If you want to hear some great content before the OpenStack Summit in Paris this November, attend one of these OpenStack Community events being held around the world. Join fellow community members, learn from user stories and hear directly from industry leaders. Hurry, registration deadlines are quickly approaching! OpenStack Silicon Valley | An OpenStack Community… Read more »
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Call for Proposals: Open Source Ecosystem Design Sessions at the Paris Summit
At the Atlanta OpenStack Summit we launched Open Source Ecosystem Design Sessions, a new track to give design session space to external open source projects related to OpenStack. It’s an opportunity to foster the projects and communities that don’t fall under the umbrella of the OpenStack Foundation, but are actively being used and developed within… Read more »
Upcoming Industry Events
The second half of 2014 is underway, and there are some great industry events around the world coming up on the calendar. The Global Events Calendar is the primary resource to know what events are approaching. It is fully editable, so you can update the following criteria: If your organization is attending, sponsoring or exhibiting (COLUMN… Read more »
OpenStack Community Celebrates Four Years!
User maturity, software maturity and a focus on cloud software operations are now established areas of focus for OpenStack and none of it would be possible without the consistent growth of the OpenStack community. In the four years since the community was established, OpenStack now has 70+ active user groups and thousands of active members… Read more »
Five Days + Twelve Writers + One Book Sprint = One Excellent Book on OpenStack Architecture
Update: You can now download the OpenStack Architecture Design Guide here. One thing about OpenStack is that you can find lots of information on how to do specific things, such as start an instance or install a test cloud on VirtualBox, but there isn’t much out there to give you the Big Picture, such as how… Read more »
DefCore Update: Input Request for Havana Capabilities
As part of our community’s commitment to interoperability, the OpenStack Board of Directors has been working to make sure that “downstream” OpenStack-branded commercial products offer the same baseline functionality and include the same upstream, community-developed code. The work to define these required core capabilities and code has been led by the DefCore Committee co-chaired by… Read more »
OpenStack Swift 2.0 Released and Storage Policies Have Arrived
This blog post was first featured on the SwiftStack Blog, and you can find the original post here. Today I’m happy to announce the release of OpenStack Swift 2.0.0. This release includes storage policies – the culmination of a year of work from many members of the Swift contributor community. Storage policies are the biggest thing to… Read more »
OpenStack – A Global Perspective: Five Things we Learned at OpenStack Events Across Europe and Israel
We say the words “global community” and “collaboration” so often they can start to lose their meaning. It’s easy to lose sight of the bigger picture, and the scale of our community far beyond name-brand users from the US or the number of Summit attendees. A few weeks ago, members of the OpenStack community organized… Read more »
OpenStack Global Community: Interviews from OpenStack Days in Italy & Israel
Mariano Cunietti & Martina Casani, Enter IT We recently had a chance to catch up with OpenStack community members Mariano Cunietti, CTO, and Martina Casani, Marketing Manager, at Enter IT. Mariano got involved in OpenStack around the Folsom release and first attended the San Diego Summit in October 2012. He helped establish the Italy OpenStack… Read more »
Call for Speakers now OPEN – November Summit in Paris
The Call for Speakers is OPEN for the November OpenStack Summit in Paris! Submit your talks here: https://www.openstack.org/summit/openstack-paris-summit-2014/call-for-speakers/. There are a few new speaking tracks in the Summit lineup this year so please review the below list before you submit a talk. Don’t wait! The Call for Speakers will close on July 28… Read more »