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Happy New Year One and All,

With renewed vigour, I'd like to submit the following application-template
on behalf of Stig, John & Paul [1] for a newly formed working group:

https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/academia-wg

Prior to officially minting the WG (on the
Governanace/Foundation/UserCommittee page), we do require a vote from you
our esteemed user-committee members.

VOTE: What shall we call this new WG?!

Options:

A.) ACADEMIA-WG
B.) SCIENTIFIC-OPENSTACK-WG
C.) OPENSTACK4RESEARCH-WG
D.) Some other combination or wording therein?!

It is worth noting that this WG will amalgamate help to promote the HPC/HTC
Working Group, ideally meeting together and/or proximally.

Other key topics which this WG will look to address (esp re discussion in
Austin):

  * HPC Infrastructure, i.e. enabling researchers to have "on tap" compute
resources for research experiments in parallel, simulation and high
throughput jobs.
  * Application infrastructure, i.e. ease of working collaborative with
fellow researchers, scientists and lab colleagues, such as conducting cloud
native data analysis experiments (via RStudio, iPython, Matlab, etc.)
  * Social infrastructure, i.e. communities emerging in academia which are
promoting use of cloud computing for collaborative research and science,
such as #swcarpentry #ResBaz #ClimbAcUk etc.
  * Data infrastructure, i.e. large data science experiments and their
usability via cloud applications such as data from DNA sequencers,
MRIs/CT/XRay, Defraction, -Omics,  etc.
  * Last but not least, promoting the amazing things which Academia is
doing with OpenStack... about time a University got a SuperUser award, no?!

[1]= Many thanks to John, Paul and Stif for the guidance and advice, along
with all the other nominated members of this WG.

Go on, one little letter is all it takes to vote 🔤

Warm Regards from Australia,

Flanders

On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 1:24 AM, Stig Telfer <stig at telfer.org> wrote:

> Hello Adam -
>
> Thanks for your interest, that is tremendous.  At this stage the working
> group is taking shape, please by all means do add your name to the etherpad
> - and your input.
>
> Best wishes,
> Stig
>
>
> On 25 Nov 2015, at 11:32, Adam Huffman <adam.huffman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello
>
> Not wishing to hijack the thread, but I'm very interested in participating
> in the academia working group.
>
> May I just add myself to the list on the Etherpad, or do I need to ask to
> be nominated? I do know a couple of the people on there already...
>
> Cheers,
> Adam
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 11:14 AM, David F Flanders <
> dff.openstack at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Brilliant to hear Matjaz!
>>
>> I've added your name to the proposed OpenStack in Academia Working Group
>> at the below etherpad, if you could please have a look over it and add your
>> comments directly:
>>
>> https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/academia-wg
>>
>> Stig (Cc'd) and myself have been trying to announce far and wide to all
>> interested academic institutions, please do help us spread the word :D
>>
>> I'm also very interested to hear about what training you have started in
>> on, it would be great to compare as we have created a training for
>> researchers (aka PhDs and Postgraduates) on how to use our OpenStack as
>> their research operating system of choice:
>>
>> https://github.com/resbaz/nectar-cloud-lessons
>>
>> Naturally, the first app guide is also something we are keen to promote...
>>
>> So much to do!
>>
>> Kind Regards,
>>
>> David F. Flanders <david.flanders at unimelb.edu.au>
>> Research Community Manager, Digital Infrastructure Services
>> University of Melbourne.  @DFFlanders
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 8:55 PM, Pančur, Matjaž <
>> Matjaz.Pancur at fri.uni-lj.si> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I’m the lead of the Docs Training guides Speciality team [1]. We already
>>> update the material for Upstream Training (slides that are used there and
>>> intro pages that explain them a bit more) [2] and we’re also working on the
>>> Training slides material (currently a WIP published under draft docs
>>> pages). Everything is written in RST (slides too - we use
>>> Hieroglyph+Sphinx) and we’re continuously publishing all training material
>>> under Training guides section on the Docs pages [3], with standard Docs
>>> contribution process with patches&bugs for slides too.
>>>
>>> This effort you guys started here for the 1stAppKit Training is really
>>> great, I too have a lot of feedback about the need for this from my
>>> contacts in the Academia and from our partners in the industry.
>>>
>>> I would like to help with developing training materials for it. Can we
>>> reuse the tools/processes already established for the Upstream training? I
>>> think that it would be good to gather together all community made training
>>> related stuff under the same Docs Section [3] - this would increase the
>>> visibility of it for all.
>>>
>>> Matjaz Pancur
>>> University Of Ljubljana
>>>
>>>
>>> [1] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Documentation/SpecialityTeams
>>> [2] http://docs.openstack.org/upstream-training/
>>> [3] http://docs.openstack.org/#training-guides
>>>
>>>
>>> > From: David F Flanders
>>> > Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2015 6:13 AM
>>> > To:
>>> > user-committee at lists.openstack.org
>>> >
>>> > Cc: Anni Lai ; John ; Stefano Maffulli ; Rainya Mosher (ramosher) ; 张淳
>>> ;
>>> > kenny.johnston at rackspace.com
>>> >
>>> > Subject: [User-committee] [app] Training day (1st AppKit) actions from
>>> Tokyo
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > My Dear Fellow Application Ecosystem Working Group,
>>> >
>>> > I hope your return travels home have treated you well.
>>> >
>>> > As per ​my action from ​our WG meeting in Tokyo[1], I'm emailing
>>> you'll ​to ​request some info to help roll out the 'My First App Guide +
>>> Training"? ​!​
>>> >
>>> > If the following people would be so kind as to provide me with the
>>> following information:
>>> >     a.) contact details for the developer wranglers who help provide
>>> internal training events/activities at your companies, random leads welcome,
>>> >     b.) name of an app developer who has or is interested in
>>> developing cloud native applications,
>>> >     c.) [optional] where we might help advertise the "my first app
>>> guide" ​and training day(s)?,
>>> >     d.) [optional] opinions on what we need to do with
>>> developer.openstack.org to make it valuable for visiting app developers?
>>> >
>>> >   a.. @Michael/Carol could you provide the above (a)(b), optionally
>>> (c)(d) for Intel?
>>> >   b.. @John could you provide the above (a)(b), optionally (c)(d) for
>>> HP?
>>> >   c.. @Kenny could you provide the above (a)(b), optionally (c)(d) for
>>> Rackspace?
>>> >   d.. @Shamail could you provide the above (a)(b), optionally (c)(d)
>>> for IBM?
>>> >   e.. @Rainya/Nicky could you provide the above (a)(b), optionally
>>> (c)(d) for Cisco?
>>> >   f.. @Annie could you provide the above (a)(b), optionally (c)(d) for
>>> Huawei?
>>> >   g.. @Chun could you provide the above (a)(b), optionally (c)(d) for
>>> 99 Cloud?
>>> >   h.. @Stefano could you provide the above (a)(b), optionally (c)(d)
>>> for Dreamhost?
>>> > ​...​
>>> >
>>> > ​​@All I would really also appreciate your ideas for what your
>>> organisation might expect in terms of an "app kit" for training days, ​e.g.
>>> training curricula outline, training support, partnership with local meetup
>>> & user groups, engagement opportunities with up and coming talent from
>>> Universities, swag (stickers, shirts), prizes for "best app pitches", etc.
>>> ​ ???​
>>> >
>>> > Once compiled, I'll l ​liaise with you all to help take forward
>>> ​training opportunities of the my first app guide ​ training #AppKit.​ If
>>> interested in being a guinea pig please do reply on list :)
>>> >
>>> > Getting very excited to see cloud native apps grow in our community!
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > ​​ ​[1]=
>>> > https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/TYO-app-eco-wg​​
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Kind Regards,
>>> >
>>> > Flanders
>>> > ======
>>> > ​​David F. Flanders, Research Community Manager
>>> > University of Melbourne > University Services > Research Platforms
>>> > @ResPlat -
>>> > http://blogs.unimelb.edu.au/researchplatforms/
>>> >
>>> > We ❤ the 'Research Bazaar' community, join today! #ResBaz
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
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>>
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