This conference is the highest-level OpenStack meeting held in the Asia-Pacific region\u00a0so far, attracting more than 1000 people in Beijing venue\u00a0and nearly 700 people in Shanghai venue, which come from more than 180\u00a0companies. OpenStack enthusiasts and community representatives from Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, Australia and U.S. have also\u00a0witnessed the grand conference.<\/p>\n
Representatives of some OpenStack big players, such as\u00a0Billy Cox from\u00a0Intel, Kyle MacDonald from Canonical, Steven Hallett from eBay X.commerce, Boris Renski from Mirantis, Hui Cheng from Sina etc., delivered a very compelling and attracting speech, making all audience listen carefully.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Many audience asked lots of good questions at the conference. Speakers were never reluctant to give them thorough answers.<\/p>\n Among the speakers, Hui Cheng, manager of COSUG and technical leader gave an opening address talking about the status of COSUG(link<\/a>), as well as a keynote speech OpenStack Opportunities and Challenges(link<\/a>)<\/em>.In the opening address, he mentioned that after\u00a0deduction of overlap user registration, it’s a conservative estimation that COSUG has 2,500 user members in China, which maybe the biggest user group out of U.S., he also believed that China would be the second largest Openstack market in the world.<\/p>\n The first day was ended by by a panel on The Current Status and Trends of OpenStack<\/em>. The panelists are the OpenStack community representatives from different\u00a0countries\u00a0and regions of APAC, they are, from the second to right, the panel host from CSDN and\u00a0representatives from\u00a0Taiwan, mainland China, Japan, South Korea, two guys from Australia, and Boris on behalf of OpenStack Foundation.<\/p>\n Outside of the meeting, OSAC sponsors’ boothes \u00a0had attracted lots of attention, companies and potential\u00a0customers\u00a0were communicating and connected through specific OpenStack related products.<\/p>\n Sessions on the second day were attracting and appealing as well. When the sessions finished, some administrators from\u00a0COSUG, industrial leaders and OpenStack specialists got together to share experience and ideas on OpenStack community, network virtualization and business opportunities around OpenStack.<\/p>\n In the evening, Rackspace sponsored a free beer party. COSUG managers and some OpenStack related companies joined this party. Mike Metral, the solution architect from Rackspace, gave a\u00a0introduction about\u00a0the newly launched Rackpsace\u00a0next generation cloud, and we also discussed some technical detail under OpenStack projects.<\/p>\n The event sponsor list is Rackspace, Intel, Canonical, Dell, HiSoft, NEC, VMware, 99Cloud, Cloudena, Midokura and Sina, thanks to them, \u00a0who made the event available\u00a0\u00a0to us. I also want to thank CSDN and COSUG volunteers, they have devoted much energy and time during the whole preparation and organization process of such a big event.<\/p>\n All slides has uploaded to Slideshare tagged with 2012osac:\u00a0http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/HuiCheng2\/tag\/2012osac<\/a><\/p>\n More photos can be seen at Flickr:\u00a0http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/85376316@N02\/sets\/72157631160199442\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n On August 10 -11, the first two-day OpenStack Asia-Pacific Conference (OSAC) was held in Beijing and Shanghai concurrently. This conference is \u00a0jointly organized by CSDN (Chinese Software Develop the Net), the world’s largest Chinese IT technology community and\u00a0the OpenStack user group (COSUG). This conference is the highest-level OpenStack meeting held in the Asia-Pacific region\u00a0so far,… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,59],"tags":[370,355,364,330,75,349,61,365],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2997"}],"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\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2997"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3026,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2997\/revisions\/3026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/OSAC-Booth-150x150.jpg\")
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