*The Certification Committee is tasked with 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.*
Following a brief workshop on Friday, Feb 3 2012 which Sam Johnston, John Mark and myself attended, we decided to launch the certification procedure at Cloud Connect Event (February 13-16) as several board members will be attending and it will provide a great platform for community evangelism. The Certification Committee has come up with a procedure based on various Board and committee discussions as well as with the guidance of similar organizations such as the Open Source Initiative. (Please review their certification process here: http://www.opensource.org/approval) Please review the draft and provide any edits by end of day. The Certification Committee plans to post the certification procedure and mailing list TOMORROW, THURSDAY FEB 16 and begin promoting it, including but not limited to press briefings, etc. We may try to post a press release early next week as well. Cheers Shanley ________________________ *Open Cloud Initiative Certification Procedure for Products and Services * The OCI review process enables the community of cloud computing users and providers to apply the requirements for Open Cloud, as described in the Open Cloud Principles document, to products and services via open and transparent discussion. Through the review process, products and services can be determined by the community to satisfy open cloud principles and thus approved to use the Open Cloud Initiative certification mark. *Guidelines: * - Any member of the cloud computing community may submit a product or service for review. - Any member of the cloud computing community is invited to participate in community discussion via the OCI Certification mailing list. - The OCI review process is specifically focused on applying the community-derived Open Cloud Principles, constituting the existing community definition of open cloud, to products and services. Evolutions to the Open Cloud Principles themselves are subject to a separate community consensus process. *Purpose of the Process: * - Certify products and services as meeting existing community standards for open cloud, as defined in the Open Cloud Principles document. - Provide a framework for the cloud community to contribute to the application of the Open Cloud Principles. - Promote adoption of the Open Cloud Principles via open and transparent discourse and community processes. - Enable Open Cloud certification review of products and services to take place in a timely fashion (no more than 90 days). *Submitting a Product or Service for OCI Certification: * - Familiarize yourself with the Open Cloud Principles and subscribe to the Certification mailing list. - Complete and submit the template (below) to the Certification mailing list. Submissions will be posted publicly on the OCI list archive. - The community is invited to discuss the submitted product or service on the Certification mailing list. Discussion will be open for at least 30 days and will not exceed 60 days. - The Certification Committee will review community discussion and create a summary and recommendation, submitted to the OCI Board and the Certification mailing list. - The OCI Board will consider the product or service at the next monthly meeting of the board. The board may request additional information from the community before proceeding. If no additional information is required, the board will vote on certification. A quorum of the board must be reached in favor of certifying the product or service in order for the vote to pass. - The Certification Committee will report back to the Certification List with the decision and a summary of any board discussion. If the Certification did not pass, another party may re-submit the product or service if changes or alterations to it, or the Open Cloud Principles themselves, would merit redress. If Certification is approved, the product or service in question will be approved to use the Open Cloud logo and will be displayed as such on the Open Cloud Initiative website. *Template for Submission * *Name of Product or Service: * *Web address where information about the product or service can be found: * * * *Web address where technical documentation about the product or service can be found: * * * *Brief description of the product or service: * * * *How does the product or service use Open Standard formats to represent user data and mata data? * * * *How does the product or service expose functionality via Open Standard interfaces? * * * *Is there any other information the community should be aware of pertaining to how the product or service complies with the Open Cloud Principles document? * * * * * *Please attach any supporting technical documentation not available on the open internet. *
