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Please help OpenStack get the best possible results for the User Survey
by Heidi Joy Tretheway 23 Feb '16

23 Feb '16

Dear Board, The OpenStack User Survey is happening now, and we need your help to ensure as many OpenStack community members as possible answer it. Our goal is to exceed the 350 deployments described in the last User Survey, as well as surpassing the 1315 OpenStack community members who answered the survey in the last cycle. That's why I'm asking for your help to reach out to your colleagues and customers to ensure we have the broadest possible representation on the User Survey. If your organization participated in the last survey, there's no need to start from scratch. Simply log back in with your user credentials to update your Deployment Profile. Even if you're not entering a deployment, your insights are incredibly valuable. In 5 minutes, you can answer 3 key questions—what you like, what we can do differently (and better), and how likely you are to recommend OpenStack—plus some basic demographic info about you and your organization. The information provided is confidential and will only be presented in aggregate. Start the survey now: https://www.openstack.org/user-survey <https://www.openstack.org/user-survey>. The deadline to fill out the survey is Wednesday, February 24 at 23:59 UTC. We'll be sharing the results at the OpenStack Summit [http://www.openstack.org/summit] <http://www.openstack.org/summit]>, April 25-29 in Austin. Please feel free to contact me if you have questions about the survey. Thanks in advance for your help! Heidi Joy ______ Heidi Joy Tretheway Senior Marketing Manager, OpenStack Foundation 503 816 9769 | skype: heidi.tretheway

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call for agenda items for the February 23 Board Meeting
by AlanClark 16 Feb '16

16 Feb '16

Directors, Please send me items to be included on the February 23rd Board meeting agenda. Thanks, AlanClark

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FW: [bug-smash] Global OpenStack Bug Smash Mitaka
by Wang, Shane 28 Jan '16

28 Jan '16

Hi all, For your information, please encourage your people to join then, thanks. Best Regards. -- Shane _____________________________________________ From: Wang, Shane Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2016 5:12 PM To: openstack-dev(a)lists.openstack.org Subject: [bug-smash] Global OpenStack Bug Smash Mitaka Save the Date: Global OpenStack Bug Smash Wednesday-Friday, March 2-4, 2016 RSVP by Friday, February 19 How can you help make the OpenStack Mitaka release stable and bug-free while having fun with your peers? Join Intel, Rackspace, Mirantis, IBM, HP, Huawei, CESI and others in a global bug smash across four continents as we work together. Then, join us later in April in Austin, Texas, U.S.A. at the OpenStack Summit to get re-acquainted & celebrate our accomplishments! OUR GOAL Our key goal is to collaborate round-the-clock and around the world to fix as many bugs as possible across the wide range of OpenStack projects. In the process, we'll also help onboard and grow the number of OpenStack developers, and increase our collective knowledge of OpenStack tools and processes. To ease collaboration among all of the participants and ensure that core reviews can be conducted promptly, we will use the IRC channel, the mailing list, and Gerrit and enlist core reviewers in the event. GET INVOLVED Simply choose a place near you-and register by Friday, February 19. Registration is free, and we encourage you to invite others who may be interested. * Australia * China * India * Russia * United Kingdom * United States Visit the link below for additional details: https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/OpenStack-Bug-Smash-Mitaka Come make the Mitaka release a grand success through your contributions, and ease the journey for newcomers! Regards. -- OpenStack Bug Smash team

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OpenStack Australia Day
by Roland Chan 27 Jan '16

27 Jan '16

Hi All, Aptira and the Foundation are hosting the inaugural OpenStack Australia Day in Sydney and we're in the process of organising speakers and sponsorship. As leading organisations in the OpenStack sphere, I thought some of you or your organisations might be interested in participating, especially since Sydney is such a nice place to visit, even in autumn. Focusing on Open Source cloud technology, the aim of this conference is to gather industry users, vendors and solution providers to showcase the latest technologies and share real-world experiences of the next wave of IT virtualisation. OpenStack Australia Day will showcase a range of sessions on the broader cloud and Software Defined Infrastructure ecosystem including OpenStack, containers, PaaS and automation. The conference also features keynote presentations from industry leading figures, workshops and a networking event for a less formal opportunity to engage with the community. The event will be held on the 5th of May at The Menzies in Sydney, and we have a range of sponsorship levels available, if you're interested in being involved. We are also looking for speakers to present at the conference - anything from a presentation to a workshop or panel, we’re quite flexible at this stage. For more information, feel free to check out the OpenStack Australia Day 2016 website: http://australiaday.openstack.org.au/ or contact me directly. We look forward to having you involved in the first OpenStack conference down under! Cheers, Roland

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Thanks! I had a great time on the board
by Rob Hirschfeld 25 Jan '16

25 Jan '16

OpenStack Board, It's been a privilege serving with you and excited to see bring Allison uses her considerable open source experience into the fold. I believe that interoperability remains a critical factor for OpenStack; in fact, I'm shifting my focus to even broader cross-platform interoperability because I see that as a key to open cloud success. I encourage the board to look at interop as building a broader ecosystem than just within the project boundaries. This is not an OpenStack challenge alone but it is our opportunity to be true open software leaders. I'm happy to talk about this (or any topic!) with you individually. Thanks for the great years together. Rob -- Rob Hirschfeld RackN.com, CEO & Founder @zehicle, 512-773-7522

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[OpenStack Foundation Board] Canonical Board Member Change
by John Zannos 11 Jan '16

11 Jan '16

Alan, Jonathan and the Board, After 3 years with the OpenStack Board, I will be stepping away as Canonical's Board representative. It has been a fantastic 3 years, and I have enjoyed the opportunity to help the OpenStack Foundation and Community grow. I will still be very involved in the OpenStack Foundation as part of Canonical and a community member. Mark Baker at Canonical will be my replacement. Mark is copied on this email and I am sure you will find him a great successor. Thank you again for all the great challenges, debates, ideas and teamwork. Best, John John Zannos Vice President - Alliances / Business Development Canonical / Ubuntu john.zannos(a)canonical.com +1 978 375 0742 IRC: jzannos www.ubuntu.com | www.canonical.com

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Call for Speakers NOW OPEN - OpenStack Summit Austin April 2016
by Kendall Waters 22 Dec '15

22 Dec '15

Hi everyone, The Call for Speakers <https://www.openstack.org/summit-login/login?BackURL=/summit/austin-2016/ca…> is now OPEN for the April OpenStack Summit in Austin! Hurry - the deadline to submit a talk is February 1 at 11:59pm PST. NEW: Speakers are limited to a maximum of THREE submissions. Other Summit items now available: Attendee Registration <https://www.openstack.org/summit/austin-2016/austin-and-travel/> - Price increase in early March Call for Sponsors <https://www.openstack.org/summit/austin-2016/sponsors/#how-to-sponsor> - March 8 deadline Hotel Discount Room Blocks <https://www.openstack.org/summit/austin-2016/austin-and-travel/#hotels> *The Design Summit will be held at the Hilton Austin. Workshops and the Certified OpenStack Administrator exams will be held at the JW Marriott. Visa Invitation Request <https://www.openstack.org/summit/austin-2016/austin-and-travel/#visa> Travel Support Program Application <https://www.openstack.org/summit/austin-2016/austin-and-travel/#travel-supp…> - February 9 deadline If you have any Summit related questions please email summit(a)openstack.org <mailto:summit@openstack.org>. Cheers, Kendall

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Re: [Foundation Board] Foundation-board Digest, Vol 40, Issue 3
by Steve Hallett 11 Dec '15

11 Dec '15

I would be happy to help. . Steve foundation-board-request(a)lists.openstack.org wrote: Send Foundation-board mailing list submissions to foundation-board(a)lists.openstack.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/foundation-board or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to foundation-board-request(a)lists.openstack.org You can reach the person managing the list at foundation-board-owner(a)lists.openstack.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Foundation-board digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Travel Support Committee - OpenStack Summit Austin (Kendall Waters) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2015 14:08:28 -0600 From: Kendall Waters <kendall(a)openstack.org> To: foundation-board(a)lists.openstack.org Subject: Re: [Foundation Board] Travel Support Committee - OpenStack Summit Austin Message-ID: <BEA48842-3B81-4ADA-BD08-90B43BEF4198(a)openstack.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Hi Board of Directors, I am following up on my below email. We still need 1 more board member to join the Travel Support Committee for the Austin Summit. If you are available sometime during the timeframe of February 10-23 for approximately 2-4 hours and are interested in being part of the Travel Support Committee, please let me know ASAP. Thanks! Kendall Kendall Waters OpenStack Marketing kendall(a)openstack.org > On Nov 30, 2015, at 10:47 AM, Kendall Waters <kendall(a)openstack.org> wrote: > > Dear Board of Directors, > > We?re putting together the committee for the Austin Summit Travel Support Program, which will open next week, and we are looking for 3 board members to join. > > Every year we have 3 members from the Board of Directors, Technical Committee, User Committee, Ambassadors and Foundation staff. For the previous Summit we had Robert Esker, Egle Sigler, and Eileen Evans serve as committee members from the Board and we?re looking for three new individuals to join us this year. A big thank you to them! We were able to fund the accommodation and flight costs of 30 key contributors. > > Applications will close February 9 and the Travel Committee will have from February 10-23 to submit their votes. > > If you are available sometime during this timeframe (February 10-23) for approximately 2-4 hours and are interested in being part of the Travel Support Committee, please let me know by end of next week. The first three individuals who reply will be selected. > > FYI - the option to fund the travel support program is also available as a sponsorship option. If interested please contact summit(a)openstack.org <mailto:summit@openstack.org>. > > Thanks! > Kendall > > Kendall Waters > OpenStack Marketing > kendall(a)openstack.org <mailto:kendall@openstack.org> > > > _______________________________________________ > Foundation-board mailing list > Foundation-board(a)lists.openstack.org > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/foundation-board

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Travel Support Committee - OpenStack Summit Austin
by Kendall Waters 10 Dec '15

10 Dec '15

Dear Board of Directors, We’re putting together the committee for the Austin Summit Travel Support Program, which will open next week, and we are looking for 3 board members to join. Every year we have 3 members from the Board of Directors, Technical Committee, User Committee, Ambassadors and Foundation staff. For the previous Summit we had Robert Esker, Egle Sigler, and Eileen Evans serve as committee members from the Board and we’re looking for three new individuals to join us this year. A big thank you to them! We were able to fund the accommodation and flight costs of 30 key contributors. Applications will close February 9 and the Travel Committee will have from February 10-23 to submit their votes. If you are available sometime during this timeframe (February 10-23) for approximately 2-4 hours and are interested in being part of the Travel Support Committee, please let me know by end of next week. The first three individuals who reply will be selected. FYI - the option to fund the travel support program is also available as a sponsorship option. If interested please contact summit(a)openstack.org. Thanks! Kendall Kendall Waters OpenStack Marketing kendall(a)openstack.org

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DefCore "does OpenStack require Linux guest" pre-reading
by Rob Hirschfeld 03 Dec '15

03 Dec '15

Board Members, We have some OpenStack DefCore discussion planned tomorrow. We've prepared a summary with some alternatives for you. Happily, they include some short term items that we will review during the meeting. We will likely not have time to consider the longer term actions that we've also been discussing in DefCore meetings. I'm attaching the document for your convencience (as of 8:00 pm Central); however, the most current version is online at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Q_N93hJ-8WK4C3Ktcrex0mxv4VqoAjBzP9g6cDe… Egle and I discussed how to best present this topic and would like to do the following: 3 minutes > ask Board to individually write down short "what is Interop" for OpenStack 7 minutes > volunteers read samples 10 minutes > present issue and short term options (Board action not required for short term action) 20 minutes > time bound discussion Rob ____________________________ Rob Hirschfeld, 512-773-7522 RackN CEO/Founder (rob(a)rackn.com) I am in CENTRAL (-6) time http://robhirschfeld.com twitter: @zehicle, github: zehicle

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Call for agenda items for the December 3 Board Meeting
by AlanClark 25 Nov '15

25 Nov '15

OpenStack Board members, A reminder of the Board meeting (conference call) slated for December 3rd. With the U.S. holiday this week I wanted to send out an earlier reminder and request for agenda items. If you have an item for the board meeting agenda please let me know. Thanks, AlanClark

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Call for candidates for individual directors
by Tim Bell 24 Nov '15

24 Nov '15

I don't recall the notifications on the individual directors call for candidates being sent out. The nominations appear to be open (https://www.openstack.org/election/2016-individual-director-election/) since November 23rd but I think a bit more publicity is needed to get the maximum community coverage. There are a couple of glitches in the web pages also - In the candidate application (https://www.openstack.org/profile/CandidateApplication/) the last question refers to the priorities in 2015. I think this should be 2016. - In https://www.openstack.org/profile/election, the "See The Current Nominations" links to the 2015 candidates page rather than https://www.openstack.org/election/2016-individual-director-election/Candida teList/ - In prior years, an email was sent when people nominated you. These do not seem to be going out at the moment. Tim

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DreamHost Board Member Change
by Simon Anderson 20 Nov '15

20 Nov '15

OpenStack Board colleagues and Gold members, After 4.5 years with DreamHost as CEO, the DreamHost Board and I are agreeing that I will step down as CEO effective November 25, 2015. It's been a fantastic 4+ years in the role, and I have so appreciated being a part of forming the OpenStack Foundation, representing Gold members on the Board, and collaborating with the community and each of you to build OpenStack into what it is today. I will still be very involved in OpenStack as a community member and through Akanda, the major contributor to the OpenStack Astara network virtualization and services orchestration project. As many of you know I co-founded Akanda in 2014 and Chair the Board, as well as being an investor. The DreamHost Board has nominated Jonathan LaCour, VP Cloud at DreamHost, as my replacement Gold member Director. Jonathan is copied on this email and will engage directly with Gold members and the Board from this point on and I am sure you will find him a great successor to yours truly. Thanks again for all the great times, debates, big ideas and teamwork. There will be many more together! My personal email is simonkanderson(a)gmail.com and my cell is 310-600-1452. Feel free to reach out anytime, and see you at a future OpenStack event. Best, Simon Anderson CEO, DreamHost

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Re: [Foundation Board] [Gold Members] DreamHost Board Member Change
by Anni Lai 18 Nov '15

18 Nov '15

Simon, Sorry to hear that you are leaving the Board. You have always been so warm and helpful to the new comers in the Gold member community. We will miss you greatly. Jonathan, welcome to the OpenStack Gold member community. Best regards, Anni Sent from HUAWEI AnyOffice From: Simon Anderson To: foundation-board(a)lists.openstack.org<mailto:foundation-board@lists.openstack.org>; goldmembers(a)lists.openstack.org<mailto:goldmembers@lists.openstack.org>; Cc: Jonathan LaCour; Simon Anderson; Subject: [Gold Members] DreamHost Board Member Change Time: 2015-11-17 15:44:12 OpenStack Board colleagues and Gold members, After 4.5 years with DreamHost as CEO, the DreamHost Board and I are agreeing that I will step down as CEO effective November 25, 2015<x-apple-data-detectors://4>. It's been a fantastic 4+ years in the role, and I have so appreciated being a part of forming the OpenStack Foundation, representing Gold members on the Board, and collaborating with the community and each of you to build OpenStack into what it is today. I will still be very involved in OpenStack as a community member and through Akanda, the major contributor to the OpenStack Astara network virtualization and services orchestration project. As many of you know I co-founded Akanda in 2014 and Chair the Board, as well as being an investor. The DreamHost Board has nominated Jonathan LaCour, VP Cloud at DreamHost, as my replacement Gold member Director. Jonathan is copied on this email and will engage directly with Gold members and the Board from this point on and I am sure you will find him a great successor to yours truly. Thanks again for all the great times, debates, big ideas and teamwork. There will be many more together! My personal email is simonkanderson(a)gmail.com<mailto:simonkanderson@gmail.com> and my cell is 310-600-1452<tel:310-600-1452>. Feel free to reach out anytime, and see you at a future OpenStack event. Best, Simon Anderson CEO, DreamHost

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Start prepping for the year end report; content ready by December 10
by AlanClark 10 Nov '15

10 Nov '15

Directors and Committee Chairs, It was great to see everyone at the Summit. The week sure went by quickly. A big thank you to everyone for helping with the board meeting! I wanted to give everyone a quick heads up. Please start thinking about content for the year end report. I would like to have gathered the content from the Board by December 10. I feel that last years report [1] turned out great and propose a similar format for this years report. If you have thoughts on format changes or additional content that we should include please let me know. I will set up a wiki page where we can post the content and send another email to each of the committee chairs. Thanks, AlanClark [1] https://www.openstack.org/assets/reports/osf-annual-report-2014.pdf

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DefCore links to Patches discussed
by Rob Hirschfeld 26 Oct '15

26 Oct '15

All, Here are links to the patches where the discussion occurred: https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/DefCoreFlag.BoD Here's a snapshot: >From the Oct 26 2015 Meeting, Patch Discussions of Interest: * Nova https://review.openstack.org/#/c/223915/ * Neutron https://review.openstack.org/#/c/210080/ <- very active, floating IPs * Keystone https://review.openstack.org/#/c/213330/ <- very active on v2 vs v3 * Cinder https://review.openstack.org/#/c/221631/ <- active * Glance https://review.openstack.org/#/c/213353/ <- active * Heat stuff: (https://review.openstack.org/#/c/216983/ 403 Issue - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/214756/ Patches Approved at Board Meeting * 2015B Process https://review.openstack.org/#/c/236729/ * 2016.01 Guideline https://review.openstack.org/#/c/214756/ -- 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 and Diversity Working group reports for the board
by Egle Sigler 26 Oct '15

26 Oct '15

Hello Everyone, We had some small changes to the DefCore report. I am attaching PDF document. You can also view it online: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uTv4QA-BNHlMdjupngQsmyjit2yNcfmY9sB5OAa… Also I am attaching slides for the Diversity working group report. Link online: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1DXMcK2YISH34CWj2z_yyMUnRNrbYtPdy6kX… Thank you,Egle Sigler

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Sunday Board Meet-up?
by Rob Hirschfeld 25 Oct '15

25 Oct '15

All, Anyone interested in meeting for drinks or dinner tonight (Sunday) in Tokyo? -- Rob ____________________________ Rob Hirschfeld, 512-773-7522 I am in CENTRAL (-6) time http://robhirschfeld.com twitter: @zehicle, github: zehicle & ravolt

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User Survey Report enclosed - materials for board meeting
by Heidi Joy Tretheway 23 Oct '15

23 Oct '15

Greetings OpenStack Board of Directors, On behalf of the User Committee, I’m sending you an advance copy of the User Survey report that the User Committee will present at the board meeting. This report will be released to the public on Tuesday morning, Tokyo time, available here (as well as past reports): https://www.openstack.org/surveys/landing <https://www.openstack.org/surveys/landing> Your copy of this report includes a “Current Issues” section with project-specific feedback, available only to the board and PTLs. Additionally, we have a complete slide presentation (with the narrative in the notes) attached. We’ll just be sharing highlights in the meeting, but you might find the slides useful in the future. Heidi Joy Tretheway Senior Marketing Manager OpenStack Foundation 503 816 9769 heidi.tretheway - skype heidijoy(a)openstack.org <mailto:heidijoy@openstack.org>

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#WeAreOpenStack
by Allison Price 22 Oct '15

22 Oct '15

Hi everyone, At the OpenStack Summit Tokyo, we are kicking off a social media initiative to promote diversity and inclusivity within the OpenStack community. This idea was developed by the Women of OpenStack, and we encourage everyone in the community, even if you aren’t able to attend the Summit, to join in! To participate, use the hashtag #WeAreOpenStack on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram to show what the OpenStack community means to you. Posts can include pictures of you with fellow community members or your perspective of being a part of the community. The OpenStack Summit Tokyo is simply going to be the launch of this hashtag, but after the Summit, continue to use the hashtag at different OpenStack events, including OpenStack Days, meetups and even day-to-day activities with your fellow Stackers. Cheers, Allison

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Directions from Tokyo Airport to OpenStack Summit
by AlanClark 19 Oct '15

19 Oct '15

Looking forward to seeing everyone at the Summit. Claire has supplied some great directions from the Tokyo airports to the Summit venue, with videos and downloadable PDFs for people to save and review before they fly! AIRPORT TO SUMMIT DIRECTIONS * https://www.openstack.org/summit/tokyo-2015/tokyo-and-travel/#hotels Safe travels, AlanClark

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DefCore Board Report for Tokyo Meeting
by Egle Sigler 19 Oct '15

19 Oct '15

Hello Everyone, Please review the DefCore board report for the upcoming board meeting.Let me or Rob know if you have any questions.Google docs link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uTv4QA-BNHlMdjupngQsmyjit2yNcfmY9sB5OAa… attaching the pdf of the same. Thank you,Egle Sigler

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Outreachy: Call for Funding, Mentors
by Lauren Sell 09 Oct '15

09 Oct '15

Hi everyone, Quick update on the Outreachy <https://www.gnome.org/outreachy/> program, including a request for funding and volunteer mentors. For those of you who are not aware, Outreachy helps people from groups underrepresented in free and open source software get involved by matching interns with established mentors in the upstream community. There have been a record 30 intern applicants and 11 volunteer mentors for OpenStack this next cycle, which will take place Dec 7, 2015 - March 7, 2016. The OpenStack program coordinators could use a few more volunteer mentors, and there has been specific interest in Ceilometer, Cinder, Horizon, Murano, Neutron, Nova, Sahara and Zaqar. You can learn more about what is expected from mentors and how to apply here: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Outreachy/Mentors <https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Outreachy/Mentors> Additionally, the Foundation agreed to sponsor five interns, but we could use some additional sponsors to help support the large increase in OpenStack applicants. The sponsorship cost is 6,500 USD per intern, which provide them a stipend for the three-month program. You can learn more about sponsorship here: https://wiki.gnome.org/Outreachy/Admin/InfoForOrgs#Action <https://wiki.gnome.org/Outreachy/Admin/InfoForOrgs#Action> I personally believe Outreachy is one of the most important and effective diversity efforts we’ve invested in to date. We’ve had some amazing graduates become long-term contributors to our community. I cannot give enough praise and thanks to the program coordinators (Victoria Martinez de la Cruz and Mahati Chamarthy for OpenStack), volunteer mentors, and sponsors for making it possible. Please help spread the word. If you are interested in becoming a mentor or sponsoring an intern, please contact Victoria (victoria(a)vmartinezdelacruz.com <mailto:victoria@vmartinezdelacruz.com>) or me (lauren(a)openstack.org <mailto:lauren@openstack.org>). Thanks, Lauren

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User Survey Live - Deadline Sept 25th
by Lauren Sell 15 Sep '15

15 Sep '15

Hi everyone, As you know, the User Committee with the support of the Foundation staff has run a survey for OpenStack users prior to each Summit. This cycle, we’ve invested quite a bit of time cleaning up and improving the survey for operators and app developers, and we have more resources in place to improve reporting. We’re hoping to get as much participation as possible! Please help us promote it through your company and personal platforms. This is our best chance to aggregate user statistics and feedback for the community. The more users we have participating, the better we can leverage this information. The survey can be started here: https://www.openstack.org/user-survey <https://www.openstack.org/user-survey>. If an organization has already participated, they simply need to log back in to update their information. The deadline to complete the survey is Friday, Sept. 25 at 23:59 UTC/16:59Pacific. Please help by retweeting https://twitter.com/OpenStack/status/643483292944084992 <https://twitter.com/OpenStack/status/643483292944084992)> the survey promotion, leveraging your company's communications channels and directly contacting major users with whom you have relationships. Thank you! Lauren

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Invitation: OpenStack Board Meeting: Placeholder Meeting Appointment; ... @ Thu Dec 3, 2015 1pm - 3pm (alan7055@gmail.com)
by Alan Clark 09 Sep '15

09 Sep '15

You have been invited to the following event. Title: OpenStack Board Meeting: Placeholder Meeting Appointment; December 3, 2015 12:00pm pacific Meeting Date: December 3, 2015 Time: 12:00pm pacific Location: Webex conference call I will send out updated appointments with call in information and agendas as we get closer to the meeting date. For now use this appointment to block your calendar with the meeting date and time. The latest meeting information will always be located on the wiki: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Governance/Foundation When: Thu Dec 3, 2015 1pm - 3pm Mountain Time Where: webex conference call Calendar: alan7055(a)gmail.com Who: * Alan Clark - organizer * Alan Clark * mark.radcliffe(a)dlapiper.com * mark(a)openstack.org * Lauren Sell * Jonathan Bryce * foundation-board(a)lists.openstack.org * Julia Dechance (jbarbosa) - optional * Anne Marie Casey - optional * Cathy - optional * Cristina K. LeClerc - optional Event details: https://www.google.com/calendar/event?action=VIEW&eid=N2RpYjhyNXJ1YzM0aTE2Z… Invitation from Google Calendar: https://www.google.com/calendar/ You are receiving this courtesy email at the account foundation-board(a)lists.openstack.org because you are an attendee of this event. To stop receiving future updates for this event, decline this event. Alternatively you can sign up for a Google account at https://www.google.com/calendar/ and control your notification settings for your entire calendar. Forwarding this invitation could allow any recipient to modify your RSVP response. Learn more at https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/37135#forwarding

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OpenStack Foundation Tax Exempt Status
by Jonathan Bryce 28 Aug '15

28 Aug '15

Hi everyone, I'm very happy to report that after a lengthy process with the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS), including an initial denial and an appeal, the OpenStack Foundation has been granted 501c6 tax exempt status. This is clear recognition of the positive impact that our Foundation is having on the cloud computing industry. While it may seem like a small administrative matter, the long term impact is very positive for the efforts of the Foundation and the industry, allowing us to devote more resources to ensuring the cloud revolution is truly open to everyone. We also hope this outcome for our Foundation benefits other open source organizations pursuing tax exempt status with the IRS now and in the future. Thank you to everyone in the OpenStack community and the greater open source world who supported us through the process. Jonathan

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HOTEL ROOM BLOCKS AVAILABLE - TOKYO SUMMIT
by Claire Massey 06 Aug '15

06 Aug '15

Hello Directors, The Discounted Hotel Room Blocks for the Tokyo Summit are now (finally) available here: https://www.openstack.org/summit/tokyo-2015/tokyo-and-travel/#hotels <https://www.openstack.org/summit/tokyo-2015/tokyo-and-travel/#hotels> Because the Board meeting is scheduled on Monday, October 26, most of you will likely want to arrive in Tokyo on the Saturday or Sunday prior. For that reason I suggest you stay at the Grand Prince Hotel New Takanawa <https://www.openstack.org/summit/tokyo-2015/tokyo-and-travel/details/21> where there are currently rooms are available on those days. Hurry, these rooms will book up fast! The process for making a hotel reservation within our block is somewhat complicated so please CAREFULLY READ THE IMPORTANT BOOKING INSTRUCTIONS FIRST. If you are planning to book more than 10 hotel rooms and would like to create a sub-block please contact Sarah(a)fntech.com <mailto:Sarah@fntech.com>. Thanks! Claire Claire Massey OpenStack Marketing claire(a)openstack.org

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Re: [Foundation Board] [Foundation Board Confidential] [Foundation Board Confidental] Remote Audio Issues
by Roland Chan 06 Aug '15

06 Aug '15

> How far do we go to satisfy everyone? Short Answer: Until we find a solution. This is the nature of inclusivity. Long Answer: Geographical diversity is important now, and will be more important in the future. Inhibiting remote participation clearly limits the ability of directors, especially individually elected directors, to participate in one of our peak governing bodies from outside of a small geographical area. If we are unwilling outsource resolution of a simple issue in a mature technological field, I cannot imagine how we can succeed in meeting our diversity goals in areas where the solution space is much less mature and the effort required from us all will be orders of magnitude higher. Does the board have any limitations in mind when it comes to the charter we approved just last month? If we do, I suggest we publish them so they can be debated and endorsed. Roland [cross posted to the Foundation-Board list] On 6 August 2015 at 01:15, Alan Clark <aclark(a)suse.com> wrote: > Roland, I'm going to push back a bit.. While I like the idea of wireless > mics. Tossing out a a URL does not make a solution. That's nothing more > than tossing the monkey. > > If you may recall in Palo Alto we had wireless mics we ran into to huge > problems after a couple hours. Batteries die and with them be Li-Ion they > weren't simple swap out AA's. We have to have mics that will hold up to > 9-10 hour meetings. Second requirement 28 mics. > > Then comes the question - what are you going to plug the receiver into? > > Oh then the requirement for video pops up as well as needing system to > work in Asia, Europe, America,... Now we are talking power, phone lines, > internet, ... > > How far do we go to satisfy everyone? > > -AlanClark > > > >>> > > Given that a the solution for this problem exists in some form, can I get > > someone from the Foundation to commit to engaging an audio engineer to > > determine if there is a practical, cost effective solution to trial at > the > > next board meeting? > > > > > > Roland > > > > On 31 July 2015 at 11:48, Roland Chan <roland(a)aptira.com> wrote: > > > >> > >> > > > http://en-au.sennheiser.com/2000-series-wireless-sound-system-live-broadcas… > > ng-sports-events-theatre > >> > >> Looks expensive and potentially overengineered, but I think if we > engaged > >> an audio engineering outfit they could design a more appropriate > solution > >> and rent it to us on site. The key here would be to get some > professional > >> help. > >> > >> > >> Roland > >> > >> On 30 July 2015 at 13:32, Alan Clark <aclark(a)suse.com> wrote: > >> > >>> It's not a question of bias. Tristan and I looked into this a long time > >>> ago but didn't come up with a viable solution for a portable rig. > >>> > >>> Propose away. > >>> > >>> >>> > >>> > Indeed. I'm suggesting mics that attach to the person. That way, > people > >>> can > >>> > turn to look at each other without degrading sound quality. It seems > to > >>> me > >>> > that the facilities and tools we use are not designed for our use > case. > >>> > Maybe there are other solutions, but the situation last night was > really > >>> > bad. > >>> > > >>> > I would estimate that we got good sound levels less than 25% of time > >>> from > >>> > the room. No offence to the rest of board, but I don't think we're > >>> going to > >>> > start talking into the mics. I understand this problem has existed in > >>> > varying degrees for a long time. > >>> > > >>> > Put on a diversity hat: what are we doing to remove unconscious bias > >>> > against remote participation? > >>> > > >>> > Roland. > >>> > > >>> > On Wed, 29 Jul 2015 8:51 PM Alan Clark <aclark(a)suse.com> wrote: > >>> > > >>> >> Everyone in the room had a mic. The mics were directional so people > >>> had to > >>> >> remember to speak directly into the mic. Head turning is why the > sound > >>> >> varied widely. > >>> >> On a good note the number of active mics was controlled so that at > >>> most 4 > >>> >> were active. That reduced voice collision. > >>> >> > >>> >> > >>> >> > >>> >> > >>> >> -------- Original message -------- > >>> >> From: "Bias, Randy" <Randy.Bias(a)emc.com> > >>> >> Date:07/28/2015 11:13 PM (GMT-06:00) > >>> >> To: Roland Chan <roland(a)aptira.com>, > >>> >> foundation-board-confidential(a)lists.openstack.org > >>> >> Cc: > >>> >> Subject: Re: [Foundation Board Confidential] [Foundation Board > >>> >> Confidental] Remote Audio Issues > >>> >> > >>> >> > >>> >> >>> "Bias, Randy" 07/28/2015 22:13 >>> > >>> >> > >>> >> +1 > >>> >> > >>> >> The volume levels were brutal, with online folks being super loud > as > >>> it > >>> >> was necessary to turn volume up to hear those in-room. My ears are > >>> still > >>> >> ringing. Especially from Simon. That guy is loud. ;) > >>> >> > >>> >> > >>> >> > >>> >> > >>> >> --Randy > >>> >> > >>> >> > >>> >> VP, Technology, EMC Corporation > >>> >> > >>> >> Board of Directors, OpenStack Foundation > >>> >> > >>> >> Formerly Founder & CEO, Cloudscaling (now a part of EMC) > >>> >> > > >>> >> > >>> >> TWITTER: twitter.com/randybias > >>> >> > >>> >> LINKEDIN: linkedin.com/in/randybias > >>> >> > >>> >> > >>> >> > >>> >> > >>> >> From: Roland Chan <roland(a)aptira.com> > >>> >> Date: Tuesday, July 28, 2015 at 8:10 PM > >>> >> To: "foundation-board-confidential(a)lists.openstack.org" < > >>> >> foundation-board-confidential(a)lists.openstack.org> > >>> >> Subject: [Foundation Board Confidential] [Foundation Board > Confidental] > >>> >> Remote Audio Issues > >>> >> > >>> >> Hi All > >>> >> > >>> >> There were problems with the inroom/remote levels and there were > >>> echoes, > >>> >> possibly the problems were related. Can I suggest we either check > the > >>> >> performance of the venue with remote attendees and remediate prior > to > >>> the > >>> >> event or invest in a portable rig with enough wireless microphones > to > >>> mic > >>> >> up all the speakers? > >>> >> > >>> >> As we appear to be on track for an increasingly distributed board a > >>> >> relatively small investment would go a long way (a little under > 14,000 > >>> km > >>> >> in this case). > >>> >> > >>> >> Regards, > >>> >> > >>> >> > >>> >> Roland > >>> >> > >>> >> -- > >>> > > >>> > *Roland@Aptira* from mobile > >>> > >>> > >> > >

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Next Summit Feedback
by Roland Chan 31 Jul '15

31 Jul '15

I forgot to mention this at the meeting, but I'm keen to see specific feedback from the summit attendees. The sched.org app for Vancouver didn't seem to incorporate this, although there seems to be an option for an "audience report" of some sort. Some sort of NPS-style functionality would be a good starting point and deeper analytics would be awesome. I'm not sure what work has gone into this previously, so would be happy understand that, and any work currently under way. Cheers Roland

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Staff Update Slides
by Jonathan Bryce 28 Jul '15

28 Jul '15

Here are the slides we’re covering in the Board meeting.

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DefCore Board Report for July 28th Meeting, please read ahead
by Egle Sigler 24 Jul '15

24 Jul '15

Hello Board Members, Please find the DefCore board report for next week's meeting attached. We will have only 20 minutes to go over it, so please review it before the meeting. DefCore Report Agenda:2015.07 Guideline Approval Refstack demoFlagging UpdateHot Topics: Networking & GlanceGeneral Update We are asking the board to approve 2015.07 Guidelines. Online copy is here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Bx5A9tdaL4mIHXehdfgptqxhH-tzjUP6CZY3IBH… Please let me or Rob know if you have any questions. Thank you,Egle and Rob

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Reminder to committee chairs - Please send me materials for the Board meeting
by Alan Clark 21 Jul '15

21 Jul '15

Committee chairs, Please remember to send me materials from the committee efforts so that I can include them in the Board packet. Thanks, Alan Clark

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Google sponsors OpenStack Foundation
by Mark Collier 16 Jul '15

16 Jul '15

I’m happy to report that Google is our newest corporate sponsor. Please join me in welcoming them to the community! I’ve included several relevant blog posts which go into more detail, and the initial press coverage: Google’s blog post: http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2015/07/Containers-Private-Cloud-Go… <http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2015/07/Containers-Private-Cloud-Go…> My blog post: https://www.openstack.org/blog/2015/07/google-bringing-container-expertise-… <https://www.openstack.org/blog/2015/07/google-bringing-container-expertise-…> Press release: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20150716005315/en/Google-Signs-Corpor… <http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20150716005315/en/Google-Signs-Corpor…> Press articles so far: http://techcrunch.com/2015/07/16/google-signs-on-as-openstack-sponsor-will-… <http://techcrunch.com/2015/07/16/google-signs-on-as-openstack-sponsor-will-…> http://fortune.com/2015/07/16/google-joins-openstack/ <http://fortune.com/2015/07/16/google-joins-openstack/> http://www.zdnet.com/article/just-how-big-is-googles-decision-to-throw-its-… <http://www.zdnet.com/article/just-how-big-is-googles-decision-to-throw-its-…> Mark

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Call for Agenda Items; board packet items due July 20
by Alan Clark 09 Jul '15

09 Jul '15

Directors and Committee Chairs, This is a call for agenda items for the July 28 board meeting. I know several committees have met and / or are intending to meet right prior to the July 28 board meeting. I would like to gather all board packet materials by July 20th so that I can get the materials out to all Directors. Please send me committee and work group reports by July 20th. Thanks, AlanClark

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July board meeting, Neutron
by Russell Bryant 08 Jul '15

08 Jul '15

Hello, Alan! I noticed that "Neutron" is on the July board meeting agenda as a strategic discussion. That is very interesting to me so I'd like to prepare for the discussion. Can you provide some more context? Thanks, -- Russell Bryant

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New Individual Director
by Jonathan Bryce 06 Jul '15

06 Jul '15

Last month, Vishvananda Ishaya resigned as an Individual Director on the Board. Under the bylaws, the remaining Individual Directors have the right to appoint another individual to serve out Vish's term for the remainder of 2015. Section 4.2 of the bylaws provides: "In the case of the death, resignation or removal of any Individual Director (except for removal under Section 4.17), the vacancy may be filled by a majority vote of the remaining Individual Directors.” Last Thursday during a phone meeting, the Individual Directors selected Shane Wang to fill the open seat. Welcome to the Board, Shane! Jonathan

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New Gold Member Director
by Jonathan Bryce 30 Jun '15

30 Jun '15

Hello everyone, The Gold Members held a special election today to fill the vacant Gold Member space left by Nebula. I wanted to send out a quick note to let everyone know that NEC was selected as the Gold Director Selector for the remainder of 2015 and to welcome Tsugikazu Shibata of NEC to the Board of Directors. Jonathan

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Travel Support Committee - Tokyo Summit
by Shari Mahrdt 26 Jun '15

26 Jun '15

Dear Board of Directors, We’re putting together the committee for the Tokyo Summit Travel Support Program <https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Travel_Support_Program>, which opened yesterday, and we are looking for 3 board members to join. Every year we have 3 members from the Board of Directors, Technical Committee, User Committee, Ambassadors and Foundation staff. For the previous Summit we had Alan Clark, Russell Bryant and Steve Hallett serve as committee members from the Board and we’re looking for three new individuals to join us this year. A big thank you to them! We were able to fund the accommodation and flight costs of 28 key contributors (some of whom are gathered in this photo <https://www.dropbox.com/s/ebsdii1nqns0fat/Travel%20Support%20Program%20Reci…>). Applications will close August 10 and the Travel Committee will have from August 11 - 25 to submit their votes. If you are available sometime during this timeframe (August 11-25) for approximately 2-4 hours and are interested in being part of the Travel Support Committee, please let me know by end of next week. The first three individuals who reply will be selected. FYI - the option to fund the travel support program is also available as a sponsorship option <https://www.openstack.org/summit/tokyo-2015/sponsors/>. If interested please contact summit(a)openstack.org. Thanks! Shari Shari Mahrdt OpenStack Marketing shari(a)openstack.org <mailto:shari@openstack.org>

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Correction to October Board meeting date - meeting is on October 26, 9am Tokyo
by Alan Clark 17 Jun '15

17 Jun '15

With the OpenStack Summit slated for October 27 - 30th, the October Board meeting will be held on Monday October 26. The meeting will start at 9am. Meeting Date: Monday October 26, 2015 Time: 9:00am Tokyo to 2:00pm, followed by a joint Board and TC meeting from 2:30 to 5:30pm Location: OpenStack Tokyo Summit I corrected the board wiki page. Directors, I also resent the blocking appointment to your calendars. (Please ensure that my brain dead email client converted timezone correctly). Closer to the meeting date and when meeting details are in place, I will resend the appointment with meeting location information, etc. The latest meeting information will always be located on the wiki: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Governance/Foundation Thanks, AlanClark

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[OpenStack] OpenStack Diversity Working Group - Meeting Information
by Barrett, Carol L 17 Jun '15

17 Jun '15

The initial meeting for this work group will be: Friday, June 19, 2015 at 18:00 UTC, on IRC: #openstack-meeting The Agenda is: * Introductions * Mission Discussion and definition of Diversity * Discuss proposal to engage a Consultant/Coach to assist this work group * Review proposed work plan, gather feedback, and owners * Next Steps o Meeting Frequency o Interest/Need for alternating times to make the meetings globally accessible Moving forward we'll use the foundation(a)lists.openstack.org<mailto:foundation@lists.openstack.org> mail list for work group discussions and meeting communications. Thanks Carol From: Sousou, Imad [mailto:imad.sousou@intel.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2015 1:28 PM To: openstack-dev(a)lists.openstack.org; community-owner(a)lists.openstack.org; openstack(a)lists.openstack.org Subject: [openstack-dev] OpenStack Diversity Working Group 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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Written plan for the CLA work?
by Russell Bryant 15 Jun '15

15 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 04 Jun '15

04 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 17 May '15

17 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 16 May '15

16 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 13 May '15

13 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 11 May '15

11 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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Call for agenda items for the May 17 Board meeting and Joint Meeting with the TC and UC; A reminder to RSVP for the dinner
by Alan Clark 11 May '15

11 May '15

Directors, The latest May 17 Board meeting agenda is posted on the wiki[1]. Heather Kirksey, Director of the OPNFV project has accepted our invitation to participate in the meeting as part of our continued strategic discussions. As you'll recall, at the March Board meeting we held 4 breakout sessions. Our discussion with Heather will be a continuation from that effort as per the suggested outcomes from the IoT/NFV March breakout. Heather will provide a brief introduction, but I asked her to plan that the session be an active discussion with the Board Directors. Please come prepared with your questions. Due to meeting time constraints we will target the 3 other breakout areas for the next board meeting. The Board will hold an Executive Session during the Board meeting. The meeting agenda also contains discussion topics began at or carried forward from the April Board meeting. We will also receive updates and reports from several committees with Board votes expected. Please send me any additional items for the agenda. Committee chairs please send me reports to include with the Board packet or add URLs to the agenda page. At 2:30 pm pacific, May 17, the Board will meet with the Technical Committee and User Committee leadership. Directors please send me agenda items that you would like to discuss at that meeting. At 6:30pm pacific, May 17, the Board will host the Summit Kickoff Dinner. Directors please remember to RSVP by May 13th. You should already have the meetings and dinner location information as appointments your calendars. Thanks, AlanClark [1] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Governance/Foundation/17May2015BoardMeeting

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OpenStack Board Diversity Committee Charter
by Sousou, Imad 30 Apr '15

30 Apr '15

Hi, below is the proposed Diversity committee charter that Egle, Kavit and I worked out (sorry for the delay here)… would be good if we can get this approved ahead of the summit so we can have the discussions in Vancouver on this… Thanks imad OpenStack Board Diversity Committee Charter In an effort to assert and facilitate the incorporation of diversity policies into its overall strategy, the Board of Directors of the OpenStack Foundation is committed to fostering a more inclusive and welcoming place for all people to collaborate and drive innovation and design cutting-edge data center capabilities, while finding the best answers to our most pressing challenges. This committee will sponsor and create programs that encourage diversity by identifying and removing the barriers that keep us from having a diverse, thriving community. The programs defined by this committee will apply to the Board of Directors, OpenStack Foundation, Technical Committee, PTLs, Developers and the entire OpenStack Community. Each program will have specific success metrics and the committee will provide regular updates on all programs to the Board as well as the Community. Diversity is defined as all the ways people differ from one another including race, color, religion, sex, national origin, language, ancestry, age, disability, medical condition, genetic information, military and veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender, gender expression, gender identity, sexual orientation and other aspects. This includes elements such as personal background, experiences, education, thinking processes, approaches to problem solving and life experiences. Diversity takes into account similarities and differences in all individuals around the world and can involve multiple aspects, including geographic location, country of origin, economic class or position, cultural norms and traditional societal norms. The differences range from subtle nuances to very clear points of difference – this is the nature of diversity.

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Kilo Release Materials & Stats
by Lauren Sell 30 Apr '15

30 Apr '15

Hi everyone, The Kilo release is out, and the press release is live. Rather than playing up individual new features this cycle, we’re taking the opportunity to focus on interoperability (defcore & testing) and the maturing core services, balanced with initiatives to integrate new technologies like bare metal and containers. We’ve deliberately pulled back from marketing the release itself this round, but have used the opportunity to set up our key messages around interoperability and innovation leading into the Summit. Please find more resources and stats below that may be helpful for conversations leading into the Summit. Helpful Materials Kilo Landing Page <http://www.openstack.org/kilo> Press Release <http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20150430005362/en/OpenStack%C2%AE-Kil…> Demo Video <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y39CAXJAW3M> Slide deck <http://www.slideshare.net/openstack/openstack-kilo-april-2015-47589256> Kilo Graphic <https://www.openstack.org/assets/marketing/graphics/openstack-kilo-logo.pdf> Technical Release Notes <https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/ReleaseNotes/Kilo> Release Manager Announcement <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack/2015-April/012473.html>Key Stats Kilo is the 11th release of OpenStack software OpenStack provides broad support for popular enterprise and open source technologies. 113 drivers and plugins across compute, storage and networking are supported in the Kilo release 1,492 contributors to Kilo; individuals affiliated with 169 organizations contributed to the release 394 new features and 7,257 bug fixes across the integrated release and common libraries, a huge jump in bug fixes from the Juno release The Internationalization team translated 792,200 strings during the Kilo release cycle Top companies contributing code included Red Hat, HP, IBM, Mirantis, Rackspace, OpenStack Foundation, Yahoo!, NEC, Huawei and SUSE The OpenStack community has more than 23,745 individual members across more than 160 countries and nearly 500 companies Release Highlights Greater stability and scale across the newly defined OpenStack core services First full release of the bare metal service, Ironic, for provisioning workloads that require direct access to hardware More rigorous testing standards to ensure consistency across more than 100 drivers and plugin options New object storage support for erasure coding provides the ability to balance density and durability based on the application Improved identity federation to enable hybrid and multi-cloud use cases Evolving development process to speed integration of technologies like DNS, key management and containers Recent Case Studies & Campaigns Adding Speed & Agility to Enterprise Infrastructure <https://www.openstack.org/enterprise/virtualization-integration/> Inside Adobe’s new Marketing Cloud architecture <http://superuser.openstack.org/articles/game-changer-inside-adobe-s-new-mar…> Moving from CityCloud legacy to OpenStack <http://superuser.openstack.org/articles/moving-from-citycloud-legacy-to-ope…> How Tapjoy Uses OpenStack to Deliver Billions of Daily Requests Globally <http://superuser.openstack.org/articles/how-tapjoy-uses-openstack-to-delive…> <http://superuser.openstack.org/articles/bbva-on-openstack>BBVA on OpenStack <http://superuser.openstack.org/articles/bbva-on-openstack>B <http://superuser.openstack.org/articles/godaddy-builds-their-open-cloud-wit…>BVA on OpenStack OpenStack Summit The next OpenStack Summit <https://www.openstack.org/summit/vancouver-2015/> will take place in Vancouver, May 18-22. Join us to learn more about how organizations are using OpenStack and the vibrant ecosystem behind it. We’ll also reveal the Superuser Award winner at the Summit! Finalists are Comcast, eBay, Walmart and National Supercomputer Center in Guangzhou. There’s still time to review their stories and vote <http://superuser.openstack.org/articles/let-your-voice-be-heard-vote-for-th…> for your favorite. Thanks, Lauren

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OpenStack Board Meeting, Emerald Ballroom in the Fairmont Pacific Rim hotel; May 17,2015, 9am pacific all day F2F meetings
by Alan Clark 29 Apr '15

29 Apr '15

Item Type: Appointment Start Date: Sunday, 17 May 2015, 10:00:00am Duration: 9 Hours Place: OpenStack Vancouver Summit I am updating the appointment with meeting location information. Meeting Location: Emerald Ballroom in the Fairmont Pacific Rim hotel (directly across the street from the Vancouver Convention Centre). It’s located on the 3rd floor of the hotel. Topic: OpenStack F2F Joint Technical Committee and Board Meeting 17 May, 2015 Date: Sunday, May 17, 2015 Time: 9:00am pacific to 2:00pm pacific, followed by a joint Board and TC meeting from 2:30 to 5:30pm Agenda: http://wiki.openstack.org/Governance/Foundation ------------------------------------------------------- If you are unable to join this meeting in person, join the session via webex ------------------------------------------------------- 1. Go to https://openstack.webex.com/openstack/k2/j.php?MTID=ta9be21610822ce5ff3fcd1… Session number: 922 727 936 Host: Alan Clark 2. Enter your name and email address. 3. Enter the session password: This session does not require a password. 4. Click "Join Now". 5. Follow the instructions that appear on your screen. The latest meeting information will always be located on the wiki: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Governance/Foundation

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Apology
by Tristan Goode 23 Apr '15

23 Apr '15

To the OpenStack community and in particular the good people at Citrix and Christian Reilly, I sincerely and unreservedly apologise for my offensive outburst about Citrix re-joining the OpenStack community . I am dearly sorry and I wish I had never said such things. Regards Tristan

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Reaction to Citrix sponsorship
by Mark McLoughlin 22 Apr '15

22 Apr '15

Tristan, Regarding some of your tweets yesterday, specifically: https://twitter.com/tristangoode/status/590524567333965825 and not forgetting another recent incident including: https://twitter.com/tristangoode/status/567055657124106240 If anyone in our community told a new sponsor to fuck off and used words like "lazy, gutless, and racist" to describe board members, I'd feel like we should address that head on. Much has been written about how dealing with poisonous people is an important test for any community. For a board member to be acting this way is completely unacceptable. While no doubt speaking in a personal capacity here, your behavior reflects badly on the gold members you represent, the board, the foundation, and the community generally. Furthermore, you've recently sought to champion the cause of diversity in our community. The most fundamental thing any community can do to increase diversity is to make the community a safe, friendly, and welcoming place for everyone. Your behavior is destructive to the cause you claim to care deeply about. I hope you take a step back and reflect on this, and I hope you apologize. Mark.

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2015 Future of Open Source Survey Results
by Radcliffe, Mark 22 Apr '15

22 Apr '15

Very interesting survey. Congratulations to Jonathan and the Board because OpenStack was listed on Slide 32 as the most valuable OSS project : http://www.slideshare.net/North_Bridge/2015-future-of-open-source-study Please consider the environment before printing this email. The information contained in this email may be confidential and/or legally privileged. It has been sent for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). If the reader of this message is not an intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication, or any of its contents, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please reply to the sender and destroy all copies of the message. To contact us directly, send to postmaster(a)dlapiper.com. Thank you.

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Proposal
by Alan Clark 17 Apr '15

17 Apr '15

Directors, As part of the May 17 Board meeting, we would like to advance the Strategy discussions we began at the March 3 Board meeting. A couple weeks ago Mark Collier sent out a recap covering the March Strategy and Planning discussion. The recap summarized recommendations from the 4 breakout topic areas. The breakout areas being: 1. IoT / NFV 2. Containers & Developer Tools 3. Public & Hybrid Clouds 4. Product Management Unfortunately time constraints at the May meeting will limit us to addressing only one of those topics. We'll leverage the July Austin board meeting to address the other three. Given the NFV activities that are planned at the Summit, which will bring members of the OPNFV community to the Summit location, we propose to focus on breakout topic #1 (IoT/NFV) at the May 17 board meeting. Second, we propose to invite Heather Kirksey, the Director of the OPNFV project to give us additional perspective on this topic at the Board meeting. Two of the four "Overall Recommendations" in Mark's recap are centered around embracing strategic and adjacent industry groups, technologies, and communities building on our foundational IaaS and to foster collaboration across communities. Inviting Heather gives the Board the opportunity to hear directly from the OPNFV community their perspective on how OpenStack fits with OPNFV, dependencies, direction and thoughts on future relations. Some example discussion topics that we would like to suggest to Heather are: - Fit -- What does the success of OpenStack mean to OPNFV -- Where OpenStack fits and does not fit with OPNFV -- What is the potential addressable market -- Would OpenStack Foundation be surprised in the way OPNFV is using OpenStack. In other words is it being used as commonly intended and expected? - Dependencies -- What does OPNFV highly need from OpenStack to be successful -- What other open source or standards communities does OpenStack need to be working with? ODL, Contrail, OVN, ETSI? And how can OPNFV help us. - Direction -- Is there something the OpenStack Board needs to do to ensure strategic directions alignment with OPNFV? - Relationship -- What should be relationship be between OPNFV and OpenStack Foundation? -- Any thoughts on better coordinating collaborative work? - Overall -- How would you measure success between the two organizations? I'm sure Heather will have suggested topics/questions as well. Do you have any additional discussion topics or discussion format that you would like me to convey to Heather? Thanks, AlanClark

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Training session reminder: OpenStack Board Meeting April 2, 2015
by messenger＠webex.com 01 Apr '15

01 Apr '15

Hello Foundation Board List, Alan Clark invites you to participate as a presenter in the following online training session: Topic: OpenStack Board Meeting April 2, 2015 Host: Alan Clark Date: Thursday, April 2, 2015 Time: 12:00 pm, Pacific Daylight Time (San Francisco, GMT-07:00) Session number: 496 583 636 Session password: This session does not require a password. ------------------------------------------------------- To join the training session ------------------------------------------------------- 1. Go to https://openstack.webex.com/openstack/k2/j.php?MTID=t7689898245ba40d5842bb1… 2. Enter your name and email address (or registration ID). 3. Enter the session password: This session does not require a password. 4. Click "Join Now". 5. Follow the instructions that appear on your screen. To view in other time zones or languages, please click the link https://openstack.webex.com/openstack/k2/j.php?MTID=t312465953f114317a33ed4… ------------------------------------------------------- To join the session by phone only ------------------------------------------------------- To receive a call back, provide your phone number when you join the training session, or call the number below and enter the access code. Call-in toll number (US/Canada):1-650-479-3207 Call-in toll-free number (US/Canada):1-855-244-8681 Having trouble dialing in? Try these backup numbers: Call-in toll-free number (US/Canada):1-855-244-8681 Call-in toll number (US/Canada):1-650-479-3207 Global call-in numbers: https://openstack.webex.com/openstack/globalcallin.php?serviceType=TC&ED=30… Show toll-free dialing restrictions: http://www.webex.com/pdf/tollfree_restrictions.pdf Access code: 496 583 636 ------------------------------------------------------- For assistance ------------------------------------------------------- You can contact Alan Clark at: aclark(a)suse.com To add this meeting to your calendar program (for example Microsoft Outlook), click this link: https://openstack.webex.com/openstack/k2/j.php?MTID=t286787e684650d73d72d10… http://www.webex.com IMPORTANT NOTICE: This WebEx service includes a feature that allows audio and any documents and other materials exchanged or viewed during the session to be recorded. By joining this session, you automatically consent to such recordings. If you do not consent to the recording, discuss your concerns with the meeting host prior to the start of the recording or do not join the session. Please note that any such recordings may be subject to discovery in the event of litigation.

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Late addition to DefCore Agenda
by Rob Hirschfeld 01 Apr '15

01 Apr '15

OpenStack Board, In the DefCore meeting today, we decided to request approval of the 2015.next guideline at tomorrow's meeting. The changes between 2015.03 and 2015.next are VERY minor: 1) added Juno as a version 2) added some Flagged Tests (which are handled in DefCore below board level review) We believe adding Juno is needed by the community. Here's the patch: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/169799/ -- Rob ____________________________ Rob Hirschfeld, 512-773-7522 I am in CENTRAL (-6) time http://robhirschfeld.com twitter: @zehicle, github: cloudedge & ravolt

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DefCore Report for 4/2 Board Meeting
by Rob Hirschfeld 31 Mar '15

31 Mar '15

* DefCore Board Report Meeting April 2, 2015 Rob Hirschfeld & Egle Sigler Co-Chairs 10 minute Limit * Short Status Update * No DefCore 2015.04 Guideline o Keystone expected for 2015.05 Guideline * DefCore 2015.03 has requests for Flagged Tests * Request for Feedback on 2015A Process Draft o starting community outreach process (need help) o interlock with TC 2015A DRAFT PROCESS Source: http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/defcore/tree/process/2015A.rst We will take suggestions any way you want to give them; however, the prefered mechanism is to submit patches against Gerrit. Reposted for review: OpenStack DefCore Process 2015A Status: Draft Replaces: none This document describes the DefCore process required by the OpenStack bylaws and approved by the OpenStack Technical Committee and Board. Expected Time line: Time Frame Milestone Activities Lead By -3 months S-3 "preliminary” draft (from current) DefCore -2 months S-2 ID new Capabilities Community -1 month S-1 Score capabilities DefCore Summit S "solid" draft Community Advisory items selected DefCore +1 month S+1 self-testing Vendors +2 months S+2 Test Flagging DefCore +3 months S+3 Approve Guidance Board Note: DefCore may accelerate the process to correct errors and omissions. Process Definition The DefCore Guideline process has two primary phases: Draft and Review. During the Draft phase (A), the DefCore Committee is working with community leaders to update and score the components of the guideline. During the Review phase (B), general community and vendors have an opportunity to provide input and check the guidelines (C) against actual implementations. Review phase ends with Board approval of the draft guideline (D). This section provides specific rules and structure for each phase. NOTE: To ensure continuity of discussion, process components defined below must _not_ reuse numbers in future revisions. The numbering pattern follows draft, section and sub-item numbering, e.g.: 20015A.B2.2. This requirement may create numbering gaps in future iterations that will help indicate changes. Guidelines Draft Phase (A) Starting: S-3 A1. New Guidelines Start From Previous Guidelines 1. Receive DefCore Dedicated Section Guidelines 2. New Guidelines start from the previous Board approved document. 3. New Guidelines are given the preliminary name of the target year and .next. A2. Community Groups Tests into Capabilities 1. DefCore Committee coordinates community activities with the TC and PTLs to revise the capabilities based on current technical needs and functionality. 2. Groupings may change between iterations. 3. Tests must have unique identifiers that are durable across releases and grouping changes to be considered. 4. Tests must be under OpenStack governance. A3. PTLs Recommend Changes to Designated Sections A4. DefCore Committee identifies required capabilities 1. DefCore uses Board approved DefCore scoring criteria to evaluate capabilities. 2. DefCore needs Board approval to change scoring criteria. 3. Scoring criteria factor or weights cannot change after Draft is published. 4. DefCore identifies cut-off score for determining that a capability is required. 5. Capabilities will not be removed without being deprecated in the previous Guideline. 6. Capabilities will not be added without being advisory in the previous Guideline. A5. Foundation recommends OpenStack Components and OpenStack Platform Scope 1. Foundation recommends capabilities to include in each OpenStack Component. 2. Foundation recommends which Components are required for the OpenStack Platform. A6. Additional Capabilities and Tests 1. DefCore will work with the community to define new capabilities. 2. Test grouping for new capabilities will be included in the DefCore documents. 3. DefCore will publish a list of missing and gapped capabilities. A7. DefCore Committee creates recommendation for Draft. 1. DefCore Committee coordinates activities to create draft. 2. DefCore Committee may choose to ignore recommendations with documented justification. Guidelines Review Phase (B) Starting: Summit B1. All Reference Artifacts are reviewed via Gerrit 1. Draft Guideline 2. Designated sections 3. Test-Capability groupings 4. Flagged Test List 5. Capability Scoring criteria and weights 6. Not in Gerrit: Working materials (spreadsheets, etc) B2. Presentation of Draft Guidelines 1. DefCore will present Draft Guidelines to the Board for Review 2. DefCore will distribute Draft Guidelines to the community 3. Foundation provides Draft to vendors for review B3. Changes to Guideline made by Gerrit Review Process 1. Community discussion including vendors must go through Gerrit 2. All changes to draft must go through Gerrit process B4. For Gerrit reviews, DefCore CoChairs act as joint PTLs 1. Board committee members of DefCore serve as "core" reviewers (+2). 2. Requests for changes, must be submitted as patches by the requested party. 3. DefCore Committee members cannot proxy for community change requests. Community Review & Vendor Self-Test (C) Starting: S and continues past S+3 C1. Vendor Self-Tests 1. Vendors are responsible for executing these tests identified by the DefCore committee. 2. The Foundation may, but is not required to, provide tooling for running tests. 3. The Foundation may, but is not required to, define a required reporting format. 4. Self-test results may be published by Vendors in advance of Foundation review, but must be clearly labeled as "Unofficial Results - Not Yet Accepted By The OpenStack Foundation". Vendors who publish self-tests MUST provide them in the same format that would be submitted to the OpenStack Foundation but MAY provide additional formats if they choose to do so. 5. Self-test results cannot be used as proof of compliance. C2. Vendor submits results to Foundation for review 1. The Foundation determines the acceptable format for submissions. 2. The Foundation has final authority to determine if Vendor meets criteria. 3. The Foundation must provide a review of the results within 30 days. C3. Vendor Grievance Process 1. Vendors may raise concerns with specific tests to the DefCore committee. 2. The DefCore committee may choose to remove tests from a Guideline (known as flagging). 3. The DefCore committee must respond to vendor requests to flag tests within 30 days. 4. Vendors may not request flagging all tests in a capability. C4. Results of Vendor Self-Tests will be open 1. The Foundation will make the final results of approved vendors available to the community. 2. The Foundation will not publish incomplete or unapproved results. 3. Only "pass" results will be reported. Skipped and failed results will be omitted from the reports. 4. Reports will include individual test results, not just capability scoring. C5. API Usage Data Report 1. The Foundation will provide DefCore committee with an open report about API usage based on self-tests. 2. To the extent the data is available, capabilities beyond the DefCore list will be included in the report. Guideline Approval (D) Starting: S+3 D1. Board will review and approve DefCore Guideline from draft 1. Guidelines are set at the Platform, Component and Capability level only. 2. Text guideline document is authorative over the JSON representation. 3. DefCore will provide JSON representation for automated scoring 4. Guidelines only apply to the identified releases (a.k.a. release tags). D2. DefCore Committee has authority on test categorization 1. Can add flagged tests before and after Guideline approval. 2. Cannot change Test to Capability mappings after approval. 3. Maintains the test to capability mappings in the JSON representation. D3. Designated sections only enforced for projects with required capabilities 1. Designated sections may be defined for any project. 2. Designated sections applies to the release (a.k.a. release tags) identified in the Guideline. D4. Guidelines are named based on the date of Board approval 1. Naming pattern will be 4 digital year dot and 2 digit month. Functional Information Format: RestructuredTet Layout: 1.0 * -- Rob ____________________________ Rob Hirschfeld, 512-773-7522 I am in CENTRAL (-6) time http://robhirschfeld.com twitter: @zehicle, github: cloudedge & ravolt

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Suggestions about OpenStack Diversity?
by Rob Hirschfeld 31 Mar '15

31 Mar '15

OpenStack Community, The Board has been discussing how to encourage diversity (all types from gender and region to commercial and technical) and also work to improve transparency of Board processes. If you have ideas for us to consider, please feel free to reply to this thread. If you think that we're doing OK (or not) on this, please let us know that too. Thanks, -- Rob ____________________________ Rob Hirschfeld, 512-773-7522 I am in CENTRAL (-6) time http://robhirschfeld.com twitter: @zehicle, github: cloudedge & ravolt

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April 2 OpenStack Board meeting call for agenda items; Board packet materials due by Monday March 30th.
by Alan Clark 31 Mar '15

31 Mar '15

The next OpenStack board meeting will be held on April 2nd at 12noon - 2pm pacific. Committee Chairs and Directors please send me items you would like on the agenda. I need the materials for the board packet by EOB Monday March 30th so that I may post and distribute the materials to the board prior to the meeting. (Please tell me if materials need to be marked confidential.) I've started drafting the agenda[1]. Expecting topics from several committees, it's going to be a very full agenda. We will also be holding an Executive Session during the meeting. Thanks, AlanClark [1] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Governance/Foundation/2Apr2015BoardMeeting#…

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Transparency Committee meeting
by Steve Hallett 31 Mar '15

31 Mar '15

To join etherpad discussion: https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/Transparency_Committee_Meeting_(Mar_31,_20… Meeting information Topic: Transparency Committee Date: Tuesday, March 31, 2015 Time: 7:00 pm, Pacific Daylight Time (San Francisco, GMT-07:00) Meeting Number: 593 747 373 Meeting Password: 1951 To start or join the online meeting Go to https://symantecmeetingcenter.webex.com/symantecmeetingcenter/j.php?MTID=m2… Teleconference information Provide your phone number when you join the meeting to receive a call back. Alternatively, you can call: Call-in toll-free number (Premiere): 1-877-805-0966 (US) Call-in number (Premiere): 1-719-867-4947 (US) Show global numbers: https://www.myrcplus.com/cnums.asp?bwebid=8369444&ppc=7233209291&num=1877-8… Host Access code: 310 116 1103 Participant Access code: 723 320 9291 For assistance 1. Go to https://symantecmeetingcenter.webex.com/symantecmeetingcenter/mc 2. On the left navigation bar, click “Support”. To add this meeting to your calendar program (for example Microsoft Outlook), click this link: https://symantecmeetingcenter.webex.com/symantecmeetingcenter/j.php?MTID=m1… To check whether you have the appropriate players installed for UCF (Universal Communications Format) rich media files, go to https://symantecmeetingcenter.webex.com/symantecmeetingcenter/systemdiagnos…. http://www.webex.com We’ve got to start meeting like this™ CCM:+17198674947x3101161103# IMPORTANT NOTICE: This WebEx service includes a feature that allows audio and any documents and other materials exchanged or viewed during the session to be recorded. You should inform all meeting attendees prior to recording if you intend to record the meeting. Please note that any such recordings may be subject to discovery in the event of litigation.

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Transparency Committee meeting
by Steve Hallett 31 Mar '15

31 Mar '15

To: Transparency list Cc: Foundation Board list The transparency committee has not had a chance to meet since Mar Board meeting. We have some open actions items from Mar meeting, and prior to Apr Board meeting. I am unclear as to definitive current committee member list, therefore am cc:ing entire board, foundation board list, as well as transparency committee list. I apologize for late notice, and the scheduling conflict, but did want to find a timezone that would support global participants. (Meeting invite to follow separately) [X] OpenStack Transparency Committee Mar 31 Agenda rough outline * Chair status * Committee member status * Report Card: o How are we doing relative to stated goals and commitments? * Top-of-mind issues for discussion o Open items from Mar 3 Board meeting * Recommendations and read-out to Board for Apr 2 Board meeting * Set date/time for next committee meeting To join etherpad discussion: https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/Transparency_Committee_Meeting_(Mar_31,_20… [X] Transparency Policy http://www.openstack.org/legal/transparency-policy/ Committee page: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Governance/Foundation/TransparencyCommittee [X] WIP >From Kavit's Mar 1 email to Board for Agenda items: Transparency 1. Set usage rules for sending email to the confidential Board list (done) 2. Ensure community feedback in the decision making process for those rules (wip) 3. Regular reports from the transparency committee (wip) >From Jonathan's post Mar 3 NYC Board meeting email: "Finally, the Board wrapped up with an hour-long discussion about transparency and diversity. Discussion points included implementing better mailing list procedures, potential changes to the Transparency Policy and how Board Members can better engage with and support all of our global communities. Sean Roberts is picking up the Transparency Committee work, which will convene in the next few weeks to follow up on the discussion with more concrete recommendations and actions on that front. Also, Robert Esker started a thread on this list to discuss potential updates to the Transparency Policy." In process edits to Transparency Policy https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FeSSw1r3imd6B-Wf2oj5VcwekhNF-jtv5upNh1P…<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FeSSw1r3imd6B-Wf2oj5VcwekhNF-jtv5upNh1P…> [X] Thoughts (and questions) on Transparency: What * Decision Making * Spending * Vendor Influence * Community Participation * Why contributions are accepted or rejected * ... Who is accountable to whom? * Foundation * Board * TC * Members * ... [X] Separate item if time: (Not sure whether to keep within Transparency committee) Diversity & Inclusion 1. Establishment of a diversity committee, with a remit to ensure diversity at the board, Foundation staff and project contributor levels 2. Regular reports on diversity released bi-annually 3. Expert review of the bylaws for other discriminatory content a. Extend Travel Support for individual directors. Prohibitively expensive for unsponsored individual directors. Only one trip presently with 4 x F2F per annum b. (example 2 - Affiliation criteria is non inclusive. Proposal to change $ amount to a % of the income earned) 4. The foundation must have a published diversity and inclusion policy that covers the Foundation employees AND its actions with respect to the community. The board needs to set the direction for the Foundation to follow and the Foundation executive should have these goals included in their performance criteria.

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Re: [Foundation Board] April 2 OpenStack Board meeting call for agenda items; Board packet materials due by Monday March 30th.
by Rob Hirschfeld 26 Mar '15

26 Mar '15

Alan, DefCore has updates on process draft and possible action to approve 2015.04 Guideline. 10 minutes max. Rob On Mar 25, 2015 5:53 PM, Alan Clark <aclark(a)suse.com> wrote: > > The next OpenStack board meeting will be held on April 2nd at 12noon - 2pm pacific. > > Committee Chairs and Directors please send me items you would like on the agenda. I need the materials for the board packet by EOB Monday March 30th so that I may post and distribute the materials to the board prior to the meeting. (Please tell me if materials need to be marked confidential.) > > I've started drafting the agenda[1]. Expecting topics from several committees, it's going to be a very full agenda. We will also be holding an Executive Session during the meeting. > > Thanks, > AlanClark > > > > > > [1] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Governance/Foundation/2Apr2015BoardMeeting#… > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Foundation-board mailing list > Foundation-board(a)lists.openstack.org > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/foundation-board

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Notes for March 3 Board discussion
by Mark Collier 24 Mar '15

24 Mar '15

Hi everyone, In the March 3 board meeting we took some time to break off into groups to discuss emerging market opportunities: NFV/IoT, Containers, and Public & Hybrid Clouds. Additionally, given the importance of the new product management working group, there was a group focused on that. After the teams met they came back and shared their thoughts on the opportunities for OpenStack, which I attempted to summarize in the attached slides. The primary goal of the exercise was to raise awareness of the rapidly changing market landscape, while identfying potential areas to focus on going forward. One of the biggest takeaways was that there are many other communities and organizations working on adjacent technologies that we can better collaborate with, both at our summits and by working more directly in other forums. I look forward to working with everyone to ensure OpenStack is an integral part of these exciting emerging markets! Mark

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promoting the newly open Foundation-Board list
by Rob Hirschfeld 23 Mar '15

23 Mar '15

All, It occurs to me that we still need to advertise that the list is now available for community subscribers. Here's my tweet about it: https://twitter.com/zehicle/status/580120314241163264 And a short link to the list http://bit.ly/1CKP subscription page. -- Rob ____________________________ Rob Hirschfeld, 512-773-7522 I am in CENTRAL (-6) time http://robhirschfeld.com twitter: @zehicle, github: cloudedge & ravolt

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This list is now publicly accessible
by Jonathan Bryce 20 Mar '15

20 Mar '15

Hi everyone, As mentioned on Wednesday, we made the switch to turn this list public yesterday. Any emails sent here going forward will be publicly visible in the archives: http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/foundation-board/ Mark McLoughlin managed to send an email at the exact time we were moving the archives, so his message ended up in both lists. Well played, Mark! = ) For any confidential information, use the mailing list at foundation-board-confidential(a)lists.openstack.org. I’m happy that we’ve been able to implement this now as laid out in the the Transparency Policy. Since we have achieved the desired configuration, emails sent to the confidential mailing list are automatically considered Confidential Information under the Transparency Policy and should not be forwarded outside of the membership of that list without the consent of the person sending the original email. If you feel that information sent to the confidential list should be publicly available, first ask the original sender if they are willing to repost to this or some other public list. If you and the original sender disagree about whether or not the information should be made public, escalate to the Chairperson of the Board and Executive Director. If there is still disagreement, it may be brought before the Board as a whole. I hope that with this new list configuration we won’t have issues in this area, but in any case, none of us should act unilaterally in making confidential information public. Thanks again to the infra team for helping with the set up. Let me know if you have any questions, Jonathan

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