If you are an OpenStack user or have customers with OpenStack deployments, please take 10 minutes to respond to our first User Survey or pass it along to your network. Our community has grown at an amazing rate in 2.5 years, and it’s time to better define our user base and requirements, so we can… Read more »
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Introducing the OpenStack Operations Guide
Planning to run, or design an OpenStack Cloud? There’s a new book you should take a look at – the OpenStack Operations Guide. Get your free download now at http://docs.openstack.org/ops/! You may have already seen the blog post, We Did It: Zero to Book in Five Days, from Anne Gentle, the OpenStack documentation coordinator who came… 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 »
OpenStack and Friends at SCALE 11x
The Foundation had a great time meeting friends old and new as a Silver sponsor of this year’s Southern California Linux Expo in Los Angeles February 22-24. We thank Christopher MacGown, Founder and Chief Scientist at Piston Cloud, whose standing-room-only, The Tao of OpenStack, talk was one of the hottest of the show. Thank you also… 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 »
Technical Committee & Grizzly Update
The OpenStack development teams continue to make progress in many areas. We recently published the grizzly-2 development milestone. It marks the middle of the “Grizzly” development cycle, which will end on April 4. So far 99 feature blueprints have been completed, and 113 more are still likely to be included before our feature freeze date… Read more »
October 2013 Summit: Where should we have it?
As we announced at the October 2012 Summit, we will be holding the October 2013 Summit outside of the U.S. for the first time, either in Europe or Asia. The OpenStack Foundation seeks site proposals for the October 2013 Summit. The deadline to submit is January 25th, 2013. Following the announcement in October, we were… Read more »
OpenStack At Cloud Expo 2012 West
The OpenStack Foundation is the proud Diamond Sponsor of Cloud Expo 2012 West! If you’re in California for the event this week, please join the Foundation and the many members of the OpenStack Community in attendance. If you can’t make it, follow the developments via twitter and of course follow openstack on twitter for general OpenStack information. Already… Read more »
EMEA OpenStack Day: Call For Speakers & Prospectus For Sponsors
EMEA OpenStack Day is happening Wednesday, December 5, 2012 in London. You can find out more details about the event on the OpenStack Day EventBrite page. Would you like to speak at the EMEA OpenStack Day—Part 2? We are now accepting nominations for speaker presentations. The deadline for speaker submissions is November 9, 2012. A selection… Read more »
OpenStack Summit Beach Clean Up
Last week at the OpenStack Summit, we organized the first OpenStack community service day, a beach cleanup with the Surfrider Foundation. We had nearly forty OpenStack community members volunteer their time Friday morning to help pick up trash from South Mission Beach, San Diego, as well as collect data for local environmental campaigns. We also learned… Read more »