Open Stack

On 04/05/2017 05:46 AM, Thierry Carrez wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> Last year in Ann Arbor, a group of OpenStack community members
> (including 6 current TC members) attended a Servant Leadership training
> at ZingTrain organized by Colette Alexander and funded by the OpenStack
> Foundation. We found that these concepts adapted quite well to our
> unique environment. The Stewardship working group was created to try to
> further those and decided to further those efforts. One of the tools we
> learned about there is the concept of building a "vision" to define a
> desirable future for a group of people, and to inform future choices on
> our way there.
> 
> In any virtual and global community, there are challenges around
> confusion, isolation and fragmentation. OpenStack does not escape those,
> and confusion on where we are going and what we are trying to achieve is
> common. Vision is a tool that can help with that. We decided to start
> with creating a vision for the Technical Committee. What would success
> for that group of people look like ? If that exercise is successful (and
> useful), we could move on to write a vision for OpenStack itself.
> 
> Members of the Technical Committee met in person around a Board+TC
> meeting in Boston last month, to start building this vision. Then over
> the last month we refined this document with the TC members that could
> not make it in person in Boston. Sean Dague polished the wording and
> posted the resulting draft at:
> 
> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/453262/
> 
> Now we are entering a (long) comment phase. This includes comments on
> the review, face-to-face discussions at the Forum, but also (soon) an
> open survey for confidential feedback. We'd very much like to hear your
> opinion on it.
> 

An important addendum. It was a group effort with Dims, John Garbutt,
and myself to do merge all the piece part documents into one flow.

	-Sean

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Sean Dague
http://dague.net