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
+ Justin
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