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[openstack-community] Ireland OpenStack Day 2016
by Duarte Cardoso, Igor 14 Mar '16

14 Mar '16

Greetings OpenStack community, The first ever official Ireland OpenStack Day will take place on the 10th of June, 2016, in the Marker Hotel, Dublin, Ireland [1]. This is a great opportunity to meet the OpenStack Foundation chief executive, industry leaders, end users and active community contributors/core developers, and share learnings! To secure your seat at the first Ireland OpenStack Day event, follow the EventBrite link at [2]. Please note there is a cover charge of 55 EUR which includes your event pass, a sit-down lunch in the fabulous Brasserie restaurant, The Marker Hotel, refreshments throughout the day, the first OpenStack Ireland Event T-Shirt and an automatic entry to have a chance to win one of many fabulous spot prizes. Don't delay - book now as places are limited and you really don't want to miss out! Target Audience : IT Executives / CIOs / Infrastructure Architects Public & Private Cloud Operators / Sysadmins OpenStack Ecosystem / Service Providers Cloud Application Developers OpenStack Contributors / Community This event is organized by Intel, Dell and Selected Green. Ireland OpenStack Day is a sanctioned official OpenStack Foundation supported event. For any enquiries, please contact [3], or OpenStack directly. For more information, check out the official website at [4] or follow us on Twitter @OpenStackIrlDay [5]. [1] http://openstackdayireland.com/location-3/ [2] https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/openstack-day-ireland-tickets-21201862341?ref=o… [3] info(a)openstackdayireland.com [4] http://openstackdayireland.com/ [5] https://twitter.com/OpenStackIrlDay Best regards, Igor.

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[openstack-community] We are OpenStack, but who is We?
by Pierre Freund 11 Mar '16

11 Mar '16

Hello everyone, My name is Pierre and I'm a proud OpenStacker since 3 years now. I'm not a dev, I'm a pure ops. For 3 years, my job has been to make OpenStack works, and everybody knows that it's a fulltime job. I think my company do a lot for the OpenStack adoption in France. We are (a big) part of a french government project based on OpenStack. Today, production applications are running on OpenStack. It's the first private cloud in the french government. We also work for one of the biggest retailer in the world, in a huge project OpenStack-based project. We are about 10 Ops folks working on these projects. We also co-organise one meetup a month in Paris ( http://www.meetup.com/fr-FR/OpenStack-France/) welcoming 100 people each time. We spend a lot of time for the french OpenStack community, and we love it! "We are OpenStack", but you know what, I don't really feel to be part of this "We". And I think I'm not the only ops folks feeling this. Today, I'm booking flights for Austin. I'm happy to be able to attend every summit as I can afford flight tickets and hotel, with money earned from OpenStack jobs! But I have to admit that I'm very very (very) very angry at the OpenStack foundation when I have to pay from $600 to $1000 my Summit tickets. At the last summit, I went to the ambassador's session to speak about this. My point was that people spending time for the community should have an easier access to the summit by giving them "Active Community Contributors" Pass. The only answer I had was "If you can't afford the ticket, use the travel program". No. That's not a good solution, because we don't want to beg for something we deserve! It's not a money issue, everything is about recognition. Also, there is a selection for admission. What kind of metrics are used to say yes or no? I think there is an easy solution, using local ambassadors to measure the events and talk to events organizer. There is not so many people... Then, I went to the "feedback session" of the summit, and said that I was really involved in OpenStack, and I deserved an "Active Ops Contributor" badge. Everybody agreed. The ATC program is B.R.O.K.E.N. My only solution? Make a bullshit commit, correct something in the docs, correct a typo in a comment… not very interesting. Here is one of my $1200 single character commit: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/20076/ . And this makes me an "Active Contributor" for two summits?? I know that there is no metric to measure Ops work for OpenStack project. If we use surveys, lots of OpenStack in production environments will suddenly appear by magic. To be honest, I don't have a magic solution. I'm still thinking about it… If you have any idea, feel free. We are all OpenStack, not only Developers. There is something like Dev <-> Users in the logo, right? And what about people helping local user groups? -- Pierre FREUND Proud OpenStacker

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[openstack-community] Registration Prices Increase March 11 - OpenStack Summit Austin
by Kendall Waters 11 Mar '16

11 Mar '16

Hi everyone, The early bird registration deadline for the Austin Summit is this Thursday, March 10 at 11:59pm PST (March 11 at 7:59 UTC). Prices will increase immediately following that time. Register NOW <https://openstacksummit2016austin.eventbrite.com/> to hear from OpenStack users including Nike, Walmart, AT&T, Verizon, Ancestry.com and more! Checkout the full lineup of speakers in the Summit agenda <https://www.openstack.org/summit/austin-2016/summit-schedule>. There will also be: Several training and workshops available at OpenStack Academy <http://superuser.openstack.org/articles/openstack-academy-opens-its-doors-a…> StackCity Austin, a community festival for Stackers 20 tracks and more than 400 sessions in the main conference If you have any questions related to the Summit, please contact summit(a)openstack.org <mailto:summit@openstack.org>. Cheers, Kendall Kendall Waters OpenStack Marketing kendall(a)openstack.org

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[openstack-community] LinuxCon + Container Con (Tokyo)
by Khayam Gondal 08 Mar '16

08 Mar '16

Does anybody from community is attending the Tokyo event? Its from Jul 13 to Jul 15, 2016. http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/linuxcon-japan

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[openstack-community] Openstack Argentina at Campus Party 2016
by Diego Woitasen 08 Mar '16

08 Mar '16

Our participation in the Campus Party Argentina is confirmed. We'll have a space in the community space and we'll give a workshop about openstack! http://argentina.campus-party.org/partners/comunidades See you there! -- Diego Woitasen http://flugel.it Infrastructure Developers

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[openstack-community] March 11 deadline - Superuser Awards nominations
by Allison Price 07 Mar '16

07 Mar '16

Hi everyone, The deadline to nominate a team or organization <https://openstackfoundation.formstack.com/forms/superuserawards> for the OpenStack Summit Austin Superuser Awards is this Friday, March 11. Like in previous rounds, the winner will be chosen by the community at large and announced onstage at the OpenStack Summit Austin <https://www.openstack.org/summit/austin-2016/> in April. The Superuser Awards recognize teams using OpenStack to meaningfully improve business in an innovative way, while also contributing back to the community. Teams of all sizes are encouraged to apply! If you fit the bill, or know a team that does, we encourage you to submit a nomination here <https://openstackfoundation.formstack.com/forms/superuserawards>. Learn more about the awards <http://superuser.openstack.org/awards>, our previous winners, CERN <http://superuser.openstack.org/articles/and-the-superuser-award-goes-to>, Comcast <http://superuser.openstack.org/articles/and-the-superuser-award-goes-to-0b6…> and NTT Group <http://superuser.openstack.org/articles/and-the-superuser-award-goes-to-e72…> and submit your team’s application before this week’s deadline! Please reach out to me directly if you have any questions or would like to nominate your team. Cheers, Allison Allison Price OpenStack Marketing allison(a)openstack.org <mailto:allison@openstack.org>

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[openstack-community] OpenStack Day Budapest CFP
by Marton Kiss 07 Mar '16

07 Mar '16

Dear All, I'm happy to announce the traditional OpenStack Day Budapest is back on June 6th. This year we are focusing on OpenStack related dev and ops topics and real-life user stories. The CFP and early bird registration is open, so please submit your papers here: http://openstackceeday.com Upstream Training The next session of upstream training after Austin will be held on June 7th, just after the OpenStack Day. We have limited seats, so if you like to learn about OpenStack contribution, tools and processes with mentor support, register here: http://osbd-upstream-training-2016.eventbrite.com Don't miss Budapest, a city with vibrant night life, ruin pubs, gastro-markets and wonderful architecture. Marton Kiss OpenStack Ambassador

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[openstack-community] Recognising Ops contributions
by Edgar Magana 03 Mar '16

03 Mar '16

Dear Users and Operators, The Foundation User Committee [1] has received multiple requests to enable a formal recognition of your contributions to the OpenStack community. This email is our approach to formalize this recognition and make sure that we all feel and are part of the community. There are many ways that OpenStack users contribute to the community beyond standard patches. For a long time, Ops have been asking for something on their summit badge to recognise their efforts. An ATC-equivalent that we can rally around; and when you look down and see it on someone else, a common understanding that you're both in this together trying to make OpenStack a better place and a community for all of us. We want to make this a reality by gathering a list of criteria that we as a community feel that shows someone has demonstrated technical contributions, using their skills as Ops. Our current ideas are as follows: * Moderating a session at an Ops meetup * Filing a detailed bug, tagged 'ops', that gets fixed * Filling out the user survey (including a deployment) * Making contributions to ops-tags and/or OSOps repositories * Being an active moderator on Ask OpenStack * Actively participating in a user commitee working group * Contributing a post to Superuser magazine * Giving a presentation or track chairing for the Operations track at the conference * Hosting OpenStack Meetups Here's what we would like to happen: 1. We discuss and converge on these initial criteria and make a list of eligible members 2. If we can pull this off in time, we've arranged to get some kind of mention of the status on your conference badge in Austin 3. Assess how it goes for Austin and the six month period that follows, then iterate to success, including offering ATC-similar registration codes at the Barcelona summit We are really looking forward to receiving your feedback. Kind Regards, The OpenStack User Committee. FAQ Why not leverage ATC? This is an easier way to get started. There's obvious overlap in the principles here, but it just does not look possible to get any changes done to ATC quickly. Additionally, though Ops and devs are one community working together, and we will continue to encourage Ops to contribute code, documentation or translation contributions to the repos, there is also a need to allow Ops to recognise one another and work with those whom have similar jobs. I want a free summit pass now! Right now, we're just defining the concept and putting a recognition on the badge for Austin. There's a financial impact of offering free passes, so we need to do this carefully, look at how many people qualify, and tweak for Barcelona but our main goal is to fairly distribute as many passes as possible. This needs a catchy name. Yes, yes it does. Suggestions? How long does the status last? About six months. Why isn't the bar higher? This is designed as an *inclusive* label, rather than an *exclusive* one. We have to strike a balance between a reasonable demonstration of contribution, the ability to track that demonstration, and making sure that a reasonable effort to contribute falls into that. How will this be implemented? Basically, in your Foundation profile, we already collect some things - for example, whether you've given a presentation at the conference. The first step is to get these other demonstrations of contribution stored in that database. The second step is to generate a list of qualified folks so we can use that for the badge printing. The third step is to display some of this information on Stackalytics, which already consumes the Foundation profile to some extent. The User Committee references: [1] https://www.openstack.org/foundation/user-committee/ [2] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Governance/Foundation/UserCommittee

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Re: [openstack-community] [Openstack-operators] Recognising Ops contributions
by Tim Bell 03 Mar '16

03 Mar '16

From: Matt Joyce <matt(a)nycresistor.com<mailto:matt@nycresistor.com>> Date: Thursday 3 March 2016 at 18:35 To: Robert Starmer <robert(a)kumul.us<mailto:robert@kumul.us>> Cc: openstack-operators <openstack-operators(a)lists.openstack.org<mailto:openstack-operators@lists.openstack.org>>, "community(a)lists.openstack.org<mailto:community@lists.openstack.org>" <community(a)lists.openstack.org<mailto:community@lists.openstack.org>> Subject: Re: [Openstack-operators] [openstack-community] Recognising Ops contributions How about just OPS : {$Verified_Count} Physical Nodes =D It would make visits to the Marketplace interesting…. Wandering around with a badge with the number of nodes would certainly get vendor attention :-) Overall, I’d like to be sure we cater for non-Ops contributions also. There are consumers of clouds to factor into the discussion and i’d like to see something where a contributor to the foundation application catalog gets credit or an ISV in the marketplace. Tim On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 12:08 PM, Robert Starmer <robert(a)kumul.us<mailto:robert@kumul.us>> wrote: I setup an etherpad to try to capture this discussion: https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/OperatorRecognition R On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 9:04 AM, Robert Starmer <robert(a)kumul.us<mailto:robert@kumul.us>> wrote: I agree with the list of contributions that should garner value, and I really like TOC, because some folks who meet the other operators requirements may not actually _run_ OpenStack, they may "operate" on top :) On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 7:54 AM, Edgar Magana <edgar.magana(a)workday.com<mailto:edgar.magana@workday.com>> wrote: Hello Folks, I have to admit that I really like these two: TOC / Technical Ops Contributor IRO / I Run OpenStack Edgar From: Pierre Freund <pierre.freund(a)osones.com<mailto:pierre.freund@osones.com>> Date: Thursday, March 3, 2016 at 6:57 AM To: Edgar Magana <edgar.magana(a)workday.com<mailto:edgar.magana@workday.com>> Cc: "openstack-operators(a)lists.openstack.org<mailto:openstack-operators@lists.openstack.org>" <openstack-operators(a)lists.openstack.org<mailto:openstack-operators@lists.openstack.org>>, "community(a)lists.openstack.org<mailto:community@lists.openstack.org>" <community(a)lists.openstack.org<mailto:community@lists.openstack.org>>, "Jonathan D. Proulx" <jon(a)csail.mit.edu<mailto:jon@csail.mit.edu>>, Shilla Saebi <shilla.saebi(a)gmail.com<mailto:shilla.saebi@gmail.com>> Subject: Re: [openstack-community] Recognising Ops contributions This needs a catchy name. Yes, yes it does. Suggestions? Some suggestions, but I'm not a native english speaker, it might sounds not natural. AOC / Active Ops Contributor ACC / Active Community Contributor TOC / Technical Ops Contributor Proud Ops POP / Proudly Operating in Production IRO / I Run OpenStack -- Pierre F reund _______________________________________________ OpenStack-operators mailing list OpenStack-operators(a)lists.openstack.org<mailto:OpenStack-operators@lists.openstack.org> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-operators _______________________________________________ OpenStack-operators mailing list OpenStack-operators(a)lists.openstack.org<mailto:OpenStack-operators@lists.openstack.org> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-operators

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Re: [openstack-community] [Openstack-operators] Recognising Ops contributions
by Pierre Freund 03 Mar '16

03 Mar '16

What about 3 different groups, with every combination possible. ACC / Active Community Contributor I contribute with non-technical tasks (tasks not producing code). Example : Meetups, Summits, Ask moderation, participating in a user commitee, etc. TOC / Technical Ops Contributor I contribute to the Ops part, with code or tasks with mesureable metrics. Example : Filing a detailed bug, tagged 'ops' that gets fixed, tasks measurable in launchpad for exemple. ADC / Active Development Contributor The actual ATC. And depending of what I do, I can have a ACC-TOC pass, or a ACC-ADC pass, every combination... And if I have one of these, I'm an AC (Active Contributor). This email is at the end of the etherpad. -- Pierre FREUND

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