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See you at FOSDEM?
by Thierry Carrez 31 Jan '23

31 Jan '23

Greetings Directors, I already know Amy Marrich and Kurt Garloff will be present at FOSDEM in a few days. Is anyone else planning to join? I'll be there together with fellow Foundation staffers Ildiko Vancsa and Helena Spaese, so don't hesitate to reach out if you'll be present so that we can discuss in person! Note that I'll be giving two talks at FOSDEM on Saturday, February 4: 11:00am in room K.3.201 (Virtualization and IaaS track): Is OpenStack still needed in 2023? (spoiler: yes!) 4:50pm in room H.1301 (Sovereign Cloud track): The role of Open Infrastructure in digital sovereignty We are also organizing an OpenInfra happy hour Saturday at 7pm in Brussels city center. See for more details: https://www.meetup.com/openstack-france/events/290894966 A number of ancillary events are happening before FOSDEM on Friday. Ildiko will participate in CHAOSSCon, joining an expert panel on how to use Metrics in your context at 8:45am: https://chaoss.community/chaosscon-2023-eu/ I'll be representing the OpenInfra Foundation at the EU Open Source Policy Summit: https://openforumeurope.org/event/the-eu-open-source-policy-summit-2023/ Hoping to see you there! -- Thierry Carrez General Manager, OpenInfra Foundation

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OpenInfra Board of Directors Meeting, January 31st at 1500 UTC
by Julia Kreger 27 Jan '23

27 Jan '23

Greetings, The next meeting of the OpenInfra Foundation Board of Directors will occur on Tuesday January 31st, between 1500 and 1700 UTC. During this meeting we will seat the Directors[0] who are joining the board after our election process, elect the Chair and Vice Chair of the board, have a short executive session, receive updates from the Foundation Staff, and finally seat committee chairs and new members to the Finance and Compensation Committees. Meeting Date: January 31st, 2023 Meeting Time: 1500-1700 UTC / 7:00 AM - 9:00 AM US Pacific Video conference: https://zoom.us/j/96201224963 International dial-in (audio only): https://zoom.us/zoomconference (conference ID #962 0122 4963) To join the session by phone only: +1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose) OR +1 646 876 9923 US (New York) Meeting ID: 962 0122 4963 Agenda: https://board.openinfra.dev/meetings/2023-01-24 Please feel free to reach out if you have any questions. Thanks, -Julia [0]: https://lists.openinfra.dev/pipermail/foundation/2023-January/003118.html

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Call for Agenda Items for January 24th OpenInfra Board Meeting
by Julia Kreger 19 Jan '23

19 Jan '23

Greetings Directors, We will be meeting for our first board meeting of 2023 on January 24th, 2023 at 1500 UTC. A draft agenda has been posted[0] to the board Wiki. If you have any additional items which need to be covered during this meeting, please let me know as soon as possible. -Julia [0]: https://board.openinfra.dev/en/meetings/2023-01-24

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Re: [Foundation Board] Community Blueprint idea
by Johan Christenson 19 Dec '22

19 Dec '22

Good stories! As I read them I realize how bad my imagination is to come up with good topics. :-) I guess lack of technical engagement is sort of a limiting factor. /J ... Johan Christenson Mobile: +46 733 312136 cleura.com – The European cloud! Read our press release – City Network becomes Cleura ----- Original Message ----- From: Ildiko Vancsa (ildiko(a)openinfra.dev) Date: 12/16/2022 01:46 To: foundation-board(a)lists.openinfra.dev Subject: Re: [Foundation Board] Community Blueprint idea Hi, It is a friendly reminder that we are still in the process of collecting input for the Community Blueprint idea. I would like to encourage all of you to __add your stories to our etherpad__, we already have a few started at the bottom for inspiration! It is enough to add only an abstract at this stage. Please add your name to your story as well so I can reach out to you with follow up steps and questions: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/community-blueprint For additional background: The stories are intended to focus on experiences that you or the community you work(ed) with, had, which either created an issue for the community or helped ensuring their success or long term sustainability. Our goal is to help OpenInfra and adjacent communities along with companies and individuals who launch and participate in projects to avoid making the “usual” mistakes. The OpenInfra communities and Foundation follow the Four Opens as guiding principles. While we documented what these principles are, for someone who’s new to open source or haven’t yet had a good experience it is challenging to translate them into practice. The stories that we are looking for intend to help put the challenges as well as the Four Opens into perspective to encourage and enable open collaboration throughout the ecosystem. The next step, as we have more stories collected, is to start structuring the content. I will reach out again in January to organize our next meeting and sync up with all of you who are interested in participating. Please let me know if you have any questions or comments in the meantime. Happy Holidays to all of you who are celebrating! Thanks and Best Regards, Ildikó ——— Ildikó Váncsa Senior Manager, Community & Ecosystem Open Infrastructure Foundation > On Sep 22, 2022, at 16:27, Ildiko Vancsa <ildiko(a)openinfra.dev> wrote: > > Hi, > > I’m reaching out to you with updates, as a few of us had a follow up call this week to continue the conversation about the Community Blueprint idea and next steps. > > Here are some of the highlights of the meeting: > > * We started with a summary of recent progress and quickly moved into a conversation about existing resources and how this effort is intended to be different: > + The Four Opens document only describes the guiding principles and gives some examples about what they are, without a specific group as target audience: https://opendev.org/openinfra/four-opens > + There are similar documents and whitepapers available in the ecosystem that target to explain similar principles and methods > + We discussed the first group of target audience and agreed to __address “middle-layer” management__ in the first iteration > + We also agreed that __we will NOT call the document that we are about to create, “The Way”__, since every community is different and there is no one golden route that will work for everyone > > * We also talked about strategy to build and present content: > + We will use stories to share our experiences related to OpenInfra as well as adjacent communities to put any practice, principle or process into perspective > + When someone shares a story from their own perspective that is easier to relate to than more generic examples from a community’s daily life. We would like to help people to relate and find similarities between their own experience and efforts and stories in the new document to help create good habits and leave behind harmful ones. > > * Next steps: > + We agreed to collect stories first and then look into how to group and organize them > + The stories are planned to set the tone and create the context for chapters and sections in the document(s) that we will create > - We will then add available and recommended practices and processes, where applicable, to help individuals avoid or get out of bad/undesired habits > + I will set up a call once we have a good amount of stories that people contributed > > > For more detailed notes please see the idea etherpad: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/community-blueprint > > > CALL TO ACTION: I would like to encourage all of you to __add your stories to the etherpad__, we already have a few started at the bottom for inspiration! It is enough to add only an abstract at this stage. Please add your name to your story as well so I can reach out to you with follow up steps and questions. > > > Thanks and Best Regards, > Ildikó > > ——— > > Ildikó Váncsa > Senior Manager, Community & Ecosystem > Open Infrastructure Foundation > > > > >> On Sep 1, 2022, at 10:42, Ildiko Vancsa <ildiko(a)openinfra.dev> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I’m reaching out to you with an update. >> >> Based on the poll results we settled on September 21 (Wednesday) at 1300 UTC to have the follow-up call. >> >> You can find the dial-in information and further details on this etherpad: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/community-blueprint >> >> Please let me know if you have any questions or would like to get a calendar invite. >> >> Thanks and Best Regards, >> Ildikó >> >> ——— >> >> Ildikó Váncsa >> Senior Manager, Community & Ecosystem >> Open Infrastructure Foundation >> >> >> >> >>> On Aug 23, 2022, at 12:56, Ildiko Vancsa <ildiko(a)openinfra.dev> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> It is a friendly reminder to our open poll to schedule a call to discuss the Community Blueprint/OpenInfra Way idea further. >>> >>> You can access the poll here: https://framadate.org/5jNiF8t8C7oH71pj >>> >>> Based on the current results, the favored options are: >>> * September 20 (Tuesday) at 1300 UTC >>> * September 21 (Wednesday) at 1300 UTC >>> >>> __If you are interested in participating in the discussion and haven’t filled out the poll yet, please do so by the end of this week (August 28).__ >>> >>> Please let me know if you have any questions. >>> >>> Thanks and Best Regards, >>> Ildikó >>> >>> ——— >>> >>> Ildikó Váncsa >>> Senior Manager, Community & Ecosystem >>> Open Infrastructure Foundation >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>> On Aug 8, 2022, at 17:44, Ildiko Vancsa <ildiko(a)openinfra.dev> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I’m reaching out to you with some quick updates. >>>> >>>> I gave a short overview about the progress with this effort at the recent OpenInfra Board of Directors meeting on the 2nd of August. The feedback was overall positive and new ideas came up during the short conversation we had during the call. The main discussion explored the concept of describing culture and providing input for decision making through sharing stories and experiences, that we’ve had throughout our journey in open source. >>>> >>>> The option to organize a follow-up call also came up, so we can dive deeper into the above idea and overall content of the new document(s) we are planning to create. To capture interest, I created a poll with a few options for September: https://framadate.org/5jNiF8t8C7oH71pj >>>> >>>> __If you are interested in participating and sharing your comments, experiences or stories please fill out the form by August 24.__ >>>> >>>> As a reminder, here are a few resources you can look into for further details: >>>> - Repository: https://opendev.org/openinfra/way >>>> - Open review to add seed content: https://review.opendev.org/c/openinfra/way/+/851768/ >>>> - Further details about the Community Blueprint idea: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/community-blueprint >>>> >>>> Please let me know if you have any questions or comments. >>>> >>>> Thanks and Best Regards, >>>> Ildikó >>>> >>>> ——— >>>> >>>> Ildikó Váncsa >>>> Senior Manager, Community & Ecosystem >>>> Open Infrastructure Foundation >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> On Jul 18, 2022, at 13:43, Ildiko Vancsa <ildiko(a)openinfra.dev> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> I'm reaching out to you as a follow up to one of the ideas that was brought up during the OpenInfra Board of Directors (BoD) meeting in Berlin on June 6, called Community Blueprint. >>>>> >>>>> The prupose of this email is to raise awareness of the activities around the idea and invite you to participate in next steps, if you are interested. >>>>> >>>>> A few of us from the OpenInfra Foundation staff and BoD met recently to discuss the idea in a bit more details and identify goals and next steps. Highlights from our conversation include: >>>>> >>>>> * Goals >>>>> - Create a playbook that new projects can use to make well-informed choices in areas such as licensing, governance, community structure and more >>>>> - Beyond documenting processes and tools, the playbook will also discuss expectations, i.e.: what commitments the project founders will have, what the ecosystem and community expects from them >>>>> - The playbook is intended to be used by prospective new OpenInfra projects, and in addition showing thought leadership in the open source ecosystem >>>>> >>>>> * Playbook documents >>>>> - Target audience >>>>> + 1st stage: Managers and executives to understand what it means and entails to do something in open source >>>>> + 2nd stage: Contributors and developers >>>>> - Seed content: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/hflJmbl2SGsD0Pkkr-Sa >>>>> - Repository: https://opendev.org/openinfra/way >>>>> >>>>> * Further background >>>>> - We went through an overview of the original idea that was targeting the balance and sustainability of the open source ecosystem, and the OpenInfra Foundation's opportunity to provide guidance to our current and prospective projects as well as the ecosystem at large >>>>> - We looked into the history of long-existing open source projects as well as the current trend of mass-creation of new projects >>>>> + Experienced contributors can help build and maintain community culture >>>>> + New projects without experienced members can easily become dysfunctional without the community noticing —> These models are also replicating in the current ecosystem by projects following bad examples >>>>> >>>>> * Next steps >>>>> - Use the new Git repository and seed content linked above to start outlining the document structure and content >>>>> >>>>> For more detailed notes of our conversation please see the following etherpad: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/community-blueprint >>>>> >>>>> If you have any question or would like to participate in the effort please reply to this thread or reach out to me directly. >>>>> >>>>> Thanks and Best Regards, >>>>> Ildikó >>>>> >>>>> ——— >>>>> >>>>> Ildikó Váncsa >>>>> Senior Manager, Community & Ecosystem >>>>> Open Infrastructure Foundation >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Foundation-board mailing list >>>>> Foundation-board(a)lists.openinfra.dev >>>>> https://lists.openinfra.dev/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/foundation-board >>>> >>> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Foundation-board mailing list > Foundation-board(a)lists.openinfra.dev > https://lists.openinfra.dev/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/foundation-board _______________________________________________ Foundation-board mailing list Foundation-board(a)lists.openinfra.dev

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Community Blueprint idea
by Ildiko Vancsa 15 Dec '22

15 Dec '22

Hi, I'm reaching out to you as a follow up to one of the ideas that was brought up during the OpenInfra Board of Directors (BoD) meeting in Berlin on June 6, called Community Blueprint. The prupose of this email is to raise awareness of the activities around the idea and invite you to participate in next steps, if you are interested. A few of us from the OpenInfra Foundation staff and BoD met recently to discuss the idea in a bit more details and identify goals and next steps. Highlights from our conversation include: * Goals - Create a playbook that new projects can use to make well-informed choices in areas such as licensing, governance, community structure and more - Beyond documenting processes and tools, the playbook will also discuss expectations, i.e.: what commitments the project founders will have, what the ecosystem and community expects from them - The playbook is intended to be used by prospective new OpenInfra projects, and in addition showing thought leadership in the open source ecosystem * Playbook documents - Target audience + 1st stage: Managers and executives to understand what it means and entails to do something in open source + 2nd stage: Contributors and developers - Seed content: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/hflJmbl2SGsD0Pkkr-Sa - Repository: https://opendev.org/openinfra/way * Further background - We went through an overview of the original idea that was targeting the balance and sustainability of the open source ecosystem, and the OpenInfra Foundation's opportunity to provide guidance to our current and prospective projects as well as the ecosystem at large - We looked into the history of long-existing open source projects as well as the current trend of mass-creation of new projects + Experienced contributors can help build and maintain community culture + New projects without experienced members can easily become dysfunctional without the community noticing —> These models are also replicating in the current ecosystem by projects following bad examples * Next steps - Use the new Git repository and seed content linked above to start outlining the document structure and content For more detailed notes of our conversation please see the following etherpad: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/community-blueprint If you have any question or would like to participate in the effort please reply to this thread or reach out to me directly. Thanks and Best Regards, Ildikó ——— Ildikó Váncsa Senior Manager, Community & Ecosystem Open Infrastructure Foundation

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It has been a pleasure!
by Shannon McFarland (shmcfarl) 08 Dec '22

08 Dec '22

Hello team, I wanted to let you all know that I will not be a part of the Gold member election this time around. Cisco leadership has determined that we won’t renew our sponsorship for next year. It has been an absolute pleasure being a part of this community for the last decade+. Since I got involved in OpenStack in early 2011, I have seen this community grow and thrive and so much of it is because of folks like you who have dedicated so much time and effort into building the greatest OSS community on earth. Thanks so much for your friendship, mentorship and leadership. You are world-class humans and I am honored to have been a part of this awesome group. Take care, Shannon

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Agenda updated for Today's Board Meeting
by Julia Kreger 06 Dec '22

06 Dec '22

Greetings Directors, A quick heads up before our meeting of the Board later today. The Agenda[0] has been updated to represent two changes in appointments for directors and the related housekeeping in line with the changes in appointments. Thanks, -Julia [0]: https://board.openinfra.dev/en/meetings/2022-12-06

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OpenInfra Board of Directors meeting, December 6th at 2100 UTC
by Julia Kreger 30 Nov '22

30 Nov '22

Greetings, The next meeting of the OpenInfra Foundation Board of Directors will occur on Tuesday December 6th between 2100 and 2300 UTC. This is our last scheduled meeting of 2022. During this meeting we will be review and approve the budget for 2023, and discuss and vote upon on a proposal to move forward with an European entity for the Open Infrastructure Foundation. Beyond our other general updates which will occur, the OpenStack TC has requested to address the Board regarding the current state of internationalization translations in the OpenStack community. Meeting Date: December 6th, 2022 Meeting Time: 2100-2300 UTC / 1:00 - 3:00 PM US Pacific Video conference: https://zoom.us/j/96201224963 International dial-in (audio only): https://zoom.us/zoomconference (conference ID #962 0122 4963) To join the session by phone only: +1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose) OR +1 646 876 9923 US (New York) Meeting ID: 962 0122 4963 Agenda: https://board.openinfra.dev/meetings/2022-12-06 Please feel free to reach out if you have any questions. Thanks, -Julia

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Re: [Foundation Board] Resignation as board member for DTAG/T-Systems
by Johan Christenson 30 Nov '22

30 Nov '22

Clemens - you will be sorely missed! Please stay in touch! /Johan ... Johan Christenson Mobile: +46 733 312136 cleura.com – The European cloud! Read our press release – City Network becomes Cleura ----- Original Message ----- From: Julia Kreger (juliaashleykreger(a)gmail.com) Date: 11/30/2022 15:24 To: Crandale (clemens.hardewig(a)crandale.de) Cc: foundation-board(a)lists.openinfra.dev, foundation(a)lists.openinfra.dev Subject: Re: [Foundation Board] Resignation as board member for DTAG/T-Systems Thank you for the heartfelt email and your service to our communities. It has been a pleasure! Best of luck to you for your next adventure, and I too hope our paths cross again. -Julia On Wed, Nov 30, 2022 at 1:58 AM Crandale <clemens.hardewig(a)crandale.de> wrote: Dear all, Today is my last day at T-Systems and therefore I have to resign as a board member for my company due today. After 4 years representing as a Gold member director, having had very good and inspiring discussions around Openstack and the transition towards Openinfra in our round, met a lot of great people and learned hell amount amount about how a great role model OpenSource community should collaborate across culture, diversity, global maturity and innovation, I leave this position with great gratitude and personally enriched. My successor for my company will be for the remaining election period Sebastian Wenner who is likely fairly known in the Openstack Community out of several presentations at our summits. Even if I have today to resign from my current official role I will stay connected to this topic our of personal interest. What remains me is to say you all a big big thank you for all the great support all over the years for T-Systems Openstack public cloud offering we got out of the community and the foundation. It was an honor and great pleasure to work with you all. For the moment I say a grateful good bye and hope that our ways will cross very soon again. Best regards Clemens ------------------------------------------------ Dr. Clemens Hardewig VP Delivery Open Telekom Cloud T-Systems My contact E-Mail Address: clemens.hardewig(a)crandale.de _______________________________________________ Foundation-board mailing list Foundation-board(a)lists.openinfra.dev _______________________________________________ Foundation-board mailing list Foundation-board(a)lists.openinfra.dev

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Help promote the OpenInfra Foundation's messaging - User Survey & CFP
by Helena Spease 17 Nov '22

17 Nov '22

Hello everyone! Here is your weekly summary of our primary social media CTAs. Having our Board Members repost and/or comment on our posts is incredibly valuable to reinforcing our messaging. The CFP is live! Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6998298928383221760 <https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6998298928383221760> Twitter: https://twitter.com/openinfradev/status/1592533232880336896 <https://twitter.com/openinfradev/status/1592533232880336896> Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/openinfradev/photos/a.521342617921012/561320916540… <https://www.facebook.com/openinfradev/photos/a.521342617921012/561320916540…> The OpenStack user survey report is live! Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6999031556312891395 <https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6999031556312891395> Twitter: https://twitter.com/OpenStack/status/1593265647106097153 <https://twitter.com/OpenStack/status/1593265647106097153> Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/openinfradev/posts/pfbid0HuDFZtEuCB9sJG5Cxhmxj96vZ… <https://www.facebook.com/openinfradev/posts/pfbid0HuDFZtEuCB9sJG5Cxhmxj96vZ…> Thank you, Helena Spease

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