Open Stack

Amrit,

Yeah, I thought you are planning to teach cloud computing and OpenStack,
but computing with OpenStack is also no doubt worth spreading to world as
you said.

Thanks!!!
Shaifali Agrawal
about.me/shaifaliagrawal
  [image: Shaifali Agrawal on about.me]
    <http://about.me/shaifaliagrawal>

On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 9:48 PM, Ganesh Narayanan (ganeshna) <
ganeshna at cisco.com> wrote:

>  Yes, offering courses on OpenStack in Coursera kind of platform will be
> a good idea.  Currently there are some cloud computing courses being
> offered in Coursera along with a capstone project:
> https://www.coursera.org/specialization/cloudcomputing/19/courses
>
>  Thanks,
>  Ganesh
>
>   From: Amrith Kumar <amrith at tesora.com>
> Reply-To: "OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)" <
> openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>
> Date: Wednesday, 8 April 2015 9:01 pm
> To: "OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)" <
> openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>
>
> Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] OpenStack in the classroom
>
>   Shaifali,
>
>
>
> These are two related but slightly different things. The first is, as you
> suggest, to offer courses that teach OpenStack and cloud computing. The
> other which I believe has broader applicability is to teach computing with
> OpenStack as the exemplar system.
>
>
>
> Your suggestion of offering courses through a MOOC is a good one in either
> case, and certainly worth pursuing.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
> -amrith
>
>
>
> *From:* Shaifali Agrawal [mailto:agrawalshaifali09 at gmail.com
> <agrawalshaifali09 at gmail.com>]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, April 08, 2015 11:05 AM
> *To:* OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)
> *Subject:* Re: [openstack-dev] OpenStack in the classroom
>
>
>
> Hello Amrit
>
> I liked the idea of taking OpenStack to the classroom. Thank You for
> taking the initiative and sharing your knowledge of cloud computing and
> OpenStack with students.
>
>
> I have a suggestion, why don't you offer a MOOC
> <http://www.google.co.in/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CCgQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FMassive_open_online_course&ei=dUIlVZ38D9iLuwTRo4HYDg&usg=AFQjCNHB6aQWZ7LqZEhPhyoiZmfYso7Gbw&sig2=O23q6eODL8CpmHFQo7KUyQ&bvm=bv.90237346,d.c2E>,
> preparing video lectures and sharing it with world(not just educational
> institutions in Massachusetts and near Toronto). We can ask to various MOOC
> offering portals(like udacity.com, coursera.org etc) to add the course
> into their list of courses or may be let this course offered by OpenStack
> Foundation only.
>
> This will be really helpful for those who have never studied about cloud
> computing in their regular study courses curriculum and are new to
> OpenStack. Such students/listners will get well prepared and *sequential
> lectures* to read and learn about cloud computing and OpenStack rather than
> searching on web and reading about each new terms that they encounter while
> hacking in  OpenStack or similar fields.
>
> The main reason why am I asking to prepare MOOC is that your effort will
> reach to whole world and also your knowledge sharing will stay alive
> forever in the form of video lectures :)
>
> Also even though I don't have much knowledge in cloud computing and
> OpenStack but if you need someone to work with you, I would love to be
> that. So please let me know if you need an assistant for such stuff.
>
>
>   Thanks!!!
>
> *Shaifali Agrawal*
>
> about.me/shaifaliagrawal
>
> [image: Shaifali Agrawal on about.me]
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>
>
>
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>
>
> On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 9:28 PM, Amrith Kumar <amrith at tesora.com> wrote:
>
>  CS and EE schools today use open source software as the basis for a lot
> of coursework and as the practical example for several concepts. Most often
> the exemplar system is Linux. Yet if students are even taught about the
> cloud, they often learn about that other cloud company from Seattle.
>
>
>
> I think OpenStack is the ideal exemplar system for a whole lot of CS/EE
> courses. No matter what area of computer science you are interested in,
> there’s an OpenStack project (or in some cases several) that you can study.
>
>
>
> I think the fact that you can have the entire cloud on your laptop, source
> code and all, is incredibly powerful in the classroom. Not only can you see
> how the system works, but you can also tweak it or fix it if you find
> something to be wrong. Some students also learn about software development
> methodologies by contributing to a fictional open source project. Why do
> that when they can instead be contributing code to a real open source
> project?
>
>
>
> I think there’s a huge opportunity for us to take OpenStack in the
> Classroom (a longer post about my experience doing this last week is at
> http://www.tesora.com/openstack-in-the-classroom/). My thanks to dims and
> Kamesh Pemmaraju for helping me with this at short notice.
>
>
>
> Let us make (and I’m looking to the Foundation to support this as a formal
> initiative) it a priority to have every university offer courses on
> computer science and cloud computing with OpenStack as the exemplar system.
>
>
>
> Personally, I’m going to work with educational institutions in
> Massachusetts and near Toronto (where Tesora has offices, and where I tend
> to spend most of my time) to try and make available a course on cloud
> computing with OpenStack as the exemplar system. I’m going to make the
> materials, and offer to teach the course, and I will contribute the
> materials to the Foundation.
>
>
>
> So this is an open offer to any university in MA and near Toronto; if you
> want someone to develop and deliver a course on cloud computing, please let
> me know!
>
>
>
> I think we can all come together and take OpenStack to the Classrooms so
> that every graduating student interested in cloud computing has a working
> knowledge of OpenStack.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
> -amrith
>
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