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Re: OpenStack Academic Alliance|Circle|Initiative #unconference

 

I see very little under Mendeley on OpenStack. Linking these two up may help in this area.

Also, anyone have ins at Internet2?  Seems like it would be a good fit.

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On 2011-10-13, at 5:49 AM, Prem Sankar G <premsankar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
>   This is a great idea.  I feel this would create a good Openstack ecosystem.  Count me in as co-ordinator.
> Regards,
> Prem
> 
> On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 9:34 PM, Stefano Maffulli <stefano@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> hello folks,
> 
> a group of people interested in academia met in Boston during the
> unconference. I was there to take notes and facilitate this community
> run initiative. Here is what we agreed so far. I'm sharing it on the
> list to gather more ideas.
> 
> /stef
> 
> OpenStack Academic Initiative
> 
> Mission:
> 
>      * provide a place for all research academics efforts can be
>        advertised and found, about and around OpenStack (not generic
>        about IaaS or PaaS)
>              * a list of papers published and ongoing research
>              * a list of conferences about cloud
>      * maintain a list of ideas for the companies to sponsor research
>        like a "market"
>      * a place for the companies to say what they need and research can
>        execute
>              * undergrad level, gsoc-style, time starved but there are
>                many of them. it's important to be easy for them to
>                contribute
>              * masters level, more in depth work, empirical studies
>                like performance evaluation
>              * phd level, exploratory type of research
>      * handle the funding, hr tasks, mentoring: who's going to manage
>        this?
>              * mentoring is intense and time consuming, but crucial for
>                the success of research
>      * provide resources, like hardware for tests, for researchers
>      * advertise this initiative among researchers
>              * Example: setup OpenStack tracks at a couple of relevant
>                conference
> 
> 
> Next steps: Identify the group responsible for this initiative and
> define action items, deadlines and deliverables.
> 
> 
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