All, Last Thursday, the board did not act on any of our recommendations. The Board is reconsidering one of the guiding principles from Hong Kong - DefCore is trying to define a minimum base definition for OpenStack. Instead, they've asked us for multiple Trademark proposals. ACTION ITEM: I'd be interested in hearing suggestions from the committee that we can use as the basis for a etherpad. Towards that end, I think we should schedule a meeting on Thursday 10/2. I'm open to having a working session before that to brainstorm options (possibly with Mark or Jonathan). I'd ask you to consider two items in preparation: 1) Sean Dague's Layers Model: https://dague.net/2014/08/26/openstack-as-layers/ 2) Consideration of OpenStack as a product or "big tent" which seems to be part of the OpenStackSV output: Monty http://inaugust.com/post/108 and Randy http://siliconangle.com/blog/2014/09/17/the-achilles-heel-of-openstack-is-lack-of-product-leadership-openstacksv/ Rob ______________________________ Rob Hirschfeld cell +1 512 909-7219 blog robhirschfeld.com, twitter @zehicle Please note, I am based in the CENTRAL (-6) time zone -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/defcore-committee/attachments/20140922/71a8cb4d/attachment-0001.html>