{"id":5973,"date":"2014-05-12T15:40:58","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T20:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/?p=5973"},"modified":"2014-05-14T08:17:23","modified_gmt":"2014-05-14T13:17:23","slug":"atlanta-summit-day-1-introducing-superusers-the-marketplace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/atlanta-summit-day-1-introducing-superusers-the-marketplace\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlanta Summit, Day 1: Introducing Superusers, the Marketplace"},"content":{"rendered":"
The age of the Superuser began with the opening day of the Atlanta Design Summit. Jonathan Bryce, Executive Director of the OpenStack Foundation delivered his keynote address<\/a> to a standing-room-only conference room of developers, operators, users and more.<\/div>\n

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It was only 18 months ago in San Diego, where 1,200 members of the OpenStack community joined for the Design Summit. This week, 4,500 people will join for the Atlanta Summit.<\/div>\n
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Jonathan asked the standing room only crowd, \u201cHow many of us made their first contribution to Icehouse?\u201d Dozens stood up to a round of applause. Jonathan, as well as the other speakers this morning, all recognized that there are many new faces, and more opinions. And that\u2019s a big reason why OpenStack is so successful.<\/div>\n

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These new voices represent perspectives, energy, and potential to innovate that makes OpenStack unique and able to keep infrastructures agile.<\/div>\n

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\u201cEvery company now competes with a startup\u201d Jonathan told the crowd. \u201cMore and more companies are using OpenStack to reduce their expenses, increase experimentation and increase innovation.\u201d<\/div>\n

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But it isn\u2019t just what people are doing with OpenStack. What\u2019s more important is that they are changing their businesses. \u201cSuperusers are using their capabilities to bring about change, and more competitive in the software defined economy.”<\/div>\n

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Wells Fargo and Disney were featured Superusers in this morning\u2019s keynote session. When asked why Wells Fargo uses OpenStack, Glenn Ferguson, head of private cloud enablement, focused on being part of a strong community.<\/div>\n

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\u201cIt is in my best interest to let the community know what we\u2019re doing and what we\u2019re interested in and what our use cases are. We\u2019re running a serious business on this technology, and this is what we have to do to remain competitive and flexible in this environment.\u201d<\/div>\n

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Chris Launey, Direct Cloud Services and Architect at Walt Disney Company, spoke passionately about why he uses OpenStack. \u201cLike many others in this audience, I\u2019m trying to lead a revolution to help empower people when they come to work in technology.\u201d<\/div>\n

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\u201cIf you give somebody enough fast, they can get their make their own cheap. They can get their product to market quickly. You can make your own good by shrinking your own dev cycles.\u201d<\/div>\n

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The Marketplace & Superuser Publication\u00a0<\/b><\/div>\n

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Also this morning, Jonathan introduced two new initiatives from the Foundation, aimed at extending the support for users and operators well past the bounds of the twice-yearly summit.<\/div>\n

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First, the Foundation announced the launch of a new OpenStack publication called \u201cSuperuser\u201d, built by operators and users for operators and users.<\/div>\n

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The content will highlight organizational issues that users face when bringing OpenStack into their organizations. Featuring a mix of original journalism and user-generated content, the publication will emphasize a range of technical to business-level issues with feature stories, case studies, tips and videos for OpenStack cloud architects and administrators.<\/div>\n

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The Foundation is asking for your help, feedback and involvement: Check out:\u00a0http:\/\/superuser.openstack.org\/about<\/a>\u00a0to learn more.<\/div>\n

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Subscribe to the Superuser newsletter, or send ideas for content or posts to editor@openstack.org.<\/div>\n

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The second announcement<\/a> was the launch of the OpenStack Marketplace. This new service for OpenStack users is \u201coriented around the path to adoption\u201d, and designed to help users and operators to make informed decisions. It will be the go-to spot for information-gathering in the early stages of Openstack adoption and for evaluating various production options.<\/div>\n

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Learn more about the Marketplace and how you can join at openstack.org\/marketplace or contact ecosystem@openstack.org<\/a>.<\/div>\n

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In addition, there was a good deal of news and activity on the web coming out of today\u2019s Summit. We\u2019ve highlighted a few below, there will be more to come!<\/div>\n
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