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** Tom: suggested a Tiered sponsorships. Year long two levels plus per event. | ** Tom: suggested a Tiered sponsorships. Year long two levels plus per event. | ||
** Sean: Maybe put $ towards “Openstack 5th Birthday” event | ** Sean: Maybe put $ towards “Openstack 5th Birthday” event | ||
| − | ** Lisa: Hosting events can be expensive. $10k since August. Basic $400 per night for 50-60 people. So donations would be welcome | + | ** Lisa N: Hosting events can be expensive. $10k since August. Basic $400 per night for 50-60 people. So donations would be welcome |
** Dave offered to be treasurer for the group DONE | ** Dave offered to be treasurer for the group DONE | ||
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Revision as of 23:42, 19 December 2014
This is a placeholder until the groups.openstack.org pages for user groups gets sorted out
Meeting Notes 14:00 PST 19 December 2014
- attendees: dave nielsen, lisa blodgett, lisa namphy, sam lee, steven walcheck, tom diederich, rick evans, sean roberts
- Agenda wiki: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Sfbay-user-group
- Sponsorships:
- Tom: suggested a Tiered sponsorships. Year long two levels plus per event.
- Sean: Maybe put $ towards “Openstack 5th Birthday” event
- Lisa N: Hosting events can be expensive. $10k since August. Basic $400 per night for 50-60 people. So donations would be welcome
- Dave offered to be treasurer for the group DONE
- finances
- dave nielsen offers as treasurer, AR
- Sean is thinking paypal.
- co-organizers will have visibility into the account
- sean and dave can disperse money. I’ll look into requiring both our approval to distribute money.
- swiftstack is still paying for the meetup.com/openstack group?
- Potential new sponsors:
- Tom: Percona
- Requirements to be an Organizer:
- Be on the calls. Those on the call are now co-organziers.
- If you want to hold an event, then Sean will make you the owner of an event. If you want to create other events, then you must be an active participate. In other words, you must show up to the meetings.
- Ambassador’s Group:
- On OpenStack wiki there is a: How to run a user group page written by Sean.
- Ideas for regularly scheduled events:
- Sean: Project focused events: Neutron, Cinder, Trove, Days. Perhaps have 3 or 4 companies sponsor. Each company is more tied to specific project. Ask for those companies to take lead on that project.
- Collaborate with other events, such as DevOpsDays Mountain View
- “What’s happening in OpenStack” session. Vendors would love to give these updates
- Training: Sean Roberts says
- As you know I’ve been running training as part of SFBayOpenStack
- Our training is intended to provide training content for the community. It is not meant to compete with the vendor’s training
- We will continue to do this through the SFBayArea User Group
- “Get Training” Going thru a revamp of the training.
- with levels merged with Foundation:
- First two are going thru a revamp
- Foundation training is merged in
Meeting Agenda 14:00 PST 19 December 2014
- Join the meeting https://vmware.webex.com/vmware/k2/j.php?MTID=t351a446a50958c81fdfb3de7454170c5
- Should we have requirements to be a sponsor?
- Sean's idea: In order to have your logo on the sponsors page, you/your company is required a nominal $1K annual fee OR manage at least one event per year
- Should we have requirements to be an organizer?
- An organizer can create, edit, and delegate events to an Event Host.
- Sean's idea: Organizers should be active. Either you manage one event per year or give up your Organizer designation. New Organizers/Co-Organizers can only be set by a majority vote of the existing Organizers.
- What is the OpenStack Ambassadors group?
- User group leaders from around the world and representing regions like the Western US or Eastern Europe. Sean will explain a bit more and answer any questions.
- Should we have a regular schedule for certain types of events and if so how do we fill them?
- Let's discuss
- What's this training stuff Sean has been doing?
- Sean will explain if interest
Proposed next meeting dates and times:
- Friday, January 16, 2015 2:00 pm, Pacific Standard Time (San Francisco, GMT-08:00)
- Friday, February 20, 2015 2:00 pm, Pacific Standard Time (San Francisco, GMT-08:00)
- Friday, March 20, 2015 2:00 pm, Pacific Daylight Time (San Francisco, GMT-07:00)
- Friday, April 17, 2015 2:00 pm, Pacific Daylight Time (San Francisco, GMT-07:00)
- Friday, May 15, 2015 2:00 pm, Pacific Daylight Time (San Francisco, GMT-07:00)
- Friday, June 19, 2015 2:00 pm, Pacific Daylight Time (San Francisco, GMT-07:00)
- Friday, July 17, 2015 2:00 pm, Pacific Daylight Time (San Francisco, GMT-07:00)
- Friday, August 21, 2015 2:00 pm, Pacific Daylight Time (San Francisco, GMT-07:00)
- Friday, September 18, 2015 2:00 pm, Pacific Daylight Time (San Francisco, GMT-07:00)
- Friday, October 16, 2015 2:00 pm, Pacific Daylight Time (San Francisco, GMT-07:00)
- Friday, November 20, 2015 2:00 pm, Pacific Standard Time (San Francisco, GMT-08:00)
