March 12, 2014

March Marketing Community Meeting

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Atlanta Summit Update

• Early bird registrations close March 22

• Sponsor deadline is March 31

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Paris Summit Update

• Summit will run week of November 3 at Le Palais des Congres (Etoile)• Keynotes/Expo/Breakout: Monday – Wednesday• Design Summit: Wednesday – Saturday

• Design sessions will run across the street at the Le Meridien

• Working on expo floor plan and sponsorship prospectus now

• Finalizing room blocks at the attached Hyatt and Le Meridien

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OpenStack Direct Support Events Update

Highlights Q2/Q3 2014

• Cloud Connect Summit / Interop: March 31 – April 4, 2014/Las Vegas. OpenStack, PayPal and Business Case speakers; OpenStack Boot Camp; Community Pavilion; Community Panels

• World Hosting Days: April 1 – April 3, 2014/Rust, Germany. OpenStack booth, community kiosks (still available!), private executive dinner

• PyCon: April 10-12, 2014/Montreal, Canada. Booth, job board for posting your open positions

• Cloud World Forum Europe: June 17-18, 2014/London, U.K. OpenStack community speaker and panelist

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2014 Q2/Q3 Regional OpenStack Days

• March 25, Toronto organized by eNovance• March 27, Vancouver organized by eNovance• April 29, Mexico City organized by KIO Networks• May 9, Berlin organized by hastexo• May 28, Paris organized by eNovance• May 29, Milan organized by Red Hat• June 2, Tel Aviv organized by GigaSpaces• June 5, London organized by Canonical

Additional meetups and community events can also be found on the OpenStack website: openstack.org/events

Note: we support regional events with speakers, exhibit assets, collateral and giveaways as available. Visit http://www.openstack.org/marketing/Plan-or-Sponsor-an-OpenStack-Event/for more information.

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Call for Papers Upcoming Deadlines

‣ LinuxCon Cloud Open Japan/ May 20-22, Tokyo‣ Closes March 14: http://bit.ly/1kJP99G

‣ GigaOM Structure NA/ June 18-19, San Francisco‣ Closes March 21: http://bit.ly/1kJPEjW

‣ GTEC 2014/Oct 27-30, Ottawa‣ Closes March 28: http://ubm.io/1eoDu8K

‣ Texas Linux Fest 2014/ June 13-14, Austin‣ Closes April 5: http://bit.ly/1oJar4G

‣ USENIX LISA ‘14/ November 9-14, Seattle‣ Closes April 14: http://bit.ly/1cNkx4F

‣ LinuxCon/CloudOpen North America/Aug 20-22, Chicago‣ Closes May 2: http://bit.ly/1cRieYB

‣ LinuxCon/CloudOpen Europe/Oct 13-15, Dusseldorf‣ Closes July 11: http://bit.ly/1eoFGgm

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Community Updates

Operator’s Gathering, March 3‣ Great feedback session with about 40 operators‣ Consolidating feedback for technical committee‣ Plans to better incorporate operators at the Atlanta

Summit

Board Meeting, March 4‣ Jonathan Bryce presented 2014 Foundation staff

priorities:‣ Improve the software (i.e., upstream)‣ Improve interoperability between OpenStack-powered

products and services (i.e., downstream)‣ Grow service provider footprint globally

‣ DefCore activities and progress a major focus‣ Working on capabilities for testing

‣ Good discussions about community plugin/testing framework and NFV

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Coming Soon

Content Team Meeting, March 13 at 16:00 UTC‣ Need volunteers for content development and review‣ Review current content plan & needs pre-summit/users

Icehouse Release, April 17‣ Press release April 17 as well as webinar planned‣ Scheduling marketing meeting week of April 7th to

discuss

User Survey‣ Please help us promote, will alert marketing list when

available‣ Also targeting end users/API consumers this round

Next Marketing Meeting‣ March 27, members of DefCore subcommittee will be

joining to discuss commercial logo programs