Date: May 05/14/14 7:10 AM Subject: Boston Linux Meeting Wednesday, May 21, 2014 OpenStack from Scratch, Part II From: Jerry Feldman When: May 21, 2014 7PM (6:30PM for Q&A) Topic: OpenStack from Scratch, Part II Moderator:Federico Lucifredi Location: MIT Building E-51, Room 315 ### Please note that Wadsworth St. is still closed. ### Proceed West on Memorial Drive to Ames St. Ames will be ### 2-way during construction. Take a right onto Ames and another right ### onto Amherst. Summary Part 2 of Federico's discussion of OpenStack Abstract OpenStack is a free and open-source software cloud computing platform. It is primarily deployed as an infrastructure as a service (IaaS) solution. The technology consists of a series of interrelated projects that control pools of processing, storage, and networking resources throughout a data center, able to be managed or provisioned through a web-based dashboard, command-line tools, or a RESTful API. It is released under the terms of the Apache License. OpenStack began in 2010 as a joint project of Rackspace Hosting and NASA, and is currently managed by the OpenStack Foundation, a non-profit corporate entity established in September 2012 to promote OpenStack software and its community.[4] More than 200 companies have joined the project, including Arista Networks, AT&T, AMD, Canonical, Cisco, Dell, EMC, Ericsson, Go Daddy, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, NEC, NetApp, Nexenta, Red Hat, SUSE Linux, VMware, Oracle and Yahoo!. The OpenStack community collaborates around a six-month, time-based release cycle with frequent development milestones. During the planning phase of each release, the community gathers for the OpenStack Design Summit to facilitate developer working-sessions and to assemble plans. The most recent OpenStack Summit, in November 2013 in Hong Kong, drew 3,000 attendees. About Federico Lucifredi Federico Lucifredi is the maintainer of the man suite, the primary documentation-delivery tool under Linux, a graduate of Boston College and Harvard University, and the Ubuntu Advantage Product Manager at Canonical. As a software engineer-turned-manager at the Novell corporation, Federico was part of the SUSE Linux team for five years, overseeing the update stack of a 150 million dollar maintenance business. Previously, Federico has been a CIO and a network software architect at technology and embedded Linux startups, and he has spent two years teaching in Boston University's graduate and undergraduate programs, while simultaneously consulting for MIT. He is a frequent speaker at user group and conference events, notably the Linux Foundation's LinuxCon, LinuxWorld, the O'Reilly Open Source Convention, and the IMPlanet conferences, where he was a panelist representing the Jabber community. Federico is a recognized expert in computing performance issues, and consults pro-bono with Standard and Poor's clients interested in Free/Open Source Software technical and strategic issues. He participated in the GPL v3 drafting process in the large-corporation panel. For further information and directions please consult the BLU Web site http://www.blu.org Please note that there is usually plenty of free parking in the E-51 parking lot at 2 Amherst St, or directly on Amherst St. After the meeting we will adjourn to the official after meeting meeting location at The Cambridge Brewing Company http://www.cambridgebrewingcompany.com/ -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix _______________________________________________ Announce mailing list Announce@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/announce