Community Initiatives and Improving Ceph through User Feedback | Ceph Days NYC 2024

We launched the creation of the Ceph User Council in March 2024. We want to leverage this workgroup to focus on Ceph users' experience and provide consistent and structured feedback to Ceph technical team. For this presentation, we want to give an update of the council and raise the aware of this initiative.
Additionally, the Ceph Foundation Board would like to capture feedback from the Ceph user community by means of a recurring series of meetings called the Ceph User Dev Community Meeting.
The overarching goal of these meetings is to elicit feedback from the users, companies, and organizations who use Ceph in their production environments. This feedback will be collected and combined to form broad themes of pain points, issues, missing features etc.
While we expect most of the feedback to be constructive, sharing what you like about the project, what strengths you see, and what things you wish the project to continue to do are also valuable. This feedback will be anonymized, organized, and shared with the Ceph Leadership Team (CLT) with the goal of providing feedback to the developer community to incorporate invaluable insight from real Ceph users on how the project is used in the wild.

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It's great to see more initiatives going towards engaging with users and collecting feedback. Will be great to have support for airgapped clusters in the public boards for example, I think a lot of users keep their clusters secured off the internet but would love to share data