Hi, We're looking at launching a new bare metal logo program, and we'd like some feedback from the baremetal-sig on how it's implemented and if there's interest in participating in it. This is an early draft of the proposal for community community feedback, and isn't our final plan. This program has several goals. Raising awareness of Ironic as it's being used in production is one of them. This will highlight how Ironic is being used and also serve as a introduction to organizations that are considering tools to manage their bare metal infrastructure. This will also help to help to change the mind-set from OpenStack being a virtualization-focused platform to being a general infrastructure management platform. Ironic is an excellent example of OpenStack software being applicable across a variety of different use cases, like container infrastructure, high-performance computing, and network functions. At a high level anyone in the community who is using Ironic for managing bare-metal services would qualify for it. This would cover a variety of cases, including but not limited to: * Distributions that ship Ironic. * Deployment tools and private clouds that use Ironic to manage servers. * Public clouds that resell bare-metal clouds. * Any private cloud that is using Ironic to manage their bare metal infrastructure, whether end-user facing or not. * Really, any production use of Ironic in any form. As part of the program we will have a bare-metal landing page that links out to the white paper, other documents related to Ironic, participants in the logo program, and links to case studies provided by the participants. The Foundation will also promote how participants in the program are using Ironic through their provided case studies through our various channels. Any vendor who has a marketplace listing will have the bare metal logo applied to that listing. Our major two requirements for participation are that: * You're actually using Ironic or providing software or services based on Ironic. * You provide a relatively short (500-1000 word) use case describing a real-world application (we'd prefer that it not just be a marketing brochure, but something that really highlights how Ironic is being used in production). We would also like for this content to be built into the white paper, as we've seen a demand for case studies in previous publications. If we go forward with the program we plan to launch at the upcoming Open Infrastructure Summit in Denver and highlight the early participants in the program. As the year goes on we'll continue to promote Ironic usage and will always welcome new participants. There are two ways that you can help out right now. The first is just in giving us feedback on this proposal. The second is for you to contact me directly if you would like to be one of the founding participants in the program. Thanks in advance to everyone for your feedback and participation! -Chris