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OpenStack User Committee Updates

Amy Marrich, O.A.T.

Belmiro Moreira, CERN

John Studarus, JHL

Joseph Sandoval, Adobe Inc

Matt Van Winkle, Salesforce

04.28.2019

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Committee Goals Update

UC Focus: Be more aggressive about feedback

User Survey PSA

2019 Survey is open...what did 2018 look like?

Community Highlights

Updates on various community events

Adjacent Communities

We are open infrastructure...how we work well with others

Forward Looking

What we look to tackle between now and Denver

Questions?

Agenda

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Committee Goals

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Completed or In Progress

  • Update AUC Criteria
    • 150% growth of AUC base (Spring 2019)
  • UC members attendance at Events
  • Turn Operator/User feedback into forum sessions and changes to code
  • Increased User Survey participation - 1000+ (2018)

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Developing

  • Clarifying and strengthening the role of Ambassadors
  • Define User Group requirements
  • Industry outreach for project resources
  • Escalate non-code related items and overarching topics coming from the user community to the board and TC
  • Understand and assist in the success of Release Cycle / Stable Branch / EOL discussion

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OpenStack User Survey PSA

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2019 OpenStack User Survey

  • Annual survey is now open
  • 2018 survey saw 900 deployments submit answers
  • The 2019 survey is now open - promote to your teams and customers
  • Did we get any updated questions in the 2019 survey

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Community Highlights

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Berlin Ops Midcycle

  • Approximately 25 people attended over the 2 day event hosted by Deutsche Telekom.
  • Several of the discussions from this event as well as the one which was co-hosted with the last PTG were added to the Forum here in Denver.
  • Learned most attendees did not hear about the midcycle from the openstack-discuss list as they are not on it, so the team created a Twitter handle @osopsmeetup and we’ve seen improved visibility in the last month with posts there.

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Open Infrastructure Days UK - Rejuvenating Regions

Community Outreach

Day 1 - Talks

  • CNCF & OpenStack Sw Projects
  • Open19 & OCP Hw Projects

Day 2 - Workshops

  • Kata
  • Upstream
  • Zuul
  • Kubernetes
  • Istio

Organizers

  • Nick Jones & Danny Abukalam

Sponsors

  • Redhat, G Research, Ubuntu, SoftIron, ComponentSoft, Mellanox, Vesper

Previous event was 2+ years ago in Bristol

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Open Infra Days Vietnam - Emerging Markets

Community Outreach

Single Day

  • OpenStack Sw Projects

Organizers

  • VietOpenStack
  • Vietnam Internet Association
  • VFOSSA

Sponsors

  • Viettell, VinaData, RedHat, NetNaM + 15 others

A very excited and engaged community

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OpenStack Days Tokyo - A Combined Event

Community Outreach

Two Days Talks

  • Concurrent with CNCF

Organizers

  • Japan OpenStack User Group (JOSUG)

Sponsors

  • NEC, VMWare, Juniper, NTT, NetApp + 18 others

Successfully combining forces with other OSS Foundations

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SF Bay - A “Lighter” Event

Community Outreach

Half Day

  • Afternoon workshops
  • Evening dinner & lightning talks

Organizers

  • JHL

Sponsors

  • Platform 9, RedHat, Cisco, Packet + 5 others

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Free event for attendees

Cross discipline CNCF & OpenStack

Collocated at Intel campus

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OpenStack Days CERN - May, 27th

Community Outreach

Highlight Large Scientific Projects that use OpenStack

  • “Accelerating Science with OpenStack”

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Single Day event

  • Agenda available:

https://indico.cern.ch/event/776411/timetable

  • Talks from CERN, SKA, NASA, and many more...
  • CERN tours available the day after for attendees

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Registrations Open!

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/openstack-day-cern-tickets-54349067524

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Grassroot Outreach - User Groups

Community Outreach

Increasing User Group Support

  • Meetup Pro Account
  • 22 groups across 11 countries
  • Increases outreach/visibility

Recapturing “Idle” Groups

  • Preventing non-OpenStack usage
  • Seek out new organizers

Chicago & New York

  • Rejuvenated idle groups

Fresh Look & Content

  • Beyond pure OSF projects
  • Brings in new audiences

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Adjacent Communities

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Infrastructure Donations - Edge Access

Community Outreach

Goal

  • Provide “real” edges with compute & spectrum

Supported Project

  • StarlingX

Community Provider

  • Packet - Compute, network
  • Federated Wireless - CBRS spectrum
  • Crown Castle - Antenna access

Packet & OSF Agreement

  • Signed 4/5/2019
  • Access to live edge sites @ Chicago, Boston, LV

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Forward Looking...

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Going Forward

  • Increase Forum Submissions
    • From Days & Ops Meetups
  • Constituency outreach
    • Ambassadors
    • WGs/Teams/SIGs
  • Identify themes from the User Survey
    • Beyond Denver - push for participation

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Questions?

Thanks for your time.