Open Stack

Hi All,

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Hi,
I am sorry that I may not able to join the meeting but the Hong Kong OpenStack User Group and Hong Kong Cyberport will be updating you any information if necessary.

May I have a bit comment on the following agenda:

Can the Foundation start working with some Universities for meeting space, sponsorship, and student participation? Is the Foundation interested in Phd thesis sponsorship
I strongly agree on this point, since there is getting more university students and researchers who starts to explore the open source cloud softwares as most commercial cloud softwares/services on market are really expensive for them to get start.   Also, university students and researchers are usually more sincere to explore the open source software because it is free and cloud computing is quite new for them.  And this is a good starting point to educate them to contribute to open source stuffs rather than just using it as freeware.

Should there be an OpenStack user group and/or meetup approval process? How do we clean up user groups and meetups that are abandoned?
I think there must be have an official central coordinator to manage all the user groups.

Thank you for the attention, and wish you all the best in year 2013.

Regards,
Bruce Lok
Coordinator of HKOSUG
Engineer | Technology Centre
Hong Kong Cyberport Management Co. Ltd.
Tel: +852 3166-3728
Fax: +852 3027-0099


From: Sean Roberts [mailto:seanrob at yahoo-inc.com]
Sent: Tuesday, 15 January, 2013 07:26
To: OpenStack community; openstack
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Subject: Re: [openstack-community] Calling all user group and meetup organizers

Agenda for tomorrow's user group / meetup planning meeting

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  *   Review of user group and meetup template
  *   Meetups fit into the larger plan of user committee and summit to summit development how?
  *   Where would be the location for social materials like videos, meetup logs, and other meeting related items?
  *   Where do operators go to figure out how to run OpenStack in production?
  *   Can the Foundation start working with some Universities for meeting space, sponsorship, and student participation? Is the Foundation interested in Phd thesis sponsorship?
  *   If possible I like to get some supporters for a groups.openstack.org site, including content writers and some developer resources from the community. We have a lot of knowledge about running / starting an user group, and need to write it down, publish on the site and share it with newcomers.  I think this is answered by the user group template information that will be published to http://wiki.openstack.org/OpenStackUserGroups.
  *   Should there be an OpenStack user group and/or meetup approval process? How do we clean up user groups and meetups that are abandoned?

Sean Roberts
Infrastructure Strategy
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On 1/14/13 2:07 PM, "Sean Roberts" <seanrob at yahoo-inc.com<mailto:seanrob at yahoo-inc.com>> wrote:

Reminder for the global user group planning meetup, tomorrow, Tuesday, 15 Jan 2012 11:00am to 1:00pm PST  http://www.meetup.com/openstack/events/93593062/
Join us!


Sean Roberts
Infrastructure Strategy
seanrob at yahoo-inc.com<mailto:seanrob at yahoo-inc.com>
Direct (408) 349-5234  Mobile (925) 980-4729

701 First Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA, 94089-0703, US
Phone (408) 349-3300  Fax (408) 349-3301

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On 1/9/13 1:05 PM, "Tim Horgan" <tim.horgan at cit.ie<mailto:tim.horgan at cit.ie>> wrote:

Hi Séan,

I run the OpenStack Ireland meetup group, just wondering if your meeting is targeting only groups in the East Coast of the USA?

Kind Regards,
Tim

On 9 Jan 2013, at 00:54, Sean Roberts <seanrob at yahoo-inc.com<mailto:seanrob at yahoo-inc.com>> wrote:


We are going to have a planning meeting on Tuesday, 15 Jan 2012 11:00am to 1:00pm PST. RSVP via  http://www.meetup.com/openstack/events/93593062/  Connect remotely via webex https://yahoomeetings.webex.com/yahoomeetings/j.php?ED=160663792&UID=492396097&RT=MiM0
If this time doesn't work for you, get ahold of me directly via skype:seanroberts66, email, mobile, irc:sarob, twitter:sarob, or carrier pigeon.

Stefano and Thierry will be joining us. I want to get input from people that run user groups and meetups.

See you then!
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Just a request, everyone might not be able to attend the meeting, it will be nice if a MOM or recorded audio of the meeting is available somewhere to understand what all was discussed and roadmap for the same.

Also I would like to let you all  know about OpenStack India and activities we undertook over last one year or so.

Current state

1. Over 550 plus member
2. Meetings happen every month in one of the cities in the country.
3. Organized over  12 meetups &  mini-conf.

Reference : http://www.meetup.com/Indian-OpenStack-User-Group/

Thanks!!

Atul Jha
One of the coordinator -- OpenStack India User Group.
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