<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><span></span></div><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div dir="ltr"><span></span></div><div dir="ltr"><div id="magicdomid2" class="ace-line" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="author-a-lx5z65z7z78zz72zq6mz85zvz71zaz71zz68z" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; cursor: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Earlier this year, the OpenStack Foundation staff had the opportunity </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">to brainstorm some ideas about how to express the values behind </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Four Opens and how they are applied in practice. As the </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Foundation grows in scope to include new strategic focus areas </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">and new projects, we felt it was important to provide explanation </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">and guidance on the principles that guide our community.</span></div><div id="magicdomid8" class="ace-line" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span></div><div id="magicdomid9" class="ace-line" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We’ve collected these notes and have written some seeds to start </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">this document. I’ve staged this work into github and have prepared </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">a review to move the work into OpenStack hosting, turning this </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">over to the community to help guide and shape the document.</span></div><div id="magicdomid14" class="ace-line" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div id="magicdomid14" class="ace-line" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This is very much a work in progress, but we have a goal to polish </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">this up and make it an important document that captures our vision </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">and values for the OpenStack development community, guides the </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">establishment of governance for new top-level projects, and is a r</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">eference for the open-source development community as a whole.</span></div><div id="magicdomid19" class="ace-line" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="author-a-lx5z65z7z78zz72zq6mz85zvz71zaz71zz68z" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; cursor: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div id="magicdomid19" class="ace-line" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="author-a-lx5z65z7z78zz72zq6mz85zvz71zaz71zz68z" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; cursor: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I also want to be clear that the original Four Opens, as listed in the </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">OpenStack governance page, is an OpenStack TC document. This </span>project doesn’t change that. Instead, it is meant to be applied to the Foundation as a whole and be a reference to the new projects that land both as pilot top-level projects and projects hosted by our new infrastructure efforts.</div><div id="magicdomid19" class="ace-line" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br></div><div id="magicdomid19" class="ace-line" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Thanks to all of the original authors of the Four-Opens for your visionary work that started this process, and thanks in advance to the community members who will continue to grow and evolve this document.</div><div id="magicdomid19" class="ace-line" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br></div><div id="magicdomid19" class="ace-line" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Chris Hoge</div><div id="magicdomid19" class="ace-line" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">OpenStack Foundation</div><div id="magicdomid19" class="ace-line" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br></div><div id="magicdomid19" class="ace-line" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Four Opens: <a href="https://governance.openstack.org/tc/reference/opens.html">https://governance.openstack.org/tc/reference/opens.html</a></div><div id="magicdomid19" class="ace-line" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">New Project Review Patch: <a href="https://review.openstack.org/#/c/617005/">https://review.openstack.org/#/c/617005/</a></div><div id="magicdomid19" class="ace-line" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Four Opens Document Staging: <a href="https://github.com/hogepodge/four-opens">https://github.com/hogepodge/four-opens</a></div><div id="magicdomid19" class="ace-line" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br></div></div></div></body></html>