On behalf of the OpenStack Conference Program Committee, I am pleased to initiate the Call for Speakers for the Fall 2011 OpenStack Conference in Boston, MA from October 5-7.\u00a0 This gathering of OpenStack developers, users, eco-system partners, open source enthusiasts, and cloud computing technologists presents speakers with the opportunity to actively participate in the shaping of the future of the OpenStack project. I look forward to joining with the community in Boston for an amazing 3 days of OpenStack goodness.<\/p>\n
PROCESS<\/strong> To submit your request to be a speaker please send an email to stephen.spector@openstack.org<\/a> with the Subject Line: OPENSTACK CONFERENCE SPEAKER SUBMISSION. In the email be sure to include your contact information as well as the topic you are interested in speaking on. Should you submit a new topic, please provide details on that topic.<\/p>\n TOPICS<\/strong> Technical<\/em> Business<\/em> The Program Committee anxiously awaits your speaker submission as we assemble the final OpenStack Conference Agenda. The deadline to submit your request is September 6, 2011 <\/strong>so that we can release the final agenda on September 14, 2011<\/strong>. All speakers selected will receive a complementary pass to the event via a special registration code. If you have any further questions, please contact me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On behalf of the OpenStack Conference Program Committee, I am pleased to initiate the Call for Speakers for the Fall 2011 OpenStack Conference in Boston, MA from October 5-7.\u00a0 This gathering of OpenStack developers, users, eco-system partners, open source enthusiasts, and cloud computing technologists presents speakers with the opportunity to actively participate in the shaping… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,9,60],"tags":[217,92,253,49,86],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264"}],"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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1264"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1266,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264\/revisions\/1266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe Program Committee has listed a series of suggested topics for the overall agenda of the conference. Please review these topics and submit your talk under the various topic(s). Of course, if you have an idea for a topic not listed, please send your information as the Program Committee is always open to new ideas.<\/p>\n
\nThe topics suggested by the Program Committee fit under two umbrella categories:\u00a0 technical or business. Each session is currently planned for 30 minutes.<\/p>\n
\nProject Overview \u2013 NOVA
\nProject Overview –\u00a0 SWIFT
\nProject Overview \u2013 GLANCE
\nCommunity Developer Tools
\nOpenStack in the Data Center
\nOpenStack Deployments
\nDevOps
\nProject Introductions \u2013 Information on the various eco-system projects not yet core in OpenStack<\/p>\n
\nEconomics of OpenStack
\nOpenStack Case Study
\nProject Overview \u2013 NOVA
\nProject Overview –\u00a0 SWIFT
\nProject Overview \u2013 GLANCE
\nBuilding an OpenStack Practice (Solution Providers)
\nOpenStack Case Study
\nPublic Cloud Hosting Best Practices
\nPrivate Clouds Hosting Best Practices<\/p>\n