Open Stack

Hi Everyone,

*The Call for Speakers is OPEN for the November OpenStack Summit in 
Paris! Submit your talks here: 
https://www.openstack.org/summit/openstack-paris-summit-2014/call-for-speakers/.*

There are a few new speaking tracks in the Summit lineup this year so 
please review the below list before you submit a talk.

Don't wait! _The Call for Speakers will close on July 28 at 11:59pm CDT._

The Summit will take place in Paris at Le Palais des Congrès, November 
3-7. The main conference and expo will run Monday - Wednesday and the 
design summit will run Tuesday - Friday. Continue to visit 
openstack.org/summit <http://openstack.org/summit> for information 
including: event format, registration, hotel room blocks, visa letters, etc.

If you have any Summit related questions please email 
events at openstack.org <mailto:events at openstack.org>.

Cheers,
Claire


_Proposed Speaking Tracks for the OpenStack Summit in Paris:_

  * *Enterprise IT Strategies*

  * Enterprise IT leaders building their cloud business case are facing
    unique requirements to manage legacy applications, new software
    development and shadow IT within industry regulations and business
    constraints. In this track, we'll discuss how OpenStack is meeting
    enterprise IT technical requirements and cover topics relevant to
    planning your cloud strategy, including culture change, cost
    management, vendor strategy and recruiting.

  * *Telco Strategies*

  * Telecommunications companies are one of the largest areas of growth
    for OpenStack around the world. In this track, we'll feature content
    relevant to these users, addressing the evolution of the network and
    emerging NFV architecture, the global IaaS market and role of
    telcos, industry regulation and data sovereignty, and industry
    cooperation around interoperability and federation.

  * *How to Contribute*

  * The How to Contribute track is for new community members and
    companies interested in contributing to the open source code, with a
    focus on OpenStack community processes, tools, culture and best
    practices.

  * *Planning Your OpenStack Project*

  * If you are new to OpenStack or just getting started planning your
    cloud strategy, this track will cover the basics for you to evaluate
    the technology, understand the different ways to consume OpenStack,
    review popular use cases and determine your path forward.

  * *Products, Tools & Services*

  * OpenStack's vibrant ecosystem and the different ways to consume it
    are among it's greatest strengths. In this track, you'll hear about
    the latest products, tools and services from the OpenStack ecosystem.

  * *User Stories*

  * Sharing knowledge is a core value for the OpenStack community. In
    the user stories track, you'll hear directly from enterprises,
    service providers and application developers who are using OpenStack
    to address their business problems. Learn best practices, challenges
    and recommendations directly from your industry peers.

  * *Community Building*

  * OpenStack is a large, diverse community with more than 75 user
    groups around the world. In the community building track, user group
    leaders will share their experiences growing and maturing their
    local groups, community leaders will discuss new tools and metrics,
    and we'll shine a spotlight on end user and contributing
    organizations who have experienced a significant internal culture
    change as participants of the OpenStack community.

  * *Related OSS Projects*

  * There is a rich ecosystem of open source projects that sit on top
    of, plug into or support the OpenStack cloud software. In this
    track, we'll demonstrate the capabilities and preview the roadmaps
    for open source projects relevant to OpenStack. This presentation
    track is separate from the open source project working sessions,
    which allow the contributors to those projects to gather and discuss
    features and requirements relevant to their integration with
    OpenStack. A separate application for those working sessions will be
    announced.

  * *Operations*

  * The Operations track is 100% focused on what it takes to run a
    production OpenStack cloud. Every presenter has put endless
    coffee-fueled hours into making services scale robustly, never go
    down, and automating, automating, automating. The track will cover
    efficient use of existing tools, managing upgrades and staying
    up-to-date with one of the world's fastest-moving code bases and
    "Architecture show and tell," where established clouds will lead a
    discussion around their architecture. If you're already running a
    cloud, you should also join us in the /Ops Summit/ for some serious
    working sessions (no basic intros here) on making the OpenStack
    software and ops tools for it better.

  * *Cloud Security*

  * The Security track will feature technical presentations, design and
    implementation disussions relevant to cloud security and OpenStack.

  * *Compute*

  * Computing is a broad topic, but this track will offer technical
    presentations, use cases, and design and implementation specific to
    the OpenStack Compute project. Topics will include new features,
    integration with tools and technologies and configuration as well as
    hypervisors, HA, schedulers, bare metal computing and databases.

  * *Cloud Storage*

  * The Storage track will feature technical presentations, use cases,
    design and implementation discussions relevant to cloud storage and
    OpenStack.

  * *Cloud Networking*

  * The Networking track will feature technical presentations, use
    cases, design and implementation discussions relevant to cloud
    networking, specifically topics like SDN, scale, IPv6, policies, HA
    and performance.

  * *Public & hybrid clouds*

  * The public and hybrid clouds track will cover issues and
    considerations unique to organizations who are making use of public
    or hybrid cloud infrastrucutre, or are considering this approach.

  * *Hands-On Labs (90 minutes)*

  * Hands-on Labs offers a window into OpenStack training for operators
    and application developers. Sessions are typically 90 minutes and
    set classroom style for interaction. Bring your laptop and walk away
    with OpenStack skills.

  * *Targeting Apps for OpenStack Clouds*

  * A large community of application developers and ecosystem of
    development tools is growing around OpenStack. This track will be
    for users who are building and deploying applications on OpenStack
    clouds, and cover topics like automating and managing application
    deployment, application software configuration, SDKs, tools, PaaS
    and big data.



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