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Hi Yoyo, could you please help to contact macjack re communication channels
issue? That would be really helpful if you could work on it. Thanks. -Joanna
On 4 May 2016 9:14 am, "Yoyo Chiang" <yoyochiang at geminiopencloud.com> wrote:

> Thanks Joanna for your effort.
>
> I've raised hand to be group contact due to my past experience and
> contribution in TWOSUG coordination for past 4 years and OpenStack Day
> Taiwan Event Committee for 2 years.
>
> Let's see how to have a meetup in May to share what you all have learned
> in Austin Summit.
>
> Cheers,
>
>
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> 2016-05-04 7:34 GMT+08:00 Joanna H. Huang <joanna at aptira.com>:
>
>> Hi Michael,
>>
>> Thanks for raising this topic. One of the main purposes with Official
>> OpenStack User Group is to promote the recognition of active OpenStack user
>> groups with great community engagement. Although TWOSUG is one of the
>> earliest developed user groups, however, there are some issues in the user
>> group which prevent it from being considered as officially recognised (they
>> are addressed below).
>>
>> Darren Huang (from gov perspectives) and I (from community perspectives)
>> have been working closely with the Foundation towards recognising TWOSUG as
>> an official user group.
>>
>> I've also made an annual plan for TWOSUG based on OpenStack official user
>> group process and event policy, as well as asked for help from our
>> community to turn TWOSUG official as soon as we possibly can this year.
>> Please take a look at the etherpad there you can find what we should do to *make
>> TWOSUG official*:
>>
>> *https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/twosug_organising_2016
>> <https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/twosug_organising_2016>*
>>
>> In brief, the two major issues in TWOSUG are the *communication channels*
>> and *regular community events*.
>>
>> 1) Most of the current communication channels (including FB group, Meetup
>> group, user group website, Google group) are controlled and managed by only
>> one person, that's macjack. We do value macjack's great efforts in the user
>> group, however, we need him to open up on the communication channel
>> management in light of the Foundation official user group process (
>> https://groups.openstack.org/official-group-process). I've tried all the
>> channels I could possibly reach him in order to solve this major issue.
>> Unfortunately no response from him so far. If any of you who can help to
>> reach him and get him to speak with Darren or I, that would be really
>> helpful. I've been hoping to solve this issue within our user group before
>> escalate it to Lauren Sell. However, we have been waiting for macjack's
>> response for almost half an year. Wish we could improve it soon.
>>
>> 2) Lacking of regular community events. Speaking to the Foundation, this
>> is another major issue that we should start working on. Once we have
>> organised regular events to facilitate community involvement, TWOSUG should
>> become official one very soon. That's the main reason why I've made the
>> annual plan for 2016 and been hoping to promote OpenStack technology in the
>> user group in any level.
>>
>> There are also some other minor issues such as lacking of event
>> organisation resources, technical/non-technical sharing, diverse user
>> involvement. But so far we are making good progress on fixing those issues.
>>
>> TWOSUS needs everyone's engagement to make it better, especially taking
>> action at first step. Everyone is very welcome to join the user group
>> organising team if you would like to make commitment into volunteering for
>> community work.
>>
>> If you guys all agree, I think it's better direct the following
>> discussion to openstack-tw at lists.openstack.org mailing list for wide and
>> open discussion.
>>
>> Please also feel free to let me know if you have any comments or
>> suggestion.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Joanna
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 03/05/16 23:41, Michael Jenkins wrote:
>>
>> Hi Yoyo,
>>
>> Thank you for your questions. I’ve embedded links to the description of
>> the requirements (https://groups.openstack.org/official-group-process)
>> and the list of recognized groups (https://groups.openstack.org/groups).
>>
>> I feel that in the future it will be easier to get the Foundation’s
>> support for events and hackathons.
>>
>> BR, Michael
>>
>>
>> On 3 May 2016, at 23:36 , Yoyo Chiang < <yoyochiang at geminiopencloud.com>
>> yoyochiang at geminiopencloud.com> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks Mike for your great effort!
>>
>> So what's the process we need to apply? And what's the different between
>> official and non-official?
>>
>> TWOSUG has been existed for 5 years and it's some what weird to learn
>> that it's non-official.
>>
>> Anyway, we'll try to make it official indeed.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Yoyo
>> 2016年5月3日 23:21於 "Michael Jenkins" <md.jenkins at icloud.com> 寫道：
>>
>>> Dear Taiwan OpenStack Leaders,
>>>
>>> During last weeks summit, Tom Fifield presented the community with the
>>> status of the official user groups
>>> <https://groups.openstack.org/official-group-process>. Currently there
>>> are twelve members, and Taiwan is currently not officially recognized
>>> <https://groups.openstack.org/groups>.
>>>
>>> I propose that we work together to make sure TWOSUG is Official!
>>>
>>> I think it would be wonderful to announce our official user group status
>>> this July during Taiwan OpenStack Day.
>>>
>>> Please let me know what you think. If there is interest then I’ll dig
>>> into the details to help make this happen.
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Michael
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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