Posts By: Kendall Nelson

OpenStack Resurgence: How VMware’s Licensing Rugpull is Encouraging a Second Look

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In the wake of Broadcom’s 2023 acquisition of VMware, the enterprise IT world found itself at a crossroads. Rapid, unexpected changes to VMware’s licensing model sent shockwaves through thousands of organizations, forcing a stark choice: stay and absorb dramatic cost increases—or seek out an alternative platform capable of handling mission-critical workloads. Enter OpenStack For many… Read more »

Students of OpenStack: Meet Oria Weng!

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Oria Weng is a third-year honors student studying computer science at Oregon State University, working at the Oregon State University Open Source Lab (OSUOSL). What Open Infrastructure project are you working with, and what made you interested in that project, as opposed to some of the other options? What was the hardest part about getting… Read more »

Students of OpenStack: Meet Boosung Kim!

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As the academic year wraps up, seniors at Dickinson College have completed their capstone course, where they learned a lot during the past year, including new concepts, how OpenInfra works, working with the Swift core team, and we getting to attend the Project Teams Gathering (PTG). This year, James Nguyễn, Nathan Nguyễn, and Boosung Kim… Read more »

OpenStack at the April 2025 PTG: All Things ‘Epoxy’ & ‘Flamingo’

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The OpenInfra Project Team Gathering took place April 7 to 11, earlier this month. A variety of OpenStack teams, covering the basic OpenStack services, pop up working groups, among other more horizontal view teams met to have technical discussions throughout the week. Discussions ranged from ongoing feature work, to reviewing feedback on the most recent… Read more »

OpenStack Teams Advance 2025.1 Epoxy Plans at OpenInfra PTG

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The Project Teams Gathering (PTG) is held virtually twice a year and allows OpenInfra community groups and adjacent open source community project teams to meet virtually, exchange ideas and get work done in a productive, low-key setting. Last month, several OpenStack teams participated in the second PTG of the year alongside other OpenInfra projects and… Read more »

Calling all OpenStack Operators! The PTG starts Monday, and the community needs your input!

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I’m an OpenStack Operator going to the PTG, where should I go?  PTGs aren’t just for OpenInfra developers! The discussions need perspectives from a broader group to make the event successful. This includes operators who are running OpenInfra projects in production (Public and Private Cloud, Research, etc), plan to run a project in the future,… Read more »

How to Have a Successful PTG as an OpenStack Operator

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Myth: Project Teams Gatherings (PTGs) are working events organized by the OpenInfra Foundation only for OpenStack developers to collaborate on an upcoming release.  Let’s break that down.  Project Teams Gatherings (PTGs) are working events organized by the OpenInfra Foundation: CORRECT. PTGs are only for OpenStack developers to collaborate on an upcoming release: WRONG.  While PTGs are for OpenStack… Read more »