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Hi Rainya,

For the sake of this definition, I’d say yes, your group would be considered operators and outside our target audience.

Best,
Ruben

On Aug 22, 2014, at 5:42 PM, Rainya Mosher <rainya.mosher at RACKSPACE.COM> wrote:

> 
> I like that a definition is being created and thank you for not wanting to
> leave out the operators and deployers. As a deployer of an OpenStack
> cloud, how does the definition "An OpenStack end user is anyone who
> interacts with and makes use of an OpenStack cloud via its public APIs²
> apply to the end users that deploy the OpenStack software itself? I ask
> because when my team and I do a public cloud deploy, we don¹t actually
> interact with the public api for any openstack service. It is all done
> through orchestration and ssh at the instance and host level.
> 
> Is the idea that we would fall into the operator / maintainer category? Or
> is this function out of scope for this conversation? Cheers!
> 
> 
> Rainya Mosher
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> On 8/22/14, 3:31 PM, "Ruben Orduz" <ruben.orduz at RACKSPACE.COM> wrote:
> 
>> I like this definition quite a bit, but I¹d tweak it to just this:
>> 
>> "An OpenStack end user is anyone who interacts with and makes use of an
>> OpenStack cloud via its public APIs²
>> 
>> My 2c
>> 
>> Best,
>> Ruben
>> 
>> On Aug 22, 2014, at 4:11 PM, Everett Toews <everett.toews at RACKSPACE.COM>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> Here's a straw man definition for end user to stimulate discussion. The
>>> public API is a good point of delineation.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> An OpenStack end user is anyone who interacts with an OpenStack cloud
>>> via its public APIs. That is, anyone who develops, deploys, or maintains
>>> software that uses an OpenStack cloud via any technology that interacts
>>> with its public APIs.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Thoughts here?
>>> 
>> 
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