Open Stack

On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 9:17 AM, Ross Cooney <ross.cooney at stormmq.com> wrote:
> Hi List,
>
> I want to introduce myself to the OpenStack community.

Welcome! :)

> I work with a team of UK and Ireland based developers on a cloud based
> message queue service built around the AMQP protocol. We have taken an
> interest in the Burrow project that Eric Day has worked so hard on.  Eric
> has had to leave the project and we are interested in taking the project on
> and driving it forward.

This is great news indeed.

> Our goal would be to add new features to burrow and eventually AMQP support.
> We believe that if we did this then Burrow could be adopted as a core
> project in OpenStack and be used as the standard communication process for
> OpenStack components while also being an application facing MQ service.
>
> Our company is very active in the opensource community and we run a few
> projects, including libamqp.org. In addition we are members of the AMQP
> community (through the AMQP Working Group and the AMQP OASIS Members
> section). We truly believe in the AMQP protocol and we want to see how we
> can make Burrow AMQP compatible in the future.

We could use some more messaging layer experts in the OpenStack
community. I'm looking forward to the contributions from your
engineers, Ross! :)

> Unfortunately we will not be able to attend the OpenStack conference in
> Boston. We are attending the AMQP conference in New York the following week
> and we are trying to finish some software off in advance.
>
> I will be in New York on the 13th October with a few of our developers. It
> would be great to meet up with other OpenStack developers. Being Irish I
> searched the interweb and found an Irish bar called The Dead Poet in
> Manhattan. Are you New York based? If so why not come along and join us for
> a pint. I put together this signup page on Doodle.com to collect names:
>
> http://www.doodle.com/m9cki3wt3sdqhwk8
>
> We are very excited about getting involved with OpenStack and Burrow in
> particular.

I'll be there!

Cheers,
jay