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Re: Community discussion panel at OpenStack.Folsom Conference

 

No offence taken at all :)

I just wanted to share the updates since Stef mentioned India in the list.

Please feel free to share any updates or suggestions.


Cheers,
Deepak


On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 10:00 AM, Tristan Goode <tristan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Deepak,
>
> My apologies, I have been on Skype just now with Kavit who has chastised me for not being aware of your significant efforts to build the community in India!
>
> India is a very important part of Aptira's business and I, Kavit and Aptira are very enthusiastic to support building the OpenStack community there as much as we can. For our inaugural meetups here we sought presence from contributing vendors to both talk about their involvement with OpenStack and importantly show that they were behind the project in the local area. Between us here and the US groups perhaps we can help you get representatives from Rackspace, Dell, Cisco, Juniper, F5, etc as we here did to bolster the event? Adding that to your Citrix and Prakash's Canonical presence will make for a great inauguration I think?
>
> Cheers
> Tristan
>
>
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Deepak Garg [mailto:deepakgarg.iitg@xxxxxxxxx]
>> Sent: Tuesday, 3 April 2012 1:08 PM
>> To: Tristan Goode
>> Cc: Stefano Maffulli; Boris Renski; openstack-community@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;
>> Joseph_B_George@xxxxxxxx
>> Subject: Re: [Openstack-community] Community discussion panel at
>> OpenStack.Folsom Conference
>>
>> Thanks Tristan and Stef.
>>
>> We have been trying to form the Indian community for a year now and here
>> are the experiences/updates:
>>
>> a. We haven't yet had a formal meetup and this is expected next month.
>> b. We tried to have a meetup before for Essex Hack-In and Bug Squashing
>> Day but couldn't do so because of Site issues and hence low response.
>> c. The reason is that people are not on the Openstack Inda ML or LinkedIn
>> Group or the Meetup Page d. I have been attending a few other tech
>> meetups lately and was surprised to find the no. of people who are
>> interested in the Openstack meetup e. The issue of Site/infrastructure is now
>> resolved and I am well networked to them.
>> f. We are doing an informal meetup at the end of Ubuntu Cloud Day to
>> discuss on 'how to stay connected' and find out their roles in Openstack
>> community (dev/admin/user etc.).
>> g. Kavit from Aptira is here with full support and hopefully we should not run
>> into any more problems.
>>
>> Please share if you have some suggestions and if we should do anything
>> differently.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Deepak
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 7:19 AM, Tristan Goode <tristan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > Hi Stef,
>> >
>> > Yes I'd be very interested in joining the panel. Our presentation earlier that
>> morning will have a chunk devoted to our experiences with the Aussie
>> community, and i can report on how over the next couple of weeks our
>> Indian head of ops Kavit is working with Prakash from Canonical in India to
>> grow the Indian community.
>> >
>> > Cheers
>> > Tristan
>> >
>> >
>> > Sent from my iPad.
>> >
>> > On 03/04/2012, at 6:58 AM, "Stefano Maffulli" <stefano@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >> hello folks
>> >>
>> >> the programming committee suggested to merge two proposals
>> regarding
>> >> community for the next OpenStack conference.
>> >>
>> >> Here is the proposal I originally submitted:
>> >>
>> >>       OpenStack community is growing at a very fast pace. The talk
>> >>       will give an overview of this growth, with metrics and graphs.
>> >>       The role of metrics will be highlighted pointing at what we're
>> >>       currently measuring and what we should be measuring. The
>> >> session
>> >>       will also highlight a grandiose plan to:
>> >>
>> >>          * redesign the current community tools and web properties in
>> >>       order to streamline operation
>> >>          * create local OpenStack ambassadors to help promote the
>> >>       project worldwide
>> >>          * give recognition to all the people helping in the success
>> >>       of Openstack
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> George Joseph of Dell submitted a related proposal titled "Building
>> >> Success with Open Source User Groups"
>> >>
>> >>       Creating a local user group for Open Source projects requires a
>> >>       common focus. Using their experience in forming OpenStack User
>> >>       Groups, Dell will walk you through learned best practices used
>> >>       for establishing user groups for OpenStack.
>> >>
>> >>       Open Source User Groups are community-based organizations,
>> >>       global in scope. They exist for collaboration, education, as
>> >>       well as advocacy, and rely on member sponsorship to support
>> >>       regularly scheduled meetings - or "meetups."
>> >>
>> >>       The Open Source Initiative defines the importance of open
>> >> source
>> >>       projects, those projects similar to OpenStack and Hadoop,
>> >>       saying, "Open source is a development method for software that
>> >>       harnesses the power of distributed peer review and transparency
>> >>       of process. The promise of open source is better quality,
>> >> higher
>> >>       reliability, more flexibility, lower cost, and an end to
>> >>       predatory vendor lock-in."
>> >>
>> >>       Creating a local user group for Open Source projects requires a
>> >>       common focus. If the User Group you are interested in
>> >> supporting
>> >>       does not yet exist in your area, finding support from existing
>> >>       groups or your local community is made easy with Meetup:
>> >>       http://meetup.com/create.
>> >>
>> >>       Using their experience in forming OpenStack User Groups, Dell
>> >>       will walk you through the steps used for establishing user
>> >>       groups for Open Source projects.
>> >>
>> >> We agreed to merge the two and Mirantis will also join the panel in
>> >> order to bring the experience of working with the Russian community.
>> >>
>> >> Is anybody here interested in joining this panel too, especially to
>> >> share experience from Asia, India and Europe?
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> We should also come up with an attractive title and a description:
>> >>
>> >>
>> http://openstackconferencespring2012.sched.org/event/eda8d9162bfd04eb
>> >> 1074ef07daeed890
>> >>
>> >> The panel is scheduled for Friday April 20, 2012 11:30am - 12:10am
>> >>
>> >> thanks,
>> >> stef
>> >>
>> >>
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>> --
>>
>> Deepak Garg,
>> Data Center and Cloud Div.
>> Citrix R&D, India
>> Skype-id: deepakgarg.iit
>



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Deepak Garg,
Data Center and Cloud Div.
Citrix R&D, India
Skype-id: deepakgarg.iit


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