[Openstack-sigs] [scientific] s/WG/SIG/g

Blair Bethwaite blair.bethwaite at gmail.com
Wed Oct 11 10:53:06 UTC 2017


Hi Thierry,

Just finally got around to changing the wiki content to use SIG instead of
Working Group and renamed our page, now https://wiki.openstack.
org/wiki/Scientific_SIG. Is there a way to rename things in the IRC infra
and bring old logs under the new name?

Cheers,

On 20 September 2017 at 19:07, Stig Telfer <stig.openstack at telfer.org>
wrote:

>
> > On 20 Sep 2017, at 09:49, Thierry Carrez <thierry at openstack.org> wrote:
> >
> > Blair Bethwaite wrote:
> >> If you happen to have been following along with recent discussions
> >> about introducing OpenStack SIGs then this won't come as a surprise.
> >> PS: the openstack-sig mailing list has been minted - get on it!
> >>
> >> The meta-SIG is now looking for existing WGs who wish to convert to
> >> SIGs, see http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-sigs/2017-Jul
> y/000022.html.
> >> The Scientific-WG is a good candidate for this because, at our core
> >> (as I see it), we've never really been about bounded task-oriented
> >> goals, but more of an open community of OpenStack
> >> operators/architects/users. At any point we may have groups working on
> >> particular goals, e.g., the OpenStack HPC&Science book, performance
> >> benchmarking/troubleshooting, integration architectures, and so on -
> >> these groups could in future be spun out to their own WGs if
> >> warranted.
> >>
> >> What does this mean, practically? Essentially we just do some renaming
> >> here and there and move our mailing list discussions to
> >> openstack-sigs at lists.openstack.org.
> >>
> >> We've already discussed this in the past couple of meetings and so far
> >> had no objections, so we're planning to move ahead with it soon. The
> >> intention of this thread is to canvas broader input.
> >
> > Sorry for the late answer due to a busy last couple of weeks.
> >
> > I agree that the Scientific WG is the canonical example of a SIG,
> > linking people from completely different backgrounds and experiences
> > around a specific use case.
> >
> > I assume you want to use [scientific] as your subject prefix. Could you
> > add yourself to the SIG page at:
> >
> > https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/OpenStack_SIGs
> >
> > We might turn that into a more "official" site at one point but at the
> > moment that is where we list all current and incoming SIGs.
>
> Hi Thierry -
>
> Thanks - I’ve added some further details transcribed from our wiki page.
>
> Best wishes,
> Stig
>
>
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-- 
Cheers,
~Blairo
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