[all] Important discussion about the OpenInfra Foundation's future
The OpenInfra Foundation's board of directors is considering a significant organizational change, and your feedback is critical to assist them in their decision. Please read this announcement on the foundation mailing list: https://lists.openinfra.org/archives/list/foundation@lists.openinfra.org/thr... You can follow up publicly on that list with any questions or input you have for the board and staff, or in one of the public feedback conference calls mentioned there, as well as privately to Jonathan Bryce or myself if you prefer to give feedback in confidence. Thanks as always for your interest in the future of our community! -- Jeremy Stanley -- Jeremy Stanley
On Thu, Feb 6, 2025 at 9:03 AM Jeremy Stanley <fungi@yuggoth.org> wrote:
The OpenInfra Foundation's board of directors is considering a significant organizational change, and your feedback is critical to assist them in their decision.
Please read this announcement on the foundation mailing list: https://lists.openinfra.org/archives/list/foundation@lists.openinfra.org/thr...
You can follow up publicly on that list with any questions or input you have for the board and staff, or in one of the public feedback conference calls mentioned there, as well as privately to Jonathan Bryce or myself if you prefer to give feedback in confidence.
Thanks as always for your interest in the future of our community!
Wow, this is indeed a significant change for the community, and the FAQs do address many concerns that popped up to my mind - especially the specifics around the community's philosophy and project governance. As a TC member, I was interested to see the impact on the TC and its ability to define and preserve the existing governance structures in OpenStack. I had a couple of tangential questions: The OpenStack community heavily relies on OpenDev infrastructure - i.e., the health of the Zuul project/community, the sponsoring cloud providers that allow us to run CI, publish releases and so on; and an important piece of this is the OpenDev Infra administrators on the Foundation staff. The foundation staff also assisted us in maintaining the OpenStack site, alongside many other peripheral things over the years. Will we have the same level of investment if we roll up into LF? What changes can we anticipate in the future? I see this line: "Over time, we anticipate some executive roles and responsibilities will expand as we collaborate across Linux Foundation projects and foundations." - are we able to think of examples of changes? Will joining LF allow us access to any other funding/sponsorship? The OpenInfra Foundation has opportunistically (and deliberately) supported formal paid internships, coordinated events and funded meetups. Is this expected to change?
-- Jeremy Stanley
-- Jeremy Stanley
On 2025-02-06 17:03:02 +0000 (+0000), Jeremy Stanley wrote:
The OpenInfra Foundation's board of directors is considering a significant organizational change, and your feedback is critical to assist them in their decision. [...]
And just as a reminder, please don't reply to the thread here on openstack-discuss, let's try to keep it attached to the main thread on the foundation mailing list: https://lists.openinfra.org/archives/list/foundation@lists.openinfra.org/thr... Cross-posting the discussion between multiple mailing lists will inevitably lead to fragmented conversation as people start selectively replying only to one or the other. -- Jeremy Stanley
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