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==Large Contributing OpenStack Operators (LCOO)==
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==Large Contributing OpenStack Operators (LCOO)==  
  
'''Status''': Regular Meetings and joint work in progress since August 2016. Introduced as Working Group to the User Committee at Barcelona Summit October 26, 2016.
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=== Status ===
  
''Co-Chairs'':
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Active and recruiting additional organizations to collaborateWe meet as a coordination team at least twice monthly and run "deep dive/topical" sessions monthy.
  * Jamey McCabe <jamemcc@gmail.com>
 
   * Cecilia Comeau <cc0943@att.com>
 
  
''Organization Coordinators'':
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=== Chair ===
  * Abdelhadi Chari, Orange; <abdelhadi.chari@orange.com>
 
  * Andy Ukasick, AT&T; <andrew.ukasick@att.com>
 
  * Kunal Shah;  Reliance Jio; <kunal2.shah@ril.com>
 
  * Sean Roberts; Walmart; <sroberts@walmartlabs.com>
 
  * Shintaro Mizuno; NTT; <mizuno.shintaro@lab.ntt.co.jp>
 
  * Shilla Saebi; Comcast; <shilla.saebi@gmail.com>
 
  * Sundar Krishnamoorthy; Intel; <sundar.krishnamoorthy@intel.com>
 
  
==Mission and Scope==
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Elise Eiden <elise.a.eiden@att.com>
The Large Contributing OpenStack Operator (LCOO) is a body of OpenStack Community Contributors who have organized around their shared interest in accelerating the enterprise maturity and adoption of OpenStack and to drive Community awareness of platform enhancements necessary to address the unique use cases of network service providers and horizontally scaling, massively distributed cloud operators.  
 
  
The working group aims to define the use cases and identify and prioritise the requirements which are needed to deploy, manage, and run services on top of OpenStack. This work includes identifying functional gaps, creating blueprints, submitting and reviewing patches to the relevant OpenStack projects, contributing to working those items,  tracking their completion.
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=== Organization Coordinators ===
  
==Key Tenets==
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* Andy Ukasick, AT&T; <andrew.ukasick@att.com>
'''Drive Community Roadmap Awareness'''
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* Jaesuk Ahn; SK Telecom; <jay.ahn@sk.com>
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* Marc Bailly, Orange; <marc.bailly@orange.com>
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* Sanjeev Jaiswal; Reliance Jio; <sanjeev.jaiswal@ril.com>
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* Shintaro Mizuno; NTT; <mizuno.shintaro@lab.ntt.co.jp>
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* Sundar Krishnamoorthy; Intel; <sundar.krishnamoorthy@intel.com>
  
The LCOO exists to drive Community awareness of platform enhancements necessary to meet the needs of Large “Multi-Clouds” Operators and Network Service Providers.  Multi-Clouds is defined as multiple regions, availability zones and multi-tenant in OpenStack.  LCOO does this through the publishing of its use cases and Roadmap as well as by participating in and contributing thought leadership to OpenStack community Working Groups, Project Teams and other OpenStack groups. The LCOO also leverages blogs, white papers, Summit presentations, Summit presence and any other practical means to carry its message to the broad community.
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=== Communications ===
  
'''Drive Focused OpenStack Enhancements'''
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* We run meetings via video-conference and IRC but also track all participants, proposals and agreements: [https://openstack-lcoo.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/LCOO/pages/8847424 Meeting invites/notes]
  
The LCOO works openly, transparently and collaboratively within the OpenStack community to be engaged in continuous enhancement of the OpenStack platform. The LCOO’s coordinates the upstream software development activities of its member’s resources in order to advance the platform while ensuring that efforts align with the spirit and goals of the OpenStack Foundation.
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=== Current Member Companies ===
  
'''Increase Upstream Contributions to OpenStack'''
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* SK Telecom
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* Reliance Jio
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* Orange
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* NTT
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* Intel
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* AT&T
  
The LCOO seeks to advance the OpenStack platform by building and growing a joint LCOO committed engineering team focused on a shared agenda of development that drives its overall mission forward, along a number of vectors:
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==About LCOO==
  
* Multisite Management and Operations including Upgradeability
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The Large Contributing OpenStack Operator (LCOO) is an organizationally based working group. Instead of being a group of various individuals who come together to produce some particular deliverable(s), LCOO strives to be a forum in which companies can network together around OpenStack topics and priorities, sharing information and identifying opportunities for collaboration. LCOO also provides a framework of tools and shared practices designed to encourage and enable intra-company collaboration. While all are welcome to participate, it is companies that join as 'members' and make a committment to participate and contribute.
* Resiliency at Scale
 
* Networking, SDN and NFV Infrastructure
 
* Security, Policy and Operational Insights
 
* Workload Enablement
 
* Feature Requests and Bug fixes across all of the projects
 
  
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=== LCOO's Mission ===
'''Accelerate OpenStack Innovation'''
 
  
Through its multi-cultural, globally distributed and technologically diverse member companies, the LCOO creates an environment for its members that promotes far greater opportunity for innovation, learning, mentoring and accomplishment than would ever be possible by any member alone. This same large and diverse member coalition of community contributors is also able to engage much more deeply, broadly and effectively within the community in order to further its objectives of raising awareness and accelerating improvement.
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* To facilitate intra-company sharing / discussing of OpenStack priorities, strategy, challenges and solutions
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* To share information about community happenings and encourage participation
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* To be a bridge connecting the activities of the OpenStack community with otherwise internally focused OpenStack users
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* To build a network of intra-company relationships between internally focused OpenStack SME's/Users
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* To provide a framework to encourage intra-company collaboration
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* Promote the operational needs / use cases of our members within the OpenStack Community
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* To encourage increased contribution to and material support of OpenStack
  
==Guiding Principles==
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=== Key Differentiators ===
  
'''Align with the OpenStack Foundation'''
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* Large operator focused
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* Private Cloud operator focused
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* Horizontal scaling / distributed cloud focused
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* Membership is by Company
  
The LCOO is dedicated to advancing the goals of the OpenStack community by aligning with the OpenStack Foundation using a two-pronged approach, both through centralized authorities and through grassroots engagement.
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=== Guiding Principles ===
  
Working within established centralized channels, the LCOO informs, publishes, and solicits feedback on its engineering roadmap through the OpenStack Foundation’s Working Groups. This approach ensures that the engineering team works on the right features to advance the OpenStack platform for use by enterprise customers, as validated by the community. The LCOO engages with the OpenStack Foundation Board, Technical Committee and User Committee to draw attention to help drive coordination across projects. Finally, the LCOO also works with certain groups outside of OpenStack such as OPNFV whose work has critical impacts on the platform.From a grassroots standpoint, the LCOO member resources are engaged within numerous projects, organizations and user groups, collaborating, networking and discussing across the OpenStack Community.  
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* Openness - The LCOO works openly, transparently and collaboratively within the OpenStack community to contributre towards the continual enhancement of the OpenStack platform. LCOO ensures that member efforts align with the spirit and goals of the OpenStack Foundation.
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* Contribute Work Upstream - In the spirit of open source, LCOO is committed to furthering open standards by ensuring that work is contributed upstream, by working within the community.  
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* Accelerate OpenStack Innovation - Through its multi-cultural, globally distributed and technologically diverse member companies, the LCOO creates an environment for its members that promotes greater opportunities for learning, mentoring, innovation and accomplishment than possible by any member alone. By joining resources, members are able to engage more deeply, broadly and effectively within the community in order to raise awareness of key priorities and accelerate improvement.
  
'''Contribute Work Upstream'''
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=== Why should companies join? Why should individuals participate? ===
  
In the true spirit of open source, the LCOO is committed to furthering open standards and preventing vendor lock-in by ensuring that work is contributed upstream, working within the community to advance the collective state of the platform for the benefit of all.
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* To increase your professional network
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* To gain new insights, to learn how other companies are addressing our common challenges
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* To promote and garner support for key priorities and iniatives among other companies
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* To engage in mutually beneficial collaborative endeavors with other like minded companies
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* To have greater awareness of Community changes, trends, happenings
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* To amplify your voice in the OpenStack community by joining it with other like minded companies
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* To amplify your innovative potential by exchanging insights and ideas beyond your company's doors
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==LCOO Structure and Roles==
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=== Executive Board Members ===
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* Executive leadership represntatives from each Member Company
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* Set the overall direction and priorities for LCOO
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=== Coordinators ===
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* Represent their organization through regular participation in the day to day work of LCOO
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* Share the overall coordination of LCOO activities
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=== Contributors ===
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Opportunities for collaboration emerge organically from LCOO activities which in turn result in sub-teams spinning off around various efforts. These efforts could take the form of SIG's, new Project Teams, POC teams, etc. These teams operate independently and might consist of:
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* Stakeholders / SME’s from Member Companies
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* Stakeholders / SME’s from the Community at large
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* Any interested individuals
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=== Associates/Collaborators ===
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* Attend Topical Meetings when desired / do not present at sessions
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* Misc interested, non-member individuals, who attend meetings and/or occasionally participate in ‘Contributor’ sub-teams
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==LCOO Meetings==
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=== Topical Forums ===
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* Open to ALL - details are published in advance in the OpenStack mailing lists and in our LCOO wiki site
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* Held monthly for 90 minutes
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* Times rotate in order to accommodate global participation
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* Conducted in English via Web-Meeting / Video Conference
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* Members present their key interests, priorities, strategy, pain points, accomplishments, etc., for the topic at hand together with Q&A and discussion
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* During these sessions we seek out synergies and opportunities for collaboration
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=== General Meetings ===
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* Attended by LCOO Coordinators and open to anyone
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* Held bi-weekly for 60 minutes
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* Times rotate to accommodate global participation
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* Conducted in English via Web-Meeting / Video Conference
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* Plan/coordinate Topical Forums
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* Status updates for collaborations underway, share community information / plan for community happenings, etc.
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=== Executive Board Meetings ===
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* Attended by executive leadership representatives from member companies
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* Meet 2-4 times per year as needed for ~ 90 minutes
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* Conducted in English via telepresence, web meeting or face to face
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* Steer the overall activities and direction of LCOO
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* Set common priorities and strategy relevant to LCOO
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==A framework for Intra-Company Collabortion==
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In addition to the standard OpenStack tools, LCOO uses the following tools to provide a framework for intra-company collaboration. These tools are all fully Open to everyone.
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* JIRA for agile issue tracking and  lifecycle management of LCOO projects/collaborations: https://openstack-lcoo.atlassian.net
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* GitHub provides Git source code repositories for our efforts that cannot utilize git.openstack.org: https://github.com/LCOO
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* Slack for convenient instant messaging across our global members and collaborators: https://lcoo.slack.com
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* Confluence wiki for joint editing and sharing of documents, maintaining meeting notes, action item tracking and more:  https://openstack-lcoo.atlassian.net/wiki
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* Skype for Business and Webex are used for web-meetings and video conferencing.
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=== Agreement Tracking/Wiki ===
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* Meetings are also announced in advance through the User Committee mail list
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* Our Meeting Agenda’s and notes are published in Confluence here: Meeting invites/notes
  
 
==How to Join==
 
==How to Join==
Member companies should meet these criteria:
 
* Be a Multi-Cloud Operator and/or Network Service Provider
 
* Participate equally with other members in the meetings and other activities of the coalition
 
* Be a contributor to the OpenStack platform with at least 4 FTEs contributing regularly
 
* Contribute 2 FTEs to upstream activities aligned to the LCOO roadmap
 
  
If a member should fail to continue to meet these minimum criteria after joining, their membership may be revoked through an action of the board. Add method of advocating for new members and new members to introduce and join here.
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=== Member companies agree to: ===
  
Method of joining:
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* Delegate someone to the Coordinator Role
# 1. Contact or be contacted by an existing member and familiarize yourself with this charter and our current roadmap/goals.
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* Delegate an Executive representative to the Executive Board Member Role
# 2. Attend coordinators meeting and introduce your organization’s current OpenStack contributions and your ideas for how to contribute to the LCOO roadmap.
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* Actively participate in the activities of LCOO
# 3. Be welcomed and begin to integrate your specific staff into the current LCOO activities in that Governance meeting.
 
# 4. Be added to LCOO communication tools, e.g. Slack, E-mail/invite distribution and roadmap tracking.
 
  
==Governance==
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=== Procedure to join: ===
  
The LCOO is governed by a board consisting of equal representation from each of its member companies. The board will be led by an annually elected Meeting Chair and Co-Chair(s) from among its members. Each member company will have one vote. The board will operate by consensus. This composition underscores the LCOO’s true community spirit, ensuring a system of governance that relies on respect, equality, trust and transparency. In the event that consensus cannot be reached, the Chairperson may call for a vote.
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* One or more people from the company begin participating in the General (Coordinator) Meetings and other activities of LCOO
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* The company's participant(s) express their company’s desire to join at one of the General Meetings
'''The LCOO Governance Board:'''
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* An Executive representative of the company attends the next LCOO Executive Board Meeting and is welcomed by the other board members
* Meets quarterly to produce, prioritize and publish a common OpenStack Roadmap
 
* Meets quarterly to formulate Strategy for Roadmap delivery
 
* Collaborates to drive Community awareness and acceptance of its Roadmap objectives
 
* Directs member resources to upstream activities in alignment with its Roadmap and Strategy
 
* Coordinates member participation in Working Groups
 
* Coordinates engagement with the OpenStack Foundation Board, Technical Committee and User Committee
 
* Meets at a minimum monthly to re-align on Strategy execution, review progress and (re)direct activities as needed
 
* Meeting agenda’s published ahead of time for board meetings and meeting results published and open for all (members and non-members) to view.
 

Latest revision as of 12:20, 9 May 2019

Large Contributing OpenStack Operators (LCOO)

Status

Active and recruiting additional organizations to collaborate. We meet as a coordination team at least twice monthly and run "deep dive/topical" sessions monthy.

Chair

Elise Eiden <elise.a.eiden@att.com>

Organization Coordinators

  • Andy Ukasick, AT&T; <andrew.ukasick@att.com>
  • Jaesuk Ahn; SK Telecom; <jay.ahn@sk.com>
  • Marc Bailly, Orange; <marc.bailly@orange.com>
  • Sanjeev Jaiswal; Reliance Jio; <sanjeev.jaiswal@ril.com>
  • Shintaro Mizuno; NTT; <mizuno.shintaro@lab.ntt.co.jp>
  • Sundar Krishnamoorthy; Intel; <sundar.krishnamoorthy@intel.com>

Communications

  • We run meetings via video-conference and IRC but also track all participants, proposals and agreements: Meeting invites/notes

Current Member Companies

  • SK Telecom
  • Reliance Jio
  • Orange
  • NTT
  • Intel
  • AT&T

About LCOO

The Large Contributing OpenStack Operator (LCOO) is an organizationally based working group. Instead of being a group of various individuals who come together to produce some particular deliverable(s), LCOO strives to be a forum in which companies can network together around OpenStack topics and priorities, sharing information and identifying opportunities for collaboration. LCOO also provides a framework of tools and shared practices designed to encourage and enable intra-company collaboration. While all are welcome to participate, it is companies that join as 'members' and make a committment to participate and contribute.

LCOO's Mission

  • To facilitate intra-company sharing / discussing of OpenStack priorities, strategy, challenges and solutions
  • To share information about community happenings and encourage participation
  • To be a bridge connecting the activities of the OpenStack community with otherwise internally focused OpenStack users
  • To build a network of intra-company relationships between internally focused OpenStack SME's/Users
  • To provide a framework to encourage intra-company collaboration
  • Promote the operational needs / use cases of our members within the OpenStack Community
  • To encourage increased contribution to and material support of OpenStack

Key Differentiators

  • Large operator focused
  • Private Cloud operator focused
  • Horizontal scaling / distributed cloud focused
  • Membership is by Company

Guiding Principles

  • Openness - The LCOO works openly, transparently and collaboratively within the OpenStack community to contributre towards the continual enhancement of the OpenStack platform. LCOO ensures that member efforts align with the spirit and goals of the OpenStack Foundation.
  • Contribute Work Upstream - In the spirit of open source, LCOO is committed to furthering open standards by ensuring that work is contributed upstream, by working within the community.
  • Accelerate OpenStack Innovation - Through its multi-cultural, globally distributed and technologically diverse member companies, the LCOO creates an environment for its members that promotes greater opportunities for learning, mentoring, innovation and accomplishment than possible by any member alone. By joining resources, members are able to engage more deeply, broadly and effectively within the community in order to raise awareness of key priorities and accelerate improvement.

Why should companies join? Why should individuals participate?

  • To increase your professional network
  • To gain new insights, to learn how other companies are addressing our common challenges
  • To promote and garner support for key priorities and iniatives among other companies
  • To engage in mutually beneficial collaborative endeavors with other like minded companies
  • To have greater awareness of Community changes, trends, happenings
  • To amplify your voice in the OpenStack community by joining it with other like minded companies
  • To amplify your innovative potential by exchanging insights and ideas beyond your company's doors

LCOO Structure and Roles

Executive Board Members

  • Executive leadership represntatives from each Member Company
  • Set the overall direction and priorities for LCOO

Coordinators

  • Represent their organization through regular participation in the day to day work of LCOO
  • Share the overall coordination of LCOO activities

Contributors

Opportunities for collaboration emerge organically from LCOO activities which in turn result in sub-teams spinning off around various efforts. These efforts could take the form of SIG's, new Project Teams, POC teams, etc. These teams operate independently and might consist of:

  • Stakeholders / SME’s from Member Companies
  • Stakeholders / SME’s from the Community at large
  • Any interested individuals

Associates/Collaborators

  • Attend Topical Meetings when desired / do not present at sessions
  • Misc interested, non-member individuals, who attend meetings and/or occasionally participate in ‘Contributor’ sub-teams

LCOO Meetings

Topical Forums

  • Open to ALL - details are published in advance in the OpenStack mailing lists and in our LCOO wiki site
  • Held monthly for 90 minutes
  • Times rotate in order to accommodate global participation
  • Conducted in English via Web-Meeting / Video Conference
  • Members present their key interests, priorities, strategy, pain points, accomplishments, etc., for the topic at hand together with Q&A and discussion
  • During these sessions we seek out synergies and opportunities for collaboration

General Meetings

  • Attended by LCOO Coordinators and open to anyone
  • Held bi-weekly for 60 minutes
  • Times rotate to accommodate global participation
  • Conducted in English via Web-Meeting / Video Conference
  • Plan/coordinate Topical Forums
  • Status updates for collaborations underway, share community information / plan for community happenings, etc.

Executive Board Meetings

  • Attended by executive leadership representatives from member companies
  • Meet 2-4 times per year as needed for ~ 90 minutes
  • Conducted in English via telepresence, web meeting or face to face
  • Steer the overall activities and direction of LCOO
  • Set common priorities and strategy relevant to LCOO

A framework for Intra-Company Collabortion

In addition to the standard OpenStack tools, LCOO uses the following tools to provide a framework for intra-company collaboration. These tools are all fully Open to everyone.

Agreement Tracking/Wiki

  • Meetings are also announced in advance through the User Committee mail list
  • Our Meeting Agenda’s and notes are published in Confluence here: Meeting invites/notes

How to Join

Member companies agree to:

  • Delegate someone to the Coordinator Role
  • Delegate an Executive representative to the Executive Board Member Role
  • Actively participate in the activities of LCOO

Procedure to join:

  • One or more people from the company begin participating in the General (Coordinator) Meetings and other activities of LCOO
  • The company's participant(s) express their company’s desire to join at one of the General Meetings
  • An Executive representative of the company attends the next LCOO Executive Board Meeting and is welcomed by the other board members