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[openstack-community] Call for Papers - OSCON and OpenStack Day at LinuxTag Berlin
by Kathy Cacciatore 29 Jan '14

29 Jan '14

Just a reminder that the OSCON (Open Source Conference, July 20-24 in Portland, OR) CFP submissions are due tomorrow, January 30. Please submit DevOps topics of interest to [http://www.oscon.com/oscon2014/public/cfp/308] http://www.oscon.com/oscon2014/public/cfp/308. We'd love to have a long list of OpenStack sessions there this year, for OpenStack's 4th birthday. We'll help drive attendees to all accepted sessions. Also, just out, is the Call for Papers for the OpenStack Day at LinuxTag in Berlin on May 9. Florian Haas and Martin Loschwitz of hastexo are organizing the track titled "OpenStack: One IaaS platform for all needs". This is the Friday prior to the Atlanta OpenStack Summit; speaker submissions are very much appreciated. Please use the [http://www.linuxtag.org/2014/en/] LinuxTag CFP submission process by February 7, and also drop an email to Florian and Martin at florian(a)hastexo.com and martin(a)hastexo.com. They welcome your inquiries as well. Thank you for your support. -- Regards, Kathy Cacciatore OpenStack Industry Event Planner 1-512-970-2807 (mobile) Part time: Monday - Thursday, 9am - 2pm US CT kathyc(a)openstack.org

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[openstack-community] OpenStack Booth and Job Board at PyCon 2014
by Kathy Cacciatore 28 Jan '14

28 Jan '14

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[openstack-community] OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Jan 17 – 24)
by Stefano Maffulli 25 Jan '14

25 Jan '14

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[openstack-community] OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Jan 10 – 17)
by Stefano Maffulli 18 Jan '14

18 Jan '14

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[openstack-community] Openstack Amsterdam January Meetup
by Alessandro Vozza 17 Jan '14

17 Jan '14

Dutch community alive and well! Here comes the next meetup, less than a week to go: http://www.meetup.com/Openstack-Amsterdam/events/155266692/ Feel free to bring your favourite presentation device and give a lightning talk. -- ______________ *Openstack Amsterdam Meetup* http://www.meetup.com/Openstack-Amsterdam/

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[openstack-community] Athens OpenStack User Group meeting
by Thanassis Parathyras 17 Jan '14

17 Jan '14

*Athens OpenStack User Group meeting * Join us on Wednesday 29th January, 7PM @OpenStack <https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/OpenStack> #OSATH The Athens OpenStack User Group invites you to attend the sixth meeting for OpenStack in Greece. * Athens OpenStack User Group meeting on Thursday 29th January, 7PM at CoLab Athens, Petraki 28, Syntagma.** * *User Story: vLab at TEI Piraeus using OpenStack* Department of Electronics at TEI Piraeus is one interesting OpenStack user story. Stefanos as the leader of the laboratory team selected OpenStack to address needs like rapid deployment for course labs, single point of control for the infrastructure resources and easily share resources and operations among different teams. All the above and related *technical detail* along with a *live demo* of the installation are going to be covered during the #OSATH presentation. RSVP via http://www.meetup.com/Athens-OpenStack-User-Group/events/160875952/ More updates via @parathyras @colabathens with my best regards, Thanassis Parathyras

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[openstack-community] OSNW Call for speakers: SDN (Portland)
by Al Kari (DetaCloud) 17 Jan '14

17 Jan '14

Our OpenStack Northwest User Group http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-Northwest is getting very popular very quickly. About 60 stackers attended last meetup in Portland where presenters from DetaCloud, DreamHost, SwiftStack and EMC focused on OpenStack storage. Next meetup is scheduled for Feb 5 and the focus this time is on networking. We are looking for speakers who can discuss SDN, Neutron, OVS, ML2, OpenFlow, Nicira, etc. Please find me on Twitter @alkari if you are developing or implementing any of these technologies and like to present them to our user group, hopefully you are in Portland on that date (or if you'd like to visit Portland - the snow is awesome on Mt. Hood if you're into that). Join us if you're in town Feb 5th.

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[openstack-community] OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Jan 3 – 10)
by Stefano Maffulli 10 Jan '14

10 Jan '14

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[openstack-community] Additional 2014 Industry Events' Call For Papers open
by Kathy Cacciatore 08 Jan '14

08 Jan '14

Call for Papers/presentations deadlines are coming up, in addition to the 3 sent in December (below). Please note the HostingCon deadline of this Friday, January 10. The hosting industry is an important audience for OpenStack; we appreciate your support for this event. [http://www.hostingcon.com/] HostingCon, event date June 16-18 in Miami Beach, FL. Please submit talks at [http://www.hostingcon.com/speakers/speaking-proposal-guidelines/] http://www.hostingcon.com/speakers/speaking-proposal-guidelines/, by January 10. [https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa14] USENIX LISA, event date November 9-14 in Seattle, WA. CFP submissions due April 14 at https://www.usenix.org/sites/default/files/lisa14cfp_102813.pdf Note: LISA was a great event for OpenStack in 2013, with over 1000 Large Installation System Admins participating. We'd like to propose a half day hands-on tutorial this year. It's the week after the Paris Summit. If you are interested in presenting the tutorial, please contact me (Kathy). Thank you. On Thursday, December 19, 2013 3:58pm, "Kathy Cacciatore" <kathyc(a)openstack.org> said: OpenStack's 2013 industry event experience indicates speaking sessions can be the best way to reach the most receptive audiences. Speaking at industry events is a great way to educate OpenStack users and potential users while indirectly promoting your company's expertise. Your innovative presentations are requested for these upcoming events. The CFP hotlinks will direct you to details on the recommended topics and the submission forms. Learn more about the events and attendees by clicking on the event hotlinks. As always, please feel free to contact me with questions - kathyc(a)openstack.org. Thank you and happy holidays! [http://www.oscon.com/oscon2014] OSCON 2014, event date July 20-24 in Portland, OR. [http://www.oscon.com/oscon2014/public/cfp/308] CFP due by January 30. Audience is primarily very technical, leading edge developers, sys admins and open source enthusiasts who are most likely familiar and/or working with OpenStack software. They will appreciate in-depth topics. OSCON 2014 coincides with the the software's 4th birthday. [http://www.cloudcomputingexpo.com/] Cloud Expo East, event date June 10-12 in New York City. [http://www.cloudcomputingexpo.com/general/papers2014east.htm] CFP due by March 1. Audience is primarily IT managers and staff. At the 2013 event, we experienced most of this audience was looking for benefits of cloud computing, how cloud is differentiated from virtualization, and had heard of OpenStack but did not yet have specific knowledge of the software. On the other hand, there were a few very technical conversations. NYC-based user stories and business cases welcome. [http://cloudwf.com/interested-in-speaking/] Cloud World Forum Europe, event date June 17-18 in London. [http://cloudwf.com/interested-in-speaking/] CFP deadline to come; not yet listed. Audience is a mix of IT decision makers and management, and evenly split between multinational enterprises and SMB. European case studies would be ideal. -- Regards, Kathy Cacciatore OpenStack Industry Event Planner 1-512-970-2807 (mobile) Part time: Monday - Thursday, 9am - 2pm US CT kathyc(a)openstack.org -- Regards, Kathy Cacciatore OpenStack Industry Event Planner 1-512-970-2807 (mobile) Part time: Monday - Thursday, 9am - 2pm US CT kathyc(a)openstack.org

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[openstack-community] OpenStack Northwest User Group Meetup this Wed Jan 8 in Portland
by Al Kari (DetaCloud) 06 Jan '14

06 Jan '14

OpenStack Northwest User Group Meetup in Portland Wednesday Jan 8, 2014 @ 6:00PM PDT Jama Software (South) 334 NW 11th Ave, Portland, OR http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-Northwest/ Some of the core contributors, developers and implementers of OpenStack <http://www.openstack.org> are flying over to Portland to bring you the latest and greatest in Cloud storage. And generous sponsors are buying us dinner and beer. This meetup is quickly growing to be one of the most interesting events in the Northwest for those wanting to stay on top of advancement in the future of computing. Meetup Agenda 6:00 - 6:30 - Check in, pizza, beer and networking 6:30 - 7:00 - Introduction, OpenStack and your career - Al Kari (DetaCloud <http://www.detacloud.com> ) Accelerate your career and increase your value to your current or potential employers. Learn about shortcuts to quickly acquire some of the hottest skills in Cloud computing. 7:00 - 7:45 - OpenStack Block Storage (Cinder) - Mike Perez (DreamHost <http://www.dreamhost.com> ) Today there are many different storage solutions to choose from. It can be overwhelming from a cloud provider's perspective to offer many options for their users, let alone provide a consistent set of tools with each vendor offering their own interface. The OpenStack Block Storage project Cinder provides an API to talk to many different vendor solutions, in which other applications or OpenStack programs can talk to. We'll first examine the difference between block and object storage. That'll lead us into having an introduction to Cinder, and an opportunity to review the architecture, vendor driver plugin model, current features, and upcoming features for the IceHouse release. 7:45 - 8:15 - OpenStack Object Storage (Swift) - Richard Raseley (for SwiftStack <http://www.swiftstack.com> ) This presentation will provide an overview of the OpenStack object storage platform "Swift", its history, contributors, example use cases, and features 8:15 - 8:45 - EMC and OpenStack - Jeremy Keen - (EMC <http://www.emc.com> ) As a Corporate Sponsor of OpenStack, EMC has contributed Cinder drivers for VNX, VMAX, and most recently ViPR. EMC ViPR is a lightweight, software-only solution that transforms your existing storage environment into a simple, extensible and open platform, that can deliver fully automated storage services and realize the full potential of the Software-Defined Data Center. ViPR includes an open source Cinder driver as well as an object storage engine with Swift and Amazon S3 APIs. We will dive into the integration of ViPR and OpenStack and learn about methods for delivering IT-as-a-Service while avoiding storage vendor lock-in. 8:45 - 9:00 - OPEN MIKE (YOU) Working on an interesting project, or have an idea to share with the group? Maybe you have a question or an announcement to make. Here's your chance. About the speakers: Al Kari - After 6 years of leading Cloud Computing services at Dell, Al Co-Founded DetaCloud to advocate for building the future of Open Cloud. He is a standing member in the Cloud Advisory Council, the Linux Professional Institute and the OpenStack Foundation Mike Perez is a Core developer of the OpenStack Block Storage project Cinder and Senior Software Engineer at DreamHost. His primary responsibilities are contributing Cinder, and managing the storage needs of DreamHost's public cloud DreamCompute. He has written v2 of Cinder's API, and is currently working on v3 Richard Raseley is an Infrastructure and Tooling Engineer at Puppet Labs and a standing member of the OpenStack Foundation. Prior to joining Puppet, Richard worked as a Systems Engineer with Concur Technologies, where h deploy a near petabyte-scale distributed object store based upon OpenStack Swift Jeremy Keen over the last 3 years at EMC as a Systems Engineer, Jeremy has designed hybrid and private cloud solutions for businesses in the Pacific Northwest. He now specializes in software-defined-storage at EMC including the recently launched ViPR an open, extensible software-only solution that includes deep integration with OpenStack Cinder and Swift. Special thanks to our sponsors Jama Software for providing the facilities, beverages and beer, and to ProFocus for the pizza and door prizes. Follow @DetaCloud and #OSNW on Twitter for livestream/recording links.

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