The word “core” carries with it a wide range of meaning and implication for those involved within the OpenStack community. What we’ve discovered through ongoing discussions is that the goals of one audience simply aren’t necessarily the goals of the other audiences – in fact, in some cases, they’re opposed! We first began the journey to refine the definition of core through… Read more »
Posts Categorized: OpenStack Update
Lessons, Learning, and Long Views for Internship Programs
In January 2013 the OpenStack project welcomed aboard three interns and excitedly assigned them to work on fairly complex projects in our first attempt at an organized project-level internship program. The OpenStack Foundation participated as one of the organizations with the GNOME Outreach Program for Women and learned quite a few lessons during the six… Read more »
Havana: An Enterprise IT Perspective
Intel IT has been working with OpenStack in our labs starting with Cactus, our first deployments into production were with Diablo, which we quickly moved forward to Essex and have been running production apps on this since the summer of 2012. Since then we have been getting deeper and deeper into OpenStack, and recently had… Read more »
The next steps for OpenStack Activity Board
The interest around OpenStack Activity Board launched only two months ago is rapidly becoming the self-service place to find details about the activity of OpenStack development. There are still some known bugs to fix and while those are solved it’s time to start thinking about the future. Today the Activity Board is capable of answering… Read more »
New Foundation Gold Members & Corporate Sponsors
The OpenStack Foundation was thrilled to add two new Gold Members and 13 corporate sponsors so far this year to the already impressive list of companies who are supporting the Foundation and driving innovation on the platform. Ericsson and Juniper Networks won the OpenStack Board’s approval at the April board meeting and joined the Foundation as Gold members. To… Read more »
Enter OpenStack’s T-shirt Design Contest!
Show us your creative talent & submit an original design for our 2013 OpenStack T-shirt Design Contest! Winning design will be announced the last week in August 2013 Original artwork will be showcased on T-shirts given out at LinuxCon Cloud Open in New Orleans, September 16-18, 2013 as well as future events worldwide Creator of… Read more »
Discussions at Breakfast with the Board – OpenStack April 2013 Summit
It is an exciting time to be part of the OpenStack community. It was a great conference with lots of momentum around OpenStack. The speed and growth of the community is amazing. Tuesday morning during the Summit, we continued the tradition of Breakfast With The Board (BwtB). We wish to thank all who participated. As board members we very much appreciated your comments of… Read more »
A Pretty Good Place to Be
One of the best things about my work with OpenStack is the excitement I get when I envision the impact the work we do here today will have on the IT departments of the (very near) future. Imagine a stay in a hospital, where instead of of nurses and med techs coming in every four… Read more »
Project Incubation Process Update is Underway
If you take a moment to view the different projects, committees and work groups that are currently underway within the OpenStack project, 2013 is looking to be a very exciting year for cloud computing. I could easily write an entire dissertation about the accomplishments the community will make this year now that the OpenStack Foundation… Read more »
Introducing the User Committee
As the number of production OpenStack deployments increase and more ecosystem partners add support for OpenStack clouds, it becomes increasingly important that the communities building services around OpenStack guide and influence the product evolution. When the OpenStack Foundation was launched in 2012, there were two initial structures created. The management board provides strategic and financial… Read more »