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> 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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