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Hi!

The next steps for the Meta SIG is to find "obvious" targets to convert
from old-style working groups to SIGs, and work with them on the transition.

On the upstream working groups side, the most obvious target is the API
Working Group, if only because it was listed both as a UC working group
and an upstream working group over time. The Stewardship working group
is also a great target (since it's far from being limited to improving
technical governance), but it's currently inactive. The Deployment
working group might make a good target as well, but I want to discuss
status with Emilien first.

Still on the upstream side, we have a number of groups that were
structured as "project teams", although their main purpose is not to
produce code. They might benefit from conversion as well. The "Stable
branch maintenance" team for example could benefit from a larger
audience. Although they produce /some/ code, the "Security" team's main
focus is to assemble practitioners of that space, so it would make a lot
of sense as a SIG. With a bit of a stretch, the "Winstackers" team is
more focused on running OpenStack on/with Windows, which is sufficiently
specific to be considered a use case -- it could be turned into a SIG
too to widen its audience.

On the downstream side, a lot of the working groups would likely benefit
from being turned into SIGs. As long as their focus is not purely
operational, and they are willing to go beyond expressing gaps and
requirements and tackle implementation, the SIG format is a lot more
adapted and would facilitate gathering development resources and
coordinating efforts. The most obvious targets are the use-case oriented
groups: Scientific WG, Telco/NFV WG, Massively-distributed/Edge clouds
WG, Public Clouds WG, Large Deployments WG. LCOO could also be turned
into a SIG, given that they are already tackling implementation and
pooling resources -- although they would likely need to have a more
defined scope and/or merge with the Large deployments WG for clarity.

Discuss! And let's pick our initial targets.

-- 
Thierry Carrez (ttx)