<div dir="ltr">So judging from the Doodle poll results, 1400 UTC bi-weekly on a Wednesday is the favourite choice. I will go ahead and book one of the IRC meeting rooms. Once that's done, I'll put together a draft agenda for a first meeting, and publicise to the lists again. Thanks for all your input so far !</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 8:55 AM, matt Jarvis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:matt@mattjarvis.org.uk" target="_blank">matt@mattjarvis.org.uk</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">Whoops, just realised I can't send to these lists with multiple additional recipients, so sending again separately ..<div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Thank you for all of your interest in this proposal. In order to move things to the next stage I need to organise a first IRC meeting, and I think it's probably most appropriate to book one of the openstack-meeting channels rather than use openstack-operators. Having looked at the current usage, it looks like every 2 weeks on a Wednesday would work initially, and there are two times which look possible, 14:00 and 19:00 UTC. The meeting schedule is fairly complicated, so there may be other options if neither of these works for a quorum, but can I suggest we start with these options and work from there ? I've put together a Doodle poll with the two options, and I'd appreciate your participation in the poll before I go ahead and try to book a slot. </span><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="http://doodle.com/poll/be43ysxhg5iq3uha" rel="noreferrer" style="font-size:12.8px" target="_blank">http://doodle.com/poll/be43ysx<wbr>hg5iq3uha</a></div></div></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 10:43 AM, matt Jarvis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:matt@mattjarvis.org.uk" target="_blank">matt@mattjarvis.org.uk</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">So after input from a variety of sources over the last few weeks, I'd very much like to try and put together a public cloud working group, with the very high level goal of representing the interests of the public cloud provider community around the globe. <div><br></div><div>I'd like to propose that, in line with the new process for creation of working groups, we set up some initial IRC meetings for all interested parties. The goals for these initial meetings would be :<div><br></div><div>1. Define the overall scope and mission statement for the working group</div><div>2. Set out the constituency for the group - communication methods, definitions of public clouds, meeting schedules, chairs etc.</div></div><div>3. Identify areas of interest - eg. technical issues, collaboration opportunities</div><div><br></div><div>Before I go ahead and schedule first meetings, I'd very much like to gather input from the community on interested parties, and if this seems like a reasonable first step forward. My thought initially was to schedule a first meeting on #openstack-operators and then decide on best timings, locations and communication methods from there, but again I'd welcome input. </div><div><br></div><div>At this point it would seem to me that one of the key metrics for this working group to be successful is participation as widely as possible within the public cloud provider community, currently approximately 21 companies globally according to <a href="https://www.openstack.org/marketplace/public-clouds/" target="_blank">https://www.openstack.org/m<wbr>arketplace/public-clouds/</a>. If we could get representation from all of those companies in any potential working group, then that would clearly be the best outcome, although that may be optimistic ! As has become clear at recent Ops events, it may be that not all of those companies are represented on these lists, so I'd welcome any input on the best way to reach out to those folks. </div><span class="m_-3909044951567971809HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>Matt</div></font></span></div>
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