On Tue, 2012-09-11 at 06:49 -0500, Jonathan Bryce wrote: > On Sep 11, 2012, at 3:41 AM, Mark McLoughlin wrote: > > > On Tue, 2012-09-11 at 10:28 +0200, Thierry Carrez wrote: > >> Jonathan Bryce wrote:
> >>> I would like to start by nominating Ryan Lane from Wikimedia. I think > >>> Ryan has done a great job of evangelizing OpenStack and also being a good > >>> voice for users among the technical community. > >>> > >>> Anyone else is welcome to nominate alternatives. > >> > >> IMHO our ideal appointed member would be someone that is a user of > >> OpenStack but also knows our development processes and has directly > >> contributed to the project at some point. That way, while still being a > >> "user", he can efficiently bring a perspective on what the developers > >> can and cannot do. > >> > >> Ryan is definitely a very good option here. An alternative could be > >> someone from Rackspace/HP Ops side that would also be involved a bit in > >> development, but I don't know them well enough to pick. > > > > I think Ryan is a good choice too. > > > > However, I wonder whether we should aim to choose someone from the > > Technical Committee itself - i.e. that whoever the TC appoints would > > actually be a representative of the TC. Given that Tim Bell is a > > Foundation Board member, it probably makes sense. > > > > Look outside the TC if there's no-one on the TC willing to commit to the > > role, perhaps? > > TIm Bell's board membership is coincidental to his user committee > appointment. The user committee members are meant to be > representatives of users, not the board or the TC. The companies and > the ATC are pretty strongly represented within the governance > structure already, and the user committee is meant to be a place for > users and deployers who are not as directly represented. Understood. I was thinking of the Board/TC representatives on the UC as folks who would act as a bridge between the bodies - e.g. one easy way for the TC to talk to the UC. I totally agree that we don't want the UC filled with folks from the Board or TC. > I think Ryan fits the bill pretty well while also having a strong > connection back to the development community. While I'm sure TC > members would do fine in the role, I'm not sure any of the existing or > potential members would do a *better* job than Ryan. Absolutely not questioning Ryan's suitability for the the UC. And he's a great candidate to help bootstrap it too. Maybe we just discuss whether anyone is interested in representing the TC on the UC after the election? Cheers, Mark. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack-poc Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack-poc More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
