Women of OpenStack, Why?

 

November 14, 2013

Why do we get together in person each Summit? Let me tell you. A picture is worth a thousand words, so here are some pics from our Women of OpenStack boat outing Monday night on the harbor. The grey fog was everywhere and we couldn’t go on deck because it was just too wet. The buildings lighting up are an amazing sight, you can hardly capture the lights in photos. And I can hardly capture the value of getting together with other women in OpenStack at the Summit, but here goes.

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We had a great time on the boat, and at happy hour afterwards I had an awesome chat with a woman from IBM who is pretty much my neighbor! It’s a small world with tight connections in Austin for high-tech women. It seems impossible with the numbers game we’d know each other’s schools, streets, neighborhoods, and so on, but in reality we’re rare enough birds of a feather that it is natural for us to get together and know each other well.

Why do we get together apart from the rest of the conference? We have a couple of themes for our meetups, we talk about outreach to more women, especially in education as early as elementary school and definitely through college. Also, I got to meet our GNOME Outreach Program for Women intern, Terri Yu, in person! That’s a huge part of these in-person gatherings, getting to know each other personally. But we also want to find concrete ways to make our meetings meaningful. We talk about a few tracks for our goals – outreach, education, career planning and mentoring. We came up with some ideas for our goals, and we keep discussing each Summit. It’s like a design summit session for women of OpenStack. In between Summits we stay in touch on LinkedIn though I also serve as an API, ha ha.

We look for speaking opportunities for women in the cloud. We have held workshops geared towards outreach to women, introducing lots of technical women to OpenStack. For example, this past year Iccha Sethi, Jessica Lucci and I ran a workshop at the Grace Hopper Open Source Day, and Anita Kuno, Lyz Krumbach Joseph and Ryan Lane ran a CodeChix workshop. We generally forge the bonds that hold together a common minority by talking about schools, parenting, gin as a vegetable, shoes, traveling, and how does this OpenStack Neutron plug-in work, anyway?

There are so few of us that we need to be diligent about our outreach and staying connected. I blogged about a question related to under representation of minorities in the Technical Committee on my Reflecting on the OpenStack Summit in Hong Kong. We need to be hyper-vigilant about imposter syndrome, uncovered by researchers who found that many high-achieving females tended to believe they were not intelligent, and that they were over-evaluated by others. Believe me, I have to fake it to make it daily.

Our culture as a community may reward the most confidence, but in reality as we grow as a community it’s important to understand that some cultures don’t view confidence in the same way, and some people will not naturally exude confidence. We’re also looking at English-as-a-second-language increasing in prevalence in our community, and a former OPW (Outreach Program for Women) intern Anita Kuno recently edited our Technical Committee charter to be gender-neutral. All of this matters, all of these actions answer the valid question, “Why?” I hope you’ll join us in outreach efforts, together we make OpenStack better for all contributors.

Open Mic Spotlight: Ionuț Arțăriși

 

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This post is part of the OpenStack Open Mic series to spotlight the people who have helped make OpenStack successful. Each week, a new contributor will step up to the mic and answer five questions about OpenStack, cloud, careers and what they do for fun. 

Ionuț Arțăriși is a senior software engineer at SUSE. You can reach him at https://github.com/mapleoin. 

 

1. How did you first get involved in OpenStack?

I first became involved when I joined the SUSE Cloud team. I started working on fixing test failures from our CI infrastructure. It was mostly small fixes for things that broke on SUSE due to package version incompatibilities or backports of fixes we found useful.

By the way, you can see our openSUSE Cloud jenkins jobs here:

http://ci.opensuse.org/view/OpenStack/

And here’s a nice matrix of all the unittest jobs:

http://ci.opensuse.org/view/Cloud/job/openstack-unittest/

And the packages are in the Open Build Service:

https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=Cloud%3AOpenStack

 

2. What publications, blogs, mailing lists, etc do you read every day?

I read quite a few mailing lists, though there can be too much traffic to keep track of sometimes. Specifically, I like the usual OpenStack, Openstack-dev and Opensuse-cloud mailing lists. I’ve been doing some work on OpenStack Chef cookbooks lately, so I’m also reading the chef-openstack list and the chef and chef-dev lists from opscode.

These are the main ones right now. There are also those of past projects I’ve been involved with, internal mailing lists and other stuff that I occasionally find interesting, like opensuse-packaging.

I also read HackerNews (http://news.ycombinator.org/) a lot. I think it’s been my go-to website for interesting news for more than five years now. It has OpenStack news as well, too from time to time :).

 

3. What do you think is the coolest thing that’s happened with OpenStack over the past three years?

I think the coolest thing has been the wide adoption and the speed with which the community has grown. It feels like the rate of growth has been constantly accelerating on the traditional OpenStack projects (nova, keystone etc.), but also with a lot of new initiatives popping up and quickly gaining a lot of traction (cinder, heat etc.). It’s really amazing to look at such a big community and think that it’s only three years old. I recommend http://www.stackalytics.com/ for some really interesting statistics – there are around 1600 people contributing from around 150 companies. In a way, it’s also surprising that the growth seems to be sustainable.

It’s still fairly easy to contribute a commit as a newcomer. There is a lot of good documentation on setting up a development environment and contributing a patch and it’s all pretty sane, especially compared to other projects of this size. There is a lot of infrastructure working in the background to make this easy and a lot of people doing a good job working on that and on documentation.

 

4. Define what “open source” means to you.

I think it’s the best way to develop software. Being able to collaborate on a project with virtually anyone in the world makes a huge difference.

Projects like OpenStack have proven that it’s possible for big companies competing against each other to collaborate on the same project, even though in the end each has its own product. This makes a lot of sense because we’re all basically solving the same problem. With closed source software, each company would have to come up with its own solution, different from the others and this wastes a lot of resources compared to having everyone work on the same base project. As a developer, it’s also great to be able to work together with some of the best minds in the world, across country and company borders.

 

5. Where’s your favorite place to code? In the office, at a local coffee shop? In bed?

I mostly code from the office and sometimes from my standing desk at home. But I do remember an especially nice coding place. I spent a couple of days coding at a friend’s house in the Hungarian countryside.

There was a really nice patio in the garden with an old wooden table and wooden bench. The weather was warm, there was natural light, fresh air and even some butterflies. What more could you ask for?

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Our first OpenStack Ambassadors

 

November 13, 2013

Following on from our earlier discussions about the OpenStack Ambassador Program, it is with great excitement that I would like to introduce our first OpenStack Ambassadors.

In this initial stage, we were only looking for a small number but were very honoured to have applications from many more excellent candidates and will aim to introduce more ambassadors in the next 6 months.

The ambassadors are currently working to scope out the program and are keen to start making an impact in our community. Follow the discussion on the community mailing list.

Below are brief introductions – but we believe many of you already know and work closely with our newly entitled folk:

Marcelo Dieder is a founding member of the OpenStack Brazil user group and is part of the translation team of OpenStack Brazil. He has helped in the growth of the group, organizing events, lectures and local surveys to attract new users and contributors to the project.

Erwan Gallen is the founder of the OpenStack French user group. He has organized lots of events to promote OpenStack and federate users. He has contributed to the certification process, documentation and help spreading technical knowledge in the OpenStack community. Erwan believes strongly in open cloud interoperability.

Tristan Goode, OpenStack board member, and organiser and supporter of dozens of events across Australia, India and on-line. His vision aims to bring user groups closer together and increase the penetration of OpenStack into new and emerging markets.

Akihiro Hasegawa, one of the board members of  the Japan OpenStack User Group , is the organizer of OpenStack Days Tokyo 2013 and 2014 – the biggest OpenStack Business event in Japan.

Kenneth Hui, lives in New York City, USA and is a frequent speaker at conferences and meetups. He is also co-organizer of the Connecticut, New York City, and Philadelphia user groups.

Márton Kiss, founded the Hungarian user group, and hosted Openstack CEE Day. He a have a vision about promoting Openstack in the Central European region and tries to convert sysadmins to devops and change their mind about operating modern IT infrastructure. With cross promoting in Budapest meet ups he have the vision of teaching python and agile development for students, and give more ATCs to Openstack projects.

Ye Lu, runs probably the most popular OpenStack social media channel- Weibo @OpenStack, in addition to arranging meetings in China – attracting more ATCs, and assisting with promotion by interfacing with local media.

Colin McNamara, member of the SFbay OpenStack user group, Core Reviewer on OpenStack Docs and Co-Founder of OpenStack-Training is focused on increasing contribution to OpenStack by lowering barriers to adoption as well as identifying and supporting intellectually gifted individuals in economically disadvantaged areas and situations and connecting them with the tools to improve their situation and OpenStack as a whole.

Kavit Munshi, one of the founders of the India user group, who has developed an innovative plan to introduce OpenStack into universities, and creation of targeted events for the market there aiming to increase adoption.

Michael Still has been hacking on OpenStack since Diablo, and comes from an operations background. He is now a Nova and Oslo core reviewer, but loves to help operators make Nova more reliable. He also runs and speaks at OpenStack events in and around Australia.

Sean Roberts an OpenStack Board Member who runs the San Francisco, USA user group, is also the author of the OpenStack User Groups HowTo. He is now spearheading the community training effort aiming to make OpenStack accessible to more people  worldwide and encouraging community members to participate in outreach, teaching and learning.

Akira Yoshiyama, is an active member of Japan OpenStack User Group. He has driven more than ten OpenStack study meetups/hackathons and lectured in Japan since 2011. He is also one of the Japanese translators of OpenStack Operations Guide and maintainers of openstack.jp.

Please welcome our new volunteers!

Open Mic Spotlight: Masanori Itoh

 

November 7, 2013

MasanoriItohThis post is part of the OpenStack Open Mic series to spotlight the people who have helped make OpenStack successful. Each week, a new contributor will step up to the mic and answer five questions about OpenStack, cloud, careers and what they do for fun. 

Masanori Itoh is working for the largest system integrator in Japan as a software engineer. He’s been involved in the OpenStack related activity of us from the very beginning. At first, he mainly contributed codes to Nova, but now he is in charge of overall architecture of systems based on OpenStack for his customers. You can follow him (mostly in Japanese) at @thatsdone.  

1. Where is your happy place? Favorite place to visit, vacation, decompress? Attach an image!

Istanbul. I visited the city for my honeymoon and was deeply impressed by the historical buildings of the old city. I thought it was such a coincidence that Istanbul and Tokyo contended for the Olympic game in 2020 this time. I’m dreaming that in the near future, the OpenStack Summit and Olympic games will both be held in Istanbul!

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 2. What do you think is the coolest thing that’s happened with OpenStack over the past three years?

For me, it was the OpenStack community effort to support Japan recovering from the Tsunami disaster at the Diablo Summit held in Santa Clara, Spring 2011.

http://www.openstack.org/blog/2011/04/openstack-conference-and-design-summit-day-1-recap/

I was deeply impressed by the community activity and gave a lightning talk there in response to the effort:

http://www.slideshare.net/thatsdone/openstack-diablo-design-summit-talk-a-lesson-from

 3. Have you organized an OpenStack meet-up/event or spoken about OpenStack at an event? What did you learn? What was the best part?

My team organized the Japanese OpenStack User Community, JOSUG, in 2010. What I learned through the activity is that Japanese customers are indeed slow to make decisions, but there are a considerable number of excellent engineers in Japan. I believe that we can introduce several new user stories to OpenStack from Japan this year or early next year.

4. Where’s your favorite place to code? In the office, at a local coffee shop? In bed?

In Train cars. 😮

In Tokyo, we have highly developed rail transportation, and I spend roughly 1 hour one way on my way to the office/back home. It’s a very good place for coding because there is no one to disturb me. 🙂

5. Define what “open source” means to you.

A software development project to which one can contribute with a reasonable contributor’s license agreement and contribution process. It’s not enough just to make the source codes open. In this sense, I love the spirit and philosophy of the OpenStack community.

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OpenStack Operations Guide now an O’Reilly Early Edition

 

You remember the crazy feat we’ve pulled off twice now, writing a book in five days? Well, the Operations Guide is now available from O’Reilly as an Early Release. Get a free downloadable copy at docs.openstack.org/ops/.

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What does this mean, you ask? You can download a copy now that shows you the state it’s in today, and then stay tuned for the next few months while the authors and editors update it, making it more polished, more clear, and more accurate for the Havana release. Plus, glory be, it’ll have an index. We should be able to release a few fully edited chapters at a time as we work, and our goal is to continually publish our HTML and PDF version by sharing the content across Gerrit and Github.

O’Reilly’s collaborative authoring system is called Atlas, and it is backed by Github. Our authoring system is backed by Gerrit with our review process in place managed by the docs core team. We’re working through the workflow that will enable synchronization between Git and Gerrit so that you too can be a part of this book. Get your writing hats on and typing fingers nimble.

On Twitter last night in Hong Kong, I tweeted out the link to the book and asked the question, what is the animal on the cover? My next tweet then hinted that it’s a distant relative of the animal on the cover of Deploying OpenStack. Do you know what it is?

It’s an agouti! They can jump straight up six feet in the air! With those feet I believe it. Agouti’s are related to guinea pigs. Everett Toews and I just call it the “big butt rat.” Heh. I hope you’ll get behind our guinea pig experiment with book making while we all work hard to bring you best practices and hard-earned lessons learned about operating OpenStack clouds.

OpenStack User Survey Statistics November 2013

 

November 5, 2013

Prepared by Tim Bell, Ryan Lane and JC Martin, your User Committee. See also: Infographic.

Introduction

In preparation for the OpenStack summit in Hong Kong in November 2013, members of the OpenStack foundation were asked to provide their feedback via a user survey. The goals were

  • Profile the user community across geographies and industries
  • Understand the current deployments of OpenStack
  • Receive input on priorities for the technical and management boards

The format was

  • Information about the person concerned
  • Feedback on priorities and improvements
  • For those with OpenStack deployments, questions on deployment sizes, technologies used in multiple choice format

 

The survey is open for any one to input their ideas and deployments at https://www.openstack.org/user-survey but a specific campaign was run during September/October to get the latest details.

The previous survey was performed in April 2013 and presented at the summit (see http://www.openstack.org/summit/portland-2013/session-videos/presentation/openstack-user-committee-update-and-survey-results)

As with all surveys, there are risks of errors in that those who report to an anonymous survey do not necessarily reflect the installed user base. For an open source project, this is especially difficult as there is no tracking of deployments.

This report covers the statistics gathered from the survey based on the presentation prepared by J.C. Martin from the user committee with input from Ryan Lane, Tim Bell and Tom Fifield. Further analysis is ongoing for the comments and feedback which will be published later.

Changes since the last survey

The September survey added several new questions and modified some of the originals, with the aim of clarifying some of the responses from the previous survey and gaining deeper insights into the community’s methodologies for OpenStack deployment. To gather the best possible data after the changes, a communications campaign was enacted to encourage previous contributors to update their responses.

A summary of changes is as follows:

  • Industry list updated based on “Other” responses from previous survey
  • Information sources – removed forums, added ask, planet, ‘other’
  • Added “Community Cloud” to cloud types to be in line with NIST definition
  • Replaced references to Quantum, and added Orchestration and Metering projects
  • Attempted to clarify “User Group” participation, based on poor previous responses
  • Better recognition of Continuous Deployments
  • Fixed lists of Hypervisors, Block Storage and Network drivers based on current support
  • Changed “Number of Users” question from free-form to a pick-list
  • Changed “Workloads” question to a select list, based on collating options from previous free-text response
  • Added a new question “What do you like most about OpenStack?”
  • Added a new question “If you are using nova-network and not OpenStack Networking (Neutron), what would allow you to migrate?”
  • Added a new question “What is the main Operating System you are using to run your OpenStack cloud?”
  • Added a new question “What tools are you using to deploy/configure your cluster?”
  • Added a new question “What are your business drivers for using OpenStack? ”

 

User Profiles

822 people from 539 different companies responded to the survey, 216 of these were already members of OpenStack user groups which is an encouraging sign of involvement in the community.

Geographically, the community is widely spread with the US responses now being the minority. Given have that this summit is based for the first time outside of America, it demonstrates the global reach of the OpenStack community and the importance to continue with a global approach.

The survey received nearly twice as many answers as the previous round (822 compared to 414) and 387 deployments compared to 187. The national distributions have adjusted a little with the US response share dropping to 38% from 42% with corresponding increases elsewhere.

The industries are clearly dominated by IT companies along with Academic and Telecoms with 80% of deployments. Government, Film/Media and Manufacturing are more limited but there is a trend towards diversification as the previous survey had 85% of deployments in IT/Academic/Telecoms.

Organisation sizes are similar to the previous survey with well spread mixture of small companies to large.

Business drivers were similar across deployments with the emphasis on agility. Nearly half the organisations felt that implementing OpenStack was an effective way to attract talent.

For information sources about OpenStack, there is now a rise in the formal documentation usage such as docs.openstack.org and the operations guide. This reflects well on the efforts that have been placed in this area as it was one of the items highlighted in the previous survey as an area to improve.

ask.openstack.org was also started recently and is now rising up the information sources reflecting the benefits of developing standard Q&A high quality answers.

With Grizzly coming out, there has been a clear migration from Folsom and Essex to Grizzly. Installations on Havana have now started and the sites on trunk have continued to follow that approach.

Private cloud deployments are the majority as in the past survey.

For features, with ceilometer and heat becoming standard components and maturing rapidly, their adoption is accelerating. Bare metal and database-as-a-service deployments are starting to appear.

Over 165 deployments are now in production. This is around double the number in the previous survey (84). Equally, the Dev/QA and Proof of Concept deployments have doubled in the past six months.

Most features follow similar ratios to the previous survey (but deployments are around twice). OCCI was asked for the first time but the usage currently is not widespread compared to EC2 which is enabled over 30% of the OpenStack installations.

For the implementation choices, OpenStack provides many alternatives.

In the storage area, LVM is the largest single deployment technology which probably reflects on the ease of installation. Ceph, however, is available in nearly 20% of deployments. The huge list of storage options illustrates the different configuration choices that sites are making while deploying cinder, especially if there is a deployment for other purposes at the site. Since multiple options could be selected, this could also indicate that sites are trying several different backend storage solutions.

For deployment tools, Puppet comes out on top. However, it is encouraging to see that all but one site considered a deployment tool to simplify the installation and configuration of OpenStack.

Within the different deployments, there is a variety of scale. Many of the proof of concept instances have a small number of virtual machine instances but there are now over 30 clouds with over 1,000 instances, 15 with over 5,000 cores and 11 with more than 1,000 hypervisors. Storage, networking and objects follow similar curves with the smaller instances providing many small configurations and several at large scale.

OpenStack is used for both public and private cloud deployments. The number of responses on these points is significantly less than the total deployments, illustrating that these questions may also be considered sensitive by the deployers.

The following statistics were all gathered by dropping the proof-of-concept reports and focus on the production and dev/qa instances.

The deployment tool space has a number of common solutions. devstack is used on many of the smaller instances, presumably as part of the deployment of test clusters. However, as the number of nodes increases, tools such as Puppet and Chef takeover.

KVM continues to be the most popular hypervisor for production deployments but the variety continues to expand, even including container technologies such as lxc and OpenVZ.

Ubuntu remains the most popular O/S for OpenStack deployments, especially for the smaller configurations.

For network drivers, there are a variety of drivers with the open source vSwitch leading the pack.

 

Additional References

OpenStack User Survey: October 2013

 

The OpenStack User Committee and Foundation staff conducted a survey of OpenStack cloud operators and end users, and are sharing the results with the community this week during the OpenStack Summit Hong Kong. The goal of the survey is to give users a strong voice in the community to share their technical requirements, feedback and best practices with the developers building OpenStack, as well as other cloud operators.

The survey generated 822 responses and catalogued 387 OpenStack cloud deployments across 56 countries.  A few key highlights:
  • More than half of the clouds were already running Grizzly or Havana 
  • The top five countries with deployments were U.S., India, China, France, and Canada
  • The top 3 business drivers were Cost Savings, Operational Efficiency, Open Platform
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You can find more detail in the full report by the User Committee.

 

Welcome new Gold Members Aptira, Hitachi, and Huawei!

 

November 4, 2013

The OpenStack Board of Directors approved Aptira, Hitachi and Huawei as Gold Members of the OpenStack Foundation. The companies are based in Australia/India, Japan and China respectively, and range from a startup to established, multinational corporations.

The timing couldn’t be better in my view, given that we are having our first ever Summit in Asia this week with attendees from 50 countries, including many from Australia, Japan, India, and China. As OpenStack adoption continues to accelerate around the globe, I am excited to welcome these new companies to the Gold Member ranks.

Some Background on the new members:

Aptira is a services business that focuses primarily on consulting, integration and training for OpenStack. Aptira has been instrumental in building the OpenStack community in Australia and India by organizing user groups, promotional activities and offering training courses. The company open sourced much of its training material and is collaborating across the community on broader education efforts.

Hitachi’s JP1 systems management solution supports OpenStack, and they’ve contributed support for their Hitachi Unified Storage platform for OpenStack Block Storage. The company also sponsors community building efforts in Japan, including an OpenStack event happening in Tokyo, February 2014.

Huawei is a top 20 OpenStack contributor that has contributed a Block Storage driver to support Huawei storage solutions, as well as made broader contributions to OpenStack documentation and testing systems. Huawei has supported community building efforts in China, including organizing meet ups and conferences, publishing whitepapers and blogs, and sponsoring and promoting the Summit this week.

Now let’s give each of the contributors from these companies a proper stacker welcome in Hong Kong this week!

@sparkycollier

 

OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Oct 25 – Nov 1)

 

November 1, 2013

The Hong Kong Summit: Why I’m Excited

We asked our community why they’re looking forward to the OpenStack Summit in Hong Kong next week. We received a number of colorful responses and we’re sharing some of the best here. Have something to add?  Let us know why you’re excited for the Summit in the comments!

Reviewing how Blueprints are handled

OpenStack Compute Tech Lead Russell Bryant has triggered an important discussion on the OpenStack Development mailing list about the process to review blueprints. The Blueprints wiki page currently assigns to Project Tech Leads the task of assigning priority to the blueprints and Russell is suggesting that a wider group of people in the community shares such responsibility. Join the discussion on the development mailing list and in Hong Kong.

OpenStack “Core” and Interoperability

Have you been following the “what is core?” conversation since the “Incubation Update” committee completed its work some time ago? This discussion is going to be the big ticket item during next week’s board meeting. Mark McLoughlin shares his thoughts and a discussion derived from it on the OpenStack Foundation mailing list.

Tips ‘n Tricks

Upcoming Events

Reports from Previous Events

Other News

Welcome New Reviewers and Developers

Is your affiliation correct? Check your profile in the OpenStack Foundation Members Database!

Chandankumar, None Lana, Rackspace
Vinod Mangalpally, Rackspace Vladimir Vechkanov, Mirantis
Tim Freund, Missing email in profile Neo, None
Telles Mota Vidal Nóbrega, Distributed System Laboratory – LSD/UFCG Maxime Vidori, Enovace
Christian Strack, None Kai Zhang, Cisco
Hoisaleshwara Madan V S, Missing email in profile Ekaterina Fedorova, Mirantis
Daniel Korn, Missing email in profile Sushil Kumar, Globallogic
ChenZheng, IBM Olga Kopylova, None
Vipin Balachandran, VMware Krishna Raman, Multiple profile profile
Renat Akhmerov, Mirantis Diane Mueller, ActiveState Software
Adrian Otto, Rackspace Clayton Coleman, Red Hat
Sridhar S, None Blair Zajac, ?
Matthew Mosesohn, Multiple profile and profile Vipin Balachandran, VMware
Dzmitry Horbach, None Lars Butler, Rackspace
Brian DeHamer, HP Chandankumar, None
nikhil komawar, Rackspace Anastasia Karpinska, None
Joe Cruz, Rackspace
Terry Howe, HP
Phillipa Avery, Self
Michael Prokop, ?

Security Advisories

Latest Activity In Projects

Do you want to see at a glance the bugs filed and solved this week? Latest patches submitted for review? Check out the individual project pages on OpenStack Activity Board – Insights.

OpenStack Reactions

Missing the deadline

Missing the deadline sending a review after feature freeze

The 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 leave a comment.

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The Hong Kong Summit: Why I’m Excited

 

October 31, 2013

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We asked our community why they’re looking forward to the OpenStack Summit in Hong Kong next week. We received a number of colorful responses and we’re sharing some of the best here. Have something to add?  Let us know why you’re excited for the Summit in the comments below!

 

Terri Yu, @terrimyu

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1) Why are you excited for the Hong Kong Summit?

How can I not be excited, it’s my first software developer conference!! I just finished my Outreach Program for Women internship. I’ve never been to Hong Kong and my mom is from that area, so I get to visit lots of family & friends that I normally don’t get to see. Plus, I need an OpenStack t-shirt for my collection.  My utmost gratitude goes to the OpenStack Travel Fund for making all of this possible!

2) Which sessions are you not going to miss?

“Ceilometer+Heat=Alarming” and “Deploying and Training on OpenStack at MIT: Helping to Accelerate World-Class Research.” My internship mentor, Julien Danjou, is one of the speakers for the former, but I’m an MIT alum and have done a lot of scientific research in the past. So let’s call it a tie.

3) How will people recognize you at the Summit?

I’ll be carrying a thermos filled with yerba mate tea and wearing a black Patagonia fleece jacket over a nerdy or hockey t-shirt. I don’t have any OpenStack t-shirts yet, but some t-shirts I plan to bring: dog ate my homework, Museum of Mathematics, San Jose Sharks Hockey, “Eat More Kale”. I may wear my Québec Remparts hockey jersey at parties.

 

Raghavan ‘Rags’ Srinivas, @ragss

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1) Why are you excited for the Summit?

I think the summit has turned the corner. It seems more oriented towards using the stack not just developing it.

2) Which sessions are you most looking forward to?

The keynotes. And I’m naturally biased towards my talks: http://sched.co/1fzTrfq and http://sched.co/14Fd94P.

3) How will someone recognize you at the Summit?

My Indiana Jones hat.

 

Sven Michels, @geektoor

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1) What’s getting you excited about the Summit?

OpenStack is an amazing piece of software. Being part of a summit like this is also a guarantee to meet amazing people. It’s also my first trip that far away, so it’s a double excitement 🙂

2) Are you looking forward to any particular sessions?

No special session, I want to get inspired by the summit itself to pick the right ones. Main interest is security and availability.

3) How will people recognize you at the Summit?

Easy to notice me by my wheelchair and of course a tablet (and some USB power. In case someone runs out of power, just ask).

 

Brent Doncaster, @Brent_BWD

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1) Tell us why you’re excited about the Summit in Hong Kong.

It’s Hong Kong! Haven’t been back since ’89!. And it’s my first OpenStack Summit!

2) Which sessions are you looking forward to? Why?

Dell and InkTank Ceph – cuz its cool! 

2) What 3 things will you not be seen without?

Video camera, Dell log shirt, and a smile!

 

Flavio Percoco, @flaper87

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1) Tell us why you’re excited for the OpenStack Summit?

Basically everything. I’m definitely most exited by the fact that it’ll be Marconi’s first summit!!!!!

2) Which sessions are you most looking forward to?

All Marconi, Oslo and Glance sessions, because those are the projects I’ve been working on in the last year. I’m also looking forward to some of the Release Management sessions, I see a lot of value in those for the whole project.

3) How will someone recognize you at the Summit? What 3 things will you not be seen without?

Huge smile, lot of excitement, rainbow sandals, shorts and I’ll be moving my hands Italian style. 😀

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