Hello Stackers, This week, the OpenStack community is convening virtually to set the agenda for the 2025.1 "Epoxy" release and beyond [1][2]. As of today, there are 33 different discussion tracks spread over five days. Now's as good a time as ever to review the Community Code of Conduct as we step into this event [3]. In the past week, the North American section of the OpenInfra community gathered in Indianapolis (and virtually) for a two-day conference. I had the privilege to attend in person and chat with numerous users, operators, and contributors. The community is as energetic as ever, as evidenced by the participation we saw in the leadership meet-and-greet event [4]. Amy Marrich (spotz) organized this event, and we had representation from the OpenInfra Board, Zuul, OpenStack TC, SIGs, and PTLs. The audience learned the essence of our "Open Community," how elections are conducted, what different community leadership roles are, and how one can participate in OpenInfra governance. We brainstormed how to revive projects with dwindling contributors and recapped takeaways from the "Bridging the Gap" and Security SIG-related discussions. Prof. Corey Leong (profcorey) from Valencia College volunteered to propose a "Higher Education" Special Interest Group focused on increasing awareness and creating learning material for university students interested in joining the OpenStack community. I'll share a link with video recordings of this conference in a future post. === Weekly Meeting === Dmitriy Rabotyagov (noonedeadpunk) chaired the weekly IRC meeting [5] of the OpenStack Technical Committee last week. We had fewer attendees than usual, but it was a productive discussion nevertheless. We prepped the TC's PTG etherpad [6] with topics and timings for the discussion. As is tradition, please allow flexibility in terms of the discussion schedule. Discussions may start a bit later (or earlier) than planned, and we'll have to be dynamic to accommodate scheduling conflicts, as many contributors are involved across multiple topics. In lieu of the PTG, the weekly IRC meeting scheduled for 2024-10-22 has been canceled [7]. We briefly discussed the leadership appointment patches concerning the Watcher and Mistral project teams. These are still being reviewed, and we'll try to get them closed out after the PTG week. We also discussed grenade job changes that Ghanshyam Mann (gmann) and other community members have been pursuing [8]. Concerns were raised about projects (like Kolla and Loci) publishing container images under the OpenStack name without a clear security policy. The need to clarify OpenStack's support and security posture on such deliverables was discussed. We have more to discuss on this topic at the PTG and beyond. The next weekly IRC meeting for the OpenStack Technical Committee is on 2024-10-29. The agenda is up early [9], but I'll write to you once again before it is formalized. I look forward to seeing you all at the PTG and possibly seeding more topics for this weekly meeting afterward. === Governance Proposals === ==== Open for Review ==== Add Cinder Huawei charm | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/867588 Appoint Ke Chen as PTL for Watcher | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/932419 Adding Axel Vanzaghi as PTL for Mistral | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/927962 Retire kuryr-kubernetes and kuryr-tempest-plugin | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/922507 Propose a pop-up team for eventlet-removal | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/931978 Propose to select the eventlet-removal community goal | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/931254 === Upcoming Events === 2024-10-21 to 2024-10-25: OpenInfra Project Teams Gathering: https://openinfra.dev/ptg/ 2024-10-27: All Things Open: https://allthingsopen.org/ 2024-11-04: OpenInfra Board Meeting: https://board.openinfra.dev/ 2024-11-15: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/ Thank you very much for reading! On behalf of the OpenStack TC, Goutham Pacha Ravi (gouthamr) OpenStack TC Chair [1] 2025.1 "Epoxy" Release Schedule: https://releases.openstack.org/epoxy/schedule.html [2] "Epoxy" PTG Schedule: https://ptg.opendev.org/ptg.html [3] OpenInfra Community Code of Conduct: https://openinfra.dev/legal/code-of-conduct [4] OpenInfra Leadership Meet-and-Greet: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/leadership-na [5] TC Meeting IRC Log, 2024-10-15: https://meetings.opendev.org/meetings/tc/2024/tc.2024-10-15-18.00.log.html [6] TC PTG Etherpad: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/oct2024-ptg-os-tc [7] TC IRC meeting 2024-10-22 is canceled: https://lists.openstack.org/archives/list/openstack-discuss@lists.openstack.... [8] Grenade Job changes: https://lists.openstack.org/archives/list/openstack-discuss@lists.openstack.... [9] TC Meeting Agenda, 2024-10-29: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings/TechnicalCommittee#Next_Meeting