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Hi 

It’s a great idea. Will help infuse fresh ideas. I would be very interested in helping out in the co-ordination. More thoughts inline 


> -----Original Message-----
> From: openstack-bounces+dedutta=cisco.com at lists.launchpad.net
> [mailto:openstack-bounces+dedutta=cisco.com at lists.launchpad.net] On
> Behalf Of Stefano Maffulli
> Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2011 9:04 AM
> To: openstack at lists.launchpad.net
> Subject: [Openstack] OpenStack Academic
> Alliance|Circle|Initiative#unconference
> 
> hello folks,
> 
> a group of people interested in academia met in Boston during the
> unconference. I was there to take notes and facilitate this community
> run initiative. Here is what we agreed so far. I'm sharing it on the
> list to gather more ideas. 
> 
> /stef
> 
> OpenStack Academic Initiative 
> 
> Mission: 
> 
>       * provide a place for all research academics efforts can be
>         advertised and found, about and around OpenStack (not generic
>         about IaaS or PaaS)
>               * a list of papers published and ongoing research
>               * a list of conferences about cloud

We can start with some of the papers from SIGCOMM, OSDI/SOSP, NSDI to begin with. And list the conferences. 

>       * maintain a list of ideas for the companies to sponsor research
>         like a "market"
>       * a place for the companies to say what they need and research can
>         execute
>               * undergrad level, gsoc-style, time starved but there are
>                 many of them. it's important to be easy for them to
>                 contribute

They can contribute a lot of point features as part of academic projects. 

>               * masters level, more in depth work, empirical studies
>                 like performance evaluation

Scalability analysis will be another area .... 

>               * phd level, exploratory type of research

I think Donabe has a lot of scope. So does Quantum .... especially from a SDN perspective. 

>       * handle the funding, hr tasks, mentoring: who's going to manage
>         this?
>               * mentoring is intense and time consuming, but crucial for
>                 the success of research

Crowdsourced  mentoring isn’t a bad idea. Also less taxing.

>       * provide resources, like hardware for tests, for researchers

Could happen via industry grants or even partnering with NSF or some equivalent agency (NRC in Canada or some EU research agencies). 

>       * advertise this initiative among researchers
>               * Example: setup OpenStack tracks at a couple of relevant
>                 conference 

Maybe have a pure academic track (algorithms, distributed systems relevant to OS) and a poster session for long term ideas/opinions. 

> Next steps: Identify the group responsible for this initiative and
> define action items, deadlines and deliverables.

I am ready to volunteer for this. 

> 
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