John Mark, Shanley & I agreed that launching the certification program should be our top priority, and we would like to aim for the Cloud Connect conference in Santa Clara the week after next (there was a suggestion of a Valentines Day reference which I'm on the fence about).
Ultimately both the Open Cloud Principles and the application of them to cloud products and services should be subject to (separate) community consensus processes, which I believe should be modeled after that of the Open Source Initiative: http://www.opensource.org/approval Shanley has already done some great work on a document describing the process so the main deliverables would be to agree to it, as well as the associated technical process. Currently we're using Rackspace Cloud Sites (thanks RAX!) but this lacks the ability to host mailing lists and we should avoid proprietary services like Google Groups, for obvious reasons. Mozilla use Bugzilla for the CA inclusion process ( http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/certs/policy/InclusionPolicy.html) which has the advantage of tracking the applications and keeping them delineated, allowing them to be resumed in future (by reopening/referencing bugs) and delivering a higher level of service. It may also avoid the requirement for running a mail and/or list server. In any case, those responsible for running the services (John Mark & I currently) should be involved in the technical decision, and there should be a high barrier for complicated or proprietary systems. A MediaWiki wiki could also be a good option — it is used very effectively for Wikipedia related discussions. Kind regards, Sam ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Shanley Kane <shan...@apigee.com> Date: Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 4:00 PM Subject: Minutes from OCI Board SGM - 11/21/11 To: OCI Board <board@opencloudinitiative.org> *ESTABLISHMENT OF COMMITTEES AND APPOINTMENT OF MEMBERS* * * The next item of business was matters of the next needed steps in carrying out the mission of the OCI. There followed a discussion of how the necessary work would be accomplished and divided through committees. Upon motion duly made by Sam Johnston and seconded by Shanley Kane, it was unanimously RESOLVED that three committees be established and their members appointed: *COMMITTEE ON CERTIFICATION;* dedicated to determining the process by which given products or services are found to be compliant with the Open Cloud Principles via community consensus, and how the process can be healthfully and effectively managed. The Committee on Certification will be staffed by: - Shanley Kane - Sam Johnston - Mark Fleischmann - John Mark Walker
