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[openstack-community] Promotional Item Recommendations for New OpenStack Store
by Kathy Cacciatore 14 Aug '14

14 Aug '14

Hi everyone, we are in the process of setting up an OpenStack Store! It will take a couple of months. It will include promotional logo items plus reusable assets you can use for local events (banners, tablecloths, etc.) on a borrow or purchase basis. We request your input on promotional items. So far, popular items we are planning are Apparel (current and past t-shirts, hoodies, men's and women's sizes) The North Face laptop backpacks Pens Universal travel adapters Stickers Please reply ([ kathyc(a)openstack.org ]( mailto:kathyc@openstack.org )) with any additional promotional logo items you'd like to see in the initial store by Monday, August 18. We can add more later as well. Thank you. -- Regards, Kathy Cacciatore Consulting Marketing Manager OpenStack Foundation 1-512-970-2807 (mobile) Part time: Monday - Thursday, 9am - 2pm US CT kathyc(a)openstack.org

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[openstack-community] OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Aug 1 – 8)
by Stefano Maffulli 08 Aug '14

08 Aug '14

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[openstack-community] Participation in OpenStack Pavilion at Gartner Data Center Conference
by Kathy Cacciatore 04 Aug '14

04 Aug '14

We are pleased to offer our community companies a pod in the OpenStack Ecosystem Pavilion at the [ Gartner Data Center Conference ]( http://www.gartner.com/technology/summits/na/data-center/ ), December 2-5, 2014, in Las Vegas. Eight companies joined us at the 2013 event, and were very happy with the quality of leads and conversations. All expo hall attendees must purchase conference passes so the audience is all high quality enterprise decision makers and influencers. Gartner analysts will also visit our booth during a scheduled time. Please respond by August 15 if you are interested and can commit to participation at $15,000 to $18,000 US each (depending on number of confirmed companies). We hope to be able to add an additional promotional opportunity this year to drive awareness and traffic. Here are quotes from last year's participants: "The lead quality was very high. We had great conversations." "We also had [our own] booth on the expo floor and felt that the additional booth presence was very advantageous to driving traffic. The OpenStack Pavilion met with our expectations on conversations and qualified leads." "I worked that show and it was the BEST quality of traffic we've seen from any event. Of the 20 or so "A" leads we collected, we've had 5 that I know of that have continued conversations. Highly recommended. Definite ROI on this one." Thank you. -- 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 Community Weekly Newsletter (July 25 - Aug 1)
by Stefano Maffulli 01 Aug '14

01 Aug '14

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[openstack-community] OpenStack Latin America G+ Community
by Diego Woitasen 01 Aug '14

01 Aug '14

Hi, I've created a community in G+ for people interested in OpenStack in Latin America (or for Spanish speakers in general). Next week we are going to organize a hangout to talk about what's going with OpenStack in this part of the world. If you are intested, please join: http://bit.ly/1rVTMRs Regards, Diego -- Diego Woitasen - Linux and Open Source solutions architect - DevOps Engineer, Infrastructure developer http://www.woitasen.com.ar

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[openstack-community] Final CFP : UCC 2014 London, UK- CFP- Deadline Extension- 5 August, 2014
by Ashiq Anjum 31 Jul '14

31 Jul '14

7th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2014) December 8-11, 2014, London, UK http://computing.derby.ac.uk/ucc2014/ Context and Scope Cloud Computing promises to deliver computational resources on demand as services that are commoditised and delivered as in traditional utilities such as electricity, gas, water and telephony. Utility with Cloud services can already be achieved for compute, storage and communication resources but also for hosted software and data. UCC is the premier IEEE/ACM conference covering all areas related to Cloud Computing as a Utility. There is also increasing interest from commercial providers to offer business and revenue models around the services they offer. Understanding how these model could be used to provide utility for both users, intermediary brokers (aggregators) and providers will also be of interest for this conference. This will be the 7th UCC in a successful conference series. Previous events were held in Shanghai, China (Cloud 2009), Melbourne, Australia (Cloud 2010 & UCC 2011), Chennai, India (UCC 2010), Chicago, USA (UCC 2012), and Dresden, Germany (UCC2013). UCC 2014 happens while cloud providers worldwide add new services and increase utility at an accelerated pace and is therefore of high relevance for both academic and industrial research. Topics of interest include: * Big Data and Analytics * Principles and theoretical foundations of Utility Computing, including pricing and service models * Policy languages and Programming models * Architectural models to achieve Utility in Clouds * Designs and deployment models for Clouds: private, public, hybrid, federated, aggregated * Cloud Computing middleware, stacks, tools, delivery networks and services at all layers (XaaS) * Virtualisation technologies and other enablers * Economic models and scenarios of use * Scalability and resource management: brokering, scheduling, capacity planning, parallelism and elasticity, as well as marketplaces * Cloud management: autonomic, adaptive, self-*, SLAs, performance models and monitoring * Applications: games, social networks, scientific computing (e-science) and business * Mobile and energy-efficient use of Clouds * Beyond technology: Cloud business and legal implications, such as security, privacy, trust and jurisdiction especially in Utility contextsImportant Dates Tutorials Proposals: August 15, 2014 (Extended Deadline) Paper Submissions Due: August 5, 2014 (Extended Deadline) Notification of Acceptance: 29 August, 2014 Early Registration Deadline: 29 September, 2014 Paper Submission Authors are invited to submit papers electronically through EasyChair(https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ucc2014) . Manuscripts may not exceed 10 letter size (8.5 x 11) pages including figures, tables and references using the IEEE format for conference proceedings (print area of 6-1/2 inches (16.51 cm) wide by 8-7/8 inches (22.51 cm) high, two-column format with a 3/8 inch (0.81 cm) space between them, single-spaced 10-point Times fully justified text). Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines will be rejected without review and further action may be taken, including (but not limited to) notifications sent to the heads of the institutions of the authors and sponsors of the conference. The proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society, USA, and will be made available online through the IEEE Digital Library. Chairs and Committees Conference Co-Chairs Nikos Antonopoulos, University of Derby, UK (n.antonopoulos(a)derby.ac.uk) Omer F. Rana, Cardiff University, UK (o.f.rana(a)cs.cardiff.ac.uk) Programme Committee Co-Chairs Shrideep Pallickara, Colorado State University, USA Chunming Rong, University of Stavanger, Norway Organising Chair Ashiq Anjum, University of Derby, UK (a.anjum(a)derby.ac.uk) Workshops Chair Josef Spillner, TU Dresden, Germany Publications Chairs Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia Nik Bessis, University of Derby, UK Lee Gillam, University of Surrey, UK Workshops We encourage high quality workshops from the community, which relate to one or more of the topics identified above. Individuals interested in organising a workshop are encouraged to consult the separate Call for Workshops. Venue UCC 2014 will take place in the Hilton London Paddington, in the center of the lively capital of United Kingdom. Special Issues Selected papers from the conference will be invited to submit an extended version to the following journals. Papers will be selected based on their reviewers' scores and appropriateness to the Journal's theme. All extended versions will undergo reviews and must represent original unpublished research work. Further details will be made available at a later stage. * IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing - http://www.computer.org/portal/web/tcc * Future Generation Computer Systems - http://www.journals.elsevier.com/future-generation-computer-systems/ * Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1532-0634 * Journal of Cloud Computing: Advances, Systems and Applications - http://www.journalofcloudcomputing.com/ * International Journal of Distributed Systems and Technologies (IJDST) - http://www.igi-global.com/journal/international-journal-distributed-systems…

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[openstack-community] Groups portal live
by Stefano Maffulli 31 Jul '14

31 Jul '14

Hello folks, the groups portal is now live at http://groups.openstack.org. It's still limited in what it can do but it already looks better than the simple wiki pages we have been using. Marton Kiss is the lead developer, the portal is based on Drupal, with fully automated CI behind it: we hope there will be lots of patches coming in. The portal is replacing the content of some wiki pages [1] (we'll start deprecating them shortly). Besides the map, the portal sports a very nice list of events pulled from each group hosted on meetup.com. Visitors to the site will be able to see the list of known events on http://groups.openstack.org/events. We're using the shiny new Storyboard to track bugs and keep the roadmap. https://storyboard.openstack.org/#!/project/704 If you run a user group not hosted on meetup.com and you have different sources for the list of events, please file a new task on Storyboard to this story: https://storyboard.openstack.org/#!/story/178 The map and the searchable database of user groups is built out of this json file: http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack-infra/groups-static-pages/tree/grou… If you see your group missing, you can either propose a change to the json file (if you're familiar with git/gerrit workflow) or simply file a request on Storyboard. Static pages are managed through git, too, as simple markdown files. Check the static pages on his git repository: http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack-infra/groups-static-pages/ The whole system is fully published on: http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack-infra/groups FAQ: ---- Q - If it's based on Drupal, why are you using git for pages? A - Drupal's workflow management and users/roles are quite complex to setup and we wanted to go live as rapidly as possible. Since we had already setup a module capable of importing markdown content we thought of using the well tested workflow based on gerrit and git-review. We will consider implementing the natural Drupal-based workflow in the future. Q - How do I login? A - We're going to enable logging in the portal as soon as the OpenStack OpenID portal is launched. This shouldn't take more than 4-6 weeks. In case things seem to take any longer we'll evaluate other alternatives. Q - You seem to be importing events only from meetup.com. Can you add more sources? A - Yes, as long as they come in a standard format. Add a task to this story https://storyboard.openstack.org/#!/story/178. Q - How do I add a new group? How do I amend the details for an existing group? A - File a patch to the json file (until we have a different method) http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack-infra/groups-static-pages/tree/grou… Q - I spotted a bug, where do I file it? A - Good question. We're using https://storyboard.openstack.org [1] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/OpenStackUserGroups

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[openstack-community] Session Voting Open - Nov OpenStack Summit in Paris
by Claire Massey 30 Jul '14

30 Jul '14

Hi everyone, Session voting is now open for the November 2014 OpenStack Summit in Paris. Help select which talks will be presented at the Summit by casting your vote. VOTE HERE. Hurry, voting closes at 11:59pm CDT on August 6. Continue to visit openstack.org/summit for all Summit specific information including registration, hotels, sponsorship, visa letter, etc. Cheers, Claire

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[openstack-community] Free passes to CloudOpen NA Chicago available for OpenStack volunteers
by Shari Mahrdt 28 Jul '14

28 Jul '14

The OpenStack Foundation is pleased to sponsor CloudOpen North America, August 20 - 22, 2014 in Chicago, IL. OpenStack has a Bronze sponsorship and has 5 complimentary full conference passes to offer to 5 volunteers who can staff the OpenStack booth in shifts covering the following times: Setup: •Tuesday, August 19th: 7:00pm - 10:00pm •Wednesday, August 20th: 6:00am - 9:00am Open: •Wednesday, August 20th: 10:45am - 4:50pm •Thursday, August 21st: 10:30am - 4:30pm; 5:15pm - 7:30pm •Friday, August 22nd: 10:00am - 2:45pm Teardown: •Friday, August 22nd: 2:45pm - 6:00pm Please send an email to shari(a)openstack.org if you are available and can help inspire the Cloud Open NA attendees to use and contribute to OpenStack. We greatly appreciate any support. Cheers, Shari Shari Mahrdt OpenStack Marketing shari(a)openstack.org

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[openstack-community] Mailing list for i18n Spanish
by Marian Tort 28 Jul '14

28 Jul '14

Hi, Could you please review the URL created for a mailing list for discussions related to Spanish localization of OpenStack? https://review.openstack.org/#/c/109854/ Thanks! -- Marian

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