<div dir="ltr"><span class="gmail-m_6082928653558364877gmail-im"><span class="gmail-m_6082928653558364877gmail-m_-7115188544383680235gmail-im" style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><div id="gmail-m_6082928653558364877gmail-m_-7115188544383680235gmail-m_-5497881075753156797gmail-m_3866792885639427549m_-4559328914829386258gmail-m_-4001330498909991697gmail-magicdomid100" class="gmail-m_6082928653558364877gmail-m_-7115188544383680235gmail-m_-5497881075753156797gmail-m_3866792885639427549m_-4559328914829386258gmail-m_-4001330498909991697gmail-"><div id="gmail-magicdomid5" class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"helvetica neue",arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:1px 0px">Hi everyone,</span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid6" class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"helvetica neue",arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><br style="margin:0px;padding:0px"></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid7" class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"helvetica neue",arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:1px 0px">Welcome to the topic selection process for our first Forum in Boston. If you've participated in an ops meetup before, this should seem pretty comfortable. If not, note that this is </span><span class="gmail-u" style="margin:0px;padding:1px 0px"><u style="margin:0px;padding:0px">not</u></span><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:1px 0px"> a classic conference track with speakers and presentations. OpenStack community members (participants in development teams, working groups, and other interested individuals) discuss the topics they want to cover and get alignment on and we welcome your participation.</span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid8" class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"helvetica neue",arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><br style="margin:0px;padding:0px"></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid9" class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"helvetica neue",arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:1px 0px">The Forum is for the entire community to come together; create a neutral space rather than having separate “ops” and “dev” days. Boston marks the start of the Queen's release cycle, where ideas and requirements will be gathered. Users should aim to come armed with feedback from February's Ocata release if at all possible. We aim to ensure the broadest coverage of topics that will allow for multiple parts of the community getting together to discuss key areas within our community/projects.</span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid10" class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"helvetica neue",arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><br style="margin:0px;padding:0px"></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid33" class="gmail-ace-line" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"helvetica neue",arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:1px 0px">Examples of the types of discussions and some sessions that might fit within each one:</span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid12" class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"helvetica neue",arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><ul class="gmail-list-bullet1" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 1.5em;padding:0px"><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><span class="gmail-b" style="margin:0px;padding:1px 0px"><b style="margin:0px;padding:0px">Strategic, whole-of-community discussions</b></span><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:1px 0px">, to think about the big picture, including beyond just one release cycle and new technologies</span></li></ul></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid13" class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"helvetica neue",arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><ul class="gmail-list-bullet1" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 1.5em;padding:0px"><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:1px 0px">eg </span><span class="gmail-i" style="margin:0px;padding:1px 0px"><i style="margin:0px;padding:0px">Making OpenStack One Platform for containers/VMs/Bare Metal</i></span><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:1px 0px"> (Strategic session) the entire community congregates to share opinions on how to make OpenStack achieve its integration engine goal</span></li></ul></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid14" class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"helvetica neue",arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><ul class="gmail-list-bullet1" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 1.5em;padding:0px"><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><span class="gmail-b" style="margin:0px;padding:1px 0px"><b style="margin:0px;padding:0px">Cross-project sessions</b></span><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:1px 0px">, in a similar vein to what has happened at past design summits, but with increased emphasis on issues that are relevant to all areas of the community</span></li></ul></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid15" class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"helvetica neue",arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><ul class="gmail-list-bullet1" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 1.5em;padding:0px"><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:1px 0px">eg </span><span class="gmail-i" style="margin:0px;padding:1px 0px"><i style="margin:0px;padding:0px">Rolling Upgrades at Scale</i></span><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:1px 0px"> (Cross-Project session) – the Large Deployments Team collaborates with Nova, Cinder and Keystone to tackle issues that come up with rolling upgrades when there’s a large number of machines.</span></li></ul></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid16" class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"helvetica neue",arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><ul class="gmail-list-bullet1" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 1.5em;padding:0px"><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><span class="gmail-b" style="margin:0px;padding:1px 0px"><b style="margin:0px;padding:0px">Project-specific sessions</b></span><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:1px 0px">, where developers can ask users specific questions about their experience, users can provide feedback from the last release and cross-community collaboration on the priorities, and ‘blue sky’ ideas for the next release.</span></li></ul></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid17" class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"helvetica neue",arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><ul class="gmail-list-bullet1" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 1.5em;padding:0px"><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><span class="gmail-i" style="margin:0px;padding:1px 0px"><i style="margin:0px;padding:0px">eg Neutron Pain</i></span><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:1px 0px"> </span><span class="gmail-i" style="margin:0px;padding:1px 0px"><i style="margin:0px;padding:0px">Points</i></span><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:1px 0px"> (Project-Specific session) – Co-organized by neutron developers and users. Neutron developers bring some specific questions they want answered, Neutron users bring feedback from the latest release and ideas about the future.</span></li></ul></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid18" class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"helvetica neue",arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><br style="margin:0px;padding:0px"></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid19" class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"helvetica neue",arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:1px 0px">There are two stages to the brainstorming:</span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid20" class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"helvetica neue",arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:1px 0px">    1. Starting today, set up an etherpad with your group/team, or use one on the list and start discussing ideas you'd like to talk about at the Forum. Then, through +1s on etherpads and mailing list discussion, work out which ones are the most needed - just like you did prior to the ops events.  </span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid21" class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"helvetica neue",arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:1px 0px">    2. Then, in a couple of weeks, we will open up a more formal web-based tool for submission of abstracts that came out of the brainstorming on top.</span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid22" class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"helvetica neue",arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><br style="margin:0px;padding:0px"></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid23" class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"helvetica neue",arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:1px 0px">We expect working groups may make their own etherpads, however the User Committee offers a catch-all to get the widest feedback possible:</span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid24" class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"helvetica neue",arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><span class="gmail-url" style="margin:0px;padding:1px 0px"><a href="https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/BOS-UC-brainstorming" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;white-space:pre-wrap">https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/BOS-UC-brainstorming</a></span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid25" class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"helvetica neue",arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><br style="margin:0px;padding:0px"></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid26" class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"helvetica neue",arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:1px 0px">Feel free to use that, or make one for your group and add it to the list at: </span><span class="gmail-url" style="margin:0px;padding:1px 0px"><a href="https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Forum/Boston2017" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;white-space:pre-wrap">https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Forum/Boston2017</a></span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid27" class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"helvetica neue",arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><br style="margin:0px;padding:0px"></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid28" class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"helvetica neue",arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><span class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:1px 0px">Thanks,</span></div></div></span></span></span><span style="font-size:12.8px"><div id="gmail-m_6082928653558364877gmail-m_-7115188544383680235gmail-m_-5497881075753156797gmail-m_3866792885639427549m_-4559328914829386258gmail-m_-4001330498909991697gmail-magicdomid113" class="gmail-m_6082928653558364877gmail-m_-7115188544383680235gmail-m_-5497881075753156797gmail-m_3866792885639427549m_-4559328914829386258gmail-m_-4001330498909991697gmail-" style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="https://www.openstack.org/foundation/user-committee/" target="_blank">User Committee</a></div></span>
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