{"id":1179,"date":"2011-07-18T10:41:21","date_gmt":"2011-07-18T15:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/?p=1179"},"modified":"2011-07-19T08:54:58","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T13:54:58","slug":"openstack-day-in-london-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/openstack-day-in-london-recap\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenStack Day in London Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\n

On Wednesday we held an OpenStack Day in London \u2014 the first for our community in Europe.\u00a0 It’s very obvious we should have done this much sooner.\u00a0 We never know how many people to expect at these events, and had planned for 125 or so.\u00a0 In the end, about 350 people attended.\u00a0 The catering held up well to the surge in attendees, but the wifi didn’t fare so well.\u00a0 We will adjust going forward.\u00a0 Here are some of my observations from the day:<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0 Not only was a substantial portion of the audience very familiar with OpenStack, many had already deployed it.\u00a0 I met individuals and companies from around Europe who have already deployed OpenStack clouds.\u00a0 Because we don’t track software installations, we have little idea how many of the 35,000+ downloads from Launchpad are actually running.\u00a0 However, identifying yourself in the community is very critical as it allows us to help tell your story, helps other users get information, and in general helps move OpenStack forward.\u00a0 So if you have deployed OpenStack, please let us know by contacting Stephen Spector (stephen.spector@openstack.org<\/a><\/a>).\u00a0 We are putting togther case studies and if you participate we will get you some free OpenStack schwag!<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0 Many of the attendees had traveled from other parts of Europe to attend including the France, Hungary, Norway, Finland and Spain.\u00a0 We are working hard to establish user groups<\/a> around the world so that anyone wanting to learn about OpenStack or chat about the project with peers will have the chance to do so.\u00a0 If you are interested in running one, please also contact Stephen.<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0 The ecosystem is rapidly maturing with existing members increasing their investments, new ones continuing to join, and new businesses getting funded around OpenStack.\u00a0 In particular, the discussion about OpenStack distributions from companies such as Citrix, Canonical and StackOps indicates how companies are investing in this technology as the right cloud solution for their customers.\u00a0 Citrix highlighted how their acquisition of Cloud.com<\/a> was a doubling down of their commitment to the project.\u00a0 All of this activity bodes well for the creation of a broad range of OpenStack solutions for customers.<\/p>\n

4.\u00a0 We have some smart developers, system administrators and operators working on this project.\u00a0 Vish Ishaya, Jonathan Bryce, Josh McKenty and Chmouel Boudjnah all gave excellent overviews of the technology.\u00a0 The audience questions and hallway conversation also indicated that our flock of community members is well above average.<\/p>\n

An installfest was held over pints right after the event.\u00a0 We filled up the one room we booked and had to take a second.\u00a0 There was some good community bonding going on for hours.\u00a0 Lots of discussion was also had about a future event in Europe, so we have become looking at Paris for September.\u00a0 Stay tuned for more details.<\/p>\n

I want to thank Canonical, Equinix, Dell, Citrix, Rightscale and Rackspace for their sponsorship of the event.\u00a0 If you have feedback for us, don’t hesitate to drop me a line at jim@openstack.org<\/a> or @jimcurry<\/a> on Twitter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Wednesday we held an OpenStack Day in London \u2014 the first for our community in Europe.\u00a0 It’s very obvious we should have done this much sooner.\u00a0 We never know how many people to expect at these events, and had planned for 125 or so.\u00a0 In the end, about 350 people attended.\u00a0 The catering held… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,9,59],"tags":[248,514,247,12],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1179"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1186,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179\/revisions\/1186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}