Posted
over 7 years
ago
by
Allison Price
OPNFV and OpenStack demonstrate how new technologies in NFV can help minimize network disruptions.
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Posted
over 7 years
ago
by
markmc
The OpenStack Foundation Board of
Directors
met for a two hour conference call yesterday. The usual disclaimer
applies - this my informal recollection of the meeting. It’s not an
official record. Jonathan Bryce has posted an official summary of the
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meeting.
Executive Director Update - 2017 Budget
After taking a roll call and approving minutes from two previous
meetings, Jonathan gave a presentation on the 2017 Foundation budget.
Jonathan described a number of goals under a "One Platform" theme for
2017. He talked about how OpenStack should (a) make sure containers
are first class citizens within OpenStack, (b) ensure workload
portability across interoperable public and private OpenStack clouds,
and (c) reinforce OpenStack position as the standard platform for
NFV.
Jonathan went on to remind the board that in 2016 we had planned for a
2016 loss, the idea being to invest some of the cash reserves that the
Foundation had built up in order that we could take on some new
activities. In 2017, the proposal is to aim for a break even budget so
as to avoid not further depleting the reserves. However, with the
addition of new Gold Members, we will be able to maintain the
increased investment from 2016 while still breaking even. Mark Collier
noted that China is a key growth area, given that much of this new
funding is from new Gold Members from China.
Jonathan then presented the budget itself, showing quarter-by-quarter
income and expenses in a number of high level buckets like "Corporate
Fees", "Events", "G&A", "Community Development", and "Community
Infrastructure". One particularly striking aspect of OpenStack
Foundation budgets is that much of the financial activity comes in Q2
and Q4 with the OpenStack Summit events in those quarters, accounting
for $10.5M and $6.5M activity in Q2 and Q3 respectively out of the
total $22M budget.
A discussion followed the presentation around what level of financial
detail the board would like and expect to have available. Roland Chan
expressed a concern that he was unable to tell how the strategic
decisions the board had made were impacting the budget. For example,
you could compare the 2016 and 2017 high-level budgets and make a good
guess as to the impact caused by the addition of the PTG, but it would
be nice to understand that in more detail. Some debate ensued as to
whether this was information that was already available to the Finance
Committee, whether the board should be supplied with a more detailed
budget breakdown, or whether we instead need some analysis and
commentary about the financial impact of key changes.
Jonathan took an action to prepare some further information which
should help address the question. Alan also took an action for the
Finance Committee to consider how to address this more
structurally. Finally, the 2017 budget was approved by a vote of board
members.
User Committee Proposal
Next up, Edgar Magana presented some proposed by-laws changes around
the structure of the User
Committee
and related changes to the UC
charter.
Since these changes had been previously discussed by the board, they
were put to a vote after some short discussion. The board approved a
motion to replace section 4.14 of the by-laws with the text above,
along with adding a new UC member policy appendix.
OpenStack Futures
The board then turned its attention to a discussion started at the
previous board
meeting
about the future of the project and some key questions it was felt the
board should be considering.
Allison Randal lead the discussion by talking through some of the
information the board had gathered in an etherpad since the previous
board meeting. We had condensed the questions and concerns into four
distinct areas:
OpenStack and its evolving relationship with adjacent
technologies.
Unanswered requirements, and how they will be address by the
project over time.
Whether OpenStack is sufficiently able to evolve architecturally
architecture to meet certain needs.
Community health indicators the board and the wider community
should be paying attention to.
It was felt that we would only be able to discuss these in a useful
way with an in-person board meeting, and the hope is that we will be
able to hold this meeting alongside the PTG with involvement from the
Technical Committee.
In order to help frame the discussion at that in-person meeting,
Allison proposed that board members consider a series of 12 strategic
questions as homework for the next board meeting. These questions are
based on the 12 "boundary questions" proposed by Werner
Ulrich in his work on
Critical Systems Heuristics
(CSH). There was
some discussion as to whether these questions could, in future, be
posed to the wider community via a survey.
There was some brief discussion about how this relates to
"OpenStack-wide Goals"
mechanism recently
introduced by the TC. Toby Ford gave the concrete example of "1000s of
nodes under the management of a single control plane", and wondered
whether that would qualify as an OpenStack-wide goal. Doug Hellmann
happened to be on the call and was able to explain that the goals
mechanism is used to achieve changes that address concerns across all
projects and which can be completed in a single cycle.
The discussion ended with the board agreeing to complete the 12
questions prepared by Allison for an in-person meeting in Atlanta.
Gold Membership Expansion
The final topic of discussion was raised by Shane Wang. Now that the
24 Gold Member slots have been filled, an obvious question remains
... should the Foundation increase the number of Gold Member slots?
Shane made the case that more companies want to join as Gold Members,
particularly in China and gave the example of an other major Chinese
telecommunications operator that is eager to join.
Roland explained that the topic had been discussed at a recent - but
poorly attended - meeting of the Gold Members. It was felt at that
meeting that more options need to be considered than simply increasing
the number of Gold Member slots - for example, increasing the number
of Platinum Member slots so that perhaps some Gold Members could move
to Platinum, or the introduction of a Silver Member tier.
However, it was also felt that we should carefully consider our goals
even before jumping into considering specific options. Anni made the
point that we're trying to achieve a balance between the risk of
devaluing the membership status versus wanting to welcome more
participation in the Foundation.
All felt that this was an important topic that warranted further
discussion and consideration.
Looking Ahead to 2017
And so, the boards work for 2016 has come to an end. The schedule of
meetings for
2017
has not yet been finalized, but the next two meetings are likely to be
a two hour conference call on January 31 and an all day in-person
meeting in Atlanta on February 24.
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New insights from the OpenStack User Survey are available with live analysis tool.
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Posted
over 7 years
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over 7 years
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