[openstack-dev] [ux] Future of the OpenStack UX team
Thierry Carrez
thierry at openstack.org
Wed Feb 15 09:39:39 UTC 2017
Shamail Tahir wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 9:43 AM, Thierry Carrez <thierry at openstack.org
> <mailto:thierry at openstack.org>> wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> Piet recently reached out to me to explain that he won't be able to
> continue in his role as OpenStack UX team's PTL. Since he created the
> team and spent a lot of time coordinating its activities, that raises
> the question of the future of the OpenStack UX team.
>
> The situation was discussed at the TC meeting yesterday[1] and the
> general feeling was that there was a lot of value in a separate team
> centralizing things like Persona definition and facilitating
> properly-conducted UX surveys. That said, if nobody is able to dedicate
> the time that effort needs, we could also disband the centralized team
> and encourage every project to adopt the tools and techniques that were
> built and introduced by the UX team in the past years.
>
> So... What are your thoughts on those options ? Do we have a volunteer
> (or more than one) to take over UX PTLship ?
>
> Hi Thierry,
>
> I had set up a doodle poll to gauge interest/establish a new meeting
> time for the UX working group but we only had one additional response.
> How should we proceed since it seems there was low interest in
> participation?
Hi Shamail,
Thanks again for your help in wrangling volunteers in the UX area. Given
the low interest I propose we keep the effort dormant until we can
schedule a community discussion about UX at the Forum in Boston, where
we might trigger more interest and volunteers.
What do you think ?
--
Thierry Carrez (ttx)
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