March 2015 - Marketing - lists.openinfra.dev

[OpenStack Marketing] Party Plans
by Niki Acosta (nikacost) 13 May '15

13 May '15

Hello marketers! Cisco is hosting a private customer event in Vancover, and we don’t want to compete with any plans you might have for evening parties and events. Do any of you have tentative times/dates for evening events you might be hosting? Thanks! [http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/assets/email-signature-tool/logo_02.png?ct=14162…] Niki Acosta Cloud Evangelist Cisco.com<http://www.cisco.com/> nikacost(a)cisco.com<mailto:nikacost@cisco.com> Phone: +1 512-912-6716 [http://www.cisco.com/assets/social_media_icons/twitter-16x16.png]<http://www.twitter.com/nikiacosta> [http://www.cisco.com/assets/swa/img/thinkbeforeyouprint.gif] Think before you print. This email may contain confidential and privileged material for the sole use of the intended recipient. Any review, use, distribution or disclosure by others is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient (or authorized to receive for the recipient), please contact the sender by reply email and delete all copies of this message. Please click here<http://www.cisco.com/web/about/doing_business/legal/cri/index.html> for Company Registration Information.

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[OpenStack Marketing] Community Meeting: OpenStack Powered
by Lauren Sell 01 Apr '15

01 Apr '15

Hi everyone, Over the past 18 months, the Board has been working to update the technical requirements for the OpenStack Powered logo, which is used for products that contain OpenStack software (such as public clouds, distributions or appliances). The purpose of these new requirements is to drive interoperability in the market by ensuring OpenStack Powered products are running a common set of services and exposing that same functionality. For the next community marketing meeting, we’d like to walk through the new technical requirements, the meaning of OpenStack Powered, how you can validate your products as OpenStack Powered (especially for those of you launching new products around the Summit), and how we’re planning to roll this out more broadly to the market. We’ve scheduled two meetings next week, and we’ll of course share slides and a recording on the list. Please join us: Wednesday, 8 am PT / 11 am ET (15:00 UTC) Register: http://openstack.enterthemeeting.com/m/RG4KNYHV Wednesday, 5 pm PT / 8 pm ET (22:00 UTC) Register: http://openstack.enterthemeeting.com/m/KTXJMJ8K In case you weren’t able to attend the first community marketing meeting this year, you can review the slides to see how this update fits within our overall theme of interoperability: http://www.slideshare.net/openstack/openstack-2015-marketing-plan Thanks, Lauren

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[OpenStack Marketing] April 1 Price Increase - OpenStack Summit
by Claire Massey 26 Mar '15

26 Mar '15

Hi everyone, If you’re planning to attend the May OpenStack Summit in Vancouver - it’s time to register! Registration prices will increase next week on April 1 at 12:00am PT (Vancouver time zone) Register HERE! <https://openstacksummit2015vancouver.eventbrite.com/> Full Summit details available at openstack.org/summit <http://openstack.org/summit>. Please contact summit(a)openstack.org <mailto:events@openstack.org> if you have any questions. Cheers, Claire Claire Massey OpenStack Marketing claire(a)openstack.org

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[OpenStack Marketing] Vancouver Summit Announcements
by Claire Massey 23 Mar '15

23 Mar '15

Hi there, Updates for the May 2015 OpenStack Summit in Vancouver: SCHEDULE Thank you to everyone who submitted a talk! The Summit main conference schedule is now live HERE <https://www.openstack.org/summit/vancouver-2015/schedule/>. In mid-April the sponsor sessions will be added to the schedule and in early-May the Design Summit developer and user technical working sessions will be added. Continue to check back for updates. If you would like to present a 10-minute #vBrownBag Tech Talk at the Summit, apply here <http://openstack.prov12n.com/vbrownbag-techtalks-in-vancouver/>. OPEN CLOUD ECOSYSTEM We have a few different ways for complementary open source projects and industry groups in the greater Open Cloud Ecosystem to have a presence at the Summit and engage with attendees. Learn more about the opportunities and apply for venue space here <https://www.openstack.org/summit/vancouver-2015/open-cloud-ecosystem>. April 10 is the deadline to apply. SPONSORS Thank you to the 110+ companies <https://www.openstack.org/summit/vancouver-2015/sponsors/#sponsors> that are sponsoring the Summit! The Marketplace Expo Hall is now completely full with no additional space for more sponsor booths - but we do have other sponsorship opportunities still available. Check out the updated Prospectus <https://www.openstack.org/assets/vancouver-summit/openstack-vancouver-prosp…> and list of available add-ons here <https://www.openstack.org/summit/vancouver-2015/sponsors/#packages> (scroll down). If you’re interested in sponsoring please hurry! April 13 is the deadline to sign contracts <https://www.openstack.org/summit/vancouver-2015/sponsors/#how-to-sponsor>. REGISTRATION March 31 is the Early Bird discounted registration deadline. Registration prices will increase on April 1 so hurry and get registered <https://www.eventbrite.com/e/openstack-summit-may-2015-vancouver-tickets-14…> asap! HOTELS We have discounted room blocks available at a few hotels. Make a reservation <http://devbranch.openstack.org/summit/vancouver-2015/about-vancouver/#hotels> now before they sell out. Please contact summit(a)openstack.org <mailto:summit@openstack.org> with any summit related items. Cheers, Claire Claire Massey OpenStack Marketing claire(a)openstack.org

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[OpenStack Marketing] Gartner request for 30-min user interviews at Vancouver Summit
by Robert Cathey 23 Mar '15

23 Mar '15

Hi, all. Wanted you to know about another opportunity for visibility of your customer success stories at Vancouver. Donna Scott and Arun Chandrasekaran of Gartner are working on a research note, and they'd like to schedule 30-minute interviews with enterprise users. From Donna's email: "Arun and I are planning another note on OpenStack, this one focused on use cases. If you have opportunities for us to have 30 minute interviews with enterprises using OpenStack, we’d like to schedule them. Thank you." ...I asked her about NDA... "Yes we are willing do to the interviews under NDA. However, we’d like to publish a paragraph about their OpenStack use and drivers. Their name could be disguised (e.g., a F500 bank, a large telco, etc) if they like. They would have the opportunity to review it. But the purpose of the interviews would be for publication (with or without their name). We would probably include 10-12 different examples maybe with 3-4 use cases (say 4 primary use cases with 3 each). So each write-up would just be a paragraph or two (so pretty high level). We would not want to publish anything that would be NDA. But many of these companies have already gone public at OpenStack Summits – so this would be similar but to a different audience." Hopefully, this is helpful. If you have users that might agree to participate, let Jennifer (jennifer(a)cathey.co) or I know, and we'll connect you with Donna. Best Robert -- *Robert Cathey* Cathey Communications <http://cathey.co> for the OpenStack Foundation m +1 865-386-6118 @robertcathey <http://twitter.com/robertcathey> LinkedIn <http://www.linkedin.com/in/robertcathey/>

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[OpenStack Marketing] #CUBEMadness: Vote for OpenStackers!
by Niki Acosta (nikacost) 20 Mar '15

20 Mar '15

Howdy Stackers! CUBEMadness is going on right now, and a few OpenStackers made the list. Today is the last day of voting for the first round. Votes are very appreciated, and no registration is required. Feel free to share and include anyone I forgot! Lew Tucker<http://siliconangle.tv/?p=13916> – Cisco, OpenStack Board Diane Mueller<http://siliconangle.tv/solomon-hykes-vs-diane-mueller-cubemadness/> – Red Hat/Women of OpenStack Niki Acosta<http://siliconangle.tv/niki-acosta-vs-mike-dauber-cubemadness/> – Cisco/Women of OpenStack Jesse Proudman vs Joshua McKenty<http://siliconangle.tv/?p=13929> – Blue Box vs Pivotal (ex Piston), vocal OpenStacker and ex-OpenStacker Adrian Ionel<http://www.siliconangle.tv/adrian-ionel-vs-joe-hellerstein-cubemadness/> – Mirantis CEO, OpenStacker to the core Mark Shuttleworth<http://siliconangle.tv/seema-haji-vs-mark-shuttleworth-cubemadness/> – Ubuntu CEO, OpenStack sponsor/keynote speaker Amy Lewis<http://siliconangle.tv/amy-lewis-vs-maribel-lopez-cubemadness/> – Solidfire Evangelist, Geek Whisper Podcaster, OpenStack member/attendee Ben Golub<http://siliconangle.tv/ben-golub-vs-brad-hunstable-cubemadness/> – Docker CEO, OpenStack member/attendee Other Amazing Women in Tech: Telle Whitne<http://siliconangle.tv/?p=13925>y – Anita Borg Institute; Grace Hopper Celebration for Women in Computing Padmasree Warrior<http://siliconangle.tv/padmasree-warrior-vs-bill-schmarzo-cubemadness/> Cisco CTO, big advocate for women in tech [http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/assets/email-signature-tool/logo_02.png?ct=14162…] Niki Acosta Cloud Evangelist Cisco.com<http://www.cisco.com/> nikacost(a)cisco.com<mailto:nikacost@cisco.com> Phone: +1 512-912-6716 [http://www.cisco.com/assets/social_media_icons/twitter-16x16.png]<http://www.twitter.com/nikiacosta> [http://www.cisco.com/assets/swa/img/thinkbeforeyouprint.gif] Think before you print. This email may contain confidential and privileged material for the sole use of the intended recipient. Any review, use, distribution or disclosure by others is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient (or authorized to receive for the recipient), please contact the sender by reply email and delete all copies of this message. Please click here<http://www.cisco.com/web/about/doing_business/legal/cri/index.html> for Company Registration Information.

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[OpenStack Marketing] Media interview request: enterprise technical IT pros running OpenStack in production
by Robert Cathey 19 Mar '15

19 Mar '15

Marketing Community: Michelle Boisvert of TechTarget will attend Summit this May. She's interested in interviewing technical IT folks running OpenStack in production. She's especially interested in talking with enterprises rather than infrastructure or SaaS providers. Michelle is copied. Feel free to reach out directly to her. Thanks, all. Robert -- *Robert Cathey* Cathey Communications <http://cathey.co> for the OpenStack Foundation m +1 865-386-6118 @robertcathey <http://twitter.com/robertcathey> LinkedIn <http://www.linkedin.com/in/robertcathey/>

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[OpenStack Marketing] Superuser Awards Nomination Deadline: March 19
by Allison Price 16 Mar '15

16 Mar '15

Hi everyone, We are bringing the Superuser Awards <http://superuser.openstack.org/awards> back at the Vancouver Summit, where we will recognize the winner during the Summit keynotes. The Superuser Awards are intended to recognize teams who are using OpenStack to transform how their organizations work. I want to encourage everyone to consider nominating your customers or teams within your organization that would qualify, as this is a great opportunity to be recognized among the community and it only takes a few minutes to complete. The deadline is this Thursday, March 19. I have included links below to additional information, as well as the link to nominate an eligible team. Please reach out to me directly if you have any questions. MORE INFO: http://superuser.openstack.org/awards <http://superuser.openstack.org/awards> NOMINATE: https://docs.google.com/a/openstack.org/forms/d/1NHfJlMcTciYxG7GxR6K_ZGAklp… <https://docs.google.com/a/openstack.org/forms/d/1NHfJlMcTciYxG7GxR6K_ZGAklp…> Cheers, Allison Allison Price OpenStack Marketing allison(a)openstack.org <mailto:allison@openstack.org>

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[OpenStack Marketing] OpenStack Vancouver Hotels?
by Brent_Doncaster＠DELL.com 12 Mar '15

12 Mar '15

Claire, are the listed hotels actually taking reservations yet? Seems not. Both the Marriott and Pinnacle Vancouver are throwing back unavailable or "code has expired" messages when I tried to book?? What up? Brent. From: Claire Massey [mailto:claire@openstack.org] Sent: Friday, December 19, 2014 1:49 PM To: marketing(a)lists.openstack.org Subject: [OpenStack Marketing] Vancouver Sponsorship Prospectus & Other OpenStack Summit Items Hi Everyone, As you know the next OpenStack Summit will take place May 18-22, 2015 at the Vancouver Convention Centre<http://www.vancouverconventioncentre.com/thefacilities>. The following Summit information is now available at openstack.org/summit<http://openstack.org/summit>: * Sponsorship Prospectus <http://www.openstack.org/assets/vancouver-summit/openstack-vancouver-prospe…> * Become A Sponsor contract process<https://www.openstack.org/summit/vancouver-2015/become-a-sponsor/> * Hotel Room blocks <https://www.openstack.org/summit/vancouver-2015/hotels/> * Visa invitation request form <https://www.openstack.org/summit/vancouver-2015/visa/> * FAQ page<https://www.openstack.org/summit/vancouver-2015/faq/> The Call for Speakers, Registration, and other items will be made available in the coming days / weeks. Please continue to check the website for updates. IMPORTANT SPONSOR DATES: January 14 * Sponsor Overview Webinar at 9:00am PT / 11:00am CT / 17:00 UTC. * Register for the webinar HERE<http://openstack.enterthemeeting.com/m/9F3KA8MN>. * During the webinar we will fully review the Sponsorship Prospectus, the Vancouver Convention Centre space usage and answer any sponsorship questions January 28 * The executable electronic (Echosign) Summit Sponsorship Contract made available for signature at 9:00am PT / 11:00am CT / 17:00 UTC on openstack.org/summit<http://openstack.org/summit>. * Review the process for securing sponsorships on the Become A Sponsor page * If your company has any past due balances owed to OpenStack Foundation, these invoices must be paid in full in order to be eligible to sponsor the Summit. Please contact billing(a)openstack.org<mailto:billing@openstack.org> if you think you may have any overdue/outstanding invoices. We'll send out additional updates and reminders as these dates approach. Happy holidays! Cheers, Claire

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[OpenStack Marketing] OpenStack @ PyCon 2015: Booth info, looking for volunteers, posting of jobs, OpenStack presentations
by Denise Ridolfo 09 Mar '15

09 Mar '15

The OpenStack Foundation is excited to announce that we will be at PyCon 2015, April 9-11, 2015 in booth #612. PyCon is the largest annual gathering for the community using and developing open-source Python programming language. Post your OpenStack Jobs at PyCon We will be highlighting an OpenStack Job Board in our booth at the show. If you have any OpenStack jobs you would like to post, please stop by the booth and fill out your job openings & contact details. This is an excellent opportunity to meet with potential python candidates at the show. And, don¹t forget to submit your OpenStack job postings on the OpenStackJobBoard web page. Here is the link: http://www.openstack.org/community/jobs/post-a-job/. Are you delivering an OpenStack-related presentation at the show? Let us know so we can help to promote your session. Please send an email to me at ridolfodenise(a)gmail.com <applewebdata://5AB72ABE-A19D-4D9D-9709-07412879EE86/ridolfodenise@gmail.com > . Volunteers Needed for OpenStack Booth We are looking for 4 knowledgeable volunteers who can staff the OpenStack booth in shifts (see the booth schedule below). If you are available and have at least one year of experience contributing to or using OpenStack, please email me at ridolfodenise(a)gmail.com. We have 4 free sponsor passes available. Below are details of the show, schedule and peak times on the show floor. Thanks in advance for your support! Denise Ridolfo Marketing Consultant On behalf of the OpenStack Foundation Mobile: +1 720.560.3994 Email: ridolfodenise(a)gmail.com PyCon Event details: Location: Palais des Congres Montreal Convention Center in Montreal, Canada Show Dates: April 8-16, 2015 Exhibit Hall Dates: April 9-11, 2015 Show Hours Set up: Thursday, April 9, Tear down: Saturday, April 11, 5-11pm Thursday, April 9, 2015 - 6:00pm to 9:00pm (looking for volunteers to staff during peak traffic times) Exhibit Hall peak time: 6pm until 9:00pm Friday, April 10, 2015 - 8:00am to 5:00pm (looking for volunteers to staff during peak traffic times) Exhibit Hall peak times : 8:00am until 9:30am 10:30am until 11:00am 12:30pm until 1:30pm 3:30pm until 4:00pm Saturday, April 11, 2015 - 8:00am to 5:00pm (looking for volunteers to staff during peak traffic times) Exhibit Hall peak times are: 8:00am until 9:30am 10:30am until 11:00am 12:30pm until 1:30pm 3:30pm until 4:00pm

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