Open Stack

One additional point here. I don't know about what others think, but
one major government user story we had at a Summit was the NSA, a few
months prior to Snowden. I don't think that there's anything the
Summit organizers for Portland are to be blamed for, because it wasn't
public knowledge at the time that Five Eyes are essentially spying on
citizens across the planet. But I can tell you that if *I* had been
the one that made the decision at the time to put them on stage, in
front of an international community a large portion of which the
speaker would be expected to treat as adversaries and targets, I'd be
immensely retroactively embarrassed.

Now clearly I don't want to equate national legal tax collection with
offensive and indiscriminate global blanket surveillance, but I do
believe that any superuser stories, keynotes etc. should receive extra
scrutiny and vetting from Summit organizers, particularly when they
come from government agencies. In Portland this community was new and
not under much media scrutiny, so we got some breaks; I think we don't
get those anymore.

Cheers,
Florian


On Sun, Feb 7, 2016 at 7:28 PM, Matt Jarvis
<matt.jarvis at datacentred.co.uk> wrote:
> Yep, agree with all your comments, although to be fair they are not really
> engaged with the community so weren't aware about the Summits. They were
> planning to blog about it, and I suggested they should submit something.
>
> If it had been just another commercial company implementing it, I wouldn't
> have brought it up, but given it's a major world government I thought it's a
> pretty important story for OpenStack adoption.