Hi, are you on IRC? :) Endre
2014-08-07 12:01 GMT+02:00 Piyush Harsh <[email protected]>: > Dear All, > > Let me use my first post to this list to introduce Cyclops and initiate a > discussion towards possibility of this platform as a future incubated > project in OpenStack. > > We at Zurich university of Applied Sciences have a python project in open > source (Apache 2 Licensing) that aims to provide a platform to do > rating-charging-billing over ceilometer. We call is Cyclops (A Charging > platform for OPenStack CLouds). > > The initial proof of concept code can be accessed here: > https://github.com/icclab/cyclops-web & > https://github.com/icclab/cyclops-tmanager > > *Disclaimer: This is not the best code out there, but will be refined and > documented properly very soon!* > > A demo video from really early days of the project is here: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIwwVxqCio0 and since this video was > made, several bug fixes and features were added. > > The idea presentation was done at Swiss Open Cloud Day at Bern and the > talk slides can be accessed here: > http://piyush-harsh.info/content/ocd-bern2014.pdf, and more recently the > research paper on the idea was published in 2014 World Congress in Computer > Science (Las Vegas), which can be accessed here: > http://piyush-harsh.info/content/GCA2014-rcb.pdf > > I was wondering, if our effort is something that OpenStack > Ceilometer/Telemetry release team would be interested in? > > I do understand that initially rating-charging-billing service may have > been left out by choice as they would need to be tightly coupled with > existing CRM/Billing systems, but Cyclops design (intended) is distributed, > service oriented architecture with each component allowing for possible > integration with external software via REST APIs. And therefore Cyclops by > design is CRM/Billing platform agnostic. Although Cyclops PoC > implementation does include a basic bill generation module. > > We in our team are committed to this development effort and we will have > resources (interns, students, researchers) work on features and improve the > code-base for a foreseeable number of years to come. > > Do you see a chance if our efforts could make in as an incubated project > in OpenStack within Ceilometer? > > I really would like to hear back from you, comments, suggestions, etc. > > Kind regards, > Piyush. > _______________________________________ > Dr. Piyush Harsh, Ph.D. > Researcher, InIT Cloud Computing Lab > Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) > [Site] http://piyush-harsh.info > [Research Lab] http://www.cloudcomp.ch/ > Fax: +41(0)58.935.7403 GPG Keyid: 9C5A8838 > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > >
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