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OpenStack has been a global phenomenon since the community formed in July 2010, and it has only gotten more diverse since then. One of my favorite stats is that we had people from 6 continents attend the most recent Design Summit & Conference in Boston. Still looking for that elusive Antarctica user. I spent a… Read more »

Last week, we got together for the OpenStack Conference in Boston and started things off talking about plans to create an OpenStack Foundation. Thursday afternoon, we had a great session as a community talking about initial goals for the foundation and how to keep the discussion going after the conference. Ryan Lane had a nice… Read more »

Tomorrow at the OpenStack Conference in Boston, Lew Moorman will discuss Rackspace’s intention to form an OpenStack Foundation in 2012, which will be responsible for Project Governance and ownership of the OpenStack trademark.  This marks a major milestone in the evolution of OpenStack as a movement to establish the industry standard for cloud software. Rackspace,… Read more »

OpenStack Community Newsletter – September 16, 2011 This weekly newsletter is a way for the community to learn about all the various activities occurring on a weekly basis. If you would like to add content to a weekly update or have an idea about this newsletter, please email [email protected] HIGHLIGHTS Diablo release is approaching: focusing… Read more »

The OpenStack community is once again in full preparation for our twice annual community events, this time in Boston, Ma in October.  There are two different (but related) events during the week of October 3rd-7th:  At the beginning of the week, we have the OpenStack Design Summit which is a set of small, focused developer… Read more »

We are excited to announce the first EMEA OpenStack Day for anyone interested in using, developing for or building products around the open source cloud project. EMEA OpenStack Day will take place Wednesday, July 13, in London.  We expect the one-day event will cover a variety of topics, including: Getting started with OpenStack Capabilities and… Read more »

The Silicon Valley Cloud Computing Group is hosting a 1 day cloud computing event this Saturday, April 30 at 1:30 pm. Register at http://www.meetup.com/cloudcomputing/events/16701362/. The agenda is at http://talkcloudy2011.sched.org/list/descriptions/ with 2 OpenStack sessions from Citrix and Piston. Thanks to Sebastian Stadil  from Scalr for the information.

The OpenStack Conference agenda for the first two days of the 4 day event is now finalized and ready for attendee consumption. The Design Summit agenda for the final 3 days of the event is still in active development following a process detailed here. All attendees will receive a program guide with the agenda at… Read more »

The time has finally come to reveal the agenda for the conference portion of next month’s OpenStack Conference / Design Summit 2011 sponsored by Citrix. The Design Summit agenda is still in active development and will be finalized once the Project Team Leader elections are complete and the new team members are able to offer… Read more »