Hi Prakash, Thank you for kick-starting this dialog and putting forward a proposal to get the ball rolling. I have looked at the document and the first thing that struck me was the potentially significant amount of work involved in establishing these matrix for evaluation and determination. I hold some concerns that such a data matrix may make it difficult for incubating projects to have an understanding on what is expected of them to achieve promotion. I’m a big fan of simple, especially when it comes to setting expectations on a diverse group of people. :) There would be some value in looking at these metrics and trying to boil them down to a set of principals for projects to follow, with a (hopefully) simple method of evaluating the projects adherence in order that the communities are aware of the boards expectations and there can be little confusion on how to achieve them. I noticed your document, rightly, highlights the “four opens” as a set of expectations, this might be a good starting point for which to build consumable messaging on how “project confirmation” can be achieved and evaluated. I feel that we will need to try and make what is a complex topic as simple as possible in order that we do not confuse or alienate potential projects. Let’s discuss in the meetings Alan will propose, I’m keen to hear others thoughts on this topic. Regards, Chris From: prakash RAMCHANDRAN <pramchan@yahoo.com> Reply-To: "pramchan@yahoo.com" <pramchan@yahoo.com> Date: Saturday, 24 November 2018 at 02:06 To: "ACLARK@suse.com" <ACLARK@suse.com>, foundation-board <foundation-board@lists.openstack.org> Subject: Re: [Foundation Board] Call to develop the confirmation guidelines Alan & foundation-board, Took some time to think over the OIP process. Confirmation guide lines as you call, needs a pipeline to identity how we reached here in first place and how would we repeat it with success for future OIP efforts Attached here in the first simple draft to brainstorm at next meeting. Please feel free to amend and update to arrive at a version that can be tested on one or two Pilots in pipe line to finalize the procedures before releasing first version to existing OIP pilots. Thanks Prakash Ramchandran +14084065810 Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android<https://go.onelink.me/107872968?pid=InProduct&c=Global_Internal_YGrowth_AndroidEmailSig__AndroidUsers&af_wl=ym&af_sub1=Internal&af_sub2=Global_YGrowth&af_sub3=EmailSignature> On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 7:28 AM, prakash RAMCHANDRAN <pramchan@yahoo.com> wrote: Alan, Glad to see the first Bylaws part of OIP addressed by Board successfully. For now we can draft a document call it Best practice & Guidelines for evaluating Pilot Projects to onboard as a confirmed project within OIP. Thus we need a simple Life cycle to be defined for an OIP project. 1) Pilot phase 2) Evaluation or Reevaluation phase. 3) Confirmation and Graduated to be Run as OIP project. 4) Rating based on adaption and Define scale of Maturity 5) Terminate, Archive and / or merge into other OIP or OpenStack project or projects. Each of this 5 phase can have some matrix to measure and commitee assigned can define that. Matrix should include both Technology and Market coments to qualify in all 5 phases. I can certainly pitch in and certainly let's get Chris Price from Ericsson bring his experience from OPNFV to best on it. This will need a private wiki page or confluence and OSF staff should be able to facilitate that. Please go ahead and get one quick call to assign a 3-5 member committee that can include 2 SP, 2 platinum or Gold reps and 1 Semi conductor vendor like Intel to get this moving and let's get a preliminary draft before next year end. We need to have clear road map by CYQ1 to ensure we keep the good work done and let the stats by our Branding team het us some inputs through survey. Rest on call. Thanks Prakash Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android<https://go.onelink.me/107872968?pid=InProduct&c=Global_Internal_YGrowth_AndroidEmailSig__AndroidUsers&af_wl=ym&af_sub1=Internal&af_sub2=Global_YGrowth&af_sub3=EmailSignature> On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 4:03 PM, Alan Clark <ACLARK@suse.com> wrote: Please respond by November 30. Directors, thank you for your leadership at this week's board and joint leadership meetings. The resolutions we passed will be a pivotal point for our community for years to come. Now, as a board, we have some additional work to undertake to define guidelines that we as a board will use to help confirm pilot projects. I would like to launch a new board work effort to define guidelines the board can use to fulfill our confirmation responsibilities as part of the strategic project process. These guidelines will be a key tool for us to ensure that we and the OpenStack Foundation will be in a proper position to help these projects grow, thrive and succeed as an open source community driven technology. Please let me know if you are interested in participating in this work effort. Once I know those who are interested, I will setup a kickoff call where we can determine who would like to chair this effort and to determine a path forward. Regards, AlanClark _______________________________________________ Foundation-board mailing list Foundation-board@lists.openstack.org<mailto:Foundation-board@lists.openstack.org> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/foundation-board