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Written plan for the CLA work?
by Russell Bryant 16 Jun '15

16 Jun '15

Hello everyone! We had a discussion about the ongoing CCLA/ICLA/DCO work at the Vancouver board meeting. I think most people came out of that feeling like there was a pretty good plan in place. Since then I've received some questions for clarification and status on that plan. Is the plan written down anywhere public that interested people can refer to? If not, who would be best to capture it? This may also be a useful thing to put on the agenda for the board meeting in July. I don't expect a long discussion, hopefully just a status update. Thanks! -- Russell Bryant

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Openstack Diversity Working Group
by Sousou, Imad 11 Jun '15

11 Jun '15

Stackers - We're happy to announce the creation of a Diversity Working Group. The genesis for this work group was a discussion at the May meeting of the OpenStack Board of Directors ahead of the Vancouver Summit. The Board is committed to fostering an inclusive and welcoming place for all people to collaborate to drive innovation and design cutting-edge data center capabilities, while finding the best answers to our most pressing challenges. To achieve this, the Board formed this Work Group to determine what actions are required to fulfill this commitment. Three Board members volunteered to work with community members in this Work Group and bring updates/requests to the Board for discussion and action on a regular basis, starting with the July meeting. If you're interested in joining this effort, please: * Join the Foundation mail list to participate in discussions and shape the direction: click here<http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/foundation> * Visit the wiki page for this work group to learn more about the charter: click here<https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Diversity> * Plan to join the kick-off IRC meeting and let us know what day/times work for you by accessing the Doodle here: click here<http://doodle.com/z85c23dtexx8qzq7> We will send out the results of the Doodle to the mail list and look forward to working with you to foster a strong and diverse community. Thanks Imad Sousou (Intel), Egle Sigler (Rackspace), Kavit Munshi (Aptira)

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ATC status for translators
by Russell Bryant 05 Jun '15

05 Jun '15

Hello, everyone. I noticed that the requested topics for the next board meeting [1] includes "ATC recognition for contributors". Based on some brief discussion at the "high 5" chat at the end of the last summit, I suspect this is related to people hearing concerns about providing ATC status for translation contributors. For more information about ATC status, see the TC charter [2]. In particular: > The work of project teams is performed under the oversight of the TC. > Contributing to one of their associated code repositories grants you > ATC status (see below). The TC has ultimate authority over which > project teams are designated as official OpenStack projects. ... > The TC seats are elected by the Active Technical Contributors > (“ATC”), which are a subset of the Foundation Individual Members. > Individual Members who committed a change to a repository under > ‘’any’’ of the official OpenStack Project Teams (as defined above) > over the last two 6-month release cycles are automatically considered > ATC. Specific contributors who did not have a change recently > accepted in one of the OpenStack projects but nevertheless feel their > contribution to the OpenStack project is technical in nature (bug > triagers, technical documentation writers...) can exceptionally apply > for ATC either by sending an email to the TC chair or by being > nominated by an existing ATC via email to the TC chair. Final > approval on the exception is decided by the TC itself, and is valid > one year (two elections). We've had a mechanism to recognize extra types of contributions with ATC status for a while, but I do not recall it ever being used for translators. However, the TC has now approved an internationalization team: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/184920/ In the commit message, it references how we will be able to pull stats from the translation tool to get contributor info. As an official OpenStack project team, their contributions will be counted toward ATC status going forward. For a full list of official OpenStack project teams, see: http://governance.openstack.org/reference/projects/index.html Are there any other ATC concerns that anyone would like to raise with the TC? If so, I'd be happy to chase those down. Thanks, [1] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/July_28,_2015,_F2F_9am_-_5pm_central,_Locat… [2] http://governance.openstack.org/reference/charter.html -- Russell Bryant

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Thanks for electing Parallels/Odin as an OpenStack Gold member
by James Bottomley 05 Jun '15

05 Jun '15

Hello Everyone, I just wanted to say hello to all the Gold members and Board of OpenStack, and thank you for electing us. We're looking forwards to working with you all in open source and trying to bring our service provider customers closer to OpenStack. I thought it might also be opportune to explain the relationship between Odin and Parallels, since most of you have seen the Odin signs on our booth in Vancouver. Odin is essentially a rebrand of the Service Provider side of the business with the Consumer Products side (the one that produces Desktop for Mac) keeping the Parallels brand. The corporate entity which houses us is still called Parallels, Inc. The reason for doing this is brand separation and the avoidance of brand confusion. To illustrate the problem: at our booth in OpenStack Atlanta, we ended up fielding a lot of desktop for Mac questions ... including a couple about what on earth desktop for Mac had to do with OpenStack. At our booth in Vancouver, we didn't get any desktop for Mac questions at all. Finally, Parallels and now Odin have been on a fairly long journey in Open Source. The initial strong push began in 2011 where we were instrumental in setting up the containers meeting at the Kernel summit which lead to the unification of containers technology inside the Linux Kernel. The announcement that OpenVZ rather than being a throw it over the wall release, will be a fully open source upstream product (with open mailing lists, repositories and development processes): http://lists.openvz.org/pipermail/announce/2015-June/000592.html represents the completion of the first stage (of course, the journey itself is never over). Those of you who've been on a similar journey will recognise this means that we're also embracing an open source business model for at least our containers business. And part of this embrace means that we're very much interested in open source governance, because good governance is essential to our open source business strategy, so we're looking forwards to contributing in this area as well as stepping up our code contributions. Thanks again, James

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Farewell
by Vishvananda Ishaya 02 Jun '15

02 Jun '15

Hello Fellow Board Members, In my mind, part of being a good board member is keeping up with current OpenStack developments. I am not currently working on OpenStack, and I don't have the time to stay abreast of all of the great stuff coming down the pipe. Therefore, with a heavy heart, I wanted to let you know that I have tendered my resignation from the board. It has been an absolute pleasure working with all of you, and I hope to find my way back to OpenStack again. It has been an amazing five years and I'm confident OpenStack will continue to shape the IT landscape for years to come. Sincerely, Vish Ishaya

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Foundation Update Presentation
by Lauren Sell 18 May '15

18 May '15

Hi everyone, Jonathan’s presentation is attached. He didn’t have time to run through all of the slides, so please let us know if you have any questions. Thanks, Lauren

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Thank you to Chris Kemp and Tristan Goode for their service on the OpenStack Board; Welcome to Roland Chan
by Alan Clark 17 May '15

17 May '15

Directors, We received official notice from Nebula that they are resigning their Gold membership. We also received official notice from Aptira that they are changing Board member representatives. Thank you and best wishes to Chris Kemp, Tristan Goode for their time and efforts, continued support and contributions to the OpenStack Board efforts. Welcome to Roland Chan (Aptira) as a Gold Member Director Regards, AlanClark

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Board member changes
by Alan Clark 17 May '15

17 May '15

Directors, We received official notice from Nebula that they are resigning their Gold membership. We also received official notice from Aptira that they are changing Board member representatives. Thank you and best wishes to Chris Kemp, Tristan Goode for their time and efforts, continued support and contributions to the OpenStack Board efforts. Welcome to Roland Chan (Aptira) as a Gold Member Director Regards, AlanClark

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DefCore Update
by Rob Hirschfeld 14 May '15

14 May '15

Board Members, After discussion today, DefCore is planning to submit a revision to the 2015.05 guidelines that we had included in the board report. The new guidelines do NOT change the coverage in any way. We wanted to re-organize the capabilities and JSON schema to allow more fine grained discussions. We felt it was important to get these changes into the guidelines ASAP. This reflects the positive and constructive dialogues that we have been having in the community, Please review the materials we sent earlier, they still apply. We will send out a link to the updates when they are available. Thanks, -- Rob ____________________________ Rob Hirschfeld, 512-773-7522 RackN CEO, Founder I am in CENTRAL (-6) time http://robhirschfeld.com twitter: @zehicle, github: cloudedge & ravolt

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DefCore Board Report for May 17th Meeting [PLEASE READ AHEAD]
by Rob Hirschfeld 12 May '15

12 May '15

Board members, Please find attached the DefCore Board Report for next week's meeting. Since time is very short for DefCore, we will NOT be reviewing the material in detail. Consequently, we have included ALL the relevant material in the report. If you have questions, we are having a final DefCore meeting this Wednesday 5/13 @ 9am PT. Details > https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/DefCoreScale.16 DefCore Report Agenda: * Process 2015A Discussion [5 mins. WARNING MINIMAL TIME] * 2015.04/03 Update [5 mins] * 2015.05 Guideline Approval [5 mins WARNING MINIMAL TIME] * Next Cycle Objectives [5 mins] For last minute changes, you can see the source here > https://docs.google.com/document/d/12kUWSWt55Ju-okgfEbPt9AH-8UzaQoO_2KzSOHl… Rob & Egle -- ____________________________ Rob Hirschfeld, 512-773-7522 RackN CEO, Founder I am in CENTRAL (-6) time http://robhirschfeld.comsmb://linalien/drop/BoardReportMay2015.pdf twitter: @zehicle, github: cloudedge & ravolt

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