Agenda: 2014 OpenStack Summits, industry events and community updates

1. March 12, 2014
March Marketing
Community Meeting

2. 2
Atlanta Summit Update
• Early bird registrations close March 22
• Sponsor deadline is March 31

3. 3
Paris Summit Update
• Summit will run week of November 3 at Le Palais des
Congres (Etoile)
• Keynotes/Expo/Breakout: Monday – Wednesday
• Design Summit: Wednesday – Saturday
• Design sessions will run across the street at the Le Meridien
• Working on expo floor plan and sponsorship prospectus now
• Finalizing room blocks at the attached Hyatt and Le Meridien

4. 4
OpenStack Direct Support Events Update
Highlights Q2/Q3 2014
• Cloud Connect Summit / Interop: March 31 – April 4, 2014/Las
Vegas. OpenStack, PayPal and Business Case speakers;
OpenStack Boot Camp; Community Pavilion; Community Panels
• World Hosting Days: April 1 – April 3, 2014/Rust, Germany.
OpenStack booth, community kiosks (still available!), private
executive dinner
• PyCon: April 10-12, 2014/Montreal, Canada. Booth, job board for
posting your open positions
• Cloud World Forum Europe: June 17-18, 2014/London, U.K.
OpenStack community speaker and panelist

5. 5
2014 Q2/Q3 Regional OpenStack Days
• March 25, Toronto organized by eNovance
• March 27, Vancouver organized by eNovance
• April 29, Mexico City organized by KIO Networks
• May 9, Berlin organized by hastexo
• May 28, Paris organized by eNovance
• May 29, Milan organized by Red Hat
• June 2, Tel Aviv organized by GigaSpaces
• June 5, London organized by Canonical
Additional meetups and community events can also be found on
the OpenStack website: openstack.org/events
Note: we support regional events with speakers, exhibit assets, collateral and
giveaways as available. Visit http://www.openstack.org/marketing/Plan-or-
Sponsor-an-OpenStack-Event/for more information.

6. 6
Call for Papers Upcoming Deadlines
‣ LinuxCon Cloud Open Japan/ May 20-22, Tokyo
‣ Closes March 14: http://bit.ly/1kJP99G
‣ GigaOM Structure NA/ June 18-19, San Francisco
‣ Closes March 21: http://bit.ly/1kJPEjW
‣ GTEC 2014/Oct 27-30, Ottawa
‣ Closes March 28: http://ubm.io/1eoDu8K
‣ Texas Linux Fest 2014/ June 13-14, Austin
‣ Closes April 5: http://bit.ly/1oJar4G
‣ USENIX LISA ‘14/ November 9-14, Seattle
‣ Closes April 14: http://bit.ly/1cNkx4F
‣ LinuxCon/CloudOpen North America/Aug 20-22, Chicago
‣ Closes May 2: http://bit.ly/1cRieYB
‣ LinuxCon/CloudOpen Europe/Oct 13-15, Dusseldorf
‣ Closes July 11: http://bit.ly/1eoFGgm

7. 7
Community Updates
Operator’s Gathering, March 3
‣ Great feedback session with about 40 operators
‣ Consolidating feedback for technical committee
‣ Plans to better incorporate operators at the Atlanta Summit
Board Meeting, March 4
‣ Jonathan Bryce presented 2014 Foundation staff priorities:
‣ Improve the software (i.e., upstream)
‣ Improve interoperability between OpenStack-powered products and
services (i.e., downstream)
‣ Grow service provider footprint globally
‣ DefCore activities and progress a major focus
‣ Working on capabilities for testing
‣ Good discussions about community plugin/testing framework
and NFV

8. 8
Coming Soon
Content Team Meeting, March 13 at 16:00 UTC
‣ Need volunteers for content development and review
‣ Review current content plan & needs pre-summit/users
Icehouse Release, April 17
‣ Press release April 17 as well as webinar planned
‣ Scheduling marketing meeting week of April 7th to discuss
User Survey
‣ Please help us promote, will alert marketing list when available
‣ Also targeting end users/API consumers this round
Next Marketing Meeting
‣ March 27, members of DefCore subcommittee will be joining
to discuss commercial logo programs