OpenStack Mitaka Design Summit

RSVP here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fj7V0nLh7UBvj7I7htWLz63ygdk4vRDkU2DqB-t1TQo/edit?usp=sharing

Capacity: 30

Target audience: Technical Women who regularly attend technical meetings [Working Groups] and would like to develop and “command their presence” in high pressure meetings. 

Workshop Background 
The Command Presence Workshop (CPW) has been recognized by Anita Borg Institute and Harvard Business Review. It is intended to teach participants how to handle “senior-level high pressure meetings”. The majority of the workshop is a task-force convened to address a simulated, but very realistic crisis event. In the class, each participant assumes a role, and is given about 30minutes to prepare 1-2 slides. Once the class has prepared, the simulation begins. There is a role-play simulations. It is not uncommon to hear occasional “gasps” of disbelief from the participants. The workshop participants will thus experience rapid-fire questioning, interruption, and other situations that occur in senior-level meetings, but in a safe environment conducive to learning techniques for handling such situations.

The New Stack will discuss what makes OpenStack work for enterprise customers. The discussion will encompass examples of solutions that have been a success and how teams worked to accomplish their IT goal by developing elastic and scalable infrastructure. 

Exciting. Overwhelming. Engaging. Exhausting. How will you transform your first OpenStack Summit into an accelerator for your career and your projects in development? And how will you make it happen without getting lost among thousands of other community members?

This fun and engaging panel presentation, moderated by OpenStack Foundation newbie Heidi Joy Tretheway, features regular contributors to the OpenStack community who have found great ways to maximize the value of the Summit for their professional development and the success of their companies.

We kick off with advice from those who have been to Vancouver, Paris, and other OpenStack Summits, including:

• How to make the most of networking opportunities and social events


• How to use the marketplace trade show to form new business connections and uncover opportunities


• What to look for on the agenda and how to select the best sessions for you


• "Relationship accelerators" - five easy questions you can ask to get conversations rolling past "What's your name?" and "Where are you from?"

We'll open the panel to your questions. Expect some lively and unconventional answers, and a few great icebreakers that will help you better connect with your newbie colleagues.

You'll leave this session Proud to be a Noob, and ready to tackle the rest of the Summit.

In Vancouver the OpenStack Board chartered a work group to explore and foster a diverse OpenStack Community. The basis for this is the belief that enlisting the broadest set of viewpoints and experience will enable us to create the most innovative and impactful technologies in support of the OpenStack Mission.

A broad set of community members formed the Diversity Work Group that has worked over the Liberty cycle to form a framework for a diverse community through the creation of a Diversity Policy, integrated Diversity expectations into our Code of Conducts and identified initial areas of focus for extending the diversity of our community. Please come join us to discuss the team’s work and shape the future direction.

Join the Women of OpenStack on Wednesday morning before keynotes for our 
3rd Summit breakfast working session. We'll review what we have 
accomplished since the Paris and Vancouver Summits and hear lightning talks 
from two speakers who exemplify #WeAreOpenStack. Our first speaker, Xing 
Yang, is making a positive impact on OpenStack as a core Cinder and Manila 
contributor and our second speaker, Niki Acosta, is using her skills to 
grow the OpenStack ecosystem. We'll break into smaller groups to discuss 
the key lightening talk messages and identify actions for the Women of 
OpenStack to achieve over the next six months. Breakfast and coffee will be 
provided.

Ever wonder what the analysts and media who cover OpenStack *really* think?  This session features an all-star panel of pundits who have made names for themselves asking tough questions and writing content about OpenStack that gets noticed. We'll explore topics including:

- What are the nagging questions about OpenStack that you don't get satisfactory answers to?- Who is doing the best job right now of talking about their OpenStack game plan in clear, consistent and pointed language?
- What do you wish people in the OpenStack community would stop saying?

Join us and be prepared to talk about what's on your mind. It's a great opportunity to get direct answers from the folks who are usually asking the questions.  

China cloud market will keep 20% growth in the next 5 years. Public and private cloud total market size is 2.46 billion US$ at 2014. With Goverment support "Open Source" background, the OpenStack ecosystem in China is experiencing healthy growth. It is driving a new generation of innovative businesses that are using the cloud to bring their product and services to market at a rapid pace. Attend this session to get a good understanding of:

• The China cloud market and the opportunity for OpenStack


• OpenStack ecosystem in China – the players, business models, offerings and achievements


• Key milestones


• Community activities and status


• Upcoming China Hackathon


• Summary of a recent big end-user win

OpenStack Ambassadors connect the user groups to the Foundation. They help initialize the groups and guide them to grow. Ambassadors can give feedback about all the OpenStack community.

Ambassadors launch some actions during the last release cycle:

- OpenStack community report
    - What is the size of the community
    - Global and regional trends
    - Introduce new groups, leaders

- Speaker directory

- Recommended practices for starting and running communities

- Official group process
     - Officials groups
     - Process

- Examples of User group help since Vancouver

- Groups portal
      - Overview
      - Results

- Welcome pack and OpenStack shop

- Q&A

Meet with the ambassadors on this session where they will introduce the improvements of the last half year and share their feelings and experience about the community. If you are a user group organizer you must be there, and feel free to share your thoughts and feelings with us!

The Liberty cycle has seen some big changes to our release process and tools. As the OpenStack projects have matured, and the OpenStack community has grown, the Release Management team has updated the way we manage releases to support the way projects want to work while continuing to make it easy for users to understand what is included in each release. All of these changes lay the groundwork for more changes to come in Mitaka.

These changes will immediately impact:

• Distribution providers


• Deployers


• Version Numbering


• The future of stable branches


• Release cycles

This is a must-attend session for:

• Those who curate or provide an OpenStack distribution


• Release Managers


• Deployers and architects

The Women of Openstack Working Group continues to go from strength to strength. With a record of over 600 women or 10% of the Vancouver Summit attendees, women are a growing and vocal presence in our extremely diverse community. Join this panel of women and minorities as we discuss the topic of subtle bias in the workplace and the OpenStack community and how to remove barriers to full participation in all aspects and roles. 

From PTL to code reviewer, there is a place for everyone to contribute to the fullest extent possible. Learn how to identify and overcome the subtle biases that can drag down even the most confident person.

• Identifying our own biases and tips for avoiding their influence


• Looking beyond the surface: First impressions and how they can sway even the most seemingly impartial decision


• On an IRC, everyone is equal: Using tools to level the playing field for everyone


• Establishing criteria to ensure fair treatment for all

The OpenStack Tent is big and as an OpenStack Operator, Vendor or Contributor it can be a challenge to know what’s going on in each ring.  Help is on the way! The OpenStack Product Work Group strives to work across our community to create a condensed, simplified set of roadmaps of the capabilities you can expect in the upcoming project releases. 

In this session we'll present our findings across the different projects in an effort to give users a glimpse into OpenStack's upcoming capabilities.  The roadmaps presented will span multiple releases and strive to unify the future direction of the individual projects on a per release basis.  This session had over 800 RSVPs at the last summit so please show up early!  

An OpenStack trivia game featuring multiple choice questions using slides, etc, encouraging audience participation. There will also be audible questions (just shout out the answer). Goofy prizes will be awarded. This theme can be used as an icebreaker/etc at OpenStack meetups (the first one, birthday ones, etc.) This talk would also work as a lightning talk with the slides auto advancing.

Each slide will have a backup slide giving a bit more detail about the topic so also educational.

Would you like to be able to move applications seamlessly between OpenStack Powered clouds?  Sure you would—but today, that’s hard.  One of the trickiest aspects of interoperability today is the network stack: OpenStack has multiple networking API’s available that can’t be deployed together, making it difficult to create an interoperable standard.  Without an interoperable standard, applications become a tangle of if/else loops to account for the different possible networking capabilities of various public clouds, appliances, distributions, and managed offerings--and it’s difficult to determine which products support which networking options at all.  Interoperability by if/else loop isn’t really interoperability at all.

The OpenStack community is responding to the challenge of creating an interoperable standard between OpenStack Powered products via the work of the DefCore Committee.  The DefCore Guidelines seek to define core in such a way that OpenStack Powered products can be verifiably tested for adherence to an interoperability standard and consumers can make informed decisions about what they deploy and how they write their applications.  But the DefCore Committe can't operate in a vacume: solving interoperability in networking requires the help of the technical community, the Board of Directors, the DefCore Committee, vendors, and operators.

In this talk, members of the Nova and Neutron technical communities and the DefCore Committee will discuss the history of networking in OpenStack, take the current temperature of OpenStack's networking stacks, and discuss how the DefCore Committee, technical community, and Board of Directors are working together to solve the interoperability problem.  We’ll explain what’s being proposed for the next DefCore Guideline and how we as a community got there.  Attendees will learn about the impact on operators and vendors and leave with an understanding of what to expect of OpenStack Powered (TM) products that meet interoperable networking standards in the future.  We’ll also discuss the feedback that’s been generated so far from operators, vendors, and developers and discuss the future of interoperable networking in OpenStack.  

The talk will present a quantitative analysis of the projects producing the main free, open source software cloud platforms: OpenStack, Apache CloudStack, OpenNebula and Eucalyptus. The analysis will focus on the communities behind those projects, their main development parameters, and the trends that can be observed.

Understanding the inner life of free / open source software projects is of fundamental importance to developers, users and decision makers. This talk will help to understand what's happening behind the curtains in the most relevant open cloud platforms, by analyzing the rich data obtained from their developing repositories.

The talk will cover, for the four analyzed projects, the following topics:

* How open is their development model, and to which extent they provide access to their development data.
Some parameters related to the overall activity and effort put into the development and maintenance of their products.
* The main characteristics of their development community: size, diversity, engagement, attraction, etc.
* The main parameters characterizing their performance, such as time-to-fix tickets or time-to-review patches.
* Some visualizations of the most relevant aspects.

A bonus track with novel information providing insight on the OpenStack community will have a slot in the presentation.

All the tools used to produce the analysis presented in this talk are free, open source software, based on the Grimoire technology, http://vizgrimoire.github.io. The talk will also provide some hints on how to reproduce the study, on these or other projects.

Illustrative example of the kind of information that will be presented: OpenStack Grimoire Dashboard, http://activity.openstack.org/

This talk will be an update and extension of the one I delivered in Paris OpenStack Summit, http://bit.ly/openstack-opencloud