. I want to get input from people that run user groups and meetups.****

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See you then!****

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*Sean Roberts* Infrastructure Strategy seanrob@yahoo-inc.com Direct (408) 349-5234 Mobile (925) 980-4729

701 First Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA, 94089-0703, US Phone (408) 349-3300 Fax (408) 349-3301

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Regards,****

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A question to the team: Could these user forums have a track(s) to gather future feature requests that could roll up into a product requirement doc (PRD) that the user committee and technical committe can use to feed blueprints and prioritize developments and build a roadmap for various projects in openstack ? Best Regards Moe/// +1.617.818.1612 On Jan 15, 2013, at 14:21, Kun Huang <Academicgareth@gmail.com> wrote:

please press star 1 to join the conference or .....

what is "star 1"? I try "1" and "* 1" but failed .....

On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 12:30 AM, Nicolae Paladi <n.paladi@gmail.com> wrote:

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Hi,

Unfortunately I might not be able to attend the meetup tonight (evening in Sweden), but would be glad to go through the minutes when they are made available.

Kudos for the idea regarding an available speakers list, having experts at events makes them more attractive for participants.

Regards, /Nico.

On 15 January 2013 17:22, Sean Roberts <seanrob@yahoo-inc.com> wrote:

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Agreed, creating a speaker list is on the to do list.

~sean

On Jan 15, 2013, at 6:16 AM, "Andi_Abes@dell.com" <Andi_Abes@dell.com> wrote:

...

Hi Sean,

Thanks for taking the initiative to organize this.

I’d like to toss another agenda item if I may.

I started, and currently help organize the Boston meetup, and we’ve been blessed with lots of local resources, both in terms of facilities and openstack enthusiasts.

Feedback I’ve gotten from multiple folks is that it would be useful to make available technical experts on up and coming projects (ceilometer, heat, new quantum services , cinder etc). While in the past I coordinated with project PTL’s to locate local experts, it might be more efficient (and less troubling to PTL’s) to have a community effort around this. If local presence is less than possible, then various collaboration tools could work.

After that long promo, the agenda item would be – how do UG’s help with incubating projects, and what kind of support the Openstack community at large supports that?

Regards,

a.

From: Sean Roberts [mailto:seanrob@yahoo-inc.com] Sent: Monday, January 14, 2013 6:26 PM To: OpenStack community; openstack Cc: Hirschfeld, Rob; Pemmaraju, Kamesh; Abes, Andi; trevor.lowing@gmail.com; stephon.striplin@dreamhost.com; carlp@hq.newdream.net; brent.scotten@rackspace.com; kmestery@cisco.com; lloydostack@gmail.com; freedomhui@gmail.com; duyujie.dyj@gmail.com; santiagoc120@outlook.com; sc360@kent.ac.uk; mohamed@egyptcloudforum.com; Ilkka.Turunen@jamk.fi; berendt@b1-systems.de; BruceLok@cyberport.hk; marton.kiss@xemeti.com; deepakgarg.iitg@gmail.com; frans@meruvian.org; tim.horgan@cit.ie; fenris@ubuntu.com; mypapit@gmail.com; muharem@lbox.cc; hang.tran@dtt.vn Subject: Re: [openstack-community] Calling all user group and meetup organizers

Agenda for tomorrow's user group / meetup planning meeting

Review of user group and meetup template Meetups fit into the larger plan of user committee and summit to summit development how? Where would be the location for social materials like videos, meetup logs, and other meeting related items? Where do operators go to figure out how to run OpenStack in production? Can the Foundation start working with some Universities for meeting space, sponsorship, and student participation? Is the Foundation interested in Phd thesis sponsorship? If possible I like to get some supporters for a groups.openstack.org site, including content writers and some developer resources from the community. We have a lot of knowledge about running / starting an user group, and need to write it down, publish on the site and share it with newcomers. I think this is answered by the user group template information that will be published to http://wiki.openstack.org/OpenStackUserGroups. Should there be an OpenStack user group and/or meetup approval process? How do we clean up user groups and meetups that are abandoned?

Sean Roberts Infrastructure Strategy seanrob@yahoo-inc.com

Direct (408) 349-5234 Mobile (925) 980-4729

701 First Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA, 94089-0703, US Phone (408) 349-3300 Fax (408) 349-3301

On 1/14/13 2:07 PM, "Sean Roberts" <seanrob@yahoo-inc.com> wrote:

Reminder for the global user group planning meetup, tomorrow, Tuesday, 15 Jan 2012 11:00am to 1:00pm PST http://www.meetup.com/openstack/events/93593062/

Join us!

Sean Roberts Infrastructure Strategy seanrob@yahoo-inc.com

Direct (408) 349-5234 Mobile (925) 980-4729

701 First Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA, 94089-0703, US Phone (408) 349-3300 Fax (408) 349-3301

On 1/9/13 1:05 PM, "Tim Horgan" <tim.horgan@cit.ie> wrote:

Hi Séan,

I run the OpenStack Ireland meetup group, just wondering if your meeting is targeting only groups in the East Coast of the USA?

Kind Regards,

Tim

On 9 Jan 2013, at 00:54, Sean Roberts <seanrob@yahoo-inc.com> wrote:

We are going to have a planning meeting on Tuesday, 15 Jan 2012 11:00am to 1:00pm PST. RSVP via http://www.meetup.com/openstack/events/93593062/ Connect remotely via webex https://yahoomeetings.webex.com/yahoomeetings/j.php?ED=160663792&UID=492396097&RT=MiM0

If this time doesn't work for you, get ahold of me directly via skype:seanroberts66, email, mobile, irc:sarob, twitter:sarob, or carrier pigeon.

Stefano and Thierry will be joining us. I want to get input from people that run user groups and meetups.

See you then!

Sean Roberts Infrastructure Strategy seanrob@yahoo-inc.com Direct (408) 349-5234 Mobile (925) 980-4729

701 First Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA, 94089-0703, US Phone (408) 349-3300 Fax (408) 349-3301

_______________________________________________ Community mailing list Community@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/community

Regards,

Tim

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phone: +353 214335120 | mobile: +353 87 9439333

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Here are the action items that I captured . Public Apt-Repo's yum repos built off trunk - OpenStack Puppet manifest on a VM (easy openstack) Rolling upgrade Continuous deployment Mentoring user groups leader Checklists Standard Slides preso users group / restricted to college Redirect funding from Sponsorships to PHD students Bug Squash Competition Regards, Colin If you would like to schedule a time to speak with me, please click here to see my calendar and pick a time that works for your schedule. The system will automatically send us both an outlook meeting invite. Colin McNamara (858)208-8105 CCIE #18233,VCP http://www.colinmcnamara.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/colinmcnamara "The difficult we do immediately, the impossible just takes a little longer" On Jan 14, 2013, at 2:20 PM, Sean Roberts <seanrob@yahoo-inc.com> wrote:

You caught me being lazy and reusing the webex meeting without updating the time. It is definitely tomorrow, Tuesday, 15 Jan 2012 11:00am to 1:00pm PST. I have updated the webex meet to reflect the actual time.

I will be forwarding an agenda in a few minutes and I will include your two items.

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On 1/14/13 1:38 PM, "Marton Kiss" <marton.kiss@gmail.com> wrote:

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Hi,

The meeting time shows me Jan 25 as scheduled date, is it right? Meeting status: Not started Starting date: Friday, January 25, 2013 Starting time: 12:00 am, Europe Time (Berlin, GMT+01:00) Duration: 2 hours Host's name: Sean Roberts

Sean, do you have an agenda? I like to suggest two topics: - If possible I like to get some supporters for groups.openstack.org site, including content writers and some developer resources from the community. We have a lot of knowledge about running / starting an user group, and need to write it down, publish on the site and share it with newcomers.

- Also could be cool to start a discussion about group approval process. If we plan to start a public site where everybody can create a new user group we need to create some policy to differentiate real-working groups from mistakenly created ones.

Regards, Márton Kiss Hungarian OpenStack usergroup

2013/1/9 Sean Roberts <seanrob@yahoo-inc.com>

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We are going to have a planning meeting on Tuesday, 15 Jan 2012 11:00am to 1:00pm PST. RSVP via http://www.meetup.com/openstack/events/93593062/ Connect remotely via webex https://yahoomeetings.webex.com/yahoomeetings/j.php?ED=160663792&UID=492396097&RT=MiM0 If this time doesn't work for you, get ahold of me directly via skype:seanroberts66, email, mobile, irc:sarob, twitter:sarob, or carrier pigeon.

Stefano and Thierry will be joining us. I want to get input from people that run user groups and meetups.

See you then!

Sean Roberts Infrastructure Strategy seanrob@yahoo-inc.com Direct (408) 349-5234 Mobile (925) 980-4729

701 First Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA, 94089-0703, US Phone (408) 349-3300 Fax (408) 349-3301

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