OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Nov 14 – 21)

 

November 21, 2014

OpenStack User Survey Insights: November 2014

This is the fourth consecutive survey conducted by the User Committee prior to each Summit starting in April 2013 and the previous survey in Atlanta, May 2014. The goals of the survey are to generate insights based on a representative sample of OpenStack users, in order to better understand their organizational profiles, use cases and technology choices across different deployment stages and sizes. These insights are intended to provide feedback to the broader community, and to arm technical leaders and contributors with better data to make decisions.

Wrapping up the Travel Support Program – Kilo

The OpenStack Foundation brought 20 people to Paris for the Summit earlier this month, thanks to the grants offered by the Travel Support Program. We had 22 people accepted in the program from 11 different countries, spanning five continents. Four people traveled from Brazil, four from India, three from Europe and the rest were from South America, North America and South-east Asia. Of the selected recipients, two were unable to attend due to VISA timing issues, but we were excited to welcome the 20 attendees that were able to make the trip. Stay tuned for when we announce the applications for the Travel Support Applications for the May Summit in Vancouver.

A mascot for Ironic

The idea about what the mascot would be was easy because the RAX guys put “bear metal” in their presentation and that totally rocks! So Lucas Alvares Gomes drew a bear.

Relevant Conversations

Deadlines

Tips ‘n Tricks

Security Advisories and Notices

Reports from Previous Events

Upcoming Events

Other News

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Welcome New Reviewers, Developers and Core Reviewers

Welcome Michael McCune and Sergey Reshetniak to sahara-core, Steve Heyman, Juan Antonio Osorio Robles and Steve Heyman for barbican-core.

Xiao Xi LIU Ai Jie Niu
Naohiro Tamura jiangfei
Danny Wilson Dave Chen
yatin rajiv
Richard H juigil kishore
Pawel Palucki Richard Hedlind
Park Lucas Dutra Nunes
jmurax Nicolas T
Swati Shukla Michael Hagedorn
Guillaume Giamarchi keshava
Seb Hughes
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Wrapping up the Travel Support Program – Kilo

 

November 17, 2014

The OpenStack Foundation brought 20 people to Paris for the Summit earlier this month, thanks to the grants offered by the Travel Support Program. The Travel Support Program is based on the promise of Open Design and its aim is to facilitate participation of key contributors to the OpenStack Design Summit. The program aims at covering costs for travel and accommodation for key contributors to the OpenStack project to join the community at the Summits.

Travel Support Program

We had 22 people accepted in the program from 11 different countries, spanning five continents. Four people traveled from Brazil, four from India, three from Europe and the rest were from South America, North America and South-east Asia. Of the selected recipients, two were unable to attend due to VISA timing issues, but we were excited to welcome the 20 attendees that were able to make the trip. 

The Foundation spent $28,400 on flights and $24,000 on hotels for a total cost for the Foundation of more than $54,000 USD, including the cost of four full access passes granted to non-ATCs. 

Stay tuned for when we announce the applications for the Travel Support Applications for the May Summit in Vancouver. The Travel Support Program will also be a sponsorship opportunity for the upcoming Summit in Vancouver. Details will be shared in the sponsorship prospectus that will be published soon.  

OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Post Paris)

 

November 14, 2014

How Operators Can Get Involved in Kilo #OpenStackSummit

Maish Saidel-Keesing participated in the Ops Summit: How to get involved in Kilo, and shared his notes from those sessions.

Development Reports from Summit

Relevant Conversations

Tips ‘n Tricks

Security Advisories and Notices

Upcoming Events

Other News

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Welcome New Reviewers, Developers and Core Reviewers

jiangfei Cserey Szilard
ZongKai LI Ran Ziv
Swati Shukla Accela Zhao
Guillaume Giamarchi yatin
Seb Hughes François Bureau
Vadim Rutkovsky habuka036
Mark McDonagh Zengfa Gao
Craige McWhirter Jorge Munoz
juigil kishore Jobin Raju
Trung Trinh John Belamaric
Scott Lowe Seb Hughes
Roozbeh Shafiee David Caro
Mike Mason Craige McWhirter
Tan Lin Jan-Erik Mångs
David Caro Adolfo Duarte
Konstantinos Papadopoulos Tan Lin
Matteo Panella hossein zabolzadeh
Lena Vinod Pandarinathan
Michael Hagedorn Pieter
Major Hayden Lan Qi song
Magnus Lundin Vidyut
Arun S A G Inessa Vasilevskaya
Pratik Mallya Gil Meir
Brian Saville Dimitri Korsch
Chris Grivas Ian Adams
Marcin Karkocha Pratik Mallya
Yash Bathia
Wei Xiaoli
Mike Mason
Anton Arefiev
Yury Konovalov
Shang Yong

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OpenStack Upstream Training in Japan

 

November 2, 2014

While we’re completing the training sessions in Paris, I’m glad to share the results of the Upstream Training in Japan on Oct.10-11 in Tokyo. The training session was organized by the Japanese user group with 19 people attending from 11 different Japanese companies and organizations and 7 mentors helping them. There are a lot more developers interested in becoming contributors to OpenStack so the Japanese community is organizing more sessions. The next one will be in February, co-located with OpenStack Days Tokyo. Trainees chose bugs from Launchpad and engaged with mentors two weeks before the live, in-person sessions.

The Japanese community has shared lots more pictures, showing impressive work on the collaborative LEGO building role playing game. Congratulations to the Japanese community for being the first to bring home the practice of OpenStack Upstream Training.

The Lego building role playing game

The Lego building role playing game

Full learning mode

Full learning mode

 

2014 Summer of Interns at OpenStack

 

October 28, 2014

OpenStack has been a regular participant in community-led internship programs, such as the FOSS Outreach Program and for the
first time this year, the Google Summer of Code. Our wonderful mentors and coordinators have made it possible for OpenStack to have some great interns over the (northern hemisphere) summer. Julie Pichon has helped collect thoughts from the interns. Here is what they have to say about their experience:

Artem Shepelev worked on a scheduler solution based on the non-compute metrics: Working as a part of Google Summer of Code program was very interesting and useful for me. I liked the experience of working with a real project with all its difficulty, size and people involved with it. (Mentors: Yathiraj Udupi, Debojyoti Dutta)

Tzanetos Balitsaris worked on measuring the performance of the deployed Virtual Machines on OpenStack: The experience was really good. Of course one has to sacrifice some things over the summer, but at the end of the day, you have the feeling that it was worth it. (Mentors: Boris Pavlovic and Mikhail Dubov).

Rishabh Kumar: I worked on improving the benchmarking context mechanism in the Rally project. It was a really awesome experience to be part of such a vibrant and diverse community. Getting to know people from all sorts of geographies and the amazing things they are doing humbled me a lot. The code reviews were particularly good with so many people giving their reviews which made me a better programmer. (Mentors: Boris Pavlovic and Mikhail Dubov).

Prashanth Raghu: GSoC was a great opportunity for me to get started with learning about contributing to open source. During my project I was greatly backed by the community which helped me a lot in finally getting my project successfully shipped into the OpenStack Zaqar repository. It was great fun interacting with the team and I would like to thank all those who supported me in this wonderful experience. (Mentor: Alejandro Cabrera).

Ana: I am very grateful for being given the chance to participate in OPW. I had a really positive experience thanks to an amazing mentor, Eoghan Glynn, who explained everything clearly and was enthusiastic about the project and was patient with my many mistakes. I was working on Gnocchi, a new API for Ceilometer; my project was to add moving statistics to the available aggregation functionality. (Mentor: Eoghan Glynn).

Victoria: During my GSoC internship in OpenStack I researched the feasibility of adding AMQP 1.0 as a storage backend for the Messaging and Notifications Service (Zaqar). Since this was not possible, I changed the direction of my research to the transport layer and worked
on creating a POC for it. (Mentor: Flavio Percoco).

Masaru: Awesome experience which is more than I expected at the beginning of my project about VmWare API! Also, great and considerate hackers there, I’m grateful to have participated in GSoC 2014  as one of the students from the OpenStack Foundation. (Mentor: Mr. Arnaud Legendre).

Nataliia: It was a fascinating opportunity. During the internship I worked with the Zaqar team, mainly on Python 3 support, but also with developing api-v1.1. Professionally I learnt a lot, about Python 3 of course, but also from reading and participating in discussions of other interns: about Redis and AMPQ and how to do proper benchmarking. Socially-wise: There was no feeling of being “an intern”. The team considers all interns as teammates and treats them equally as any other developer. Anyone could (and actually can — why not?) actively participate in discussions and in making decisions. After finishing it, I helped with other tasks, in particular api-v1.1-response-document-changes. (Mentor: Flavio Percoco, Kurth Griffiths).

OpenStack doesn’t plan on stopping there and is already preparing for the next round of the FOSS Outreach Program, this time scheduled during the southern hemisphere summer round starting this December. Stay tuned for more announcements.

OpenStack at LinuxCon / CloudOpen Europe

 

The Foundation had a great time meeting friends old and new as a Silver sponsor of this year’s LinuxCon / CloudOpen Europe in Düsseldorf, Germany on October 13-15. A huge thank you to our Community heroes Tomasz Napierala, Oded Nahum, Christian Berendt, Adalberto Medeiros, Marton Kiss, Kamil Swiatkowski, and Jamie Hannaford who helped us staff our busy booth alongside Foundation Community Manager Stefano Maffulli and Marketing Associate Shari Mahrdt. Our swag (150 T-Shirts and Stickers) was gone by the morning of day 2 and we met a great deal of visitors who were very interested in OpenStack.

This year’s talks showed how leaders in various different industries are using the power of open source and collaboration for innovation and advancement in technology.

 

Highlights included:

  • VIP Reception at the oldest restaurant in Dusseldorf the “Brauerei Zum Schiffchen”, which was open to speakers, sponsors and media, offered traditional German food and made sure every single guest had a glass of beer in their hand at all times 🙂
  • The closing party for all attendees at the “Nachresidenz”, an architecturally unique club in Düsseldorf.

 

OpenStack related speaking sessions included:

 

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 LinuxCon-CloudCon-1

 

(Photos by Tomasz Napierala)

 

OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Oct 17 – 24)

 

October 24, 2014

OpenStack Startup/Venture Capital Ecosystem – it’s real and coming to Paris!

Recently OpenStack has been generating financial headlines with the acquisitions of OpenStack ecosystem startups eNovance, Metacloud, Cloudscaling and OpenStack veteran Mirantis raising $100M in venture capital this week. At the OpenStack Summit in Paris next week, we are launching a new track called “CloudFunding” where we will hear from startups that have been successful in attracting essential capital and ventures capitalists who are actively investing in OpenStack startups.

OpenStack Foundation Staffing News!

The Board of Directors approved the promotion of Lauren Sell to Vice President of Marketing and Community Services. Lauren has been instrumental in the growth of Openstack from the beginning. Thierry Carrez, who has managed the OpenStack releases from the beginning has taken on the role of Director of Engineering, and is building out a team of technical leaders. Be sure to check out our open positions if you’d like to join our team!

Peer Reviews for Neutron Core Reviewers

Food for thoughts from members of the Neutron community: they have started an exploration to improve the process by which we understand a core’s responsibilities, and also a process under which we can judge how cores are performing up to that standard. Join the conversation and give comments to Neutron’s PTL Kyle Mestery blog post.

Numerical Dosimetry in the cloud

What’s the connection between a dentist’s chair and OpenStack? Fascinating post by Patrik Eschle about the practical uses of the clouds we’re building.

The Road To Paris 2014 – Deadlines and Resources

Full access sold out! Only a few spots left for Keynotes and Expo Hall passes.

Report from Events

Relevant Conversations

Tips ‘n Tricks

Security Advisories and Notices

Upcoming Events

Other News

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Welcome New Reviewers, Developers and Core Reviewers

Dmitry Nikishov Peng Xiao
Weidong Shao Jiri Suchomel
Roman Dashevsky Amaury Medeiros
Peng Xiao Chris Grivas
M. David Bennett Sridhar Ramaswamy
Edmond Kotowski Jun Hong Li
Amandeep Jorge Niedbalski
Wayne Warren Alan Erwin
Amaury Medeiros Y L Sun
Vijayaguru Guruchave
Sagar Damani
Daniel Wakefield

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OpenStack Trainings and Certifications Available in Paris

 

It’s almost here!  The OpenStack Summit in Paris is just around the corner and we wanted to update you on some upcoming OpenStack Training and Certification classes that will take place in Paris around the Summit dates.  For those of you traveling, you might want to take advantage of these offers and make the most of your visit.

 

Training Offerings:

Mirantis Training – OpenStack Bootcamp

  • Dates: October 29 – 31, 2014 (week prior to OpenStack Paris Summit)
  • Time: 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
  • Location: 27/29 rue Bassano – 75008 Paris, France

Red Hat OpenStack Administration Training and exam bundle: 50% discount

  • Dates: October 27 – 31, 2014 (week prior to OpenStack Paris Summit)
  • Fee: 50% discount for OpenStack Summit attendees. Register now using code RHOSS to unlock the discount.
  • Location: eNovance 11 bis rue Roquépine – 75008 Paris, France ‘Ada Lovelace’ Room, Ground floor

 

Certification Exams:

Free Red Hat OpenStack Exams: Red Hat Certified System Administrator in Red Hat OpenStack exam

  • Session 1 Registration
  • Session 2 Registration
  • Date: November 6, 2014 (after OpenStack Paris Summit, onsite registration available)
  • Times: Session 1: 9:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m., Session 2: 2:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
  • Fee: Free exams for OpenStack Summit attendees. Use code RHOSS to receive the promotional pricing.
  • Location: eNovance 11 bis rue Roquépine – 75008 Paris, France ‘Ada Lovelace’ Room, Ground floor

 

Mirantis Certification

  • Dates: November 5, 2014 (after OpenStack Paris Summit, onsite registration available)
  • Time: 5:00 p.m.- 7:00 p.m.
  • Location: Sisley Meeting Room at the Hyatt Regency Etoile, Paris
    3 Place du Général Koenig
    Paris, France 75017

 

If you have any questions regarding the above Training and Certifications, please contact the Member companies directly for more information.  Can’t wait to see you in Paris!

OpenStack Startup/Venture Capital Ecosystem – it’s real and coming to Paris!

 

October 23, 2014

Recently OpenStack has been generating financial headlines with the acquisitions of OpenStack ecosystem startups eNovance, Metacloud, Cloudscaling and OpenStack veteran Mirantis raising $100M in venture capital this week.

Startups have always been critical to driving innovation in software and platforms and OpenStack has spawned a vibrant ecosystem of startups that are finding new ways to serve customer needs and deliver value on top OpenStack.  Access to capital to support development and growth within these companies is critical.  Storm Ventures recently gathered data around OpenStack startups and venture activity estimating the number of startups currently offering OpenStack related products at 63.  These companies have collectively raised approximately $1.8 billion from corporate and traditional venture investors.  And these investors are already starting to see returns.

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At the OpenStack Summit in Paris next week, we are launching a new track called “CloudFunding” where we will hear from startups that have been successful in attracting essential capital and ventures capitalists who are actively investing in OpenStack startups.  We hope you’re as excited about this new track as we are and will join us at these sessions to learn more.

OpenStack Foundation Staffing News!

 

October 22, 2014

I’m very excited to report that on Monday the Board of Directors approved the promotion of Lauren Sell to Vice President of Marketing and Community Services. Lauren has been instrumental in the growth of Openstack from the beginning.  Under her leadership the Summits have grown from just 75 attendees to over 4,000, and the OpenStack brand has gone from zero to Wall Street Journal in record time.  Since we started the Foundation 2 years ago, she’s built out a high performing marketing and community services team, including recent additions Allison Price , Shari Mahrdt , and Chris Hoge. When not taking OpenStack to new heights Lauren is know to spoil her cat Rhiley.

Rhiley

I’m also happy to report that we’ve continued to expand the OpenStack team over the past several weeks.  Thierry Carrez, who has managed the OpenStack releases from the beginning has taken on the role of Director of Engineering, and is building out a team of technical leaders.  One of his first hires was Clark Boylan, who joins us as an infrastructure engineer along with Jeremy Stanley and Stefano Maffulli.  Thierry is a strong leader in the OpenStack community, who was once again voted in as a member of the Technical Committee and their chairman!

Thierry Carrez

We continue to hire in support of the growth of OpenStack.  Be sure to check out our open positions if you’d like to join our team!

If you’re coming to Paris, I hope you have a good time with OpenStack, don’t forget to say hello to the whole Foundation team!

Mark Collier

COO, OpenStack Foundation

@sparkycollier