<div dir="ltr"><div>Sorry for the delay. Here are more words :) with need for revision/changes and plugging in the number of attendees and companies representing during this past Fall mid-cycle in NYC; unfortunately I do not have but believe Foundation may.<br><br></div>I am no scholar but hope this is a good starting point.<br><div><br>####<br><br>One signficant accomplishment in 2016 was the creation of the Ops Meetups Team. The Ops Meetups Team came together early in the year with the hope of the operator community driving mid-cycle and Ops Summit planning. In just over six months the Ops Meetups Team has successfully planned, organized, and executed a mid-cycle and the Barcelona Ops Summit.<br><br>During the Fall 2016 Ops Mid-cycle held in New York City and hosted by Bloomberg, we had approximately [# of attendees] attendees representing at least [# of companies] companies. Sessions ignited discussions ranging from the physical hardware layer to NFV and containerizing the OpenStack control plane to orchestrating with Kubernetes. While not only focusing on the underlying technology driving all the *aaS, folks talked about the supporting cast of logging, monitoring, and alerting tools, and much more.<br><br>Attending these events afford Operators the opportunity to come away being energized with new creative ways to address their day-to-day requirements and exciting ideas about how they can offer more to themselves and their stakeholders using the robust OpenStack platform. OpenStack at large benefits as the community of operators, engineers, application developers, and end users spend quality time with each other sustaining the wave of momentum for OpenStack's future.<br><br>The Ops Meetups Team operates openly having IRC meetings Tuesdays at 15:00 UTC in #openstack-operators. Currently in the organization and execution phase of the Ops Spring Mid-cycle, March 15-16 2017 in Milan, Italy, the team looks forward to growing and working together.<br><br>####<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 8:57 AM, Tim Bell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Tim.Bell@cern.ch" target="_blank">Tim.Bell@cern.ch</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<b>To: </b>Melvin Hillsman <<a href="mailto:mrhillsman@gmail.com" target="_blank">mrhillsman@gmail.com</a>><br>
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<b>Subject: </b>Re: [Openstack-operators] Ops Meetups - paragraphs for the annual report<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">Thanks, Melvin! I think this looks really good. I would just recommend adding a couple of sentences about the high level value of the events for those who are not familiar. What were the goals and outcomes of
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Ops Meetups Team came together early in the year with the hope of the Operator community driving mid-cycles and summit planning. In just over six months the Ops Meetups Team has successfully planned, organized, and executed a mid-cycle and the Barcelona Ops
Summit. The Ops Meetups Team operates openly having IRC meetings Tuesdays <a>at 15:00 UTC</a> in #openstack-operators. Currently in the organization and execution phase of the Ops Spring Mid-cycle the team looks forward to
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Each year, the Foundation produces an annual report summarising the activities from the year before. It would be great to one or two paragraphs from the ops meetups team describing how we work and some info about the past and upcoming events.<br>
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