<div dir="ltr">+1 I think it's a great idea to add WOO </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 10:00 AM, Megan Rossetti <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rossetti.megan18@gmail.com" target="_blank">rossetti.megan18@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">Hi team,</span><span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">In Austin, a sub-group was formed to help define a process
for AUC (Active User Contributor) recognition. <span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">This working group was created to assist the </span><a href="https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Governance/Foundation/UserCommittee" title="Governance/Foundation/UserCommittee" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(0,136,204);text-decoration:none">User Committee</span></a><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"> (UC) define its constituency in a manner similar to how
the </span><a href="https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Governance/Foundation/TechnicalCommittee" title="Governance/Foundation/TechnicalCommittee" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(0,136,204);text-decoration:none">Technical Committee</span></a><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"> (TC) has defined the designation of </span><a href="http://governance.openstack.org/reference/charter.html#voters-for-tc-seats-atc" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(0,136,204);text-decoration:none">Active Technical Contributors</span></a><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"> (ATC)/</span><a href="http://governance.openstack.org/reference/charter.html#voters-for-ptl-seats-apc" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(0,136,204);text-decoration:none">Active Project
Contributors</span></a><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"> (APC) and participants
eligible to participate in the electoral process for </span><a href="http://governance.openstack.org/reference/charter.html#project-team-leads" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(0,136,204);text-decoration:none">Project Team Leads</span></a><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"> (PTL) and Technical Committee members. The User Committee
formally started conversations to recognize contributions inside the OpenStack
community that are out of scope for the ATC designation. The scope for this new
designation is currently being refined but the intent is to recognize OpenStack
community contributors (such as operators) that are not committing code to
an </span><a href="https://governance.openstack.org/reference/projects/" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(0,136,204);text-decoration:none">OpenStack TC sanctioned
project</span></a><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">. OpenStack community
contributions such as code contributions to repositories under User Committee
governance (e.g. </span><a href="https://github.com/osops" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(0,136,204);text-decoration:none">OSOps</span></a><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">, </span><a href="https://github.com/openstack/ops-tags-team" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(0,136,204);text-decoration:none">ops-tags</span></a><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">, etc.), active participation in any User Committee working
group (e.g. </span><a href="https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/API_Working_Group" title="API Working Group" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(0,136,204);text-decoration:none">API-WG</span></a><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">, </span><a href="https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Enterprise_Working_Group" title="Enterprise Working Group" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(0,136,204);text-decoration:none">Enterprise-WG</span></a><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">, </span><a href="https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/ProductTeam" title="ProductTeam" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(0,136,204);text-decoration:none">P<wbr>roduct-WG</span></a><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">,
etc.), moderating sessions at OpenStack </span><a href="https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Operations/Meetups" title="Operations/Meetups" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(0,136,204);text-decoration:none">Ops-meetups</span></a><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">,
organizing OpenStack </span><a href="https://groups.openstack.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(0,136,204);text-decoration:none">user group meet-ups</span></a><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"> across the world, and many other forms of contributions
are currently being considered for inclusion in the formal definition of the
User Committee constituency </span><span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">During the Mid-Cycle Operators meeting in NYC, we
discussed adding the Women of OpenStack to the list of recognized groups.
To recognize individuals for AUC status, we would need to track active participation
after each meeting, we are currently developing a form for that purpose. <span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">I would like to know what the team thinks about this
endeavor, and if they are interested in AUC recognition.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">Thank you.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><span></span></font></span></p><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"> - Megan Rossetti<span></span></p></font></span></div>
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