{"id":2257,"date":"2012-03-31T05:39:02","date_gmt":"2012-03-31T10:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/?p=2257"},"modified":"2012-03-31T11:10:05","modified_gmt":"2012-03-31T16:10:05","slug":"i-hear-the-essex-train-a-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/i-hear-the-essex-train-a-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"I hear the Essex Train a-coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">With Essex train in the wilds of testing, and the Essex release intended date less than 10 days away, we are pretty excited about everyone descending on San Francisco &#8212; practically our home town &#8212; for the Design Summit and Conference.<\/p>\n<p>Here at Mirantis, the company famous across OpenStack community for distributing vodka bottles at OpenStack meetups, we are gearing up in a big way for the summit and conference. If you haven&#8217;t seen <a href=\"http:\/\/openstack.org\/conference\/san-francisco-2012\/sessions\/\">the agenda<\/a>,\u00a0here&#8217;s what we&#8217;ve got teed up:<\/p>\n<p>(1) We\u2019ll start the frenzy with Just-in-time-Training: we have a few seats left at our 2-day OpenStack Boot Camp, crammed into the weekend of April 14-15, right before the summit and conference.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirantis.com\/training\"> REGISTER HERE<\/a> and come to the event fully prepared to torment speakers and presenters with insidious technical questions about OpenStack technology and its future.<\/p>\n<p>(2) Our team will participate in \/ moderate a few exciting sessions during the conference: <a href=\"http:\/\/openstackconferencespring2012.sched.org\/event\/f09acb72f11eb4cc126f74622c7d1e86?iframe=yes&amp;w=990&amp;sidebar=no&amp;bg=no#?iframe=yes&amp;w=990&amp;sidebar=no&amp;bg=no\">OpenStack and Block Storage<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/openstackconferencespring2012.sched.org\/event\/3fb937d7faf553b7746bd1510f6c45fe?iframe=yes&amp;w=990&amp;sidebar=no&amp;bg=no#?iframe=yes&amp;w=990&amp;sidebar=no&amp;bg=no\">OpenStack and High Performance Computing<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/openstackconferencespring2012.sched.org\/event\/eda8d9162bfd04eb1074ef07daeed890?iframe=yes&amp;w=990&amp;sidebar=no&amp;bg=no#sched-body-outer\">Expanding the Community<\/a>. Please be sure to pay us a visit.<\/p>\n<p>(3) \u2026and just to show how happy we are to have you here, we invite everyone at the conference to join <a href=\"http:\/\/openstacksummitkickoff2012.eventbrite.com\/\">Mirantis Summit Kick-Off Party<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zUd8tmrhH5k&amp;feature=related\">This is how we party at Mirantis!<\/a>\u00a0Vodka bottles and fun times in the best traditions of all our events are guaranteed. Be sure not to miss.<\/p>\n<p>Looking forward to receiving everyone at the 2012 OpenStack Design Summit and Conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Essex train in the wilds of testing, and the Essex release intended date less than 10 days away, we are pretty excited about everyone descending on San Francisco &#8212; practically our home town &#8212; for the Design Summit and Conference. Here at Mirantis, the company famous across OpenStack community for distributing vodka bottles at&#8230;  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/i-hear-the-essex-train-a-coming\/\" class=\"more-link\" title=\"Read I hear the Essex Train a-coming\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,9,60],"tags":[17,514,49,201,12,86],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257"}],"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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2257"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2263,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257\/revisions\/2263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}