OpenStack Marketing Bulletin
Oct. 18, 2016
BARCELONA UPDATE
Ready, Set, Hashtag #RunsOnOpenStack
We’re unveiling the marketing community’s collaborative campaign, “The World Runs on OpenStack” on Oct. 25 at the Barcelona Summit during the keynote. Here’s how you can create greater visibility for your company using the #RunsOnOpenStack hashtag:
Tweet about the new web page, which will be live on Oct. 25—we previewed it at the last marketing community meeting. The URL will be openstack.org/user-stories, and it includes success stories from many industries, workloads and major organizations from around the globe. Share your company’s best customers. Use #RunsOnOpenStack as part of your tweet, @mention your customer, and point to your own web site case study. Example tweets:
You don’t have to be present in Barcelona to take part in the tweet-fest. Watch the hashtag through your social media monitoring service, and retweet your favorites.
Remember, the user stories landing page points to the marketplace to help customers find your company.
Marketing community meeting in Barcelona
Please join your colleagues from throughout the OpenStack marketing ecosystem for our community meeting on Thursday Oct. 27 at 1:50 p.m. Come ready to participate and give your feedback. Key points for discussion: OpenStack's marketing plans for 2017
Key highlights/ projects delivered and results from 2016
OpenStack's logo modernization—plans, tools and guidelines for updating to the new logo
Marketing collaborative campaign—launching "The World Runs on OpenStack" via PR, advertising and social media, and your feedback on the campaign so far
Analyst Relations Working Group Debrief in Barcelona
Find out more about topics important to your marketing practice and business, including:
Certified OpenStack Administrator 101
OpenStack 101
How to contribute to Superuser
Project Teams Gathering 101
User Survey Review
User Committee/Working Groups 101
Hackathon 101 … and more!
More important Summit links:
NEWS & NEW RELEASES
User Survey is Live—plus a new DIY analysis tool
Dig into the latest results from the User Survey with a deployments-only “highlights” edition of the report, focusing on the charts and data most often cited by the community. Want to know more? Check out the new online survey analysis tool that allows you to apply six global filters to virtually every quantitative question on the survey.
Newton Release Recap
Congratulations to the team of more than 2,500 developers, marketers and leaders in our community who made Newton, OpenStack’s 14th software release, so successful! Here’s a recap of some news highlights.
New Forrester Report
Forrester just released a report titled “The State of Cloud Platform Standards, Q4 2016” that notes the most popular standards, AWS and OpenStack, are de facto standards. A couple of great notes: “Today, the list of private cloud suites supporting the OpenStack platform includes (but is not limited to) Cisco, HP, IBM, Microsoft, Rackspace, Red Hat, and VMware.” (32) Also: “Although only 3% of North American and European enterprise infrastructure decision-makers whose companies have adopted or are planning to adopt private cloud recognize the pure OpenStack distribution as part of their private cloud solution, the top six most-adopted vendors all support OpenStack, and many base their own platforms off of their own OpenStack distribution.”(33)
Speaking of News…
As part of our communication plans for the Summit, please use the OpenStack News page to upload your news in advance of the Summit; clicking the “post a news article” link on the top left.
OPENSTACK DAYS EVENTS
Want an opportunity to meet some of the OpenStack Day organizers in Barcelona? Be sure to attend this session. Upcoming OpenStack Days: Nov. 14th: OSD Canberra, Australia
Nov. 19th: OSD Natal, Brazil
Nov. 22nd: OSD Paris, France
Nov. 22nd: OSD Montreal, Canada
Dec. 7-8th: OSD Mountain West, Salt Lake City, Utah
Check out the OpenStack Days website for information on how to host an OpenStack Day, a new OpenStack Day Toolkit for organizers, videos and photos from around the world, and a list of all upcoming OpenStack Day events. Sponsorships are still available.
OTHER INDUSTRY EVENTS
The OpenStack Foundation will be in booth #16 at KubeCon, which gathers leading Kubernetes technologists from multiple open source cloud native communities. This event is co-located with CloudNativeCon, Nov. 8–9, 2016, in Seattle, WA. Be sure to stop by and say hello!
The OpenStack Foundation will also have a presence at SuperComputing16, which takes place this year in Salt Lake City, Utah on Nov. 13-18, 2016.
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The OpenStack Marketing Bulletin is a resource for the OpenStack marketing community, distributed every 2-4 weeks to the marketing mailing list. You’ll find upcoming events, opportunities to participate, fresh content, and important dates. Watch for future marketing meetings (use this link to see past agendas, slides, and recordings too). The bulletin is edited by Heidi Joy Tretheway and your contributions are welcome.