Thanks for floating this out there Loic! A few thoughts inline below: On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 6:45 PM, Loic Dachary <loic@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > It looks like there indeed is enough interest to move forward :-) The next action items would be : > > * Setup a home page somewhere ( should it be a separate web site or could we simply take over http://ceph.com/ ? ) I think the best idea would be to use Ceph.com. I don't have a problem with giving certain people access to help curate content and clean up site design during their tenure on the user committee. Ceph.com really belongs to the community anyway (and is in need of some love). > * Create the "About" page describing the User Committee and get a consensus from interested parties on its goal and scope. Definitely. I'd like to have a place to define the "what," keep a running tab of the "who," and document some of the "how." > * Create an "Event" section to record meetups / conferences schedules ( http://ceph.com/event/ ? ) This is probably best as a wiki page so that anyone can add meetups. > * Collect use cases ( publish them under http://ceph.com/community/blog/ ? elsewhere ? ) I'm guessing this starts as a wiki page for collection and can probably be curated into Ceph.com. > * Schedule a User Committee session for the next CDS I can guarantee it. > > Cloudwatt kindly agreed to assign someone ( starting next week ) to help with logistics to organize events. For instance I'll be talking about Ceph in two weeks in Toulouse http://capitoledulibre.org/ : I will happily distribute goodies, if they are there. But if I have to acquire them ... It will be even more useful to organize a Ceph booth during FOSDEM or even ( too short notice maybe ? ) for the Cloudstack event in Amsterdam. Awesome, logistics are often the most difficult part. I'm guessing part of the user committee is going to be interfacing with corps (like Inktank and others) who are willing to support the efforts of the community. > > I'm willing to take action on setting up the home page, the "about" page and collecting use cases. Anyone willing to work on the other two ( event page, CDS session ) ? Or have ideas for even more action items ? Maybe organizing a local meetup ( the Cloudwatt person could help with that too, as long as she is told where and when ) ? I'm happy to make sure the CDS session is set up and can facilitate getting some folks access to ceph.com once we have a few volunteers that raise their hands for web dev/content work. > > Cheers > > P.S. If you're in Berlin november 30th 2013, we're having a Ceph oriented friendly poker game at http://c-base.org/ starting 7pm. I'm not sure that counts as an event but it's definitely an opportunity to discuss Ceph ;-) Awesome. Wish I was a wee bit closer. The only other thing I want to add here is that while I think it's important to outline a few things to give it structure (we don't want folks to just flounder around and get frustrated), I also don't want this to be extremely heavy-handed. The more that we can keep this a lightweight group the better off we'll be. For now I'm happy to keep this ad hoc and try to coordinate things around ceph.com; with the expectation being that we come out of CDS with a solid plan for moving forward. Best Regards, Patrick > > On 07/11/2013 01:35, Loic Dachary wrote: >> Hi Ceph, >> >> I would like to open a discussion about organizing a Ceph User Committee. We briefly discussed the idea with Ross Turk, Patrick McGarry and Sage Weil today during the OpenStack summit. A pad was created and roughly summarizes the idea: >> >> http://pad.ceph.com/p/user-committee >> >> If there is enough interest, I'm willing to devote one day a week working for the Ceph User Committee. And yes, that includes sitting at the Ceph booth during the FOSDEM :-) And interviewing Ceph users and describing their use cases, which I enjoy very much. But also contribute to a user centric roadmap, which is what ultimately matters for the company I work for. >> >> If you'd like to see this happen but don't have time to participate in this discussion, please add your name + email at the end of the pad. >> >> What do you think ? >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> ceph-users mailing list >> ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com >> > > -- > Loïc Dachary, Artisan Logiciel Libre > > > _______________________________________________ > ceph-users mailing list > ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com > _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com
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