Dear European Public Cloud Providers, I wanted to quickly make you'll aware of this forthcoming event in London where several of the Research Councils in the UK will be meeting to discuss the use of public clouds in Academia: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rcuk-cloud-working-group-workshop-tickets- 27722389413 The agenda is below and represents an excellent opportunity for public clouds providers to be heard in regards to the need for OpenStandards and common *simple* cloud APIs. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yYZELoJKQQZMcyedVsC7j2PCERsYd BXt_pMCI3nKM68/edit The RCUK represents a very significant amount of government money which will be spent in the UK, alongside the Horizon2020 funding. As most of you will know, OpenStack is now the most distributed cloud datacentre in Europe with over 26 datacentres being deployed by 21 different companies. I believe it is important that the research funding councils hear this message as UK law requires OpenStack options to be considered on equal footing with proprietary offerings. https://youtu.be/t8IiULAPKwo?t=14m14s I hope several of you are able to pass this email onto your bosses and business managers and encourage them to participate. Kind Regards, Flanders -- Flanders | OpenStack Foundation | Community Manager (Cloud Application Communities) http://superuser.openstack.org/articles/meet-openstack-s-community-wrangler-david-flanders -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/user-committee/attachments/20161118/0d85115d/attachment.html>