Thank you everyone who’s putting such thought into this topic. I would like to get a discussion on this onto the TOC meeting agenda at a point where the SIG Contrib Strategy folks have had a chance

If a steering committee is recommended then the reasons for it need to be well documented and articulated. There are a lot of assumptions and they are not shared. That is ripe for

Correct, I think that model is overly prescriptive to recommend for every project. I'm proposing a pattern that can be instantiated in more than one way, depending on what the project team think it

End users having a say in overall direction isn't novel. To me, the communities and ecosystems that are the most resilient and sustainable mindfully include everyone in the evolution of the software,

Well, the nomenclature isn't completely new. But I think the practices include novel parts eg end users having a say in overall direction.

Understood. I'm scattering comments all around, and zooming back out makes sense to re-focus the thread toward a goal. When I review a lot of the framing material for CNCF, it resonates well with

+1 NB

Thanks for all those thoughts Matt and for reviewing the steering committee proposal and GH issue https://github.com/cncf/toc/issues/459. I'm going to topline you here for brevity but LMK if you

+1 to messages that Kris and Josh have sent on this thread. I am not familiar with specific concerns or complaints about Apache Kafka. But I have also not experienced how the project is

Hi all, We'll be meeting tomorrow with a SIG update meeting. Agenda: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jpoKT12jf2jTf-2EJSAl4iTdA7Aoj_uiI19qIaECNFc/edit#Presentation:

+1 for async comms For sync, I can't due any time after 10am PT due to family commitments.

On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 02:51 PM, Josh Berkus wrote: Hey, all: If you want to continue this discussion, I wanted to invite anyone interested to attend the Governance WG meeting on Tuesday at

I can only make the governance meeting - we have our meetings with the EU during the TOC meetings unfortunately. If we push the TOC discussion back until the next call I can make it. -- Kris

+1 NB

I'm keen to discuss this in the TOC, and then work out details in the various WGs and community. When is everyone back?

+1 binding Katie Gamanji

Hey, all: If you want to continue this discussion, I wanted to invite anyone interested to attend the Governance WG meeting on Tuesday at

+1 binding

Just a heads up, Jeff will be stepping down from the TOC next month and we will run an election within the end user community: https://www.cncf.io/people/end-user-community Please see GitHub for

+1 binding