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Lauren –

I’ve received a lot of positive feedback on the meeting, and effort in general.   I would like to suggest that we do go ahead and set up a mailing list for this working group.  This gives us the flexibility to CC the user-committee list for broader updates and coordinating with the broader operator community, but have a separate forum to communicate matters of interest to the end-user community.

I suggest we call this end-users at lists.openstack.org<mailto:end-users at lists.openstack.org>, so that we don’t embed the current “working group” nature of the community into the mailing list name, which could change in the future.  I believe that there will always be a concept of OpenStack “end-users”

I’ll follow up with you regarding the possibility of coordinating a follow-on working session prior to the Design Summit where we can bring this community together again to follow-up on some of the ideas generated on the call.

I’m also working on collecting notes from the meeting to send out to those that were unable to participate in the call, which we will CC to the user-committee mailing list.

Best,
Chris

From: Lauren Sell [mailto:lauren at openstack.org]
Sent: Friday, August 15, 2014 11:55 AM
To: Chris C. Kemp
Cc: user-committee at lists.openstack.org
Subject: Re: [User-committee] OpenStack End User Working Group

Thanks again Chris for running the meeting, and thanks everyone for the great input.

I personally find this discussion very exciting because it means OpenStack has been adopted to the point where we’re truly building a community of end users, who need representation and guidance to have a voice in the community.  We’ve been working down this path for operators over the past year (with great progress, but still more work to be done), and we have an even bigger opportunity with end users.

The meeting recording is now live, and also posted to the wiki page:

  *   Recording: http://bb6464121d88dd64b6ed-b08c43cca2e2f1994ff0cbedf9a194c5.r93.cf1.rackcdn.com/EndUserWG-Webinar01.mp3
  *   End user wiki: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/End_User_Working_Group (we can break out a separate meeting section if appropriate)
From the meeting burner report, we had the following attendees:

  *   Evan Scheessele
  *   Tom Fifield
  *   Lauren Sell
  *   Jeremy Stanley
  *   Suhail Syed
  *   Andrew Mitry
  *   Ruben Orduz
  *   Ed Leafe
  *   Aminah Nailor
  *   Constanze Kratel
  *   Warren Volkmann
  *   Chris Kemp
  *   Dave Nielsen
  *   Jonathan Bryce
  *   Nikhil Manchanda
  *   Dave Orth
Should we go ahead and set up a mailing list for this working group (so we can also archive any previous discussions)?

Hope everyone has (or is having) a nice weekend!

Best,
Lauren


On Aug 12, 2014, at 11:11 PM, Chris C. Kemp <chris.c.kemp at nebula.com<mailto:chris.c.kemp at nebula.com>> wrote:


As more OpenStack-powered clouds become available, there are a growing number of "end users" of OpenStack clouds that have no direct visibility into the implementation of the OpenStack services that they are using.  These “end users” are often employees of organizations that have OpenStack clouds or application developers that are using public clouds powered by OpenStack.   Tim Bell and I have been discussing the best way to give a voice to this growing community of stakeholders within the broader OpenStack community, and have agreed to form a working group to work with the Foundation, User Committee, and OpenStack Board, to coordinate activities that give this small but growing community a larger voice within the overall OpenStack ecosystem.

We have set up a meetingburner event for Thursday at 5 pm PT at http://openstack.enterthemeeting.com/m/BY7MH7X4
[http://enterthemeeting.com/media/meeting/images/fb-mb-logo.jpg]<http://openstack.enterthemeeting.com/m/BY7MH7X4>

OpenStack Meeting
Following the July board meeting, we'll bring together parties interested in kicking off an end user working group under the OpenStack user committee. High level agenda: 1. Discuss “end user” vs “ app developer” 2. Discuss current activities Foundation is planning including app developer input session 3. Discuss how to communicate this and engage the larger community
Read more...<http://openstack.enterthemeeting.com/m/BY7MH7X4>


​Agenda:

  1.  Chris Kemp: Overview of working group, including how key stakeholders, including “OpenStack developers,” “OpenStack operators,” “OpenStack end users,” and “OpenStack app developers” relate to this working group, the User Committee, and the overall OpenStack community.
  2.  Lauren Sell: Discuss current activities Foundation is planning including app developer input session.
  3.  Tom Ford: Discuss how to communicate this to the larger OpenStack community
  4.  Community. Collect feedback, ideas and volunteers interested in helping out from the members of the User Committee.
Please sign up if you are interested in learning more about (or participating in!) this working group. ​

Chris

Co-founder, OpenStack, Nebula
chris at kemp.com<mailto:chris at kemp.com>


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