Open Stack

On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 12:30 PM, Tristan Goode <tristan at aptira.com> wrote:
> Congratulations Rafael, great to see another UG and it looks like your
> hangout went ok, I just watched my good mate Atul tell you about the India
> UG. We used hangout for the first time to hook up 3 cities last week!

Thank you, Tristan.
Atul is great! We really enjoyed having him with us.
We consider that meetup our first iteration, our learning curve is
extremely steep and I appreciate any feedback - we want to get better
and better with every meetup.

> Hi to Adam in Kenya, it's awesome to see OpenStack making inroads in African
> nations!!!

I am impressed by Adam's ambitious goal to build a public African
OpenStack cloud literally from scratch and we love to have Adam on
board as our co-host.

> Great advice below. If you haven't seen it, there's a wiki at
> https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/OpenStackUserGroups/HowTo
> if you want to share your experiences in a more permanent sense.

Yes, thank you I know that wiki page, I use it as a *checklist* for
our meetups, I haven't considered yet to contribute back - that's a
great idea. Thank you! We will definitely do that.

> Our next meetups on the 24th of June will be an OpenStack 101 beginners
> event and we will again be doing hangouts that anyone can join. They'll be
> at 8.00 UTC so feel free to join in, otherwise I look forward to your next
> meetup!

Thank you for pointing us to your session.
We will definitely tune in and promote, particularly amongst
universities, I assume it's 8.00 am UTC?
Can you provide some more details? (URL, speakers, sessions and such)

Thank you in advance!

> Cheers
> Tristan

All the best,

Rafael

> On 07/06/2013, at 9:28 PM, Rafael Knuth <rafael.knuth at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> We held our first OpenStack User Group Meetup in Poland yesterday with
> up to 50 people joining us at peak times, both physically as well as
> online via Google Hangout and IRC Chat. It was a pleasure and honour
> for us to talk with some of the best known and most sophisticated
> OpenStackers in the world, and we are very thankful for their
> attendance. If you didn’t have a chance to join us live, please find
> below our recorded Google Hangout sessions.
>
> Tim Bell, CERN
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcuW9mpFb3Y&feature=plcp
>
> Boris Renski, Mirantis
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F8aDqqFHwY&feature=plcp
>
> Eric Windisch, Cloudscaling
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VabZmeb1RP4&feature=plcp
>
> Atul Jha, OpenStack India
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqNH-9XOi9k&feature=plcp
>
> Lessons Learned
>
> Let me share with you what key learnings we drew from our first meetup:
>
> OpenStack: don’t believe the hype. Expect most IT people to know
> little to zero about OpenStack. It might be the largest open source
> cloud software project globally with hundreds of companies backing the
> initiative with hundreds of coders and thousands of members, yet there
> are still zillions of system admins and developers out there who have
> no clue what OpenStack is about. Educate them all, one geek at a time.
>
> Tune into the global OpenStack community. When you’re small, you have
> to think big. We have less than a handful of OpenStack deployments in
> Poland, hence there are very few experienced OpenStackers able to
> share their knowledge. As a small community, we have to think out of
> your (local) box and attract the brightest OpenStackers in the world
> to educate our community and we also need to find ways to give back to
> the broader OpenStack community. OpenStack is an open source community
> driven effort, it’s all about a mutual, respectful relationship with
> other OpenStackers, it’s about giving and taking, so let’s do it
> right.
>
> Google Hangout & IRC Chat rock. It’s exciting to talk with
> OpenStackers from the United States, Switzerland, Kenya and India at
> the same time. We obviously lack resources to fly in speakers from all
> over the world. But thanks to Google Hangout & IRC Chat we were able
> to attract the smartest OpenStackers from virtually any place on this
> planet. At the same time, we contribute back with our online sessions
> to the OpenStack community far beyond our country borders: We welcomed
> attendees from 9 different countries in Europe, Africa and even Asia
> Pacific - most of which face similar challenges to ours. But when
> small, local OpenStack communities join forces, there is an
> opportunity to create a huge multinational community spreading across
> multiple regions. It’s the power of many in action.
>
> Pick your audience wisely: Only the brave. It’s only possible to start
> a revolution with brave people, and OpenStack is a revolution. We
> learned that you need to attract the brave ones in the first place:
> People who don’t shy away from asking questions in front of an
> audience, even in spite of a severe language barrier. People, who are
> willing to make a difference, who show up at the meetup with burning
> questions and who want to apply their newly acquired skills the next
> day at work. We need to listen carefully to them and tailor our
> meetups around their needs. The vast majority of the IT crowd will
> follow later, but you can only start a movement with a small bunch of
> wildly determined, super-pragmatic, brave people.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW8amMCVAJQ
>
> Address real life problems. Some of our attendees are contemplating to
> build private clouds or to deploy their applications on alternative
> public cloud platforms, but they don’t necessarily have OpenStack on
> top of their mind. We realized that we primarily have to address their
> questions such as: tactical choice of hypervisors or capacity planning
> for cloud storage, automated deployment and management, application
> development and deployment. Our learning: Relate to people’s everyday
> experience reality, and then expand the conversation to OpenStack -
> rather than the other way round.
>
> Keep it short and focused. We challenged our attendees with four
> speaker sessions in a row from 5.00 pm to 9.00 pm. Our key learning:
> We need to keep our meetups shorter and focus on one specific topic at
> a time. Also, people are keen on diving deeply into technical
> conversations on topics they are interested in (we feel that an
> OpenStack User Group meetup is not necessarily the right place for
> level presentations on OpenStack).
>
> Do it again, again and again. We will host our meetups and the
> accompanying Google Hangout & IRC Chat sessions on a monthly basis.
> Feel free to register for our upcoming meetup on July 11th 2013, 6.00
> pm - 8.30 pm CEST (GMT + 2hrs), and watch out for further meetups in
> August, September, October, November … see you there!
>
> http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-User-Group-Poland/
>
> All the best,
>
> Rafael
>
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On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 12:30 PM, Tristan Goode <tristan at aptira.com> wrote:
> Congratulations Rafael, great to see another UG and it looks like your
> hangout went ok, I just watched my good mate Atul tell you about the India
> UG. We used hangout for the first time to hook up 3 cities last week!
>
> Hi to Adam in Kenya, it's awesome to see OpenStack making inroads in African
> nations!!!
>
> Great advice below. If you haven't seen it, there's a wiki at
> https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/OpenStackUserGroups/HowTo
> if you want to share your experiences in a more permanent sense.
>
> Our next meetups on the 24th of June will be an OpenStack 101 beginners
> event and we will again be doing hangouts that anyone can join. They'll be
> at 8.00 UTC so feel free to join in, otherwise I look forward to your next
> meetup!
>
> Cheers
> Tristan
>
>
> On 07/06/2013, at 9:28 PM, Rafael Knuth <rafael.knuth at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> We held our first OpenStack User Group Meetup in Poland yesterday with
> up to 50 people joining us at peak times, both physically as well as
> online via Google Hangout and IRC Chat. It was a pleasure and honour
> for us to talk with some of the best known and most sophisticated
> OpenStackers in the world, and we are very thankful for their
> attendance. If you didn’t have a chance to join us live, please find
> below our recorded Google Hangout sessions.
>
> Tim Bell, CERN
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcuW9mpFb3Y&feature=plcp
>
> Boris Renski, Mirantis
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F8aDqqFHwY&feature=plcp
>
> Eric Windisch, Cloudscaling
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VabZmeb1RP4&feature=plcp
>
> Atul Jha, OpenStack India
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqNH-9XOi9k&feature=plcp
>
> Lessons Learned
>
> Let me share with you what key learnings we drew from our first meetup:
>
> OpenStack: don’t believe the hype. Expect most IT people to know
> little to zero about OpenStack. It might be the largest open source
> cloud software project globally with hundreds of companies backing the
> initiative with hundreds of coders and thousands of members, yet there
> are still zillions of system admins and developers out there who have
> no clue what OpenStack is about. Educate them all, one geek at a time.
>
> Tune into the global OpenStack community. When you’re small, you have
> to think big. We have less than a handful of OpenStack deployments in
> Poland, hence there are very few experienced OpenStackers able to
> share their knowledge. As a small community, we have to think out of
> your (local) box and attract the brightest OpenStackers in the world
> to educate our community and we also need to find ways to give back to
> the broader OpenStack community. OpenStack is an open source community
> driven effort, it’s all about a mutual, respectful relationship with
> other OpenStackers, it’s about giving and taking, so let’s do it
> right.
>
> Google Hangout & IRC Chat rock. It’s exciting to talk with
> OpenStackers from the United States, Switzerland, Kenya and India at
> the same time. We obviously lack resources to fly in speakers from all
> over the world. But thanks to Google Hangout & IRC Chat we were able
> to attract the smartest OpenStackers from virtually any place on this
> planet. At the same time, we contribute back with our online sessions
> to the OpenStack community far beyond our country borders: We welcomed
> attendees from 9 different countries in Europe, Africa and even Asia
> Pacific - most of which face similar challenges to ours. But when
> small, local OpenStack communities join forces, there is an
> opportunity to create a huge multinational community spreading across
> multiple regions. It’s the power of many in action.
>
> Pick your audience wisely: Only the brave. It’s only possible to start
> a revolution with brave people, and OpenStack is a revolution. We
> learned that you need to attract the brave ones in the first place:
> People who don’t shy away from asking questions in front of an
> audience, even in spite of a severe language barrier. People, who are
> willing to make a difference, who show up at the meetup with burning
> questions and who want to apply their newly acquired skills the next
> day at work. We need to listen carefully to them and tailor our
> meetups around their needs. The vast majority of the IT crowd will
> follow later, but you can only start a movement with a small bunch of
> wildly determined, super-pragmatic, brave people.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW8amMCVAJQ
>
> Address real life problems. Some of our attendees are contemplating to
> build private clouds or to deploy their applications on alternative
> public cloud platforms, but they don’t necessarily have OpenStack on
> top of their mind. We realized that we primarily have to address their
> questions such as: tactical choice of hypervisors or capacity planning
> for cloud storage, automated deployment and management, application
> development and deployment. Our learning: Relate to people’s everyday
> experience reality, and then expand the conversation to OpenStack -
> rather than the other way round.
>
> Keep it short and focused. We challenged our attendees with four
> speaker sessions in a row from 5.00 pm to 9.00 pm. Our key learning:
> We need to keep our meetups shorter and focus on one specific topic at
> a time. Also, people are keen on diving deeply into technical
> conversations on topics they are interested in (we feel that an
> OpenStack User Group meetup is not necessarily the right place for
> level presentations on OpenStack).
>
> Do it again, again and again. We will host our meetups and the
> accompanying Google Hangout & IRC Chat sessions on a monthly basis.
> Feel free to register for our upcoming meetup on July 11th 2013, 6.00
> pm - 8.30 pm CEST (GMT + 2hrs), and watch out for further meetups in
> August, September, October, November … see you there!
>
> http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-User-Group-Poland/
>
> All the best,
>
> Rafael
>
> _______________________________________________
> Community mailing list
> Community at lists.openstack.org
> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/community