Open Stack

Hi,

The conference of yesterday was, according to both attendees, other
speakers and organizers, quite successful. There was around 400
attendees, and the conference room was full, which was better than we
expected. Some attendees even traveled form far away in China just to
attend the conference (I could speak to someone from Guangzhou for example).

We've seen lots of big and smaller companies showing a big interest in
Openstack, and there's good hopes for having many new OpenStack users
(and to a lesser degree, also contributors).

I'd like to publicly thanks all the speakers that came from abroad, and
also thanks Du Yujie from C2SC and Michael from China Telecom for all
their work.

On our organizer debriefing after the conference, we all agreed that we
shall make other events on a schedule basis. I'd be happy to see some
workshops organized as well.

As soon as we have them, we'll put the presentations (PPT / ODP) online
on the www.openstack-china.org website.

Thomas Goirand

On 09/02/2011 02:31 AM, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am the initiator of a conference in Shanghai about OpenStack (well, in
> fact, me from GPLHost, and Du Yujie from CS2C). Since I started this
> idea last may, talking with John Engates (Rackspace CTO) during the
> Beijing CCCC, we had lots of other companies joining the event as
> organizers (Intel, China Telecom, etc.) and many co-organizers too.
> 
> The one-day event will initiate a new Openstack comunity in China, and
> feature the overview of OpenStack for all developers, users, ecosystem
> partners, open source enthusiasts, and cloud computing technologists the
> first half of the day, followed by a technical research talk in the
> afternoon. As an attendee, you should expect to:
> 
> - Learn why we initiate COSUG (China OpenStack User Group), what COSUG
> will contribute to Chinese enterprises and developers, how COSUG works
> in the future and How to get involved in the COSUG as an individual
> contributor, user or participating organization.
> 
> - Learn the history and vision of OpenStack, and why organizations
> across the world are backing the open source cloud platform
> 
> - Gain a clear understanding of OpenStack technologies, including a
> feature overview and popular use cases
> - Hear directly from organizations who are implementing the technology
> - Have an opportunity to network with COSUG members.
> 
> To discuss this emerging enabling open-source technology, OpenStack
> Shanghai Event invites you to join the conference to feature technical
> presentation.
> 
> See you on the 6th of September 2011 in Shanghai.
> 
> For more details about the event (list of topics, list of speakers with
> descriptions, companies joining the event, sponsor lists, location,
> schedule, etc.), please see this site:
> 
> http://www.openstack-china.org/en/event.html
> 
> Entrance is for free, but we ask everyone to kindly register here:
> 
> http://www.openstack-china.org/en/event-registration.php
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Thomas Goirand