Open Stack

Hello Amrit

I liked the idea of taking OpenStack to the classroom. Thank You for taking
the initiative and sharing your knowledge of cloud computing and OpenStack
with students.

I have a suggestion, why don't you offer a MOOC
<http://www.google.co.in/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CCgQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FMassive_open_online_course&ei=dUIlVZ38D9iLuwTRo4HYDg&usg=AFQjCNHB6aQWZ7LqZEhPhyoiZmfYso7Gbw&sig2=O23q6eODL8CpmHFQo7KUyQ&bvm=bv.90237346,d.c2E>,
preparing video lectures and sharing it with world(not just educational
institutions in Massachusetts and near Toronto). We can ask to various MOOC
offering portals(like udacity.com, coursera.org etc) to add the course into
their list of courses or may be let this course offered by OpenStack
Foundation only.

This will be really helpful for those who have never studied about cloud
computing in their regular study courses curriculum and are new to
OpenStack. Such students/listners will get well prepared and *sequential
lectures* to read and learn about cloud computing and OpenStack rather than
searching on web and reading about each new terms that they encounter while
hacking in  OpenStack or similar fields.

The main reason why am I asking to prepare MOOC is that your effort will
reach to whole world and also your knowledge sharing will stay alive
forever in the form of video lectures :)

Also even though I don't have much knowledge in cloud computing and
OpenStack but if you need someone to work with you, I would love to be
that. So please let me know if you need an assistant for such stuff.

Thanks!!!
Shaifali Agrawal
about.me/shaifaliagrawal
  [image: Shaifali Agrawal on about.me]
    <http://about.me/shaifaliagrawal>

On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 9:28 PM, Amrith Kumar <amrith at tesora.com> wrote:

>  CS and EE schools today use open source software as the basis for a lot
> of coursework and as the practical example for several concepts. Most often
> the exemplar system is Linux. Yet if students are even taught about the
> cloud, they often learn about that other cloud company from Seattle.
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> I think OpenStack is the ideal exemplar system for a whole lot of CS/EE
> courses. No matter what area of computer science you are interested in,
> there’s an OpenStack project (or in some cases several) that you can study.
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> I think the fact that you can have the entire cloud on your laptop, source
> code and all, is incredibly powerful in the classroom. Not only can you see
> how the system works, but you can also tweak it or fix it if you find
> something to be wrong. Some students also learn about software development
> methodologies by contributing to a fictional open source project. Why do
> that when they can instead be contributing code to a real open source
> project?
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> I think there’s a huge opportunity for us to take OpenStack in the
> Classroom (a longer post about my experience doing this last week is at
> http://www.tesora.com/openstack-in-the-classroom/). My thanks to dims and
> Kamesh Pemmaraju for helping me with this at short notice.
>
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> Let us make (and I’m looking to the Foundation to support this as a formal
> initiative) it a priority to have every university offer courses on
> computer science and cloud computing with OpenStack as the exemplar system.
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> Personally, I’m going to work with educational institutions in
> Massachusetts and near Toronto (where Tesora has offices, and where I tend
> to spend most of my time) to try and make available a course on cloud
> computing with OpenStack as the exemplar system. I’m going to make the
> materials, and offer to teach the course, and I will contribute the
> materials to the Foundation.
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> So this is an open offer to any university in MA and near Toronto; if you
> want someone to develop and deliver a course on cloud computing, please let
> me know!
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> I think we can all come together and take OpenStack to the Classrooms so
> that every graduating student interested in cloud computing has a working
> knowledge of OpenStack.
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> Thanks,
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> -amrith
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