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Tom and Everett,

Thanks for the push, I assure you that you have not lost your leadership.  :)   I had emailed Lauren a few weeks back regarding the possibility of organizing a f2f discussion to move this forward prior to Paris, and not heard back.  

I think that this topic is broader than just Application Ecosystems, however, so I don't want to overly constrain the discussion, given the initial focus on End Users (Application Developers are a subset of End users).  This would be a good topic for further discussion.   

If Tom can make a room available for a working group discussion in Paris, I would be very happy to help organize an agenda and promote the discussion.  I think that we could easily fill an 80 person room.   90 minutes should be sufficient. 

Regarding topics, I believe that there was a tremendous amount of consensus on the call.  The goal of this meeting should be to reach a wider audience with this effort, recruit folks to help develop content and outreach.    I believe we should also flesh out how this working group can interact with the User Committee, Foundation, Vancouver Summit, and broader OpenStack community. 

Looking forward to your feedback.  


-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Fifield [mailto:tom at openstack.org] 
Sent: Monday, September 8, 2014 8:59 PM
To: Everett Toews; Rainya Mosher
Cc: user-committee at lists.openstack.org; Nati Shalom; Chris C. Kemp
Subject: Re: [User-committee] OpenStack End User Working Group

On 06/09/14 02:55, Everett Toews wrote:
> No response on this in some time. Shall we take that as lazy consensus 
> and move forward with Application Ecosystem Working Group?

That is indeed a fine idea.

However, we seem to have lost our leadership, having not heard from Chris Kemp during the past few weeks of our discussion :s

> It would be good to get this squared away well before the Summit so we 
> can plan to meet there and come up with a strategy and plans to 
> promote the Application Ecosystem.
> 
> One venue for discussing this could be one of these Tech Talks [1]. Or 
> we could have a “Birds of a Feather” session and just meet somewhere 
> to discuss ourselves.
> 
> Does anyone have any other ideas for venues to discuss this?

I actually have a room up my sleeve on Thursday for a smallish (50-80) working group discussion such as this!

How much time do we need:
* 45 mins
* 90 mins
* 140 mins
* 2 x 90 minutes

?

What topics should we try to find closure on?



> Thanks,
> Everett
> 
> [1] http://openstack.prov12n.com/techtalks-at-openstack-summit-paris/
> 
> 
> On Aug 29, 2014, at 10:59 AM, Rainya Mosher 
> <rainya.mosher at RACKSPACE.COM <mailto:rainya.mosher at RACKSPACE.COM>> wrote:
> 
>>
>> Everett, +1 for Application Ecosystem Working Group. 
>>
>> Rainya Mosher
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>>
>> From: Everett Toews <everett.toews at RACKSPACE.COM 
>> <mailto:everett.toews at RACKSPACE.COM>>
>> Date: Friday, August 29, 2014 at 10:37 AM
>> To: Tom Fifield <tom at openstack.org <mailto:tom at openstack.org>>
>> Cc: "user-committee at lists.openstack.org
>> <mailto:user-committee at lists.openstack.org>"
>> <user-committee at lists.openstack.org
>> <mailto:user-committee at lists.openstack.org>>
>> Subject: Re: [User-committee] OpenStack End User Working Group
>>
>> 4. Application Ecosystem Working Group
>>
>> I’m partial to 4 because the connotations of an ecosystem promote 
>> broader thinking about the applications built for OpenStack clouds.
>