How it All Started in Tel Aviv?

“We Need Three OpenStack Development Scrum Teams Up and Running by the End of March”

What Did We Do?

A Tale of Two OpenStack Contributors: A Newbie Developer and a Frustrated Operator (part I)

A Few Words about AT&T

AIC – AT&T Integrated Cloud

What Did We Do?

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I Want to Contribute!

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Joining the Community

Communication

Contribution

Choose Your Change

It’s Time to Code!

So What Have We Learned Today?

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Thank You

Maish Saidel-Keesingmsaidelk@cisco.comJune 1, 2016

A Newbie Developer and a Frustrated Operator (Part II)

A Tale of Two OpenStack Contributors

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Background• Cisco

• Global Services company

• OpenStack Contributor @maishsk• Cloud Platform Architect• Author• Active since Havana

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The Current Lay of the Land

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Active Technical Contributors• People contributing Code

User Committee Operators

• Users• Operators

Foundation Board

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Why Frustrated??Justanotherhuman (flickr)

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Feedback Loop is Broken

Trying to get feedback from an operational perspective back into the OpenStack projects has always been challenging

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Dev vs. Ops

mattmflickr (flickr)

Influence is everything

HumongoNationphotogallery (flickr)

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Foundation Board of Directors▪ Have influence on the commercial aspect of OpenStack

Project Team Leads (PTL)▪ Technical direction in each project

Technical Committee▪ Overall technical leadership for ALL OpenStack Projects

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How Operators contributeto OpenStack today

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chriszak (flickr)

OPs repositories

melswindow(flickr)

Working Groups

longitudelatitude (flickr)

OPs Tags

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Does any of this count as contributions to OpenStack?

martinjhoward2 (flickr)

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Why Does this Matter?

Operators are the ones that suffer the pain, daily.They have a different perspective on an overall solution.They should have a say in the technical directionCommunity contribution is NOT ONLY CODE!!!

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•Elections twice a year• Any foundation member can run• ATCs are the only ones allowed to vote

To date No Operator has ever been elected!

Technical committee

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• OPs contributions – fully recognized• ATC eligibility• TC elections

• UC contributions – fully recognized• ATC eligibility• TC elections

https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/NonATCRecognition

Future – Where Should the Community Go?

We Are All OpenStack! Are We Really????