Back in March in Boston, the OpenStack Board of Directors, Technical Committee, User Committee and Foundation staff members met for a strategic workshop. The goal of the workshop was to come up with a list of key issues needing attention from OpenStack leadership. One of the strategic areas that emerged …
It is now pretty well accepted that open source is a superior way of producing software. Almost everyone is doing open source those days. In particular, the ability for users to look under the hood and make changes results in tools that are better adapted to their workflows. It reduces …
OpenStack development is organized around a mission, a governance model and a set of principles. Project teams apply for inclusion, and the Technical Committee (TC), elected by all OpenStack contributors, judges whether that team work helps with the OpenStack mission and follows the OpenStack development principles. If it does, the …
On several occasions over the last months, I heard people exposing truths about the OpenStack Technical Committee. However, those positions were often inaccurate or incomplete. Arguably we are not communicating enough: governance changes and resolutions that are brought to the TC are just approved or rejected. That binary answer is …
This week we are renewing 6 seats in the 13-member OpenStack Technical Committee. This election has attracted a large number of candidates, which is a great sign that people care about the Technical Committee. At the same time, there is a lot of misconceptions in our community about what the …