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Hi all,<br>
<br>
Welcome to the topic selection process for our Forum in Berlin. This is
not a classic conference track with speakers and presentations. OSF
community members (participants in development teams, operators, working
groups, SIGs, and other interested individuals) discuss the topics they
want to cover and get alignment on and we welcome your participation.
The Forum is your opportunity to help shape the development of future
project releases.<br>
<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">For OpenStack </span><br>
Berlin marks the beginning of Stein’s release cycle, where ideas and
requirements will be gathered. We should come armed with feedback from
August's Rocky release if at all possible. We aim to ensure the broadest
coverage of topics that will allow for multiple parts of the community
getting together to discuss key areas within our community/projects.<br>
<br style="font-weight: bold;">
<span style="font-weight: bold;">For OSF Projects (StarlingX, Zuul,
Airship, Kata Containers)</span><br>
Welcome! Berlin is your first official opportunity to participate in a
Forum. The idea is to gather ideas and requirements for your project’s
upcoming release. Look to <a
href="https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Forum">https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Forum</a>
for an idea of how to structure fishbowls and discussions for your
project. The idea is to ensure the broadest coverage of topics, while
allowing for the project community to discuss critical areas of
concern. To make sure we are presenting the best topics for discussion,
we have asked representatives of each of your projects to help us out
in the Forum selection process.<br>
<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">There are two stages to the
brainstorming:</span><br>
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<li>Starting <span __postbox-detected-content="__postbox-detected-date"
class="__postbox-detected-content __postbox-detected-date"
style="display: inline; font-size: inherit; padding: 0pt;">today,</span>
set up an etherpad with your team and start
discussing ideas you'd like to talk about at the Forum and work out
which ones to submit.<br>
<br>
</li><li>Then, in a couple of weeks, we will open up a more formal
web-based tool for you to submit abstracts for the most popular sessions
that came out of your brainstorming.</li>
</ol>
Make an etherpad and add it to the list at: <a
href="https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Forum/Berlin2018">https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Forum/Berlin2018</a><br>
<br>
This is your opportunity to think outside the box and talk with other
projects, groups, and individuals that you might not see during Summit
sessions. Look for interested parties to collaborate with and share your
ideas. <br>
<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Examples of typical sessions that
make for a great Forum:</span><br>
<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Strategic, whole-of-community
discussions</span>, to think about the big picture, including beyond
just one release cycle and new technologies<br>
<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">e.g. OpenStack One Platform for
containers/VMs/Bare Metal (Strategic session) the entire community
congregates to share opinions on how to make OpenStack achieve its
integration engine goal<br>
</div>
<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Cross-project sessions</span>, in a
similar vein to what has happened at past forums, but with increased
emphasis on issues that are of relevant to all areas of the community<br>
<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">e.g. Rolling Upgrades at Scale
(Cross-Project session) – the Large Deployments Team collaborates with
Nova, Cinder and Keystone to tackle issues that come up with rolling
upgrades when there’s a large number of machines.
<br>
</div>
<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Project-specific sessions</span>,
where community members most interested in a specific project can
discuss their experience with the project over the last release and
provide feedback, collaborate on priorities, and present or generate
'blue sky' ideas for the next release<br>
<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">e.g. Neutron Pain Points
(Project-Specific session) – Co-organized by neutron developers and
users. Neutron developers bring some specific questions about
implementation and usage. Neutron users bring feedback from the latest
release. All community members interested in Neutron discuss ideas about
the future.<br>
</div>
<br>
Think about what kind of session ideas might end up as:
Project-specific, cross-project or strategic/whole-of-community
discussions. There'll be more slots for the latter two, so do try and
think outside the box!<br>
<br>
This part of the process is where we gather broad community consensus -
in theory the second part is just about fitting in as many of the good
ideas into the schedule as we can.<br>
<br>
Further details about the forum can be found at: <a
href="https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Forum">https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Forum</a><br>
<br>
Thanks all!<br>
Jimmy McArthur, on behalf of the OpenStack Foundation, User Committee
& Technical Committee
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