[BLU/Officers] Boston Linux Meeting Wednesday, May 21, 2014 OpenStack from Scratch, Part II

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

Thanks Tom,

On 05/14/2014 11:15 AM, Tom Buskey wrote:
> FWIW, there's another OpenStack talk nearby at the same time:
>
> http://www.meetup.com/Openstack-Boston/events/172834612/?a=ea1_evn&rv=ea1&_af_eid=172834612&_af=event
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> On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 7:10 AM, Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org
> <mailto:gaf at blu.org>> wrote:
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>     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.
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>     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 <gaf at blu.org <mailto:gaf at blu.org>>
>     Boston Linux and Unix
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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
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