{"id":6158,"date":"2014-06-30T17:46:39","date_gmt":"2014-06-30T22:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/?p=6158"},"modified":"2016-06-29T12:23:53","modified_gmt":"2016-06-29T17:23:53","slug":"openstack-turns-4-its-time-to-celebrate-the-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/openstack-turns-4-its-time-to-celebrate-the-community\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenStack Turns 4 – It’s Time to Celebrate the Community!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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OpenStack celebrates its 4th birthday<\/a> July 19, and we\u2019re celebrating with the entire OpenStack community during July!\u00a0 User maturity, software maturity and a focus on cloud software operations are rapidly emerging for OpenStack and none of it would be possible without the quickly growing OpenStack community. There are now more than 70 global user groups and 17,000 community members across 139 countries, spanning more than 370 organizations. This calls for a big toast to the OpenStack community members and our users.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Within our community, we are also celebrating our users in our online publication, Superuser<\/a>. Check out birthday-themed features during July and keep an eye out for our infographic that will showcase user growth metrics and deployments.<\/p>\n\"4th<\/a>\n

We\u2019ve invited all our user groups to celebrate with us. During the month of July, more than 50 OpenStack birthday parties will be thrown all over the world \u2013 celebrating the OpenStack community!\u00a0 We encourage everyone to find a birthday party in your area and join your fellow community members to toast each other on another great year! Don’t forget to share your pictures and memories using #OpenStack4Bday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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If you’re attending OSCON, the Foundation invites you to come celebrate the OpenStack community<\/a> on Tuesday, July 22nd at Union\/Pine to mingle with other community members and Foundation staff. Stay tuned – more details coming soon!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\nFind a local celebration in your area:<\/b><\/div>\n
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Atlanta<\/a> – July 17<\/div>\n
Austin<\/a>\u00a0– July 10<\/div>\n
Bangalore, India<\/a> – July 13<\/div>\n
Berlin, Germany<\/a> – July 29<\/div>\n
Beijing, China<\/a> – July 19<\/div>\n
Boston<\/a>\u00a0– July 10<\/div>\n
Brazil<\/a> – July 26<\/div>\n
Brisbane<\/a> – July 24<\/div>\n
Canberra, Australia<\/a> – July 10<\/div>\n
China<\/a> \u00a0– July 19<\/div>\n
Colorado<\/a> – July 15<\/div>\n
Connecticut<\/a> – July 15<\/div>\n
Ecuador<\/a> – July 24<\/div>\n
Egypt<\/a>\u00a0– July 19<\/div>\n
Florida<\/a> – July 11<\/div>\n
Frankfurt, Germany<\/a> – July 28<\/div>\n
Greece<\/a> – July 9<\/div>\n
Hong Kong<\/a> – July 4<\/div>\n
Hungary<\/a> – July 10<\/div>\n
Indonesia<\/a> – July 1<\/div>\n
Iran<\/a> – July 14<\/div>\n
Ireland<\/a> – July 18<\/div>\n
Israel<\/a> – July 3<\/div>\n
Italy<\/a> – July 10<\/div>\n
Japan<\/a> – July 10<\/div>\n
Kentucky<\/a> – July 17<\/div>\n
Korea<\/a> – July 16<\/div>\n
London<\/a> – July 15
\nLos Angeles<\/a> – July 31<\/div>\n
Melbourne, Australia<\/a> – July 28<\/div>\n
Minnesota<\/a> – July 21<\/div>\n
Mumbai, India<\/a> – July 20<\/div>\n
Munich, Germany<\/a> – July 23<\/div>\n
Nairobi<\/a> – July 29<\/div>\n
Netherlands<\/a> – July 17<\/div>\n
New York City<\/a> – July 16<\/div>\n
Paris, France<\/a> – July 2<\/div>\n
Philadelphia<\/a> – July 17<\/div>\n
Philippines<\/a> – July 4<\/div>\n
Portland<\/a> – July 22<\/div>\n
Rh\u00f4ne-Alpes, France<\/a> – July 1<\/div>\n
Russia<\/a> – July 19<\/div>\n
San Francisco<\/a>\u00a0– July 30<\/div>\n
Seattle<\/a> – July 24<\/div>\n
Slovenia<\/a> – July 10<\/div>\n
Switzerland<\/a> – July 17<\/div>\n
Sydney<\/a> – July 10<\/div>\n
Taiwan<\/a> – July 11<\/div>\n
Tasmania, Australia<\/a> – July 17<\/div>\n
Thailand<\/a> – July 21 – 23<\/div>\n
Toulouse, France<\/a> – July 9<\/div>\n
Triangle, North Carolina<\/a> – July 24<\/div>\n
Venezuela<\/a>\u00a0– July 19<\/div>\n
Washington DC<\/a> – July 9<\/div>\n
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OpenStack celebrates its 4th birthday July 19, and we\u2019re celebrating with the entire OpenStack community during July!\u00a0 User maturity, software maturity and a focus on cloud software operations are rapidly emerging for OpenStack and none of it would be possible without the quickly growing OpenStack community. There are now more than 70 global user groups… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6158"}],"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\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6158"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7828,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6158\/revisions\/7828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}