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Hi Michael,

Thanks for raising this topic. One of the main purposes with Official 
OpenStack User Group is to promote the recognition of active OpenStack 
user groups with great community engagement. Although TWOSUG is one of 
the earliest developed user groups, however, there are some issues in 
the user group which prevent it from being considered as officially 
recognised (they are addressed below).

Darren Huang (from gov perspectives) and I (from community perspectives) 
have been working closely with the Foundation towards recognising TWOSUG 
as an official user group.

I've also made an annual plan for TWOSUG based on OpenStack official 
user group process and event policy, as well as asked for help from our 
community to turn TWOSUG official as soon as we possibly can this year. 
Please take a look at the etherpad there you can find what we should do 
to *make TWOSUG official*:

*https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/twosug_organising_2016*

In brief, the two major issues in TWOSUG are the *communication 
channels* and *regular community events*.

1) Most of the current communication channels (including FB group, 
Meetup group, user group website, Google group) are controlled and 
managed by only one person, that's macjack. We do value macjack's great 
efforts in the user group, however, we need him to open up on the 
communication channel management in light of the Foundation official 
user group process 
(https://groups.openstack.org/official-group-process). I've tried all 
the channels I could possibly reach him in order to solve this major 
issue. Unfortunately no response from him so far. If any of you who can 
help to reach him and get him to speak with Darren or I, that would be 
really helpful. I've been hoping to solve this issue within our user 
group before escalate it to Lauren Sell. However, we have been waiting 
for macjack's response for almost half an year. Wish we could improve it 
soon.

2) Lacking of regular community events. Speaking to the Foundation, this 
is another major issue that we should start working on. Once we have 
organised regular events to facilitate community involvement, TWOSUG 
should become official one very soon. That's the main reason why I've 
made the annual plan for 2016 and been hoping to promote OpenStack 
technology in the user group in any level.

There are also some other minor issues such as lacking of event 
organisation resources, technical/non-technical sharing, diverse user 
involvement. But so far we are making good progress on fixing those issues.

TWOSUS needs everyone's engagement to make it better, especially taking 
action at first step. Everyone is very welcome to join the user group 
organising team if you would like to make commitment into volunteering 
for community work.

If you guys all agree, I think it's better direct the following 
discussion to openstack-tw at lists.openstack.org mailing list for wide and 
open discussion.

Please also feel free to let me know if you have any comments or 
suggestion.

Cheers,
Joanna



On 03/05/16 23:41, Michael Jenkins wrote:
> Hi Yoyo,
>
> Thank you for your questions. I’ve embedded links to the description 
> of the requirements 
> (https://groups.openstack.org/official-group-process) and the list of 
> recognized groups (https://groups.openstack.org/groups).
>
> I feel that in the future it will be easier to get the Foundation’s 
> support for events and hackathons.
>
> BR, Michael
>
>
>> On 3 May 2016, at 23:36 , Yoyo Chiang <yoyochiang at geminiopencloud.com 
>> <mailto:yoyochiang at geminiopencloud.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks Mike for your great effort!
>>
>> So what's the process we need to apply? And what's the different 
>> between official and non-official?
>>
>> TWOSUG has been existed for 5 years and it's some what weird to learn 
>> that it's non-official.
>>
>> Anyway, we'll try to make it official indeed.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Yoyo
>>
>> 2016年5月3日 23:21於 "Michael Jenkins" <md.jenkins at icloud.com 
>> <mailto:md.jenkins at icloud.com>> 寫道：
>>
>>     Dear Taiwan OpenStack Leaders,
>>
>>     During last weeks summit, Tom Fifield presented the community
>>     with the status of the official user groups
>>     <https://groups.openstack.org/official-group-process>. Currently
>>     there are twelve members, and Taiwan is currently not officially
>>     recognized <https://groups.openstack.org/groups>.
>>
>>     I propose that we work together to make sure TWOSUG is Official!
>>
>>     I think it would be wonderful to announce our official user group
>>     status this July during Taiwan OpenStack Day.
>>
>>     Please let me know what you think. If there is interest then I’ll
>>     dig into the details to help make this happen.
>>
>>     Best regards,
>>     Michael
>>
>>
>


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