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> On Jan 30, 2017, at 5:51 AM, Lana Brindley <openstack at lanabrindley.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Thierry,
> 
> Sorry for not noticing this thread and replying earlier.
> 
> I've now reviewed the minutes from the meeting, and I support thingee's suggestion of having a UX working group. This way, UX can get the attention it rightly deserves. Without the research and guidelines provided by the UX team, user-facing projects (such as Docs) will be poorer. I believe that it's in Foundations best interests to ensure that UX work is ongoing, and adequately supported, in the same way as Marketing and other user outreach services. 
+1
> 
> I am happy to work with Foundation (on behalf of the Docs team) to determine how this would work in practice.
I'm happy to help as well.  The Product working group recently started using Personas in our user stories and I also participated in the Personas workshop with the UX team.

Thanks,
Shamail 

> 
> Thanks,
> Lana
> 
>> On 05/01/17 00:43, Thierry Carrez wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>> 
>> Piet recently reached out to me to explain that he won't be able to
>> continue in his role as OpenStack UX team's PTL. Since he created the
>> team and spent a lot of time coordinating its activities, that raises
>> the question of the future of the OpenStack UX team.
>> 
>> The situation was discussed at the TC meeting yesterday[1] and the
>> general feeling was that there was a lot of value in a separate team
>> centralizing things like Persona definition and facilitating
>> properly-conducted UX surveys. That said, if nobody is able to dedicate
>> the time that effort needs, we could also disband the centralized team
>> and encourage every project to adopt the tools and techniques that were
>> built and introduced by the UX team in the past years.
>> 
>> So... What are your thoughts on those options ? Do we have a volunteer
>> (or more than one) to take over UX PTLship ?
>> 
>> [1]
>> http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/tc/2017/tc.2017-01-03-20.00.log.html#l-404
>> 
> 
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> Lana Brindley
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> Rackspace Cloud Builders Australia
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