<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Hola OpenStack User Community,</span><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">As you may be aware, the OpenStack summit kicked off in Barcelona last week, and we had a couple of UC sessions. It was wonderful to have members from various working groups sitting face to face in a room having the discussions.</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Below are the links to the session details and Etherpad links: </span></div><div><a href="https://www.openstack.org/summit/barcelona-2016/summit-schedule/events/16869/user-commitee-session" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">User Committee Session</a><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Etherpad from the session: </span><a href="https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/BCN-UC" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">https://etherpad.openstack.<wbr>org/p/BCN-UC</a></div><div><br></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="https://www.openstack.org/summit/barcelona-2016/summit-schedule/events/16899/efficiency-of-working-groups-working-together-to-advance-the-community-leadership-of-the-user-committee" target="_blank">Efficiency of Working Groups</a></font></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Etherpad from the session: </span><a href="https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/BCN-WGS" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">https://etherpad.openstack.<wbr>org/p/BCN-WGS</a></div><div><b><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></b></div><div><b><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Overall Discussions</font></b></div><div><a href="https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Governance/Foundation/UserCommittee#Working_Groups_and_Teams" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Current Workgroup Guidelines </a></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">How to take advantage of</span><a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1fhHqmR9lKyayYOpop4Uu_xnhPwFOoCWAgEAxTU2JAHA/edit?ts=580854d4" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> forum deck</a><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> used in board presentation</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Working groups taking part in forum planning</span></div><div><b><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></b></div><div><b><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Deliverables</font></b></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">We proposed to have at least five members in the UC with a rotating election cycle with a 2 year consecutive term limit, with voting done by AUC members. </span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Criteria - </span><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_yCSDGnhIbzcXFENjBOeUtqRFk/view" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">https://drive.google.com/file/<wbr>d/0B_<wbr>yCSDGnhIbzcXFENjBOeUtqRFk/view</a></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Decide on who will be the UC Chair - The chair will act as a liaison with the TC </span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Clearer guidance around communication (both across working groups, and with the rest of the OpenStack community)</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Better transparency/regular update announcements around goals and progress for each groups</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Working groups must send a member to the user committee meeting to report on activities</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Define the operational method and expectations for Work Groups </span></div><div><b><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></b></div><div><b><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Additional Notes</font></b></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">UC will need to define the approach for participating in the forum in Boston.</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">How do we work as a community of work groups to be effective in bringing requirements and the voice of Operators and End-Users to PTLs, Cores and lead developers?</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">How do we influence the definition of the sessions for the forum?</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">How do we track the progress or action on the requirements/feedback given in the forum?</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">2 new working groups have formed - IOT and </span><a href="https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/LCOO" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">LCOO</a></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Review the document with the by-laws changes: </span><a href="http://opsgui.de/OSUC2016" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">http://opsgui.de/OSUC2016</a></div><div>UC Github repo: <a href="https://github.com/openstack/governance-uc" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" style="font-size:13px">https://github.com/openstack/g<wbr>overnance-uc</a><br style="font-size:13px"></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Edgar Magana and Jonathan Proulx also proposed the bylaw changes during the OpenStack Board of Directors meeting. They proposed that UC members will be elected instead of appointed. AUC will have the voting rights and that the UC increases the number of members from 3 to 5 members. They also brought up the formal recognition of Active User Contributors (AUC).</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">The proposal can be found </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QmLOeseAkjBWM_TXsUeKBErNaSHnuZp81II0T71ARfo/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">here</a><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">.</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div>All feedback collected during the UC session on Wednesday has already been included in the google doc, and all comments are still welcome. To summarize, the User Committee (UC) will have a similar organizational structure to the Technical Committee (TC), with a different mission and goals.<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">To summarize, the User Committee (UC) will have a similar organizational structure to the Technical Committee (TC), with a different mission and goals. </span><a href="http://governance.openstack.org/uc/reference/charter.html" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">More details</a></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Feel free to send us any questions or comments you may have. Thank you!</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Shilla, Edgar, Jonathan</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">OpenStack User Committee</span><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div></div></div>