> Op 11 juli 2017 om 15:06 schreef Giles Sirett <giles.sir...@shapeblue.com>: > > > Ilya, all > Good initiative - thanks to you & John for taking the lead on it and > thanks to the Accelrite folks for some of the offers that theyr'e making here >
Indeed! Sounds very good. > > Only a couple questions from me: the concept of the proposed call sounds like > a general effort/alignment thing - almost like a project scrum - am I > correct ? I think this is a really good idea (you may want to ping Wido > because he was trying to arrange something similar a while ago) > Yes, I did. Still seems like a good idea and this will probably broaden the support for it. > If so, then how do 2-10 progress ? They are a wide ranging set of initiatives > (and personally I think most of them are really good initiatives) - I think > lumping them all together would be overwhelming . They’ve each got their > merits and would each require different people to drive forward. > > Kind regards > Giles > > giles.sir...@shapeblue.com > www.shapeblue.com > 53 Chandos Place, Covent Garden, London WC2N 4HSUK > @shapeblue > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: ilya musayev [mailto:ilya.mailing.li...@gmail.com] > Sent: 11 July 2017 03:20 > To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org; us...@cloudstack.apache.org > Subject: [NOTICE] Meeting with Accelerite Leadership > > Dear CloudStackers, > > Last week, Johh Kinsella and myself were suppose to meet with Accelerite > leadership team. Unfortunately John could not make it - so i was alone. > > We discussed ways we can improve community collaboration and leverage > Accelerite"s resources to align and drive larger community agenda including > extendes roadmap. > > Many topics have been mentioned, below is the summary of our discussion. I > will list things in the order i see being important. > > > ------- > 1) Proposal was made to have a quarterly call (or more often as needed) with > all interested parties to discuss: > Upcoming Features you are working on developing (to avoid collision > and maintain the roadmap) > Blockers that are impacting release and adoption > Other topics > > The length of the call would be 90 minutes. Each party will get a > fair amount of time. The agenda will be collated and presented prior to the > call with a link to FS on Confluence and time allotted for each topic. > > Minutes will be taken and posted on dev list. If there are issues and or > suggestions, we will note it down in few sentences, identify interested > parties and have them do a "post" discussion on the mailing list. > > The proposed date and time - Thursday August 17th 9AM PT > > > > ---------- > 2) Accelerite is considering funding a position for a person who will be > working within community - as community manager. Help organize and facilitate > discussions, make sure Confluence and JIRA are up to date, help new users > with answering basic questions or finding right individual to assist with > solution. While funded by Accelerite - it must be clear that the person is > working with/for Apache CloudStack project. > > > 3) Marketing was mentioned, i suggested we do more press releases - and > possibly make use of interns > > 4) OpenStack VS CloudStack (unbiased technology comparison), there is a > common question - we need to come up something that can help justify Apache > CloudStack to clients leadership > > 5) Cinder integration with Cloudstack was mentioned - but no solid plans yet. > > 6) Creating Appliances of CloudStack - that are ready to be consumed and user > can spin nested VMs to try CloudStack effortlessly > > 7) CoudStack Template Repository (plugin)- there is a code written for it by > Citrix and resides on ASF git - but for some reason it was dropped or never > completed. If we can give user a rich marketplace of appliances to consume - > we will certainly get a good edge. This can improve the adoption. > > 8) MeetUps - we need to re-kickstart this initiative within SF Bay Area and > stream it to other locations/meetups. > > 9) Demo environment of CloudStack. David mentioned Citrix donated gear is in > one of ASF locations - but sitting idle. I proposed we make use of it and let > new CloudStack explorers try it out - without the hassle of deploying it. > > 10) If we can get CloudStack into EPEL fedora and ubuntu upstream > repositories - it will help with adoption as well. > > Please let me know if you would be interested in item #1, which is quarterly > meeting. The proposed time is 9am PST, August 17th. > > I will help setting up the first few initial calls and be a moderator. > > Looking forward to your comments > > Regards > ilya
