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Oversight Committee

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"My mind to your mind....your thoughts to my thoughts"

Constitute the Merger Task Force

•  Joint committee for defining the FMO
  •  Determine the right composition for the task force?
  •  Team building - create a cohesive team  21 Sep 2020 
  •  Determine structure, meeting times and schedule, any sub task forces - TAC advise
  •  Determine reporting commitments/schedule to leadership (CNTT, OPNFV, TAC, MAC, GB)
  •  Kick of meeting with Oversight and 3 workstreams 11 Sep 2020 

Organization/Governance

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Operational/TSC

•  Determine required votes, dependencies in order to execute merger
  •  Run the votes based on existing voting requirements and governance; once new TSC is constituted, new votes can be done by them.
•  Update Operational Guidelines document based on above org structure decisions
•  Execute Structural plans in alignment with org structure decisions above
  •  Run elections for TSC and other positions 13 Oct 2020 
    •  Refined Active Contributor calculation to ack CNTT github contributions
  •  New subproject creation (new entities and old entities in new home) & repo creation
  •  Create any additional committees, working groups, other sub-groups
•   Tools
  •  Converge OPNFV/CNTT Confluence Space (wiki.opnfv.org and wiki.lfnetworking.org/CNTT respectively) 15 Dec 2020 
    •  Archive both current spaces, copy select content into new space
    •  Collapse the multi-space design of OPNFV into a flat-wiki - possibly a few different spaces, but not 1 per project
  •  Repurpose jira.opnfv.org - archive projects, rename as appropriate
  •  Merge CB/Insights reporting
  •  Initiate discussions on additional tool merges
  •  ReadTheDocs workflow
  •  Ensure header files in alignment with any IPR changes (see Legal Section below)
•  Reconcile meetings and schedule management for all concerned parties
  •  Agree on recording meetings and minute taking processes
•  Release process
  •  OPNFV has a newly agreed release process that references CNTT; CNTT has long had independent release process
  •  Any value in combining spec and code releases?
  •  Release naming conventions?
•  TAC inform on new merge project/OPNFV name change

Operational/TSC

Marketing/Creative/PR

•  Branding - merger of equals/non-acronym name 05 Oct 2020 
  •  Yes/No Decision
  •  Determine new name
  •  Work with Creative Services to create brand brief and design new branding and logo
  •  Create revised branding guidelines document
  •  Pitch Deck
  •  Brandon Wick  to provide detail sub task list
•  Website updates
  •  Acquire new domain/github
  •  Revised .org webpage
  •  Revised content on LFN.org website
•  Positioning & Messaging
  •  Mission Statement + Messaging Doc (elevator pitch) 18 Sep 2020 
  •  Messaging Doc value prop document
  •  Positioning statement for press
  •  Talking Points fo community: Building momentum, member quotes, etc. 
•  Communications Plan – Public Launch 
  •  Initial Basic Statement at ONES 28 Sep 2020 
  •  Press release
  •  FAQ
  •  Social Plan
  •  Blogs/webinars
  •  Mini-conference?
  •  Press/Analyst outreach and briefings
  •  Early 2021 public launch target?

Legal

•  Mod OPNFV Technical Charter to accommodate changes (expand scope of OPNFV)
  •  Based on above agreements re: voting, TSC composition, etc. 
  •  IP Policy
    •  Currently CNTT work is done under Creative Commons and OPNFV is done under Apache license + CLA 
    •  Charter and repos need to be clear what work is done under what IP regime with appropriate clear header files
  •  OPNFV tech charter revision for name change and community governance model
  •  Committee structure changes (TSC and election policy)

•  Revise GSMA/LFN Terms of Reference
  •  Arpit Joshipura Tom Van Pelt  working through agreement 13 Oct 2020 
•  File for appropriate trademarks for new brand name and logo

Other – OVP/Compliance Updates and Plan

•  Branding impact on CVC/OVP 29 Sep 2020 
  •  Cloud Native and CVC as nested badging
•  Any updates to workflow, interaction, badging requirements, etc.

2021 Planning - due: 30 Sep 2020 

•  Create combined budget request to the Board
•  Create combined input/feedback to 2021 Strategic Marketing Plan
•  Any combined feedback to SPC re: 2021 LFN strategic plan
•  Review with CNTT TSC/Gov Steering 04 Sep 2020