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I figured I'd chime in here as the cloud advisor to the Linux Foundation.  The Linux foundation has recently launched The Foundation Labs<http://www.linuxfoundation.org/labs> which may or may not be known to any/all of you.

There are exactly 3 things that need talking about before we should even be discussing anything else.

  1.  The legal aspect of the foundation including laws and bylaws, non profit business structure etc.
  2.  The charter and mission of the foundation
  3.  How we get there

Making this thing any more complicated than discussing those 3 things first will just lengthen this process (which is already going to be lengthy). I have spoken to quite a few people post webinar and everything on ether pad<http://etherpad.openstack.org/foundation-webinar-2012-01-13> falls under 1 of the 3 above topics.

The structure(#3) for how to effectively communicate is still what's missing.  I love mailing lists as much as the next person but we all know that won't cut it.  Several organizations, including ours, are betting on the success of this project so getting it right is important.  VMWare and Amazon would love this to be where Openstack falls on it's face. Obviously no-one here should want that so lets work with Rackspace and the community to ensure Openstack's success.

Cole

On 1/14/12 9:09 AM, "Sean Roberts" <seanrob at yahoo-inc.com<mailto:seanrob at yahoo-inc.com>> wrote:

That's what I thought you meant. Thanks for the clarification.

~sean

On Jan 14, 2012, at 8:56 AM, "Mark Collier" <mark at openstack.org<mailto:mark at openstack.org>> wrote:

Dont read too much into the linux foundation comment. I just liked the clear writing style on their page, that's it.
Thor Wolpert <thor at wolpert.ca<mailto:thor at wolpert.ca>> wrote:
Based on discussions from a few months past, I thought the model was
more going to be like the Apache foundation.  A governance body,
project meritocracy and the ability allow and guide incubator projects
either into full core products, combine with another core project or
suggest valid alternatives.
It already maps so closely to many of the other needs/wants under
OpenStack, that I thought that would be a shoe-in.
What's changed?
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 8:55 AM, Mark McLoughlin <markmc at redhat.com<mailto:markmc at redhat.com>> wrote:
Hey,
This article was re-tweeted by the OpenStack twitter account:
  http://www.itworld.com/cloud-computing/241213/openstack-steps-towards-its-foundation-future
(I'm guessing that it must be somewhat accurate if it was re-tweeted :-)
  "Interestingly, Collier said the mission statement of the OpenStack
  Foundation was influenced by the mission statement of another such
  organization.
  The Linux Foundation's mission was a inspiration for the theme of the
  mission statement," Collier said. Some elements of the Linux
  Foundation's mission statement fit well for the OpenStack Foundation,
  he said."
I'd see the Linux Foundation as a radically different organization from
what I'd like to see for the OpenStack foundation e.g.
  - the Linux project is completely independent from the Linux
    Foundation, the latter is just there to support and promote the
    former
    the project has a benevolent dictator who decides a release
    schedule, where the code repositories live, what the policies of
    the project are etc.
    OpenStack clearly doesn't (yet) have such a dictator (benevolent or
    otherwise) so I had assumed the foundation board would assume
    ultimate responsibility for the project, but delegate a lot of it to
    a PPB or technical steering committee or the PTLs
  - individual Linux contributors aren't members of the foundation.
    Membership is split into gold/silver/bronze classes depending on
    how much you pay
So, could someone highlight which elements of the Linux foundation wiki
are a good fit for OpenStack?
Thanks,
Mark.
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