Open Stack

I think the presentation was fantastic. All the blacked out redacted stuff
was brilliant, and Nathaneal did a great job speaking. The fact that PRISM
came out after the fact was actually a positive, as it put more eyeballs
on that keynote. 

Not all press is good press, but when you¹re an open source foundation, it
sure is fun to get free press.

:)

Niki Acosta
Cloud Evangelist
Cisco Intercloud Services
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On 2/8/16, 2:40 AM, "Florian Haas" <florian at hastexo.com> wrote:

>One additional point here. I don't know about what others think, but
>one major government user story we had at a Summit was the NSA, a few
>months prior to Snowden. I don't think that there's anything the
>Summit organizers for Portland are to be blamed for, because it wasn't
>public knowledge at the time that Five Eyes are essentially spying on
>citizens across the planet. But I can tell you that if *I* had been
>the one that made the decision at the time to put them on stage, in
>front of an international community a large portion of which the
>speaker would be expected to treat as adversaries and targets, I'd be
>immensely retroactively embarrassed.
>
>Now clearly I don't want to equate national legal tax collection with
>offensive and indiscriminate global blanket surveillance, but I do
>believe that any superuser stories, keynotes etc. should receive extra
>scrutiny and vetting from Summit organizers, particularly when they
>come from government agencies. In Portland this community was new and
>not under much media scrutiny, so we got some breaks; I think we don't
>get those anymore.
>
>Cheers,
>Florian
>
>
>On Sun, Feb 7, 2016 at 7:28 PM, Matt Jarvis
><matt.jarvis at datacentred.co.uk> wrote:
>> Yep, agree with all your comments, although to be fair they are not
>>really
>> engaged with the community so weren't aware about the Summits. They were
>> planning to blog about it, and I suggested they should submit something.
>>
>> If it had been just another commercial company implementing it, I
>>wouldn't
>> have brought it up, but given it's a major world government I thought
>>it's a
>> pretty important story for OpenStack adoption.
>
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