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Passing the Red Hat baton to Daniel Becker
by Mark McLoughlin 11 Sep '19

11 Sep '19

Hi all Some months ago I transitioned within Red Hat from a management role back to an individual contributor role and lately I'm not so directly involved with Red Hat's day-to-day OpenStack operations. These past years on the board have been quite a ride, and I'm very grateful for the opportunity to work with you all. I remain a big advocate of the OpenStack, and so I'm very happy to be passing the baton as Red Hat's representative on the board to my good friend and close colleague, Daniel Becker. As director of our OpenStack engineering organization, Daniel is obviously very close to Red Hat's OpenStack concerns, and has a particular interest in the health of the developer community since he is directly responsible for the majority of Red Hat's contributors. Daniel will join today's board meeting in my place. Please give him a warm welcome, and keep in touch! Thanks, Mark.

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Director Diversity - Item for Board meeting
by Jonathan Bryce 06 Sep '19

06 Sep '19

Hi everyone, One of our 2019 directors, Sean McGinnis, recently switched employment to Dell. As most of you know, the Bylaws have a clause in Article 4.17(a) that ensures diversity of representation by limiting the number of directors that can be affiliated with a single corporate entity to two (the “Director Diversity Requirement”). We already had two directors from Dell on the Board (Arkady Kanevsky and Prakash Ramchandran), so Sean’s new affiliation brings that total over the limit. Article 4.17(d) of the Bylaws states “If a director who is an individual becomes Affiliated during his or her term and such Affiliation violates the Director Diversity Requirement, such individual shall resign as a director.” However, 4.17(e) says "A violation of the Director Diversity Requirement may be waived by a vote of two thirds of the Board of Directors (not including the directors who are Affiliated).” Sean has requested that the Board vote on a motion to waive the violation under 4.17(e). In the case of this Board vote, Arkady, Prakash and Sean would abstain from voting and the remaining directors could vote to waive or not waive the violation for the remainder of the 2019 term. Alan will add this item to the agenda, so I wanted to send out some brief background on the issue and the relevant sections from the Bylaws ahead of the meeting. If you have any questions, feel free to pass them along, Jonathan

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Call for agenda items for the September 10 OpenStack Board Meeting
by Alan Clark 31 Aug '19

31 Aug '19

Directors, This is a call for agenda items for the 10 September 2019 OpenStack Board Meeting. Please send me items and/or topics that you would like to add to the agenda or have discussed at the meeting. Development of the agenda is underway and there are a couple items that will potentially require a board vote. Once topics are ready they will be placed on the meeting agenda located on the wiki[1]. You should already have an appointment with call-in information on your calendar. Call-in information is also located on the agenda[1]. Thanks, AlanClark [1] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Governance/Foundation/10September2019BoardMe eting

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Transitioning Huawei Board Director seat to Fred Li
by Anni Lai 02 Aug '19

02 Aug '19

Dear Board Directors, I want to bid farewell to you all and inform you that I'm officially transitioning Huawei's Board Director seat to Fred Li, cc'ed here, starting 8/1/2019. Fred has lead Huawei's OpenStack developer team, and been a significant contributor in growing the Open Source developer community in China for the last ~4 years (including contributing to 3 OpenStack/OpenInfra China Day events, and 9 Bug-Smash events). I'm sure Fred will do an awesome job being part of the OpenStack Foundation Board. I want to thank you for all of your support and friendship for the last 3+ years. I've enjoyed working with you and I'll definitely miss you. Nevertheless, I've caught the Open Source bug, and I am not leaving the Open Source community. I'm now working on Futurewei's Open Source processes, and we will be introducing Futurewei's Open Source projects very soon. So, you will be seeing me at future Open Source events! Until then, my friends, take good care, and keep in touch, Anni Lai anni.lai(a)futurewei.com annilai88(a)gmail.com 415.812.2830 twitter: @annilai wechat: annilai Anni Lai anni.lai(a)futurewei.com 415.812.2830

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Board schedule for Shanghai
by Tim Bell 16 Jul '19

16 Jul '19

Has the schedule for a F2F board meeting at the Shanghai summit in November been confirmed? With the summit being Monday November 4th - Wednesday November 6th, will we have a board meeting on the Sunday 3rd ? Tim

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Motion to approve Interoperability Guidelines 2019.06; Board member vote needed
by Alan Clark 02 Jul '19

02 Jul '19

OpenStack Board Members, The Interop WG is asking that the board approve the 2019.06 guidelines. <https://review.opendev.org/#/c/663154> https://review.opendev.org/#/c/663154. The proposed changes include: 2019.06 guideline, updated covered releases as well as moved advisory components to required and deprecated to removed. dns.2019.06 guideline, updated covered releases. orchestration.2019.06 guideline, updated covered releases The next scored release is planned for 2019.11 to add new components and update current ones. As we don't have a board meeting for several weeks, I would like to approve the guidelines via email. Egle has proposed a motion and I will second the motion to approve the 2019.06 guidelines as presented at <https://review.opendev.org/#/c/663154> https://review.opendev.org/#/c/663154 Board members, please respond with your approval, no, or abstain by EOB June 27th Thanks, AlanClark

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Shanghai Summit Information
by Jonathan Bryce 25 Jun '19

25 Jun '19

Hi everyone, Hopefully you have seen that the Open Infrastructure Summit and Project Teams Gathering (PTG) is heading to Shanghai in November! We are excited to take the Summit to mainland China for the first time, and appreciate your organization’s support to make it a great week! In order to create a successful event, we wanted to share some of the changes we have incorporated: The CFP (which is currently open until July 2nd) is accepting sessions in both English and Chinese. Onsite, sessions will be presented in English and Mandarin. Simultaneous interpretation will be available for the keynotes; breakout session interpretation may be available pending submitted content. There are two registration options available - one in USD and one in RMB. Attendees have the ability to purchase tickets in the currency they prefer and receive an e-fapiao (chinese tax) receipt with RMB purchases. We have worked hard to lower ticket prices as much as possible upon receiving feedback from local community members. To keep prices as low as 1499 RMB/$231 USD (early bird), we are also offering VIP tickets for those that can afford it. VIP includes a reception and, most importantly, makes the regular price accessible for local community members in China. 5G was added to the NFV & Edge Computing track due to the overwhelming demand in the open infrastructure landscape by both operators and vendors. We added a new top level sponsorship called the Diamond level, which sold out the first day of sales. Thank you Intel and Tencent for being the first ever Diamond sponsors! An updated sponsorship prospectus with new sponsorship opportunities is now available on the Summit website at the link below. Next Steps Register - USD <https://app.eventxtra.link/registrations/6640a923-98d7-44c7-a623-1e2c9132b4…> or RMB (with e-fapiao) <https://app.eventxtra.link/registrations/f564960c-74f6-452d-b0b2-484386d33e…> Submit presentations <https://cfp.openstack.org/> - deadline July 2 Sponsor <http://www.openstack.org/summit/shanghai-2019/sponsors> Retweet: https://twitter.com/OpenStack/status/1135682613191028738?s=20 <https://twitter.com/OpenStack/status/1135682613191028738?s=20> We look forward to seeing you and your teams in Shanghai - please let me know if you have any questions. Jonathan

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Suggest a candidate theme to the TC?
by Alan Clark 23 May '19

23 May '19

OpenStack Board Directors, At the Denver Leadership meeting[1], the TC included an update on the OpenStack-wide Goals or 'themes'. These themes are one or two goals that all the projects aim to complete during the release. Such goals aim to achieve visible common changes. I was happy to see the progress and At the meeting, the TC stated that it would be acceptable for the OpenStack Board to submit a suggested goal. This doesn't mean that the TC would automatically include it, but that it would then go through the TC process outlined on the TC goals page[2] for process and approval. Would it be productive for the OpenStack Board to discuss, agree upon and submit a candidate goal for some future release? I can think of two or three ideas that would perhaps be pertinent ideas to come from the board. I'm pinging you for your feedback and insight. Is there a 'theme goal' that the board should consider submitting? Do you think this would be a valuable board email discussion over the next couple months? Regards, AlanClark [1] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Governance/Foundation/28April2019BoardMeetin g [2] https://governance.openstack.org/tc/goals/

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OpenStack Foundation & Export / EAR
by Mark Collier 23 May '19

23 May '19

The OpenStack Foundation has received inquiries regarding concerns with a member subject to an Entity List Ruling.[1] While statements in the Executive Order prompting the listing used language granting a broader scope of authority, the Huawei Entity List ruling was specifically scoped to activities and transactions subject to the Export Administration Regulation (EAR). Open source encryption software source code was reclassified by the US Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) effective September 20, 2016 as "publicly available" and no longer “subject to the EAR.”[2] Each open source project is still required to send a notice of the URL to BIS and NSA to satisfy the "publicly available" notice requirement in the EAR at 15 CFR § 742.15(b). The OpenStack Foundation (OSF) continues to work with our projects to ensure their notices are up to date and are maintained in the future.[3] Open source software, collaboration on open source code, attending telephonic or in person meetings, participating in training and providing membership or sponsorship funds are all activities which are not subject to the EAR and therefore should have no impact on our communities. If there is a unique situation of concern, we encourage you to reach out directly to mark(a)openstack.org or jonathan(a)openstack.org. [1] https://www.bis.doc.gov/index.php/documents/regulations-docs/2394-huawei-an… [2] 81 Fed. Reg. 64656, 64668 (September 20, 2016). See also, https://www.bis.doc.gov/index.php/policy-guidance/encryption/223-new-encryp… [3] https://osf.dev/export P.S. Special thanks to Mark Radcliffe and Thomas deButts from DLA Piper, who've been working with OSF, LF and others to pull the necessary information together for benefit of many open source communities.

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Open Infrastructure Summit CFP Open - Deadline: July 2
by Ashlee Ferguson 15 May '19

15 May '19

Hi everyone, We’re excited to announce that the Call for Presentations <https://cfp.openstack.org/> for the Open Infrastructure Summit in Shanghai <https://www.openstack.org/summit/shanghai-2019> (November 4 - 6, 2019) is open! Like we discussed at the Board Meeting in Denver, China is a strong market for OpenStack and the overall open infrastructure market, and we’re excited to engage with the local community for the upcoming Summit. Please encourage your teams to submit presentations, panels, and workshops around the list of Tracks <https://www.openstack.org/summit/shanghai-2019/summit-categories>, which now specifically calls out 5G, before July 2. Sessions will be presented in both Mandarin and English, so we’re accepting submissions in either language. The content submission process for the Forum and Project Teams Gathering will be managed separately in the upcoming months. Similar to Denver, the PTG will take place the second half of the week. You can submit a presentation at cfp.openstack.org <https://cfp.openstack.org/>. The deadline is July 2, 2019 at 11:59pm PT (July 3 at 6:59 UTC). Programming Committee nominations are currently open if you, or someone from your team would be interested in helping shape the Summit content. Nominate yourself or someone else <http://bit.ly/ShanghaiProgrammingCommittee> before May 20. Shanghai Summit + PTG registration is also open, available in both USD <https://app.eventxtra.link/registrations/6640a923-98d7-44c7-a623-1e2c9132b4…> and RMB <https://app.eventxtra.link/registrations/f564960c-74f6-452d-b0b2-484386d33e…> (includes fapiao), as well as sponsorship opportunities <https://www.openstack.org/summit/shanghai-2019/sponsors/>. If you have any questions or feedback, please reach out to myself (ashlee(a)openstack.org <mailto:ashlee@openstack.org>) or Jimmy (jimmy(a)openstack.org <mailto:jimmy@openstack.org>). Thanks, Ashlee

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