cloudstack collab 2013 keynote

I have two questions for you today.

Question: How’s our community doing?

We Graduated!

We are now a Top Level Project at the ASF

This was less than 1 year from CloudStack entering the Incubator

Since August 2010:

Over 18,000 commitsby hundreds of developerscreating 2.5 million lines of code

We Released 4.1.0

Significant Architectural Improvements20 new features, 24 “improvements”, 155 bug fixes

Helped several 2.x users be able to upgrade to 4.1

We’re Collaborating Better than Ever

Translation CommunityDocumentation Progress UI Progress

Educating Others

CloudStack University Initiative

Google Summer of Code Projects

Apache CloudStack Training Courses

Books

User Groups Have Formed Around the Globe

Japan CloudStack User Group (JCSUG)

Hundreds of members Coordinated release testing Doc Translation Sprints Working with LPI Japan to create

an OSS Cloud certification Active in multiple cities throughout

Japan

Question: How’s our community doing?

Answer: We’re stronger than ever, and growing rapidly

Question: How are users affecting the Apache CloudStack project?

CloudStack’s Users Are Cloud Operators

Want to easily design, install, support, upgrade and scale their diverse cloud platforms

Application Owners Want infrastructure to get out of the way of delivering

applications to the end users

272+ Operators in Production

We are usersBuilds the next generation of developersDrives project sustainabilityImproves quality

Why is this so important?

Our User Focus Has Given Us Strong support for both traditional and cloud-era workloads Flexible deployment options and infrastructure choice Real-world experiences with scale Upgrades that work New technology integrations by and for the operators Testing of our APIs from diverse consumer tools

Question: How are users affecting the Apache CloudStack project?

Answer: They’re driving the Project

Announcing the Next CloudStack Collaboration Conference

AmsterdamNovember 20-22, 2013

Let’s make sure we avoid this moment for our users…

Because infrastructure and applications are means to an end.

Our job is to make them easy to consume.

Get Involved:

cloudstack.apache.org

Thanks, and enjoy the conference!