Hey Ilya, Really appreciate your actions & thought process. Regarding having joint ventures, to clarify: do you mean to present in each others Meetup? Definitely agree on that. Some areas of interest outside of Chef/Configuration Management could be Object Stores, SDNs, DR/BC, Monitoring and Capacity Management. These are all hot areas and different companies are integrating their solutions into CloudStack.
Also, it's really important to have, as you've laid out below, a number of meetups planned. Then, once planned, having the events held on a regular monthly. The worst thing possible is to have a meetup every 2nd..4th.. Or 8th month. I've been in a few of those types of meetups and find myself losing interest quickly. Regarding hands on - the question that comes up is: what kit? I can check around to see if we have some lab facilities that can be used. I don't know what options are available at this timeŠ I do have a personal beefy laptop (i7-3820QM w/ 32GB RAM) with VMware Workstation 9 that could be used as a mobile nested server. Figure I should offer up something if I'm replying :) Best, Kelly On 2/21/13 1:13 PM, "Musayev, Ilya" <imusa...@webmd.net> wrote: >So overnight, it looks like we almost tripled our NYC group size, going >from 19 to 55 - I expect to hit 60+ today :) > >The numbers will really go up when we schedule an actual meetup as we can >use the help of NYLUG and other tech meetups to promote. > >I've also reached out to several organizers that I met in past from other >tech meetups in NYC and some of them are open to a joint venture (i.e. >CloudStack and Chef) > >I'm creating a set of polls on meetup to better understand where the NYC >user base stands to better focus and drive the future events. > >Here is what I propose our first and consequent meet ups should be - open >to revisions and discussion - I would like to keep them hands on - and if >possible, record the sessions.. > >MeetUp 1 - CloudStack Intro - 2 hour event >CloudStack Overview 4.0 - 30 minutes >Installing CS walk through - 10 minutes >Add VmWare and KVM Cluster - basic networking - 30 minutes >Whats new in 4.1 and 4.2 >Questions and Answers > >MeetUp 2 - CloudStack in Corp Env - 2 hour >CloudStack Corporate Use Case - Advanced Network Layout - hands on demo >Creat Linux CloudStack OS Templates, cloud-init and Chef integration >(involve Chef NYC user group) >How CloudStack is used in Company X - Show Case WebMD setup >Questions and Answers > >MeetUp 3 - CloudStack in Hosting Env - Create your own AWS like cloud >with EC2 and S3 - 2 hour event > CloudStack with Security Groups and Advanced Network > CloudStack and EC2 API integration > CloudStack and OpenSwift for S3 > How CloudStack is used in Company X - Show Case Hosting >Company Setup or WebMD HealthCloud Setup > Questions and Answers > >MeetUp 3 - CloudStack IaaS and OpenShift or Cloudify PaaS and IronFoundry >PaaS - a joint venture > >As mentioned earlier, open for discussion, your input is welcome. > >Regards >ilya > > >
