ApacheConEU Cloud Track CFP

Francesco Vollero fvollero at redhat.com
Wed Aug 1 19:32:39 UTC 2012


On Thu, Aug 02, 2012 at 04:17:35AM +1000, Justin Clift wrote:
> On 01/08/2012, at 6:08 AM, Mo Morsi wrote:
> > See there have been a bunch of changes / suggestions on the document,
> > which looks good but it is getting lengthy IMO. Abstracts should be on
> > the shorter side and focus on what the audience will be gaining / taking
> > away from the presentation / project.
> > 
> > Just attaching a typical proposal template which I've used for
> > conferences in the past:
> > 
> > Title: Opening up Cloud Computing with Aeolus
> > Presenter: Mo Morsi <mmorsi at redhat.com> <315.863.7088>
> > 
> > 
> > Abstract:
> > Recent years have seen an influx of Cloud Computing services offered by
> > a plethora of vendors with many different APIs and interfaces. The
> > diversity of these products offer many solutions at various levels of
> > the stack, but increases the risk of proprietary cloud adoption due to
> > vendor lock-in and downtime.
> > 
> > With Aeolus we aim to provide a Free and Open Source cloud computing
> > framework through which instances can be launched against any cloud provider
> > using the same API and toolset. The infrastructure permits the
> > description of software services and hardware components in such a way
> > that any set of software packages can be deployed to any cloud provider
> > matching specified criteria.
> > 
> > For this <conf-name> presentation, I propose discussing how we
> > represent many different cloud providers, some proprietary and others
> > open, in a vendor-agnostic way, and the methodology through which
> > software and hardware is described, instances are scheduled, and the
> > entire framework is managed.
> > 
> > 
> > Feel free to use as is, take pieces, or just continue in your own
> > direction. Hope it helps,
> 
> This is really good.  Franto, are you ok to submit this "as is" ?
> 

Yes, sounds like a plan for me. Mo is ok for you? 

Cheers,
Francesco

> + Justin
> 
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