On 07/01/2013 07:58 AM, Dave Neary wrote: > Hi, > > I'm not saying we're the same as OpenStack, but we do have almost as > much infrastructure as they do. Perhaps there is a lesson to be learned > from how they went about bringing some order to their infrastructure > efforts recently?
Meaning, ask Board members to bring in some people? I've been asking for that since day-one. Perhaps someone else can try beating on that drum. - Karsten > Cheers, > Dave. > > > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [OpenStack Foundation] Infra Bootcamp was a great success > Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2013 13:36:00 -0400 > From: Monty Taylor <mord...@inaugust.com> > To: foundat...@lists.openstack.org <foundat...@lists.openstack.org> > > Hey all! > > I just wanted to write a quick note (I believe others are working on > more detailed blog posts and whatnot) about this past week's OpenStack > Infrastructure Bootcamp. > > For those not following along at home, several weeks ago I put out a > call to the foundation board saying that we needed more people to pony > up human resources to help with the running of the OpenStack Developer > Infrastructure. The response back was extremely supportive and positive, > but the it quickly became apparent to us that we'd never be able to get > a flood of new folks up to speed if they all just started showing up in > IRC (we learned over the bootcamp that the architecture diagram for the > infra systems is about as complex as OpenStack itself) So we decided to > hold a 2 day bootcamp to bring all the new folks into a room and > braindump to them. > > We wound up with 20 people in a Soho Loft in NYC. We had all of the > current core members, people who are active and full time on Infra but > not yet core like pleia2 and zaro, people who are active across > OpenStack including infra like sdague, dhellman and mtrenish, and then a > bunch of people with essentially no interaction with what we do to date. > If memory serves we had new folks from Dell, Cisco, Citrix, Mirantis, > vmware and HP, as well as existing folks from IBM, HP, Dreamhost and the > OpenStack Foundation. > > One of the more interesting things that we did was develop a total > architecture diagram on some giant sticky notes with pens. Notes have > been taken of it and we're going to make a digital version soon - as I > think it was quite enlightening for many people. > > I wanted to thank the companies involved for sending people to an > intensive bootcamp - I'm quite optimistic about the outcome we will have > gotten for that. > > I'd also like to thank HP and the OpenStack Foundation for funding the > event - it turns out Soho Lofts and New York restaurants where 20 people > can eat at the same time don't grow on trees. > > Finally - I'd like to tip my hat to Lauren and Claire for all of their > work on the OpenStack Summit. Arranging a 2-day 20 person event was a > lot of work, and I forced everyone to come to a place that was walking > distance from my apartment - I cannot begin to imagine all of the work > they must have to do to ensure that 5000 of us can plan OpenStack every > six months in various places around the world. > > Thanks everybody! > Monty > > _______________________________________________ > Foundation mailing list > foundat...@lists.openstack.org > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/foundation > > > _______________________________________________ > Infra mailing list > Infra@ovirt.org > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/infra > -- Karsten 'quaid' Wade http://TheOpenSourceWay.org .^\ http://community.redhat.com @quaid (identi.ca/twitter/IRC) \v' gpg: AD0E0C41
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