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On Thu, Aug 07, 2014 at 12:01:04PM +0200, Piyush Harsh wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> Let me use my first post to this list to introduce Cyclops and initiate a
> discussion towards possibility of this platform as a future incubated project
> in OpenStack.
> 
> We at Zurich university of Applied Sciences have a python project in open
> source (Apache 2 Licensing) that aims to provide a platform to do
> rating-charging-billing over ceilometer. We call is Cyclops (A Charging
> platform for OPenStack CLouds).
> 
> The initial proof of concept code can be accessed here: https://github.com/
> icclab/cyclops-web & https://github.com/icclab/cyclops-tmanager
> 
> Disclaimer: This is not the best code out there, but will be refined and
> documented properly very soon!
> 
> A demo video from really early days of the project is here: https://
> www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIwwVxqCio0 and since this video was made, several bug
> fixes and features were added.
> 
> The idea presentation was done at Swiss Open Cloud Day at Bern and the talk
> slides can be accessed here: http://piyush-harsh.info/content/ocd-bern2014.pdf,
> and more recently the research paper on the idea was published in 2014 World
> Congress in Computer Science (Las Vegas), which can be accessed here: http://
> piyush-harsh.info/content/GCA2014-rcb.pdf
> 
> I was wondering, if our effort is something that OpenStack Ceilometer/Telemetry
> release team would be interested in?
> 
> I do understand that initially rating-charging-billing service may have been
> left out by choice as they would need to be tightly coupled with existing CRM/
> Billing systems, but Cyclops design (intended) is distributed, service oriented
> architecture with each component allowing for possible integration with
> external software via REST APIs. And therefore Cyclops by design is CRM/Billing
> platform agnostic. Although Cyclops PoC implementation does include a basic
> bill generation module.
> 
> We in our team are committed to this development effort and we will have
> resources (interns, students, researchers) work on features and improve the
> code-base for a foreseeable number of years to come.
> 
> Do you see a chance if our efforts could make in as an incubated project in
> OpenStack within Ceilometer?
> 
> I really would like to hear back from you, comments, suggestions, etc.
> 
> Kind regards,
> Piyush.
> _______________________________________
> Dr. Piyush Harsh, Ph.D.
> Researcher, InIT Cloud Computing Lab
> Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW)
> [Site] http://piyush-harsh.info
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Hi,

It's billing day on openstack-dev list as I can see ;) Glad to see there
is other people wanting to implement Open Source billing.
We've started some work around pricing and billing integration inside
OpenStack, and already showed our first POC at the last summit in Atlanta
to some Ceilometer devs. We are planning on releasing some major
improvements today, the changes are massive so the code has been split
in multiple patch/reviews and we started sending it to the gate
yesterday.
We've got some review in openstack-infra waiting for horizon and python
client repositories.
As soon as the reviews are validated we will push the code to customize
Horizon dashboard to integrate with the billing modules and real time
quoting on instance creation.
The project source code is available at:
http://github.com/stackforge/cloudkitty
If you want more informations you can find a wiki page at:
https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/CloudKitty or reach us via irc on
freenode #cloudkitty.
Maybe we can't talk together about the future of our projects when we've
done pushing changes on stackforge.

Cheers,
Stéphane