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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.

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Board Meeting Agenda

Chair: Alan Clark, Vice Chair: Lew Tucker

Minutes: Mark Radcliffe

Non official meeting discussion Channels:

• webex chat
• IRC: #openstack-board
• Etherpad: https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/UnofficialBoardNotes-May7-2017

(9:00) Call To Order, Open Session

1. Roll Call
2. Approve minutes from April 11, 2017 board meeting

(9:30) Executive Director Update

(10:00) Committee Actions and Updates

(14:00) Joint Meeting of the Board, TC and UC

(14:30) The Strategic Focus Areas

1. (14:30) Practical Improvements

   Communicate about OpenStack: 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. (15:00) Requirements:

   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. (15:30)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. (16:30)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