<div dir="ltr">Hi Chris<div><br></div><div>Good round up and a good start on the definition. Don't forget the public cloud operators though, it's not all about private cloud ;)</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 17 May 2016 at 16:51, Chris Morgan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mihalis68@gmail.com" target="_blank">mihalis68@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>I'm new to this, but here goes:</div><div><br></div><div>Meeting held on IRC today at 14:00 UTC to jumpstart a new process for</div><div>arranging OpenStack operators mid-cycle meetups.</div><div><br></div><div>Nice minutes from Tom here</div><div><a href="http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/ops_meetups_team/2016/ops_meetups_team.2016-05-17-14.00.html" target="_blank">http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/ops_meetups_team/2016/ops_meetups_team.2016-05-17-14.00.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>etherpad here : <a href="https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/ops-meetups-team" target="_blank">https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/ops-meetups-team</a></div><div><br></div><div>In short there was consensus behind the mailing list locking in a</div><div>region and approximate time slot for each meetup and then making an</div><div>open call for meeting hosts/"underwriters". The region would be one of</div><div>: north america, europe or APAC in such a way as to oppose the region</div><div>of the following OpenStack summit. There is also desire to cap numbers</div><div>and somehow encourage operators/users and discourage vendors from</div><div>attending without getting to the level of having to vet</div><div>individuals. To that end I volunteered to propose a definition of</div><div>users, and so here goes:</div><div><br></div><div>------</div><div><br></div><div>The openstack operators meetings have a preference for 'users'</div><div>vs. 'vendors' since the vendors have every opportunity to get their</div><div>message across at the Summit in the vendor sessions, the marketplace</div><div>etc. Meanwhile, operators need a venue to share frank, unfettered,</div><div>possibly highly critical info about products and core openstack</div><div>components.</div><div><br></div><div>For the purposes of getting the meet ups organised then, the following</div><div>definition is proposed:</div><div><br></div><div>Definition:</div><div><br></div><div>All attendees at an OpenStack operators mid-cycle meetup ('the</div><div>meetup') should be willing and able to discuss issues arising from</div><div>operating OpenStack for private cloud at some kind of scale, including</div><div>ideally having direct experience of OpenStack private cloud operation</div><div>or expectation of that in future. Representatives from organisations</div><div>having both a vendor and a user role in the OpenStack community should</div><div>wear their user hat for the purposes of the meetup. Attendance by</div><div>those fitting these guidelines is highly encouraged.</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div><div><br></div>-- <br><div>Chris Morgan <<a href="mailto:mihalis68@gmail.com" target="_blank">mihalis68@gmail.com</a>></div>
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