Open Stack

Post-new-year bump!

On 31/12/14 12:32, Tom Fifield wrote:
> Hi AppEcoWG,
> 
> I'm sure many have seen the "Writing your first Django app" tutorial before:
> 
> https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/intro/tutorial01/
> 
> If you haven't go and take a look - it's arguably the gold standard for
> an open source tutorial.
> 
> As discussed in our meeting in Paris, OpenStack needs something in that
> style.
> 
> We recently saw a real example of the need on the ops ml[1], when James
> Dempsey posted:
> 
> "How do you help new OpenStack users learn to build awesome stuff in
> your OpenStack clouds?"
> 
> Solving this is our aim here - create something that Operators like
> James can give to their users to allow them to become effective at
> building cloud applications.
> 
> The plan for now: flesh out ideas on what this would look like and how
> it would work. Particularly we need to think about the kinds of example
> applications we should go with.
> 
> We could look at finding an open source app that already exists that we
> could modify, or look to come up with something that we could code up.
> 
> There's an etherpad and your ideas are welcome there or by reply email:
> 
> https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/first-app-tutorial
> 
> We could also brainstorm a little in an online meeting format too, where
> I could rant about the idea a bit more if desired.
> 
> 
> In parallel, I'm working to collect a half dozen experts that we can
> lock in a room for a week in the future to make this happen. Who we need
> will depend on the path we take, but if you know someone who you think
> has the right stuff, drop me an email off-list.
> 
> In terms of deadlines, it seems like a reasonable aim to have the entire
> tutorial finished by May for the Vancouver summit. Doable? :)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 
> Tom
> 
> 
> [1]
> http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-operators/2014-December/005786.html
> 
> 
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