olf summary

Robyn Bergeron rbergero at redhat.com
Wed Oct 3 01:04:58 UTC 2012


On 10/01/2012 11:40 AM, Mo Morsi wrote:
> How the weekend flew by (and the time prepping for it!). In no
> particular order
>
> * Overall great conference, Aeolus demos went perfectly (was cool to
> show our tool being used to address some of the problems w/ the cloud
> other presenters were talking about), promoted the project extensively
> (handing out stickers), and got interesting perspectives
>
> * Perhaps the most notable is that openstack isn't the clear victor in
> the cloud wars, there were fans / users of many different
> implementations including oVirt. The cloud is so new, and any
> implementation specific to one way of doing things, so there is alot of
> uncertainty. I feel Aeolus fits perfectly into resolving this
>
> * Citrix sponsored the Build Your Own Cloud day, and said they'd love to
> work w/ us to build support for their cloudstack api in our tools. They
> are also having a conference in Vegas this november and invite any
> contributors / users of our project to attend and/or present.
FYI that the CFP on this ends Oct. 5 - 
http://collab12.cloudstack.org/proposals/

This directly follows the amazon re:invent conference, also, in the same 
venue/hotel. https://reinvent.awsevents.com/
>
> * The puppet team seemed to be a fan of vagrant / leveraging this more
> for the puppet infra: http://vagrantup.com/ (they are going to be
> expanding it beyond virtualbox)
Yes. Vagrant is super popular. RHEL/Fedora/etc. are nearly entirely 
undocumented for usage here as well.
>
> * Brought my desktop to act as an external cloud resource (from the
> perspective of aeolus on my laptop) during the presentations, but
> should've brought a small travel-dolly to carry it with! (nbd, was able
> to stash it away in the secure operations room)
>
> * Found out about a relatively new postgres feature that is gaining some
> popularity, dblink the ability to link local tables to data in external
> databases:
> http://www.postgresonline.com/journal/archives/44-Using-DbLink-to-access-other-PostgreSQL-Databases-and-Servers.html
>
> * I pointed people to our community resources, and told people that they
> could just shout out via the list or irc if there were any questions or
> any way we could help them out to use the software. Be sure to be on the
> lookout for those and please help out if you can.
>
>
> There were a couple of other things, will make sure to pass along
> anything notable to the relevant parties. Will also share the video of
> my talk when it becomes available.
>
>    -Mo
>





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