March 2013 - Marketing - lists.openinfra.dev

[OpenStack Marketing] Question about OpenStack images
by Edgar Magana 29 Mar '13

29 Mar '13

Dear Marketing Team, I would like to know if I can use some of the openstack images in the web site for a flyer that the company that I represent will be distributing during the summit in Portland. Thanks, Edgar

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[OpenStack Marketing] Help the OpenStack User Committee!
by Claire Massey 22 Mar '13

22 Mar '13

As you may know, the OpenStack Foundation recently formed a User Committee, who have the very important job of representing OpenStack users, and to that end they've created a user survey. It is critical that we all help them get this link in front of as many users as possible in the next few days, as the deadline to complete the survey is april 1. They will present the aggregate findings at the summit. LINK TO SHARE: http://awe.sm/fEN82 In addition to blogging and emailing and posting the link on your website & social networks, you can also retweet this post: https://twitter.com/openstack/status/315113815110995970 If you have particular customers that you know would provide valuable feedback, please reach out to them personally. If you have any questions, contact lauren(a)openstack.org or mark(a)openstack.org More details from the blog post: If you are an OpenStack user or have customers with OpenStack deployments, please take 10 minutes to respond to our first User Survey or pass it along to your network. Our community has grown at an amazing rate in 2.5 years, and it’s time to better define our user base and requirements, so we can respond and advocate accordingly. Complete the User Survey by April 1, 2013. It takes 10 minutes. Doing so will help us better serve the OpenStack user community, facilitate communication and engagement among our users as well as uncover new OpenStack users that might be willing to tell their stories publicly. All of the information you provide is confidential to the Foundation and will be aggregated anonymously unless you clearly indicate we can publish your organization’s logo and profile on the OpenStack User Stories page. Make sure to tune in to the User Committee when they present the aggregate findings of this important survey at the OpenStack Summit, April 15-18, in Portland, OR. For those unable to attend, we’ll share the presentation and have a video of the session to view after the event. Please help us promote the survey, and thank you again for your support!

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[OpenStack Marketing] Open Marketing Meeting - March 27
by Lauren Sell 21 Mar '13

21 Mar '13

Hi everyone, The next OpenStack open marketing meeting is scheduled for March 27 at 10 am CST / 16:00 UTC. Jonathan Bryce will join us to preview the Grizzly release coming April 4, and we'll provide an update on the OpenStack Summit, April 15-18, in Portland, OR. Based on current registration numbers, we're expecting more than 2000 attendees! REGISTER FOR THE MEETING http://openstack.enterthemeeting.com/m/VD2SY6YN SUBSCRIBE TO THE OPENSTACK MARKETING CALENDAR We've also set up a google calendar feed, so you can subscribe to the meetings and events moving forward -- iCal: http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/openstack.org_rvn1khmtu6pec9f7cl95rfhbk… HTML: http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=openstack.org_rvn1khmtu6pec9f7cl95… Thanks, Lauren 713-398-8700

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[OpenStack Marketing] AUTO: Please read. Stefanie Sirc is out of the office until 3/18/13 (returning 03/18/2013)
by Stefanie L Sirc 12 Mar '13

12 Mar '13

I am out of the office until 03/18/2013. I am currently out of the office with no access to email or voicemail. I will respond to email when I return to the office on 3/18/13. If you need help before then, please contact my manager, Holly Barnett at hbarnett(a)us.ibm.com Thank you. Note: This is an automated response to your message "Marketing Digest, Vol 3, Issue 3" sent on 03/12/2013 6:00:02 AM. This is the only notification you will receive while this person is away.

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[OpenStack Marketing] Going to PyCon? Advertise your OpenStack job openings in our booth and at our Job Fair table
by kathyc＠openstack.org 12 Mar '13

12 Mar '13

OpenStack will be in booth #248 at PyCon in the Santa Clara Convention Center Thursday-Saturday, then at the Job Fair on Sunday. We'll have a magnetic whiteboard there for job postings from OpenStack companies. Please visit by our booth during setup on Thursday (1-6pm) or during the show and fill out index cards with your jobs. Cards and markers will be there for your use. Stefano Maffulli, Community Manager, and a wonderful group of community volunteers will encourage visitors to take pictures of the jobs for later followup. We'll be seeding the board with jobs from openstack.org/jobs. Let's expand the OpenStack community and fill your available positions this weekend! 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 Marketing] Gauging interest in joining OpenStack Pavilion at Gartner's Data Center Conference, Dec 9-12 in Las Vegas
by kathyc＠openstack.org 06 Mar '13

06 Mar '13

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[OpenStack Marketing] OpenStack Marketing Bulletin - March
by Lauren Sell 05 Mar '13

05 Mar '13

https://docs.google.com/a/openstack.org/document/d/1YhehK2xnXAVznLFvziHQSxw… March 5, 2013 Please check out the latest OpenStack marketing bulletin with information, news and events to keep you up-to-date on community happenings. Hopefully this will serve as a helpful reference when you’re talking about OpenStack, so we’re consistently sharing the latest and most accurate information. We welcome your feedback on the format and type of information you find most valuable. And as always, we strongly encourage you to coordinate with us for any company announcements, so we can help amplify your news via the OpenStack channels and our press/analyst relationships. Updates & Calls to Action Tweet ‪http://awe.sm/bDdq8 to promote the OpenStack Operations Manual, authored by community volunteers over a five-day book sprint! If you have any news or story ideas for the next "OpenStack Update," our bi-monthly email newsletter distributed to 8,000 registered community members, please contact Claire Massey (claire(a)openstack.org) by the deadline Friday, March 8. Thank you for your help publicizing the OpenStack Summit call for speakers! We had over 250 submissions, which is more than double the submissions for the October 2012 Summit! Look for the Summit agenda to be posted and speakers to be notified the week of March 11. The OpenStack Summit early bird registration deadline is March 15. Please encourage your teams to register now and book hotels before prices go up! If you missed the February open marketing meeting, which covered the marketing plan and slides presented at the February 12 board meeting, you can still check out the recording. We're always looking for great OpenStack case studies to promote through the website and advertising campaigns, and to speak at the April Summit and Analyst Day. Please contact Margie Callard (margie(a)openstack.org) if you have a customer or know of a user who would be a good fit. Highlighted Messages Grizzly is on pace for the April 4 release date, and the feature freeze is in place. There were 191 blueprints completed in the release cycle, including many user-influenced features that make it easier to operate and scale OpenStack clouds (http://status.openstack.org/release/). More details on what’s in Grizzly next month. OpenStack powers some of the world’s largest public clouds, widely-used SaaS applications, eCommerce sites and Global 1000 enterprises alike. CERN, Cisco WebEx, DreamHost, eBay, Intel, HP, MercadoLibre, Rackspace, Paypal, Sony Computer Entertainment America and hundreds more rely on OpenStack to run their business every day. The open source cloud platform controls pools of compute, storage and networking resources at massive scale, making them available via a self-service dashboard. Note: If referring to individual projects, please remember to use the official names (Compute, Object Storage, Block Storage, Networking, Dashboard, Identity and Image Service). Latest Stats We currently have over 8,200 registered community members from 100 countries across six continents. Please note we’re moving away from the term Individual Members to saying “registered community members” as we have additional avenues for involvement (newsletter, mailing list, etc.) and not all of them will choose to join as Individual Members. We’ve had more than 860 total developers contribute to OpenStack, averaging close to 238 contributors per month (http://www.ohloh.net/p/openstack) Over 3,200 code contributions were merged in Q4 of 2012. Local community leaders have established nearly 50 global user groups around the world. Latest News Morphlabs debuted mCloud Osmium, the company’s new OpenStack-based public cloud infrastructure. -- Feb 5th, 2013 Mellanox Technologies announced hardware-based network virtualization and storage acceleration solutions for OpenStack. -- Feb 13th, 2013 Ericsson unveiled new Cloud Execution Environment for carriers based on OpenStack. -- Feb 13th, 2013 Seagate joins the OpenStack Foundation. -- Feb 21st, 2013 The Ceilometer and Heat projects were promoted by the technical committee from incubated to integrated, to be released with Havana in October 2013. -- Feb 27th, 2013 Huawei launched FusionCloud, an OpenStack-powered cloud aimed at carrier providers. -- Feb 27th, 2013 Cloudscaling announced that IBS Datafort will use OpenStack to build its public cloud service. -- Feb 28th, 2013 IBM makes a big bet on OpenStack in the cloud, announced that all of its cloud services and software will be based on OpenStack. -- March 4th, 2013 Upcoming Events OpenStack Day Tokyo, March 12: Local community members from Bit-Isle, NEC and NTT Data helped organize the event. Mark Collier will be presenting from the Foundation, and there is an extensive list of sponsors and supporters: http://openstackdays.com/en/sponsor/ PyCon, March 13-21, Santa Clara: John Dickinson at SwiftStack and John Mark Walker at Red Hat organized a code sprint for the Object Storage API. We’re still seeking volunteers for the OpenStack booth and job fair. World Hosting Days, March 19-21, Germany: Kurt Garloff from Deutsche Telekom will speak about why they chose OpenStack for their Business Marketplace. Canonical, eNovance, Rackspace and StackOps will help staff the OpenStack booth. Cloud Connect, April 2-5, Santa Clara: Robert Cathey with Cloudscaling is helping organize a panel featuring an OpenStack user. Thank you for your enthusiastic response to co-sponsoring OSCON in the OpenStack Pavilion this July. One spot (of eight) remains. We are also planning a similar Pavilion at the Gartner Data Center Conference, December 9-12 in Las Vegas. The estimated expense to your company is $12K. If interested in either Pavilion, please contact Kathy Cacciatore (kathyc(a)openstack.org). The OpenStack Summit will be April 15-18, in Portland, Oregon. We’re expecting 2,000 attendees from around the world, including developers, users and businesses. The following Summit is scheduled for October 2013, and will take place in either Europe or Asia. We’re vetting venues now, and expect to announce the location in March. More speaking opps arranged by the submission deadline (not the event date): March 7, USENIX Hot Cloud ‘13 Workshop: https://www.usenix.org/conference/hotcloud13/call-for-papers March 15, CloudExpo East: http://cloudcomputingexpo.com/general/papers2013east.htm March 22, Gigaom Structure: http://event.gigaom.com/structure/speakers/speaker-proposal/ April TBC, PyCon Australia: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dGNLOGJXMHZpQ1pyMjdiOG… Accept on a rolling basis, GlueCon: http://www.gluecon.com/2013/ Accept on a rolling basis, Under the Radar: http://www.undertheradarblog.com/nominate-to-present/

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