From 152741951e861c607d5a98f2c4b10703d27f93c8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mike Perez <thingee@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2018 19:16:21 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Add operators contributor guide

This adds the initial operators' contributor guide with a specific
section on participating to port some information over from the
operators wiki [0].

[0] - https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Operations

Change-Id: If9941fd43f374f43753ccdff02e16152fa4c002e
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 doc/source/index.rst                 |  1 +
 doc/source/operators/index.rst       | 13 ++++++++++
 doc/source/operators/participate.rst | 37 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 51 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 doc/source/operators/index.rst
 create mode 100644 doc/source/operators/participate.rst

diff --git a/doc/source/index.rst b/doc/source/index.rst
index 41bb71f..5656502 100644
--- a/doc/source/index.rst
+++ b/doc/source/index.rst
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ The OpenStack Contributor Guide
 
    code-and-documentation/index
    users/index
+   operators/index
    contributing/index
 
 Indices and tables
diff --git a/doc/source/operators/index.rst b/doc/source/operators/index.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e9ac79e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/source/operators/index.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+############################
+Operators' Contributor Guide
+############################
+
+.. toctree::
+   :caption: Operator Contributors
+   :maxdepth: 2
+
+   /common/irc
+   /common/accounts
+   /common/git
+   /common/setup-gerrit
+   /operators/participate
diff --git a/doc/source/operators/participate.rst b/doc/source/operators/participate.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..729fee9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/source/operators/participate.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+#############
+Participating
+#############
+
+Mailing List
+=============
+Operators have a Dedicated `mailing list
+<http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-operators>`_
+to subscribe. You can also read the archives which contain plenty
+of valuable information.
+
+IRC Channels
+============
+There is the #openstack-operators channel on Freenode IRC for live
+conversations and `Operators' team meeting
+<http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/#OpenStack_OSOps_Team>`_.
+
+Meet Ups
+========
+`Operators' Meetups <https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Operations/Meetups>`_ give
+people who run clouds a place to congregate, swap best practices, ideas and
+give feedback. It has a mostly round table/working/discussion session feel,
+with only a small number of presentations, with the following aims:
+
+1. Gather feedback on the issues that come up in running OpenStack and work to
+   communicate this throughout the community
+2. Create a forum in which to share best practices and architectures between
+   interested parties
+3. Increase constructive, proactive involvement from those running clouds
+
+Share and Learn From Real Configurations
+========================================
+Example configurations for various OpenStack services are provided in the `openstack/osops-example-configs
+repository
+<http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/osops-example-configs/tree/README.md>`_.
+Operators can share their configuration files to help others, and review how
+others setup and tune their configurations.