Posts Tagged: summit

Keynote Recap, Day 2: Why We Do What We Do

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This morning’s keynotes at the OpenStack Summit were full of excitement and anticipation as the event kicks into high gear for a full day of sessions. OpenStack Foundation executive director, Jonathan Bryce, started the day by welcoming everyone to the 6th Bi-annual OpenStack Summit in San Diego, the largest one yet with over 1,400 people… Read more »

From the Ground at the OpenStack Summit

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Walking around the floor of the sponsor room, there is real excitement in the air. Yesterday kicked off what will be the largest OpenStack Summit yet, with over 1,400 attendees. With the very recent OpenStack Foundation launch and the release of Folsom, attendees at this summit have the very real sense that the eyes of the Cloud… Read more »

OpenStack Summit: Day 1

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The OpenStack Summit started in San Diego today. Mark Collier announced during the kickoff meeting that there are over 1,300 people registered at the conference. As a result, lines for lunch were a bit slower than we wished. We’re coordinating solutions with the hotel to improve the situation. There will be also more power strips… Read more »

Learn More About VMware’s Involvement with OpenStack at the Summit

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OpenStack Summit Event 2012 October 15-18 Learn More About VMware’s Involvement with OpenStack at the Following Sessions Monday (11:00am – 11:40am Oxford) True Hybrid Clouds: Extending OpenStack with Cloud Foundry John Purrier (AppFog) Tuesday (2:40pm – 3:20pm Manchester E) OpenStack Networking (Quantum) Project Update Dan Wendlandt (VMware) Wednesday (9:30am – 10:00am Grand Ballroom) Running the… Read more »

Providing a Unified View of OpenStack Projects

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The OpenStack project is in fact many projects, developed by hundreds of people, tens of companies, used by thousands. These projects are managed via a number of email lists as well as software engineering tools such like wiki, issue trackers, version control, continuous integration, etc. From my perspective as the Community Manager, achieving a coherent… Read more »

OpenStack Folsom Is Here With The Schedule Of The Summit

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Another release for OpenStack today, the sixth in a little over two years.  Folsom, or 2012.2 has two new services Networking (Quantum) and Block Storage (Cinder) services, architected in line with the OpenStack philosophy of pluggability and extensibility. While work was underway to establish the new OpenStack Foundation, our thriving community once again delivered the… Read more »

OpenStack Summit: Vote for Speakers

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We’ve gotten a lot of great speaking submissions, and would like your help shaping the agenda for the next OpenStack Summit, October 15-18, in San Diego.  We’ve made the submissions public for your input, and you have until Thursday, September 13, to vote up your favorites. Please note you need to be an Individual Member… Read more »