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Day Two of the OpenStack Product Management Kilo Midcycle

Day Two of the @OpenStack Product Management Kilo Midcycle

Details https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/kilo-product-management-midcycle

Neutron is a critical OpenStack project. Any major changes can make or break a business relying on OpenStack networking. To start off day two, Gary Kotton ran down the details of  a major change, the Neutron service split. Due to lengthly patch review / merge…

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Day One of the OpenStack Product Management Kilo Midcycle

Day One of the OpenStack Product Management Kilo Midcycle

Details https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/kilo-product-management-midcycle

We started on-time, but spent some unexpected time introducing ourselves. Some of have been around OpenStack for a few years, but we have many new contributors as well. The discussion was very active. We decided to combine the first two talks about long term plans and project tagging into a longer multi-hour discussion.…

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OpenStack Ambassadors Come Together

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OpenStack Foundation 2015 Election

OpenStack Foundation 2015 Election

There are three important bylaws changes that require 25% of the 13K plus OpenStack Foundation members to vote in order to pass. These changes are around the efforts to update the OpenStack trademark process, adjust the size of the Legal Committee, and change the percentage of members required to vote in an election. Find the full breakdown of the proposed bylaws changes here. I voted yes on all…

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OpenStack Community Developer Training, part 3 of 3

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OpenStack Kilo Product Management Midcycle, Doorway to a Greater Understanding

OpenStack Kilo Product Management Midcycle, Doorway to a Greater Understanding

Look to the previous post for background on OpenStack Product Management

OpenStack is a very active community. Bursts of change happen quite often and it can be difficult to keep up if you are not immersed. We need manage the flow of critical information and decision making just like any other engineering organization. The people that represent the Product Management of OpenStack are a critical…

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OpenStack Gold Director Selector Election Results for 2015

Aptira – Tristan Goode

Cisco – Lew Tucker

Dreamhost – Simon Anderson

EMC – Sean Roberts

Mirantis – Boris Renski

Nebula – Chris Kemp

(new) NetApp – Robert Esker

(new) Symantec – Steven Hallett

These directors will be seated after the Individual Member elections are completed along with the rest of the Directors at the Board meeting on January 28th.

I am honored that the Gold Members have chosen me…

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I am running for an OpenStack Foundation Gold Director seat

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OpenStack Kilo Summit Talks

OpenStack Kilo Summit Talks

These are talks I am involved in. I ask that you help vote them up as they represent important topics for the OpenStack community.

Congress defines the desired state of a cluster. Join us to work on this important project. Congress:Policy as a Service

Developers have managers that define what they work on. It’s in our best interest to get the managers synched with what the developers sign up for…

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Why I left Yahoo for VMware

Why I left Yahoo for VMware http://wp.me/p4pxui-v

I work in the open source community with OpenStack. This gives me the freedom to do my work at Yahoo or any of the other great companies that are doing work in this field. It’s a role I relish and have a lot of fun doing. I have not always been this committed to open source and its ideals. I thank Joshua McKenty, Jonathan Bryce, Mark Collier, Lauren Sell, and the other great people of the…

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OpenStack is turning 4

OpenStack is turning 4

It’s a birthday, so we are throwing a party! Join us 7-10pm, 30 July 2014, at the 111 Minna Gallery in San Francisco to celebrate the event. Speakers will include Randy Bias, Joshua McKenty, Monty Taylor, Chris Kemp, Alex Freedland, and Sean Roberts. Light food and drinks will be served. There is limited seating, so you must RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/openstack/events/190061812/. See you there!

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Widening the Engagement of the Hidden OpenStack Influencers

This is a follow-up post to the OpenStack Hidden Influencers post.

After the OpenStack July Gold Membership meeting today, the problem of engaging the developer community line management seemed a bit clearer to me.

The Enterprise / OpenStack User Committee research that Intel has been spearheading is a useful model to copy for other verticals like Telecommunications and High Performance…

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OpenStack Operators Mid-Cycle Summit

OpenStack Operators Mid-Cycle Summit

The Operators Summit is all about getting the implementors input into the development cycle. We ran the first one about six months ago and was a great success. Come and join us, but be prepared to interact with the group. This is very much a round table discussion, rather than a series of talks. If you run an OpenStack cloud, join us at Rackspace on August 25 & 26 in San Antonio, Texas. If you do…

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Hidden Influencers

After the summit (#afterstack), a few of us compared notes and found a common theme in an underserved, but critical part of the OpenStack community.  Sean Roberts, Allison Randal, and Rob Hirschfeld committed to expand our discussion to the broader community.  Instead of sharing a single post, we wanted to bring our individual perspectives to you and start a dialog. See Rob’s post http://robhirsc…

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How to Turn Customers into Partners

How to Turn Customers into Partners

My experience with open source has taught me a few things about partnerships. I have observed the basic rule that partnerships require give and take. The give and take do not happen in regular intervals, so you need to trust the relationship will cycle back and deliver.

I have a deeper observation about source based businesses. There is a bit of sheek lately to state your code is open source.…

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OpenStack San Francisco Bay Area User Group Meeting, 05 June 2014

The OpenStack User Groups are meant to be a place where the OpenStack curious and converted can hang out together. Tonight,  05 June 2014, the monthly OpenStack Beginner Session will be held at Yahoo, 700 North First Avenue, Sunnyale, CA.  Mirantis will be leading a presentation on OpenStack architecture.

You will find more information on OpenStack SFBay User Group meetings here. See you there!

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