Governance/Foundation/7May2017BoardMeeting

Board of Directors - May 7, 2017 Meeting
The OpenStack Foundation Board of Directors will meet at 9:00am - 5:00pm Boston on May 7, 2017. Directors may participate in person or via conference dial-in. Audio from the meeting will also be available to the community.

The meeting will be held at the Sheraton, Level 2, Constitution Ballroom

To join the session remotely:
 * 1) Go to https://openstack.webex.com/openstack/k2/j.php?MTID=tcd678de6941e4dd3822bae40a52af3a4
 * 2) Enter your name and email address (or registration ID).
 * 3) Enter the session password: This session does not require a password.
 * 4) Click "Join Now".
 * 5) Follow the instructions that appear on your screen.

Board Meeting Agenda
(9:00) Call To Order, Open Session (9:30) Executive Director Update (10:00) Committee Actions and Updates (12:00) Executive Session - Working Lunch (13:30) Board Business (14:00) Meeting Close
 * Chair: Alan Clark, Vice Chair: Lew Tucker
 * Executive Director: Jonathan Bryce
 * Minutes: Mark Radcliffe
 * Non official meeting discussion Channels:
 * webex chat
 * IRC: #openstack-board
 * Etherpad: https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/UnofficialBoardNotes-May7-2017
 * Etherpad: https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/UnofficialBoardNotes-May7-2017
 * 1) Welcome to the new board members.
 * Thank you and best wishes to Eileen Evans and Toby Ford for their dedication, support and contributions to the OpenStack Board efforts.
 * Welcome to Anni Lai as a Platinum Director.
 * Welcome to Kandan Kathirvel as a Platinum Director.
 * Welcome to Jessica Field as a Gold Member Director
 * 1) Roll Call
 * 2) Approve minutes from March 9, 2017 board meeting
 * 1) (10:00) Interoperability WG - Egle, Mark, Chris
 * 2) Interop WG general updates
 * 3) Status of 2017.08 guideline
 * 4) Schema 2.0
 * 5) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1An0UleTkLCzIilMjSgcyBPM-q8ouJ0kq2ntryExVhJw/edit?usp=sharing
 * 6) (10:20) Product WG - Shamail and Leong
 * 7) Product WG vision, asking for feedback
 * 8) https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1DR3Caiy_qBxjlm6_S7BupktavpCQdv7-cCXcqxSWMFQ/edit
 * (10:40) Break 
 * 1) (11:00) Membership Committee - Rob, Anni
 * 2) (11:00) China Unicom - William Lu
 * 3) (11:30) FiberHome - Wang Hao and He Qing
 * 1) (11:30) FiberHome - Wang Hao and He Qing
 * 1) Board motions - Alan

(14:00) Joint Meeting of the Board, TC and UC
(14:00) Call To Order, Open Session (14:15) Proposals


 * 1) (14:15) Clamping the App Gaps - David Flanders & Clark Boylan - https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/clamping-app-gaps
 * Numerous tools have emerged as connectors for utilizing OpenStack APIs. This range of connector tools is too great for any one community to support: (a) APIs/SDKs (e.g. OpenStackCLI, LibCloud, Shade, jClouds, Fog, GopherCloud, etc), (b) Provisioning (e.g. Ansible, Terraform, Salt, Chef, Puppet), and (c) C/PaaS (e.g. OpenShift, Cloud Foundry, Docker Swarm, Cloudify, DC/OS, etc).  Discussion on recommendations for moving from a '1 to many' to a '1 to few' application community tactic.
 * Names: David F. Flanders, Monty Taylor (proxy for Clark Boylan).

(14:40) The Strategic Focus Areas Reports from each area has been placed placed on: https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/UnofficialBoardNotes-May7-2017


 * 1) (15:00) Communicate about OpenStack -Thierry
 * Categorize (objective data) and map (subjective approach) OpenStack projects as base versus optional (within a specific use case), integrated versus independent release, emerging versus mature, stability, adoption metrics, what works together, services versus consumption (operational tools/client libraries), and other criteria
 * Names: Thierry Carrez [lead], Alan Clark, Allison Randal, Jon Proulx, Melvin Hillsman, Lauren Sell, Tim Bell, Mark Baker, Kenji Kaneshige


 * 1) (15:20) Unanswered Requirements - Melvin
 * Bring different groups (UC/TC/Product/InterOp/etc) together at Forum to collaborate/communicate aroud user stories, gap analysis, what fits in the current state of tech, prioritize what would have the greatest impact in reducing pain for users.
 * Names: Melvin Hillsman [lead], Yih Leong Sun, Jon Proulx, Rob Esker, Emilien Macchi, Doug Hellmann, Tim Bell, Shamail Tahir (was unable to join last week), Anni Lai, Arkady


 * 1) (15:40)Adjacent Technologies:
 * Make our technology more consumable (independently) by other communities/projects.
 * Names: Chris Price [lead], Alan Clark, Dims, Rob Esker, Mark Collier, Steven Dake, Mark McLoughlin, Shamail Tahir (was unable to join last week)


 * 1) (16:00)Changes to the Technology:
 * Workstream to simplify existing projects, reduce dependency options, reduce config options.
 * Names: Mike Perez [lead], --> TC project


 * 1) (16:20)Community Health:
 * Grow next generation of leadership/experts/cross-project devs within the community
 * Names: Steven Dake [lead], Chris Price, Jeremy Stanley, Dims, AlanClark, Joseph Wang

(17:00) Meeting Close