Open Stack

Hi everyone,

Today, we opened the Call for Presentations <https://www.openstack.org/summit/vancouver-2018/call-for-presentations/> for the Vancouver Summit <https://www.openstack.org/summit/vancouver-2018/>, which will take place May 21-24. The deadline to submit your proposal is February 8th.

What’s New?
We’re focused on open infrastructure integration. The Summit has evolved over the years to cover more than just OpenStack, but we’re making an even larger effort to attract speakers across the open infrastructure ecosystem. In addition to OpenStack-related sessions, we’ll be featuring the newest project at the Foundation, Kata Containers, as well as recruiting many others from projects like Ansible, Ceph, Kubernetes, ONAP and more.

To keep the focus on users, we’ve also organized Tracks around specific problem domains. We encourage you to submit proposals covering many “open infrastructure” tools and the integration work needed to solve these problems, as well as invite peers from other open source communities to come speak and collaborate. 

The Tracks are:

CI / CD 
Container Infrastructure 
Edge Computing
HPC / GPU / AI
Open Source Community
Private & Hybrid Cloud 
Public Cloud 
Telecom & NFV

Where previously we had Track Chairs, we now have Programming Committees <https://www.openstack.org/summit/vancouver-2018/call-for-presentations/selection-process> for each Track, made up of both Members and a Chair (or co-chairs). We’re also recruiting members and chairs from many different open source communities working in open infrastructure, in addition to the many familiar faces in the OpenStack community who will lead the effort. If you’re interested in nominating yourself or someone else to be a member of the Summit Programming Committee for a specific Track, please fill out the nomination form <https://openstackfoundation.formstack.com/forms/openstackvancouver2018_programmingcommitteenom>. Nominations will close on January 26, 2018.

Mark your calendar: the deadline to submit proposals <https://www.openstack.org/summit/vancouver-2018/call-for-presentations/> is February 8, 2018.

We can’t wait to see you in Vancouver! We’re working hard to make it the best Summit yet, and can’t wait to bring together different open infrastructure communities to solve these hard problems together! 

Want to provide feedback on this process? Join the discussion on the openstack-community mailing list, or contact the OpenStack Foundation Summit Team directly at summit at openstack.org.

Cheers,
Kendall

Kendall Waters
OpenStack Marketing
kendall at openstack.org



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