On Monday 12 November, 2018 the OpenStack Foundation Board of Directors, staff, and project leadership held a joint meeting to discuss the project and foundation status [1]. We were hosted by Deutsche Telekom AG in their Berlin Representative Office. The meeting space was inside a room that housed their original telegraph offices built in 1861, and as someone who appreciates old architecture I can say that DT did an excellent job blending the feeling of the old building with the modern fittings needed for meetings like ours. The morning was taken up with a formal Board of Directors meeting, which Jonathan has already summarized at [2]. I won't repeat everything he wrote here, but there were a few topics that may be of particular interest to ATCs. The first is that the board has approved a set of bylaws changes [3] that declare that the Foundation will establish "Open Infrastructure Projects" (OIP), with the governance for each to be approved by the Board. Because the bylaws require a vote of the Foundation members to change, the details are left up to other documentation, which a subcommittee of the Board is going to begin preparing [4]. Completing that work is a prerequisite for Airship, Kata Containers, StarlingX, and Zuul to be confirmed as Foundation projects (they are "pilot" projects now). The current version of the bylaws includes details about the way OpenStack operates, by defining the membership and role of the Technical and User Committees. Those definitions will remain, to signal the "centrality" of the project and, and there are a few proposed wording changes to try to make election scheduling more flexible and to clarify the relationship between the OpenStack Technical and User Committees and the other OIPs. There is also a change to allow the Board and TC to update the "Technical Committee Member Policy" by voting on it together, rather than requiring a full vote of the Foundation members. There are also some minor cleanup and "modernization" of the language (removing obsolete references to bootstrapping directions, for example). There was not a lot of discussion of the changes in this meeting, because there had been several meetings to discuss and refine them before 12 November. Next, these changes need to be approved by the Platinum and Gold foundation members and then approved by the individual members. The goal is to have everything ready for approval during the board election this January. Please watch for the announcements for that vote and participate in the election, so that we have quorum and so the outcome of the vote is binding. The second topic I thought might be of interest is the discussion of the brand research the Foundation staff commissioned and which Wes previously summarized on the mailing list [5]. I was encouraged by the favorability numbers in the responses (67% of respondents rate OpenStack as "favorable" or "very favorable") as well as the 50-60% of overlap between people reporting an interest in OpenStack and in the existing OIPs. The "Open Infrastructure" renaming for the summit (announced last week) was also very popular in the survey results. After the Board meeting concluded, the Technical Committee presented a summary of the work done during Rocky, a preview of the work to be done during Stein (thank you to the PTLs who responded to my request for information) and some of the initiatives the TC is undertaking right now [6]. The Board was very interested in both the peer review culture change that Julia has been driving and the technical vision document that Zane has been writing [7]. Following the TC presentation, the User Committee presented updates on their work, the user survey, and work being done in adjacent communities such as Kubernetes [8]. We wrapped up the afternoon with presentations from each of the existing pilot projects on their mission and status [9]. [1] joint leadership meeting agenda https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Governance/Foundation/12Nov2018BoardMeeting [2] Jonathan’s summary of the Board meeting http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/foundation/2018-November/002654.html [3] bylaws changes http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/foundation-board/2018-November/000459.h... [4] Board thread on creating acceptance criteria for OIPs http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/foundation-board/2018-November/000462.h... [5] OSF branch research results http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/foundation/2018-October/002634.html [6] TC presentation https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1wcG7InY2A5y67dt5lC14CI1gQHGZ3db8-ysh... [7] Vision for OpenStack Clouds https://governance.openstack.org/tc/reference/technical-vision.html [8] UC Presentation https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1gLcChOupELCGItD-SzhECEhFMGQc4jf0PlQx... [9] Pilot project presentations https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1nsm6ht3kJRw7vZsbjLDcTfPA8d8gu3jSYinm... -- Doug