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Hello all,

In September last year, something amazing happened.

A guy, running a cloud in the UK, posted on the ops ML asking if people 
nearby were interested in an ops meetup. The response was overwhelming, 
and resulted one of the best events we've had to date.

The ops meetups have always been special events - organised by ops, for 
ops. I think it's time to take the next step in that journey.

To date, Foundation colleagues and myself have been the ones to do a lot 
of the driving. I think the event has reached a sufficient level of 
maturity where that no longer needs to be the way this happens.

We'll still be there with cash and resources to assist, but I think it 
is only fitting to hand over ultimate responsibility for the 
organisation of event to the community, with the creation of a new open 
team under the user committee - Ops Meetup Admins.

The Ops Meetup Admins will be an open team that meets and works towards:
* Keeping the spirit of the ops meetup alive, and ensure it achieves its 
aims
* Based on community proposals, planning the number and location of events
* Running the session schedule creation process, from the planning 
etherpad to the final room layout
* Finding and coordinating moderators for the sessions
* Wrangling "underwriters"


This would be an open team that allows those who are passionate about 
these events, and those dozens who want to host, to join in and make the 
next successful events. Foundation staff will still be around to assist 
and provide funding, but moving this into a team governed by the User 
Committee will allow the community to have much more control in shaping 
the future as we try to answer difficult questions like regional 
rotations and scaling the event.


If this is something you're interested in, join the User Committee and 
myself at the Ops summit: "Ops: Future of Op Meetups Organisation"

https://www.openstack.org/summit/austin-2016/summit-schedule/events/9513
Monday, April 25, 2:00pm-2:40pm
Hilton Austin - MR 406



Regards,



Tom