Any further thoughts on this topic from anyone?
On Sep 11, 2012, at 7:02 AM, Mark McLoughlin wrote: > On Tue, 2012-09-11 at 06:49 -0500, Jonathan Bryce wrote: >> On Sep 11, 2012, at 3:41 AM, Mark McLoughlin wrote: >> >>> On Tue, 2012-09-11 at 10:28 +0200, Thierry Carrez wrote: >>>> Jonathan Bryce wrote: > >>>>> I would like to start by nominating Ryan Lane from Wikimedia. I think >>>>> Ryan has done a great job of evangelizing OpenStack and also being a good >>>>> voice for users among the technical community. >>>>> >>>>> Anyone else is welcome to nominate alternatives. >>>> >>>> IMHO our ideal appointed member would be someone that is a user of >>>> OpenStack but also knows our development processes and has directly >>>> contributed to the project at some point. That way, while still being a >>>> "user", he can efficiently bring a perspective on what the developers >>>> can and cannot do. >>>> >>>> Ryan is definitely a very good option here. An alternative could be >>>> someone from Rackspace/HP Ops side that would also be involved a bit in >>>> development, but I don't know them well enough to pick. >>> >>> I think Ryan is a good choice too. >>> >>> However, I wonder whether we should aim to choose someone from the >>> Technical Committee itself - i.e. that whoever the TC appoints would >>> actually be a representative of the TC. Given that Tim Bell is a >>> Foundation Board member, it probably makes sense. >>> >>> Look outside the TC if there's no-one on the TC willing to commit to the >>> role, perhaps? >> >> TIm Bell's board membership is coincidental to his user committee >> appointment. The user committee members are meant to be >> representatives of users, not the board or the TC. The companies and >> the ATC are pretty strongly represented within the governance >> structure already, and the user committee is meant to be a place for >> users and deployers who are not as directly represented. > > Understood. I was thinking of the Board/TC representatives on the UC as > folks who would act as a bridge between the bodies - e.g. one easy way > for the TC to talk to the UC. > > I totally agree that we don't want the UC filled with folks from the > Board or TC. > >> I think Ryan fits the bill pretty well while also having a strong >> connection back to the development community. While I'm sure TC >> members would do fine in the role, I'm not sure any of the existing or >> potential members would do a *better* job than Ryan. > > Absolutely not questioning Ryan's suitability for the the UC. And he's a > great candidate to help bootstrap it too. > > Maybe we just discuss whether anyone is interested in representing the > TC on the UC after the election? > > Cheers, > Mark. > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack-poc Post to : openstack-poc@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack-poc More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
