This information is awesome ! So glad to see SO MUCH press coverage and the latest Forrester report:  The State of Cloud Platform Standards, Q4 2016

A big "Thank YOU !!!" to the Foundation Marketing team. You are a machine !

Anni

Anni Lai

Email: anni.lai@huawei.com

From: Heidi Joy Tretheway [mailto:heidijoy@openstack.org]
Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2016 12:23 PM
To: marketing@lists.openstack.org
Cc: foundation-board@lists.openstack.org
Subject: [Foundation Board] Bulletin: Barcelona campaign launch & can't-miss events; news & new releases

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:

• Finance #RunsOnOpenStack. Just ask @BBVA, Spain's second largest bank

• Connecting brands with customers via real-time chat, voice, and personalized content, @LivePerson #RunsOnOpenStack https://www.openstack.org/user-stories/liveperson/

• Find out why 50% of the US Fortune 100—like finance, healthcare and retail— #RunsOnOpenStack: https://www.openstack.org/user-stories/

• 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

If you’ve been thinking about participating in the Analyst Relations Working Group, the Summit is a great time to get started. First, join the ARWG listserv, and then plan to attend the debrief session on Wednesday, Oct. 26, at 3:15.

Don’t miss these lightning talks 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:

• Session schedule

• Local’s Guide to Barcelona

• Update your Summit app

• If members of your organization are giving a talk in Barcelona, help them prepare with these small ways to make an OpenStack talk a big success.

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…

• Did you see the latest? Steven Vaughan-Nichols’ article in ZDNet, “Telecoms Love the OpenStack Cloud,” is one of several recent news stories sharing the impressive results of a recent Heavy Reading survey on telecom adoption of OpenStack. Sign up for the webinar.

• 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.

• Get the scoop from media and analysts at the Summit. Join industry reporters and analysts for the panel discussion Emerging Technologies, Threats and Opportunities for the Future of Open Source Cloud on Tuesday afternoon.

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.