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Proposes the creation of a Stewardship Working Group. This small group would review the leadership, communication, and decision making processes of the TC and OpenStack projects as a whole, and propose a set of improvements to the TC. Change-Id: Ib1ff3b8e62183b7038becce34c140564c214e8f1 Co-Authored-By: Doug Hellmann <doug@doughellmann.com> Co-Authored-By: Colette Alexander <colettealexander@gmail.com> Co-Authored-By: Amrith Kumar <amrith@tesora.com> Co-Authored-By: Jim Rollenhagen <jim@jimrollenhagen.com> Co-Authored-By: John Garbutt <john@johngarbutt.com>
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2016-07-05 Stewardship Working Group (SWG)
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Over the past several years, OpenStack has experienced rapid growth
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and this has placed some strains on the scalability of several
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governance processes. The Technical Committee believes that there are
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opportunities to improve our leadership and communication tools and
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practices. To that end, a training session for TC members was planned
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for June 2016.
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Several members of the TC, and some other community members attended
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this training, which was based on best practices and learnings of the
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Zingerman's Community of Businesses. The participants agreed that some
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of the challenges that the TC faces could be improved by adopting and
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adapting some of the concepts discussed in the training.
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Rather than trying to have the entire TC work on this as a body, we
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would benefit from establishing a small group to review the
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leadership, communication, and decision making processes of the TC and
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OpenStack projects as a whole, and propose a set of improvements based
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on the training but tailored for our needs. We propose calling this
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group the "Stewardship Working Group" (SWG). The term "stewardship"
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came up in the training program [1]_ , and fits the purpose of this new
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working group and the "Servant Leadership" model used within our
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community, defined by Peter Block in the book by the same name [2]_ :
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"Stewardship is defined in this book as the choice to preside
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over the orderly distribution of power. This means giving people
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at the bottom and the boundaries of the organization choice over
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how to serve a customer, a citizen, a community. It is the
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willingness to be accountable for the well-being of the larger
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organization by operating in service, rather than in control, of
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those around us. Stated simply, it is accountability without
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control or compliance."[3]_
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The concept of stewardship is particularly relevant in the OpenStack
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community where leadership does not usually include explicit
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organizational authority, and has to be accomplished through agreement
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and consensus building.
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The SWG will be responsible for producing actionable recommendations
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and improvements that the TC can then consider for adoption and roll
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out to the OpenStack community. This group was started by a group of
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interested participants of the training in Ann Arbor. Anyone
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interested in leadership, stewardship, and OpenStack is welcome to
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join the working group. Final decisions about any changes proposed by
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the SWG will be made by the TC.
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It would be good if the group could provide the TC with a draft set of
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recommendations by August 15, 2016, and definitely have a concrete set of
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recommendations to the TC in time for the summit in Barcelona.
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References
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.. [1] http://www.zingtrain.com/content/stewardship-building-power-without-using-authority
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.. [2] https://www.amazon.com/Stewardship-Choosing-Service-Over-Self-Interest/dp/160994822X
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.. [3] https://www.bkconnection.com/static/Stewardship_2nd_EXCERPT.pdf
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