The next Marketing meeting will be on Wednesday, July 12. There will be two meetings held to accommodate community members in different time zones. Additional meeting information is available on the OpenStack Marketing wiki https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Governance/Foundation/Marketing. 10am CT / 3pm UTC 5pm CT / 10pm UTC
NEW Version Live -- Certified OpenStack Administrator Exam The Certified OpenStack Administrator (COA) exam http://openstack.org/coa has been upgraded to Newton and has been relaunched with UX changes based on community feedback. Over 1,000 people are OpenStack certified—Are you an OpenStack training company who wants to offer the exam? Do you want to say that your OpenStack teams are certified? Chat with anne@openstack.org mailto:anne@openstack.org.
Read more about the exam http://superuser.openstack.org/articles/certified-openstack-administrator-exam-newton/ and see a demo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_mYkama1bs of the new features!
User Survey Launches Next Week For the first time, the OpenStack User Survey https://www.openstack.org/user-survey/survey-2017-jun-dec/ will be translated into multiple languages, including German, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Traditional Chinese/Simplified Chinese, and more to come. Please help us promote the survey, which will be available starting June 26 and live through August 11, 2017.
OpenStack Summit Sydney - November 6-8 Call for Presentations https://www.openstack.org/summit/sydney-2017/call-for-presentations/ is open through July 14. Submit your speaking proposals now! Register now! https://www.openstack.org/summit/sydney-2017/ Early bird price ends in early September Sponsor sales are now open https://www.openstack.org/summit/sydney-2017/sponsors/ Need Travel Support? Apply for the Travel Support Program https://www.openstack.org/summit/sydney-2017/travel/
OpenStack Hackathon @ OpenStack Summit Sydney November 3-5, 2017 Happening the weekend prior to the Sydney Summit, the OpenStack Hackathon will bring together hundreds of technologists in a supportive learning environment to practice their skills with the latest cloud tools. Stay tuned https://www.openstack.org/community/events/openstackhackathons/#tab=host_tab for more details.
There are several OpenStack Days in June and July: OpenStack Days Germany https://openstack-tage.de/ (Munich), June 26-28 OpenStack Days Korea http://event.openstack.or.kr/2017/, July 13-14 OpenStack Days Sao Paulo http://openstackbr.com.br/events/2017/openstack-day/, July 15 OpenStack Days Taiwan http://openstack.ithome.com.tw/, July 18-19 OpenStack Days Tokyo http://openstackdays.com/en/, July 20-21 OpenStack Days China http://openstackdaychina.org/, July 24-25
Here’s a full lineup https://www.openstack.org/community/events/openstackdays of the remaining OpenStack Days for 2017.
NEW CONTENT AVAILABLE OpenStack guide for application Developers and architects Check out the new “Designing, Migrating and Deploying Applications” guide, by the Enterprise Working Group, at www.openstack.org/enterprise http://www.openstack.org/enterprise. The guide includes recommendations on approaches, software development and migration patterns, OpenStack tools and services, and a planning checklist for moving applications from a public cloud to a private cloud.
Workload reference architectures Three workload reference architectures are now available at www.openstack.org/software/sample-configs http://www.openstack.org/software/sample-configs. The architectures for Web Applications, Big Data and eCommerce include Heat templates that install all the servers, networking and sample applications in addition to architecture diagrams and paper for each. The workload reference architectures are part of an ongoing effort by the Enterprise Working Group with help from leading users and ecosystem members. Please contact EWG lead Leong Sun (yih.leong.sun@intel.com), if you’d like to get involved in future workloads.
Send us your feedback and ideas Is there anything you think is missing or would like to see in the OpenStack Marketing bulletin? We want your feedback and participation. Contact allison@openstack.org.
Allison Price OpenStack Foundation allison@openstack.org