I'm new to this, but here goes: Meeting held on IRC today at 14:00 UTC to jumpstart a new process for arranging OpenStack operators mid-cycle meetups.
Nice minutes from Tom here http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/ops_meetups_team/2016/ops_meetups_team.2016-05-17-14.00.html etherpad here : https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/ops-meetups-team In short there was consensus behind the mailing list locking in a region and approximate time slot for each meetup and then making an open call for meeting hosts/"underwriters". The region would be one of : north america, europe or APAC in such a way as to oppose the region of the following OpenStack summit. There is also desire to cap numbers and somehow encourage operators/users and discourage vendors from attending without getting to the level of having to vet individuals. To that end I volunteered to propose a definition of users, and so here goes: ------ The openstack operators meetings have a preference for 'users' vs. 'vendors' since the vendors have every opportunity to get their message across at the Summit in the vendor sessions, the marketplace etc. Meanwhile, operators need a venue to share frank, unfettered, possibly highly critical info about products and core openstack components. For the purposes of getting the meet ups organised then, the following definition is proposed: Definition: All attendees at an OpenStack operators mid-cycle meetup ('the meetup') should be willing and able to discuss issues arising from operating OpenStack for private cloud at some kind of scale, including ideally having direct experience of OpenStack private cloud operation or expectation of that in future. Representatives from organisations having both a vendor and a user role in the OpenStack community should wear their user hat for the purposes of the meetup. Attendance by those fitting these guidelines is highly encouraged. -- Chris Morgan <mihali...@gmail.com>
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