Jonathan Bryce General Session Architecture Board Slides

1. OpenStack
Founder - Rackspace Cloud
Jonathan Bryce
Twitter: @jbryce
Architecture Board
Wednesday, November 10, 2010

2. Architecture Board
Wednesday, November 10, 2010

3. Project Oversight
Committee
Wednesday, November 10, 2010

4. What are we going to do?
• Evaluate new projects for addition to OpenStack
• Work with the Chief Architect to deliver cross-project
processes and standards (like Blueprints and ODS)
• TBD - will help answer questions that come up
Wednesday, November 10, 2010

5. Elected Members
• Vishvananda Ishaya - term ends November 15th, 2012
• Soren Hansen - term ends November 15th, 2012
• Chuck Thier - term ends November 15th, 2011
• Ewan Mellor - term ends November 15th, 2011
Wednesday, November 10, 2010

6. Appointed Members
• Jonathan Bryce - Chairman
• Rick Clark - Chief Architect
• Mark Interrante - term ends November 15th, 2013
• Jesse Andrews - term ends November 15th, 2013
• Josh McKenty - term ends November 15th, 2012
Wednesday, November 10, 2010

7. 1. Basic submission for inclusion
• Send document to chairman
jonathan@openstack.org
• Define what is (and is not) being proposed for
submission
• Define relation to existing projects
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8. 2. Quick determination on relevance
• Committee looks at basic submission to give an
initial answer
• If decision is to proceed, committee member is
assigned as sponsor
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9. “To produce the ubiquitous Open Source
cloud computing platform that will meet
the needs of public and private cloud
providers regardless of size, by being
simple to implement and massively
scalable.”
The OpenStack Mission
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10. Alternate cloud storage
technologies
Federation, multi-cloud
management proxy
Considered for inclusion
Not considered
Mobile Texas Hold‘Em
application
Web-based ticketing
system
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11. 3. Detailed evaluation
• Code review
• Resources: technical lead? enough developers to
carry progress? what are project infrastructure
requirements?
• Maturity of project: does it have a production
history? has it been deployed at scale? is there a
better existing option?
• Vision: does this project have a relevant future? is
there a compelling possible roadmap?
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12. 4. Discussion and final decision
• Committee seeks input from OpenStack community
and holds discussions
• Final decision is made on inclusion of project
Wednesday, November 10, 2010

13. Governance session tomorrow at
4:00 PM
Wednesday, November 10, 2010

14. Thanks!
Wednesday, November 10, 2010