{"id":2056,"date":"2012-02-28T04:17:11","date_gmt":"2012-02-28T10:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/?p=2056"},"modified":"2012-02-28T04:18:36","modified_gmt":"2012-02-28T10:18:36","slug":"openstack-sydney-meetup-special-event-with-james-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/openstack-sydney-meetup-special-event-with-james-williams\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenStack Sydney Meetup Special Event with James Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Tristan-James-and-Phil.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2061 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Tristan-James-and-Phil.jpg\" alt=\"Tristan Goode from Aptira, James Williams from NASA, and Phil Rogers from Aptira\" width=\"226\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>\n<p class=\"lead\">Last Friday February 24 at the Harbour View Hotel in Sydney the Australian OpenStack User Group had a special meetup with James Williams, CIO of <a title=\"NASA AMES\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/centers\/ames\/home\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">NASA AMES Research Centre<\/a>. For those not in the know James and AMES had a key role in the establishment of Nebula and OpenStack.<\/p>\n<p>Last week we heard James was in the country for a conference and was passing through Sydney, so an invitation to meet the User Group was extended and James graciously accepted at very short notice.\u00a0James&#8217; enthusiastic evangelism for OpenStack was very inspiring and everyone attending managed to get a chat in. On behalf of the <a title=\"Australian OpenStack Users Group\" href=\"http:\/\/aosug.openstack.org.au\" target=\"_blank\">Australian OpenStack User Group<\/a> and the evening&#8217;s sponsor <a title=\"Aptira\" href=\"http:\/\/aptira.com\" target=\"_blank\">Aptira<\/a>, thanks to James for fitting us into his hectic schedule.<\/p>\n<p>More pictures are available over at <a title=\"Australian OpenStack Users Group and James Williams\" href=\"http:\/\/www.techworld.com.au\/slideshow\/416572\/pictures_australian_openstack_users_group_hosts_nasa_james_williams\/?image=1\" target=\"_blank\">TechWorld<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Head to <a title=\"AOSUG\" href=\"http:\/\/aosug.openstack.org.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">our Australian Meetup group<\/a>\u00a0to get involved, or join the <a title=\"Openstack-AU\" href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/openstack-au\" target=\"_blank\">AU Google group<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Friday February 24 at the Harbour View Hotel in Sydney the Australian OpenStack User Group had a special meetup with James Williams, CIO of NASA AMES Research Centre. For those not in the know James and AMES had a key role in the establishment of Nebula and OpenStack. Last week we heard James was&#8230;  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/openstack-sydney-meetup-special-event-with-james-williams\/\" class=\"more-link\" title=\"Read OpenStack Sydney Meetup Special Event with James Williams\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,59],"tags":[298,296,35,108,12],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2056"}],"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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2056"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2071,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2056\/revisions\/2071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}