[Openinfralabs] Rebuilding the core discussion

[Hugh Brock]

Thanks for doing this Karsten.

Do we need to reconvene at some point, maybe around a deadline for the
first draft of your doc? I'm keen to get this moving in the right direction.

Take care,
--Hugh

On Thu, Aug 11, 2022 at 7:20 PM Karsten Wade <kwade at redhat.com> wrote:

> Thank you Julia for starting this discussion about getting involved in a
> reset and what to do next. And I appreciate your patience as people (like
> me!) get my head together and into this discussion (eventually) around
> important change management, here in the middle of atypically busy months.
>
> Hi all,
>
> I haven't posted much (at all?) to this mailing list, I'm one of the "few
> of us" Julia refers to below. I'm the community architect for the Operate
> First project — meaning my role is to lead the design and implementation of
> a plan to create and scale Open Source communities — as well as the
> co-Chair of the Operate First Community Special Interest Group (SIG). I
> have a vested interest in having a defined mission and governance for Open
> Infra Labs as a project within the Labs.
>
> From later in this thread, I agree about beginning work in our GitHub
> repository as the commons where we can draw the most brains and hands
> (today).
>
> tl;dr of below:
> 1. I propose a three step process to write the vision and mission,
> including lots of time for feedback
> 2. To kick it off, I made this PR:
> https://github.com/open-infrastructure-labs/openinfralabs-website/pull/13
>     - Under the "FIles Changed" section (
> https://github.com/open-infrastructure-labs/openinfralabs-website/pull/13/files
> ) you can make line-by-line comments by clicking the + sign next to the
> line number, and you can use the [+-] button to suggest specific changes.
> 3. That's it!
>
> Some comments/questions inline below:
>
> On Fri, Jul 8, 2022 at 1:26 PM Julia Kreger <juliaashleykreger at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Greetings everyone,
> >
> > During our recent Open Infrastructure Summit in Berlin, one of the
> > repeated discussion topics I found myself engaged in suggested a
> > breakdown in shared context and communication within OpenInfra Labs. A
> > bit of a root cause analysis occurred, and each discussion quickly
> > determined there is definitely no fault, but more a result of the
> > state of engagement which collided against the pandemic. Further
> > compounded by the time schedule differences which run our various
> > lives and efforts. It did not help us that we did not use the same
> > words to begin with.
>
> In our discussions in Berlin and beyond, I think I've characterized it as
> something to the effect of,
>
> "We never finished getting alignment before everyone's attention turned to
> the pandemic. When we drew our attention back out to work on these
> problems, we saw other people seemed to be out of alignment and on their
> own paths. Then each of us (person or group) forked just a bit more in
> chasing our version of the mission while seeing each other as out of
> alignment with our own vision."
>
> > A few of us have continued going back and forth over the last few
> > weeks and we've reached the conclusion we need to rebuild the core
> > consensus and discussion. Ultimately a revision of our mission and
> > long term vision, in order to better support the sharing of knowledge
> > and context which is fundamentally needed to support the efforts
> > occurring within OpenInfra Labs.
> >
> > Before we really continue onward in these discussions, I think it is
> > important for us to widen the audience of engagement and enable a
> > greater chorus of voices to engage as we sort of press the reset
> > button in order to set expectations, intents, and bring us all back to
> > a happier, engaged place. In recognition that no single tool or means
> > will work for everyone, *and* to help provide insight for those that
> > don't necessarily subscribe to mailing lists or whom are unable to
> > join our discussions now, the idea has been floated to write about it.
> > Such as a blog or a journal. To share our story. To share the stories.
> > To spread the knowledge!
> >
> > I think we should start with high bandwidth calls to reach the same
> > page, and then move forward from there.
> >
> > If you're interested in engaging in this discussion, please reply with
> > to this email with the days of the week and times that would work, or
> > that would not work, and I'll try to find a mutually agreeable 30
> > minute window every two weeks for us to start with.
>
> OK, so I agree with this and Julia's later sentiment about getting things
> started in a git repo.
>
> Let's work on these in parallel, how about this as a process:
>
> 1. If you want to be part of the discussion right now, let's work on this
> document together:
>
> https://github.com/open-infrastructure-labs/openinfralabs-website/pull/13
>
> That is a straw-draft, meaning it's something we can build a "discussion
> draft" from.
>
> 2. Next opportunity is helping build the discussion draft. You can
> continue from straw-draft work or join in for that round of
> writing-and-editing.
>
> We'll have time in between each step for broad, general feedback.
>
> 3. The discussion draft is what we take to the wider OpenInfrastructure
> community for feedback.
>
> That is three wide rounds of feedback, at least. We can slow down and add
> more, if needed.
>
> Some of that work can occur in live, high-bandwidth meetings. We also need
> to commit to coming back and keeping this list well informed.
>
> Your participation in this is very, very welcome, whenever you arrive into
> the process. Even when we are "finished" and moving on, we need to really
> understand our vision and mission as living documents. Maybe we want to
> have regular review and refresh stages every few years, for example? Just
> to keep things from getting stale and forgotten.
>
> Kind regards,
> - Karsten
>
> > Thanks,
> >
> > -Julia
> >
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