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[Stefano Maffulli <stefano@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

hi Boris,

thanks for pushing this forward.  While silent on this list, I searched
and found representatives from the Asia/Pacific community too. Yoyo
Chiang from ITRI in Taiwan and Masanori Itoh from NTT-Data in Japan have
interesting stories to share and they may want to give an update on
stories from APAC/APEC area.

I think we should use the occasion to hear stories and opinions from
various parts of the world. Is Lance based in Europe?

/stef


On Tue, 2012-04-10 at 17:13 -0700, Boris Renski wrote:
> Gentlemen, 
> 
>  
> 
> I think it's time for us to organize ourselves and start prepping for
> the upcoming panel. At this point the first step is to finalize our
> panelists. If there are no objections by the end of tomorrow, I'd like
> for us to fix the participants as follows: 
> 
>  
> 
> Moderator:  Stefano 
> 
>  
> 
> Panelists: 
> 
>  
> 
> ·         Joseph George 
> 
> ·         Boris Renski 
> 
> ·         Tristan Goode
> 
> ·         Lance Galey – unless there are objections, I’d like to
> propose him. Lance works for Cisco / WebEx and can talk to Cisco’s
> involvement, contributions and investments to evangelize the
> community. 
> 
>  
> 
> Anyone else? 
> 
>  
> 
> -Boris 
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Deepak Garg [mailto:deepakgarg.iitg@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Monday, April 02, 2012 9:41 PM
> To: Tristan Goode
> Cc: Stefano Maffulli; Boris Renski;
> openstack-community@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Joseph_B_George@xxxxxxxx;
> Kavit
> Subject: Re: [Openstack-community] 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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> >> --
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> >> 
> 
> >> Deepak Garg,
> 
> >> Data Center and Cloud Div.
> 
> >> Citrix R&D, India
> 
> >> Skype-id: deepakgarg.iit
> 
> > 
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> -- 
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> 
> Deepak Garg,
> 
> Data Center and Cloud Div.
> 
> Citrix R&D, India
> 
> Skype-id: deepakgarg.iit
> 
>