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Re: [OpenStack Foundation] NYC 3/2 pre-meeting Board
by Steve Hallett 02 Mar '15

02 Mar '15

Rob, et.al., Great idea. I will be @ hotel in Times Square as well and am open from 7pm (est). /steve Hallett ________________________________ Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2015 11:22:20 -0500 From: matt <matt(a)nycresistor.com<mailto:matt@nycresistor.com>> To: Rob Hirschfeld <rob(a)zehicle.com<mailto:rob@zehicle.com>> Cc: "foundation(a)lists.openstack.org<mailto:foundation@lists.openstack.org>" <foundation(a)lists.openstack.org<mailto:foundation@lists.openstack.org>> Subject: Re: [OpenStack Foundation] NYC 3/2 pre-meeting Board socialization? Message-ID: <CAP_sDUEz9eaGX3+H=2Dka-L9m35vsHuP6xFpH+17zZ72YaLjMA(a)mail.gmail.com<mailto:CAP_sDUEz9eaGX3+H=2Dka-L9m35vsHuP6xFpH+17zZ72YaLjMA@mail.gmail.com>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" I live in NYC. I'd be happy to stop by. Time Square isn't necessarily great, but check out rattle and hum ( http://www.rattlenhumbarnyc.com/ ) it's a little closer to empire state building on 34th, but a superior option. Probably the best decent beer bar in midtown. -matt On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 11:16 AM, Rob Hirschfeld <rob(a)zehicle.com<mailto:rob@zehicle.com>> wrote: > Directors (and community), > > > I'll be in NYC the day before the Tuesday meeting next week. Would anyone > be interested in getting together for dinner and//or drinks the evening > before the meeting? Some place around Times Square? > > > I am not suggesting a meet-up (but would consider one if there's interest) > - I'd like to keep it informal. > > > Thanks, > > > Rob >

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[OpenStack Foundation] DefCore Report for 3/3 Board Meeting
by Rob Hirschfeld 27 Feb '15

27 Feb '15

All, I'm forwarding a link to the DefCore 3/3/15 report: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SKO-eFdlU7DzsgBxVUcP-Z6vQja-AvSlmR2mbD4… This material is intended for Directors discussion during the meeting and includes status updates and recommendations by the DefCore committee. It is subject to change before the meeting. Thank you, -- Rob ____________________________ Rob Hirschfeld, 512-773-7522 I am in CENTRAL (-6) time http://robhirschfeld.com twitter: @zehicle, github: cloudedge & ravolt

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[OpenStack Foundation] Fwd: [Foundation Board] March 3 Board meeting; call for agenda items.
by Tristan Goode 26 Feb '15

26 Feb '15

Forwarding this to the Foundation list where it should have been sent. What do the community want us to put on the agenda? Tristan @ Aptira from mobile. Direct/mobile: +61 400 399 211 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Alan Clark" <aclark(a)suse.com> Date: Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 5:09 PM -0800 Subject: [Foundation Board] March 3 Board meeting; call for agenda items. To: <foundation-board(a)lists.openstack.org> Directors, The most frequent feedback received after every board meeting is the desire for the Board to have more time for strategic level discussions. Since we were able to get through the pressing logistical topics at the January call, we would like to propose that for the March 3rd Board meeting we spend a large portion of the meeting time in an active discussion on board level forward direction and vision. We've placed a short straw outline on the unofficial board notes etherpad[1] . The outline suggests the discussion flow for the future vision topic. This is intentionally a work in progress. Directors as you have time this week, we invite you to add your thoughts, ideas, and discussion driving questions to the outline. The outline has not been "word smithed". If something is missing add it, if the text draws the wrong conclusion change it. We'd also like to suggest that during the meeting we use this etherpad as the focal point. Posting notes, ideas and conclusions on the etherpad, particularly during the breakouts, rather than sticky notes, whiteboards or slides will help ensure we capture all ideas into a coherent flow and that we are able to include those Directors who will be unable to join the meeting in person. Committee chairs if you have any additional topics for the agenda please send those to me and I will add them to the agenda. Thanks, AlanClark [1] https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/UnofficialBoardNotes-Mar03-2015 _______________________________________________ Foundation-board mailing list Foundation-board(a)lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/foundation-board

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[OpenStack Foundation] NYC 3/2 pre-meeting Board socialization?
by Rob Hirschfeld 26 Feb '15

26 Feb '15

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[OpenStack Foundation] Fwd: Re: [Foundation Board] propose 2015 board meeting dates
by Tristan Goode 25 Feb '15

25 Feb '15

Hi Foundation list members, Back in November last year on the secret board of directors mailing list, this discussion was had about where to hold the July face to face board meeting instead of just going back to OSCON for a fifth year. I suggested Bengaluru (aka Bangalore) for a few what I thought to be fairly compelling reasons listed below. After precisely ZERO alternatives were offered on the list or anywhere at all, a secret ballot of the board was held in January and the alternatives of OSCON and Austin Texas appeared from nowhere against Bengaluru. Austin won. Putting my personal disappointment with the rejection of what I, and others, thought a great idea, the method of how the decision came to be made has me deeply concerned at what the board has become. Our complete failure to adopt crucial transparency committee directives like ceasing to use the secret board mailing list, and now holding secret ballots with no community consultation, not even board discussion, and not even being able to declare decisions openly as grown ups, all just smells a bit off. I just hope this is a momentary lapse of reason, but I suspect not. I also started to wonder about the leadership of the community that a decision like this shows. None. What possible strategic advantage does holding a board meeting in Austin have that holding it with hundreds if not thousands of excited Stackers in India has? It's has none, it's a plainly selfish decision by a group of people that felt it was better to take a maximum 3 hour plane flight to somewhere where they would probably still drink bottled water anyway. It's a lazy choice and if a board member made it because they're too busy to travel further, then get off the board because this board needs to travel more not less. Against this laziness, it really ok for the (4 I think) non US resident board members to take minimum 10 to 20 hour plane treks for every single meeting to date? It also got me thinking about the international diversity of the board, or the lack of. The make up of our board does not come remotely close to reflecting the foundation membership. If it did we surely have a lot more persons from Asia in seats. Alongside some of the outrageously non inclusive components of our bylaws ($60Kpa paid to be affiliated with a company for example), this lack of diversity has to be fixed so our organisation is properly inclusive from the board up. Yes I said "board up", not "board down", because at this point in time I feel like the board is at the bottom of the organisation. So yes it's hard to completely put my personal disappointment aside about this decision. It was hard to speak with the Indian event organisers who I kept forwarding the board emails to because they couldn't see the list "discussion", and nothing indicated an alternative strategy was emerging. What to do? Ensure this never happens again. Get rid of the secret mailing list, no more secret ballots, own up to and be public with our decisions as members of this board. Perhaps lets even run the process for selecting the July board meeting venue again, out in the open as it damn well should have been done to begin with. CheersTristan Tristan @ Aptira from mobile. Direct/mobile: +61 400 399 211 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Monty Taylor" <mordred(a)inaugust.com> Date: Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 6:35 AM -0800 Subject: Re: [Foundation Board] propose 2015 board meeting dates To: <foundation-board(a)lists.openstack.org> +1000 I think this is an excellent idea. As Tristan says, there are places that are unlikely to get a summit, but which are very important to our community, and getting 24 people there rather than 5000 is a great way to do that. On 11/26/2014 07:43 AM, Tristan Goode wrote: > I support an East Coast meeting and agree the first meeting should be > booked urgently anywhere, but absolutely, let's pick a different event > than OSCON because the Summit is in Vancouver. Here's my suggestion.... > > There's a great opportunity to hold the meeting to coincide with the > OpenStack India Day in Bengaluru (India's Silicon Valley). India is home > to a huge OpenStack community that is a massive part of what OpenStack is > and it's a community we have not and are not serving. India has the third > largest Foundation membership count after the USA and China. > > We can basically acknowledge that a summit is unlikely to be held in India > due to the extreme logistical and infrastructure demands. The Board's > presence at a well promoted and well organised OpenStack India Day will > serve to provide some real compensation for this. The organisers of the > OpenStack India Day were slating it for March, but were so overwhelmed by > the prospect of the increased attendance due to the presences of the Board > members they were willing to throw away their plans to hold it in July > instead. It is not an understatement to say that the presence of the Board > would dramatically increase the expected capacity, taking it from a few > hundred attendees to a number in the thousands. It was also planned for > some OpenStack staff to attend this event already. > > Due to Indian culture and values (a good reason alone to attend!) the > presence of the project leadership has an enormous ability to deliver > impact that will drive our mission forth. India has an awesome culture of > respect. Whether you like it or not we as Board directors are looked up to > and admired there in a way that is uniquely Indian. > > I realise it's a very long way for many of you, but I've not yet attended > a BoD meeting that was less than a 10.5 hour flight away, so I think > you'll be ok. And don't worry it's entirely possible for even those with > the weakest bellies to avoid food and water problems. > > So I'd really like us to dramatically increase our inclusion footprint > with one fairly simple act. We've been to the East (Hong Kong) and Europe > (Paris), and we are back in the East again in Tokyo. > > I'm sure most of your organisations have a presence in India, and some > with possibly large teams working on OpenStack. A recent informal poll of > Indian meetup attendees for their national size indicated there is > possibly as many as 10,000 people working in India right now on OpenStack > and related projects! For those of you running 24/7 OpenStack ops in the > Americas or Europe, India is very likely where your team is covering your > night time. Let's embrace this time zone and these people we rely on. > > Please consider this request seriously - you have the ability to make > great impact with little more than a longer plane flight than you might be > used to. > > Cheers > Tristan > > > > > > > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Alan Clark [mailto:aclark@suse.com] >> Sent: Thursday, 20 November 2014 9:10 AM >> To: Tim Bell; foundation-board(a)lists.openstack.org >> Subject: Re: [Foundation Board] propose 2015 board meeting dates >> >> >> >> >>> >>> Alan, >>> >>> Thanks for the proposal .... it really helps to pin down the locations >>> for the F2F soonish if we can. >>> >>> We won't know the individual member election results till January. >>> However, how about an F2F on the US east coast ? >>> >>> Doing a transatlantic flight for a board meeting is a lot of time/cost >>> so co-locating with OSCON (or another event) is good. Pinning down the >>> slot (i.e. the day before, during or the day after) is also needed to >>> get the flights organised early. Portland flights in the summer were >>> not cheap so early scheduling would be appreciated. >> >> I like the idea of a non west coast and wondered if we should pick a > different event >> than OSCON simply because the Summit is in Vancouver (west coast). > Portland and >> Vancouver are geo close. Is there an event where many Directors attend? >> >>> >>> For the summits, can we assume the Sunday before the board meeting and >>> a high-five on the Thursday ? >> >> I still like the idea of a 'high-five' on the Thursday and feel we > should include it. But >> will note that we did not reach quorum last time even with dial-in. >> >>> >>> Tim >>> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: Alan Clark [mailto:aclark@suse.com] >>>> Sent: 19 November 2014 19:35 >>>> To: foundation-board(a)lists.openstack.org >>>> Subject: Re: [Foundation Board] propose 2015 board meeting dates >>>> >>>> Directors, >>>> >>>> Before the end of year hits us I'd like to discuss and solidify the >>>> board >>> meeting >>>> dates for 2015. We have several Directors who need to get the next >>>> couple meeting dates locked in soon. >>>> >>>> To get the discussion rolling, I'll propose the following dates for > meeting: >>>> January 29, Conference Call >>>> March 19, F2F Location TBD >>>> April 9, Conference Call >>>> May 17, F2F Vancouver Summit (also a joint board/tc meeting) July, >>>> F2F Location TBD (Should we hold this at OSCON?) October 25, F2F >>>> Tokyo Summit (also a joint board/tc meeting) December 3, Conference >>>> Call >>>> >>>> Your thoughts on meeting dates, locations, format?. >>>> >>>> AlanClark >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Foundation-board mailing list >>>> Foundation-board(a)lists.openstack.org >>>> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/foundation-board >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Foundation-board mailing list >> Foundation-board(a)lists.openstack.org >> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/foundation-board > > _______________________________________________ > Foundation-board mailing list > Foundation-board(a)lists.openstack.org > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/foundation-board > _______________________________________________ Foundation-board mailing list Foundation-board(a)lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/foundation-board

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Re: [OpenStack Foundation] Fwd: Re: [Foundation Board] propose 2015board meeting dates
by Alan Clark 24 Feb '15

24 Feb '15

Thanks Sean. The mailing list issue has been festering for a long time. We should have circled back to this sooner. If someone wants to go thorough the complaint process that's fine but I propose that it will be best if we put it on the board meeting agenda. This latest thread shows that we have several areas that need to be addressed.so that we all operate under the same premise. AlanClark Sent via the Samsung GALAXY S®4, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone <div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: sean roberts <seanroberts66(a)gmail.com> </div><div>Date:02/23/2015 7:03 PM (GMT-07:00) </div><div>To: "<foundation(a)lists.openstack.org>" <foundation(a)lists.openstack.org> </div><div>Cc: Alan Clark <ACLARK(a)suse.com> </div><div>Subject: Re: [OpenStack Foundation] Fwd: Re: [Foundation Board] propose 2015 board meeting dates </div><div> </div>As one of the new transparancy committee members, it is one of my responsibilities to report on the board transparency. The transparancy policy as adopted by the board and posted here http://www.openstack.org/legal/transparency-policy/ generally states that information not falling under the heading confidential information, will be made public through the foundation mailing list. This is not explicit however. The selection of the board meeting locations does not seem to be confidential. I am open to discussing how it could be considered so. In the spirit of being a community that works together in the open, I would like to see the future discussions around selecting board meeting locations be made in the open like most everything else we do. I think an agreement to do this on the ML would be enough to move forward and past this specific issue. If this is a problem that cannot be solved here and needs formal resolution, I would recommend that the process to file a complaint with Jonathan outlined in section 5 of the transparency policy be followed. On Monday, February 23, 2015, Steve Noble <snoble(a)sonn.com> wrote: On Feb 23, 2015 4:16 PM, "Jesse Proudman" <jproudman(a)blueboxcloud.com> wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 2:58 PM, Dave Neary <dneary(a)redhat.com> wrote: >> >> This general pattern of public proposal and debate, followed by a >> private executive decision which takes that debate into consideration, >> has proven effective at building consensus and maintaining a level of >> participation of the membership in the workings of the foundation. > > > I absolutely agree that public discussion and public recording of board decisions is important. The intent of my email was to comment on Tristan's concerns in the aggregate. > It has been clear to me that since the OpenStack board started having private, non recorded, non accessible meetings along with private voting, that the OpenStack board is going in a direction that does not benefit the community. Comments about travel costs for the board shows a very shallow view of what running an open source community entails. OpenStack is a _very_ well funded organization and most of the board members come from corporations that pay significantly for their spot. The cost of travel for the corporate delegates is minor compared to the other expenses. The people who run for the board know what the job entails. I believe that every one of them ran for their role to do good in the community. If a board member is unable or unwilling to support the common good, why are they are on the board at all? Transparency in a organization that uses open in the name is IMHO obligatory. -- ~sean

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[OpenStack Foundation] Training session reminder: OpenStack Board Meeting March 3, 2015
by messenger＠webex.com 24 Feb '15

24 Feb '15

Hello Foundation Mailing List, Alan Clark invites you to participate as an attendee in the OpenStack Board meeting: Topic: OpenStack Board Meeting March 3, 2015 Host: Alan Clark Date: Tuesday, March 3, 2015 Time: 6:00 am, Pacific Standard Time (San Francisco, GMT-08:00) Session number: 924 163 370 Session password: This session does not require a password. ------------------------------------------------------- To join the session ------------------------------------------------------- 1. Go to https://openstack.webex.com/openstack/k2/j.php?MTID=t147f25ea118b438d97a723… 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=tf470fa45551f4c0693072f… ------------------------------------------------------- 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=32… Show toll-free dialing restrictions: http://www.webex.com/pdf/tollfree_restrictions.pdf Access code: 924 163 370 ------------------------------------------------------- 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=t795dcd5542016a60636739… 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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Re: [OpenStack Foundation] Fwd: Re: [Foundation Board] propose 2015 board meeting dates
by Matt Joyce 22 Feb '15

22 Feb '15

You had me up until India. On Feb 22, 2015 3:01 PM, Tristan Goode <tristan(a)aptira.com> wrote: > > Hi Foundation list members, > > Back in November last year on the secret board of directors mailing list, this discussion was had about where to hold the July face to face board meeting instead of just going back to OSCON for a fifth year. I suggested Bengaluru (aka Bangalore) for a few what I thought to be fairly compelling reasons listed below. > > After precisely ZERO alternatives were offered on the list or anywhere at all, a secret ballot of the board was held in January and the alternatives of OSCON and Austin Texas appeared from nowhere against Bengaluru. Austin won. > > Putting my personal disappointment with the rejection of what I, and others, thought a great idea, the method of how the decision came to be made has me deeply concerned at what the board has become. Our complete failure to adopt crucial transparency committee directives like ceasing to use the secret board mailing list, and now holding secret ballots with no community consultation, not even board discussion, and not even being able to declare decisions openly as grown ups, all just smells a bit off. I just hope this is a momentary lapse of reason, but I suspect not. > > I also started to wonder about the leadership of the community that a decision like this shows. None. What possible strategic advantage does holding a board meeting in Austin have that holding it with hundreds if not thousands of excited Stackers in India has? It's has none, it's a plainly selfish decision by a group of people that felt it was better to take a maximum 3 hour plane flight to somewhere where they would probably still drink bottled water anyway. It's a lazy choice and if a board member made it because they're too busy to travel further, then get off the board because this board needs to travel more not less. Against this laziness, it really ok for the (4 I think) non US resident board members to take minimum 10 to 20 hour plane treks for every single meeting to date? > > It also got me thinking about the international diversity of the board, or the lack of. The make up of our board does not come remotely close to reflecting the foundation membership. If it did we surely have a lot more persons from Asia in seats. Alongside some of the outrageously non inclusive components of our bylaws ($60Kpa paid to be affiliated with a company for example), this lack of diversity has to be fixed so our organisation is properly inclusive from the board up. Yes I said "board up", not "board down", because at this point in time I feel like the board is at the bottom of the organisation. > > So yes it's hard to completely put my personal disappointment aside about this decision. It was hard to speak with the Indian event organisers who I kept forwarding the board emails to because they couldn't see the list "discussion", and nothing indicated an alternative strategy was emerging. > > What to do? Ensure this never happens again. Get rid of the secret mailing list, no more secret ballots, own up to and be public with our decisions as members of this board. > > Perhaps lets even run the process for selecting the July board meeting venue again, out in the open as it damn well should have been done to begin with. > > Cheers > Tristan > > > Tristan @ Aptira from mobile. > Direct/mobile: +61 400 399 211 > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: "Monty Taylor" <mordred(a)inaugust.com> > Date: Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 6:35 AM -0800 > Subject: Re: [Foundation Board] propose 2015 board meeting dates > To: <foundation-board(a)lists.openstack.org> > > > +1000 > > > > I think this is an excellent idea. As Tristan says, there are places > > that are unlikely to get a summit, but which are very important to our > > community, and getting 24 people there rather than 5000 is a great way > > to do that. > > > > On 11/26/2014 07:43 AM, Tristan Goode wrote: > > > I support an East Coast meeting and agree the first meeting should be > > > booked urgently anywhere, but absolutely, let's pick a different event > > > than OSCON because the Summit is in Vancouver. Here's my suggestion.... > > > > > > There's a great opportunity to hold the meeting to coincide with the > > > OpenStack India Day in Bengaluru (India's Silicon Valley). India is home > > > to a huge OpenStack community that is a massive part of what OpenStack is > > > and it's a community we have not and are not serving. India has the third > > > largest Foundation membership count after the USA and China. > > > > > > We can basically acknowledge that a summit is unlikely to be held in India > > > due to the extreme logistical and infrastructure demands. The Board's > > > presence at a well promoted and well organised OpenStack India Day will > > > serve to provide some real compensation for this. The organisers of the > > > OpenStack India Day were slating it for March, but were so overwhelmed by > > > the prospect of the increased attendance due to the presences of the Board > > > members they were willing to throw away their plans to hold it in July > > > instead. It is not an understatement to say that the presence of the Board > > > would dramatically increase the expected capacity, taking it from a few > > > hundred attendees to a number in the thousands. It was also planned for > > > some OpenStack staff to attend this event already. > > > > > > Due to Indian culture and values (a good reason alone to attend!) the > > > presence of the project leadership has an enormous ability to deliver > > > impact that will drive our mission forth. India has an awesome culture of > > > respect. Whether you like it or not we as Board directors are looked up to > > > and admired there in a way that is uniquely Indian. > > > > > > I realise it's a very long way for many of you, but I've not yet attended > > > a BoD meeting that was less than a 10.5 hour flight away, so I think > > > you'll be ok. And don't worry it's entirely possible for even those with > > > the weakest bellies to avoid food and water problems. > > > > > > So I'd really like us to dramatically increase our inclusion footprint > > > with one fairly simple act. We've been to the East (Hong Kong) and Europe > > > (Paris), and we are back in the East again in Tokyo. > > > > > > I'm sure most of your organisations have a presence in India, and some > > > with possibly large teams working on OpenStack. A recent informal poll of > > > Indian meetup attendees for their national size indicated there is > > > possibly as many as 10,000 people working in India right now on OpenStack > > > and related projects! For those of you running 24/7 OpenStack ops in the > > > Americas or Europe, India is very likely where your team is covering your > > > night time. Let's embrace this time zone and these people we rely on. > > > > > > Please consider this request seriously - you have the ability to make > > > great impact with little more than a longer plane flight than you might be > > > used to. > > > > > > Cheers > > > Tristan > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >> -----Original Message----- > > >> From: Alan Clark [mailto:aclark@suse.com] > > >> Sent: Thursday, 20 November 2014 9:10 AM > > >> To: Tim Bell; foundation-board(a)lists.openstack.org > > >> Subject: Re: [Foundation Board] propose 2015 board meeting dates > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> >>> > > >>> Alan, > > >>> > > >>> Thanks for the proposal .... it really helps to pin down the locations > > >>> for the F2F soonish if we can. > > >>> > > >>> We won't know the individual member election results till January. > > >>> However, how about an F2F on the US east coast ? > > >>> > > >>> Doing a transatlantic flight for a board meeting is a lot of time/cost > > >>> so co-locating with OSCON (or another event) is good. Pinning down the > > >>> slot (i.e. the day before, during or the day after) is also needed to > > >>> get the flights organised early. Portland flights in the summer were > > >>> not cheap so early scheduling would be appreciated. > > >> > > >> I like the idea of a non west coast and wondered if we should pick a > > > different event > > >> than OSCON simply because the Summit is in Vancouver (west coast). > > > Portland and > > >> Vancouver are geo close. Is there an event where many Directors attend? > > >> > > >>> > > >>> For the summits, can we assume the Sunday before the board meeting and > > >>> a high-five on the Thursday ? > > >> > > >> I still like the idea of a 'high-five' on the Thursday and feel we > > > should include it. But > > >> will note that we did not reach quorum last time even with dial-in. > > >> > > >>> > > >>> Tim > > >>> > > >>>> -----Original Message----- > > >>>> From: Alan Clark [mailto:aclark@suse.com] > > >>>> Sent: 19 November 2014 19:35 > > >>>> To: foundation-board(a)lists.openstack.org > > >>>> Subject: Re: [Foundation Board] propose 2015 board meeting dates > > >>>> > > >>>> Directors, > > >>>> > > >>>> Before the end of year hits us I'd like to discuss and solidify the > > >>>> board > > >>> meeting > > >>>> dates for 2015. We have several Directors who need to get the next > > >>>> couple meeting dates locked in soon. > > >>>> > > >>>> To get the discussion rolling, I'll propose the following dates for > > > meeting: > > >>>> January 29, Conference Call > > >>>> March 19, F2F Location TBD > > >>>> April 9, Conference Call > > >>>> May 17, F2F Vancouver Summit (also a joint board/tc meeting) July, > > >>>> F2F Location TBD (Should we hold this at OSCON?) October 25, F2F > > >>>> Tokyo Summit (also a joint board/tc meeting) December 3, Conference > > >>>> Call > > >>>> > > >>>> Your thoughts on meeting dates, locations, format?. > > >>>> > > >>>> AlanClark > > >>>> > > >>>> > > >>>> > > >>>> > > >>>> _______________________________________________ > > >>>> Foundation-board mailing list > > >>>> Foundation-board(a)lists.openstack.org > > >>>> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/foundation-board > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> _______________________________________________ > > >> Foundation-board mailing list > > >> Foundation-board(a)lists.openstack.org > > >> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/foundation-board > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Foundation-board mailing list > > > Foundation-board(a)lists.openstack.org > > > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/foundation-board > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Foundation-board mailing list > > Foundation-board(a)lists.openstack.org > > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/foundation-board >

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[OpenStack Foundation] OpenStack Foundation 2014 Annual Report
by Alan Clark 05 Feb '15

05 Feb '15

Check out the OpenStack Foundation 2014 Annual report. https://www.openstack.org/assets/reports/osf-annual-report-2014.pdf The report highlights a sampling of community statistics for 2014 as well as short recap from the OpenStack Board, the Foundation staff and various committees. The report provides great insight into the growth we have experienced as a Foundation while providing a summmary of some of the 2014 decisions, activities and actions. It'll be great to have these reports on file over the years so that we will be able to look back over time and see how the Foundation has grown and changed. Thanks, AlanClark

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[OpenStack Foundation] Finding people to work on the EC2 API in Nova
by Michael Still 05 Feb '15

05 Feb '15

Hi, as you might have read on openstack-dev, the Nova EC2 API implementation is in a pretty sad state. I wont repeat all of those details here -- you can read the thread on openstack-dev for detail. However, we got here because no one is maintaining the code in Nova for the EC2 API. This is despite repeated calls over the last 18 months (at least). So, does the Foundation have a role here? The Nova team has failed to find someone to help us resolve these issues. Can the board perhaps find resources as the representatives of some of the largest contributors to OpenStack? Could the Foundation employ someone to help us our here? I suspect the correct plan is to work on getting the stackforge replacement finished, and ensuring that it is feature compatible with the Nova implementation. However, I don't want to preempt the design process -- there might be other ways forward here. I feel that a continued discussion which just repeats the last 18 months wont actually fix the situation -- its time to "break out" of that mode and find other ways to try and get someone working on this problem. Thoughts welcome. Michael -- Rackspace Australia

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