Barcelona, Spain
October 25-28, 2016

Event Details

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What is OpenStack? The Comprehensive Answer

"What is OpenStack ?" is easily the most common question we receive. And yet our most common answer still is "well, it's complicated". OpenStack is a lot of different things to a lot of different people. Is it a common goal, a bunch of Python code, a single product, a set of disconnected projects, a job market, an interoperable standard, a community, a set of principles, a social experiment ?

In this talk, Thierry Carrez, Director of Engineering at the OpenStack Foundation and chair of the OpenStack Technical Committee, draws on the past 6 years of academic research on that question to deliver the final, ultimate and complete answer.


What can I expect to learn?

Attendees will learn about all the various facets of the OpenStack complex polyhedron. At the end of this session, they will be able to answer confidently (if not succintly) the most asked question in the world of OpenStack.

Tuesday, October 25, 12:15pm-12:55pm (10:15am - 10:55am UTC)
Difficulty Level: Beginner
Open Infrastructure Foundation, Vice President of Engineering
Thierry Carrez is the General Manager for the OpenInfra Foundation. A long-time elected member of the OpenStack Technical Committee, he has been a Release Manager for the OpenStack project since its inception, coordinating the effort and facilitating collaboration between contributors. Thierry spoke about OpenStack, open innovation and open source project management at various conferences... FULL PROFILE