Open Stack

Hi Folks - Here's my draft for the roadmap update submission. Pls look it over and help make it better!!
Need to have your comments by our team meeting on Monday Feb 1.

Thanks
Carol

Title: ...And Now For Our Regularly Scheduled OpenStack Roadmap Update!
Level of presentation content: Beginner
Abstract: OpenStack continues to grow the number of projects in the Big Tent, and each Project is developing at a rapid pace. Whether you're an OpenStack Operator, Vendor, Contributor or Market Watcher, how do you keep up with this? That's where we come in! The OpenStack Product Work Group strives to work across our community to create a condensed, simplified set of roadmaps of the capabilities you can expect in the upcoming project releases.

In this session we'll present our findings across the different projects in an effort to give users a glimpse into OpenStack's upcoming capabilities.  The roadmaps presented will span multiple releases and strive to unify the future direction of the individual projects on a per release basis.

What is the problem or use case we're addressing: The proliferation of Projects within the OpenStack community combined with ever increasing capabilities focused on addressing the needs of Markets and Operators is a good thing. But for someone looking to deploy an OpenStack Cloud, or define their update plan or even understand where they best can contribute, this can be a challenge. We are working to address this need through the creation and discussion of cross-community condensed, simplified roadmaps that outline what you can expect in the upcoming project releases (yes, this is multi-release!).

What should attendees expect to learn: Session attendees should come away with an understanding of the capability focus area for key OpenStack projects and how features will be implemented in the upcoming release (2-3) to achieve that capability. They will be able to view this information from a Project viewpoint, a Release viewpoint or a Themes viewpoint - providing different levels of detail to meet the need of the attendee. Further they will learn where this info is stored for future reference and how to get unmet needs into the Community discussion.

Speakers: Carol Barrett, Nate Ziemann