Open Stack

Hi Carol,

Thanks for reading.

We have some canned text about this:

"""
The OpenStack User Groups are informal associations of people around the
world that meet to discuss about OpenStack, share knowledge and
experiences. These are important entities for the OpenStack project as
they help by spreading awareness, recruit developers and users and more.
"""

So far there are more than 75 user groups around the world. Quite a few
of them meet on a regular basis, and so in many cities around the world
you can find an event to attend and go and chat with people about
OpenStack, or view a presentation or two.

"""
The user groups don't have a direct relation with the OpenStack
Foundation even though the members of the user groups can be members of
the OpenStack Foundation and/or be a member of the OpenStack User
Committee.
"""

We don't control user groups - they form organically when there are
interested people in a particular location. They self-organise and vary
in their approach based in their own needs. That's something we support.


It's also important not to confuse "user groups" with "working groups of
the user committee" - two different things :)


Regards,


Tom


On 17/07/14 16:03, Barrett, Carol L wrote:
> Tom - I'm a supporter of the concept and have read through the etherpad. Beyond uniting people of like interests, it's not clear to me what the purpose/goal is for adding more user groups? 
> 
> My thought is that we would want to build some other requirements/guidance into the process to make sure we're achieving the desired goal. Like would we want the user group to host a session during the design summit to provide input? Or develop blue prints to address requirements for the segment? OR?
> 
> Thanks
> Carol
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Fifield [mailto:tom at openstack.org] 
> Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2014 11:41 AM
> To: community at lists.openstack.org
> Subject: [openstack-community] "official" user group process
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> As Stefano mentioned, we will soon be launching the new user group portal to make it easier to find group information and events.
> 
> Rather than having a long list on the wiki, we will now have individual pages for the user groups - searchable through a map.
> 
> To raise the visibility of active and established groups, we'd like to give them some kind of "official" status and potentially a special logo.
> 
> Stef, the ambassadors and myself have written up a quick draft on a process that we might follow to manage the way user groups become "Official".
> 
> You can find it on the etherpad at:
> 
> https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/OfficialUserGroupProcess
> 
> please let us know what you think.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 
> Stef & Tom
> 
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