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+Arun, who is driving a related theme at Rackspace


On 10/13/15, 3:45 PM, "Shamail Tahir" <itzshamail at gmail.com> wrote:

>Hi Enterprise and Product Working Groups,
>
>The Enterprise WG has started a sub-team to focus on ISV enablement for
>the
>OpenStack ecosystem.  We have recently had a change in leadership and we
>wanted to use this opportunity to (A) formulate a new plan to take this
>idea from concept to implementation along with (B) recruit new members
>(since our current membership is low/inactive).
>
>Please send me an email if you would be willing to volunteer on this team
>to help ISV enablement for the OpenStack platform.  Our current team
>meetings are every other Wednesday at 9:00 UTC (1:00P EST/10A PST)... Next
>meeting is tomorrow.
>
>Thanks,
>Shamail
>
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>From: Shamail <itzshamail at gmail.com>
>Date: Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 9:32 PM
>Subject: [Enterprise][ISV Interop] Meeting Cancelled for This Week
>
>Hi team,
>
>As most of you might have seen on the Enterprise WG mailing list, Dave P.
>is changing roles/companies and will be taking a break from the OpenStack
>community.
>
>For the last few meetings, the ISV sub-team in the Enterprise WG was
>getting sparse attendance.  We brainstormed a few times on the call about
>how we might be able to build a plan to gain more traction, identify the
>various means of assistance this team could provide to ISVs with
>understanding (and enabling) cloud-aware/cloud-native application
>patterns.
>
>Let's cancel the team call for tomorrow (regular meeting time is 9:00 UTC
>every other Wednesday) and instead let's determine the following things
>via
>email over the next couple of weeks:
>
>1) ISV Enablement Team
>The people on this email thread are people who were on the bi-weekly
>meeting invite.  Please let us know if you are still able to participate
>in
>this sub-team as we re-launch.    We need to determine how many active
>members we have and whether we need to ask for more volunteers.
>
>2) Pre-Requisite Materials
>What documents/incentives do we need to create to successfully engage with
>ISVs.  Do we need a common "pitch"?  What else do we need to draw
>interest?  Are there links we should be sharing with the ISVs? Etc..
>
>3) Re-assess milestones and timeline
>The original plan was to launch the ISV interop program (with branding and
>a few ISVs on board) by the Austin Summit.  Is this still feasible?
>
>4) Communication method and cadence
>Are con-calls effective or do we need to share content too?  Should we
>stick with voice or do a google hangout + voice?
>
>5) Milestones
>What are the various milestones the team can set to track overall progress
>and also a "scripted" path from initial meeting with ISV to having a
>verified application that can run on OpenStack.
>
>This worksteam is critical to further expand the application eco-system
>for
>the OpenStack platform.  I look forward to the dialog on this thread and
>on
>future calls to establish/execute a plan of action.
>
>Thanks,
>Shamail
>
>
>
>-- 
>Thanks,
>Shamail Tahir
>t: @ShamailXD
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