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(a)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
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