<div dir="ltr">Disclaimer: The proposal comes from conclusions of offline discussion in response to the padding thread in openstack-dev mailing list. Credit to Doug Hellmann and Ildiko Vancsa for their great suggestions and advices.<div><br></div><div>*Motivation*:</div><div><br></div><div>Given the recent heated debate on the padding activity[0], we have come to a conclusion that the root cause would be the break down of communications among various parties in this matter : first-comers, project core contributors, company management level people, foundation, local OpenStack chapters.</div><div><br></div><div>It means that we don't actually have a channel in a way that when a suspicious padding activity is spotted, who should be the first contact to go to. Some are merged with the belief that there is no harm done, at the mean time some are rejected with the intention that mal-practice like this should be stopped.</div><div><br></div><div>It also means if we move beyond the padding issue, we found ourselves facing a bigger issue that with the burgeoning OpenStack adoptions worldwide, the central dev community is out of sync in several ways with the local communities, culturally speaking. We have many local meetups and events for sure, but newbies from a certain region still rely on indirect information rather than proper community training when they want to be a OpenStack developer. </div><div><br></div><div>Spontaneous response plus improper upstream training could lead to unstable situation.</div><div><br></div><div>Therefore we want to propose to establish the First Contact SIG to solve the issue, institutionally and methodologically. (Hopefully once for all in due time) </div><div><br></div><div>*Goals*:</div><div>1. To serve as the first contact point when project develop team finding something extraordinary.</div><div>2. To serve as the first contact point for local community to reach out to the dev community, whether it is first-comer onboarding, language translation issue, culture issue, etc.</div><div>3. To enable groups like Upstream Institute to maximize their capabilities on helping individuals, especially first-comers.</div><div>4. To enable local chapters could get a direct line with the dev community (not the foundation governance layer since we already have many links on that level) without involvement of more non-tech interest parties.</div><div>5 To work with Linux Foundation CHAOSS program on project merit identification.</div><div><br></div><div>In short, we hope this SIG could provide a social answer to a social problem with enough technical capabilities.<br clear="all"><div><br></div><div>*Proposed Formation*</div><div>1. one or two people serves as the first contact from the dev community side</div><div>2. each local/regional chapter should provide at least one lead active in the SIG to serve as the first contact from the local side.</div><div><br></div><div>*Possible Output*</div><div>1. Chapter outlining the scope, goals and means.</div><div>2. Input material for TC/Board on any related resolution.</div><div><br></div><div>Again this is only a proposal. We will need as much feedback as possible, as well as people that volunteer for the SIG positions to complete the mission.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Zhipeng (Howard) Huang</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Standard Engineer</div><div>IT Standard & Patent/IT Product Line</div><div dir="ltr">Huawei Technologies Co,. Ltd</div><div dir="ltr">Email: <a href="mailto:huangzhipeng@huawei.com" target="_blank">huangzhipeng@huawei.com</a></div><div dir="ltr">Office: Huawei Industrial Base, Longgang, Shenzhen</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">(Previous)<br><div>Research Assistant</div><div>Mobile Ad-Hoc Network Lab, Calit2</div><div>University of California, Irvine</div><div>Email: <a href="mailto:zhipengh@uci.edu" target="_blank">zhipengh@uci.edu</a></div><div>Office: Calit2 Building Room 2402</div><div><br></div><div>OpenStack, OPNFV, OpenDaylight, OpenCompute Aficionado</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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