Fedora Cloud Working Group (members, everyone, and what's next)

[Matthew Miller]

Hello everyone. FESCo has approved the initial slate of voting members in
the Fedora Cloud Working Group. That is:

 * James Antill
 * Robyn Bergeron
 * Joe Brockmeier
 * Haïkel Guémar
 * Sam Kottler
 * Sandro Mathys
 * Matthew Miller
 * Frankie Onuonga
 * Mattias Runge 

Our next two steps are to 1) document a governance model and 2) start
working on a product requirements document.

As we work on these things, we'll need a place to communicate. I suggest
that we primarily use this list, plus chat on #fedora-cloud on Freenode. We
have some geographical distribution -- I'm going to try to see if we can
find a time for an IRC meeting at least initially.

This doesn't mean that we're taking over this list for just this purpose --
the Cloud SIG remains a place to talk about and work on all things cloud,
and I think we can handle the overlap (especially since it's not super-high
traffic). Also, as I hope I've made clear, the working group can't possibly
do all of the things that needs to be done; everyone on the committee will
have an active role in actually doing things, but we also will act as
enablers for other people's contributions.

Unless anyone objects, or is really, really excited about doing it, I'm
going to start on a basic strawman governance document. Things like what
constitues a binding vote, how we handle succession that kind of thing. Then
we can discuss and improve that. This needs to be done by November 15th,
although I'm kind of hoping that it'll be so uncomplicated that it won't
take that long.

Likewise, I can start on a skeleton for a PRD, but if anyone in the group
has more experience at doing that than I have (I come from a sysadmin
background, not one where I've worked on shipping products) I'll happily and
immediately defer. (This, by the way, needs to be done by January
somethingth, which sounded a long way away when this idea was drafted but
doesn't anymore when I look at the holiday calendar.)



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Matthew Miller  ☁☁☁  Fedora Cloud Architect  ☁☁☁  <mattdm at fedoraproject.org>