Hi,

I haven't heard back on this email from last week. So, trying with new
email subject/tags and cc'ing foundation ML.

Can folks who were there please respond?

Thanks,
Dims

On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 1:11 PM, Davanum Srinivas <dava...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Reading unofficial notes [1], i found one topic very interesting:
> One Platform – How do we truly support containers and bare metal under
> a common API with VMs? (Ironic, Nova, adjacent communities e.g.
> Kubernetes, Apache Mesos etc)
>
> Anyone present at the meeting, please expand on those few notes on
> etherpad? And how if any this feedback is getting back to the
> projects?
>
> Thanks,
> Dims
>
> [1] https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/UnofficialBoardNotes-Mar29-2016
>
> On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 6:43 PM, Jonathan Bryce <jonat...@openstack.org> 
> wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> Today the Board of Directors met in in person alongside the Linux Foundation 
>> Collaboration Summit. It was a packed agenda with some great discussions on 
>> a variety of topics.
>>
>> Meeting agenda: 
>> https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Governance/Foundation/29Mar2016BoardMeeting
>>
>> First, the diversity working group reported some concern about a lack of 
>> participation in meetings and activities, and roadblocks due to other 
>> dependencies on the Foundation staff or community resources. It also seems 
>> like there’s not been strong or centralized communication around all of the 
>> diversity and mentoring activities already happening (for example, at the 
>> Austin Summit 
>> https://www.openstack.org/summit/austin-2016/mentoring-and-diversity/). We 
>> agreed to find an internal champion on the Foundation staff to help support 
>> the efforts and communicate activities that are already in flight—like 
>> Upstream University, Outreachy internships, travel support program, 
>> etc.—that support the goals and work streams of the diversity working group.
>>
>> Next the Board approved Rob Esker and Anni Lai and chair and vice chair 
>> respectively of the the New Member Committee. The Defcore Committee then 
>> shared an ongoing discussion around taking more ownership of the 
>> interoperability tests and asked the board for input on how to proceed.
>>
>> Allison Randall then presented some ideas around recognizing non-code 
>> contributors as “Active Community Contributors.” The idea lines up well with 
>> a new working group spun the User Committee recently spun up to recognize 
>> non-ATC contributions (https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/NonATCRecognition), 
>> and the two groups will work together to help determine criteria and awards 
>> for the different types of contributors that are incredibly valuable to our 
>> community overall.
>>
>> Next we discussed future Summits, including breaking out project team design 
>> sessions in a separate event, and focusing planning and working sessions at 
>> the Summit on more strategic and cross-project conversations. We also 
>> discussed future Summit locations as we’re working to lock down the Summits 
>> for 2017, and should be able to share more specifics soon.
>>
>> Russell Bryant then presented an update to the OpenStack mission statement 
>> proposed by the Technical Committee to specifically address interoperability 
>> and end users. The Board approved the following updated mission statement 
>> that the Technical Committee had previously approved:
>>
>> "To produce a ubiquitous Open Source Cloud Computing platform that is easy 
>> to use, simple to implement, interoperable between deployments, works well 
>> at all scales, and meets the needs of users and operators of both public and 
>> private clouds."
>>
>> Finally, Mark Collier kicked off a forum for more strategic discussions 
>> about the future of OpenStack. The Board had a lightning round of 
>> brainstorming sessions to discuss interoperability & product strategy, NFV 
>> and networking, one platform for containers, VMs & bare metal, and community 
>> health & culture. The conversations will continue at the Austin Summit board 
>> meeting. Look forward to seeing everyone there the last week of April!
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jonathan
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>
>
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> Davanum Srinivas :: https://twitter.com/dims



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