What are you looking for from oVirt?

[Dave Neary]

Hi everyone,

That is a grand subject for my first "proper" email to the Users list, 
and it definitely needs some context! So let me introduce myself.

My name is Dave Neary, and I recently started working for a group which 
is being formed inside Red Hat called OSAS (open source and standards). 
The role of my group is to help make any open source projects that Red 
Hat works in successful, and I would really like to help take oVirt to 
the next level in terms of adoption and contribution.

One of the things I'm still figuring out is what the natural audience 
for oVirt is, and what you all like about oVirt, and would like to see 
improved. Based on that, I would like to propose areas we as a community 
can concentrate on related to the product, the website, and our 
marketing and promotion, but the first step is still to get a better 
idea what the target audience for oVirt is, and should be.

So - how are you using oVirt? Why did you choose it over alternatives? 
What do you like about it? and what would you like to see change, 
whether that is in terms of technical, process, or marketing changes? 
I'm here to help, but to do so I need your help first!

Please feel free to reply to me on-list (if you'd like to start 
discussion) or off-list (if you'd like your feedback to be more 
discrete). Any feedback at all will be helpful.

Thank you very much - I look forward to hearing from as many of you as 
possible.

Regards,
Dave.

PS. I'm still figuring out proper mailing list etiquette for this 
project - I've added board@ and arch@ to CC since I expect our work to 
have project-wide consequences, but it's more to keep people informed at 
this point. Please let me know off-list if I'm doing something I shouldn't!

-- 
Dave Neary
Community Action and Impact
Open Source and Standards Team, Red Hat
Phone: +33 9 50 71 55 62