Open Stack

Hi,
  This is a great idea.  I feel this would create a good Openstack
ecosystem.  Count me in as co-ordinator.
Regards,
Prem

On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 9:34 PM, Stefano Maffulli <stefano at openstack.org>wrote:

> hello folks,
>
> a group of people interested in academia met in Boston during the
> unconference. I was there to take notes and facilitate this community
> run initiative. Here is what we agreed so far. I'm sharing it on the
> list to gather more ideas.
>
> /stef
>
> OpenStack Academic Initiative
>
> Mission:
>
>      * provide a place for all research academics efforts can be
>        advertised and found, about and around OpenStack (not generic
>        about IaaS or PaaS)
>              * a list of papers published and ongoing research
>              * a list of conferences about cloud
>      * maintain a list of ideas for the companies to sponsor research
>        like a "market"
>      * a place for the companies to say what they need and research can
>        execute
>              * undergrad level, gsoc-style, time starved but there are
>                many of them. it's important to be easy for them to
>                contribute
>              * masters level, more in depth work, empirical studies
>                like performance evaluation
>              * phd level, exploratory type of research
>      * handle the funding, hr tasks, mentoring: who's going to manage
>        this?
>              * mentoring is intense and time consuming, but crucial for
>                the success of research
>      * provide resources, like hardware for tests, for researchers
>      * advertise this initiative among researchers
>              * Example: setup OpenStack tracks at a couple of relevant
>                conference
>
>
> Next steps: Identify the group responsible for this initiative and
> define action items, deadlines and deliverables.
>
>
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