OpenStack as Community

OpenStack as a Community

• Mission

To produce a ubiquitous Open Source Cloud Computing platform that is
easy to use, simple to implement, interoperable between deployments,
works well at all scales, and meets the needs of users and operators
of both public and private clouds.

Four "open"s

• Open Source
• Open Design
• Open Development
• Open Community
• More information: Governance page
  • http://governance.openstack.org/reference/opens.html

Framework

• Ecosystem for collaboration
• Infrastructure for

  • Revisione

  • Testing
  • CI
  • Version control
• Documentation frameworks
• Collaboration tools
  • Wiki
  • IRC
  • Etherpad/Ethercalc

Life in and around OpenStack

• Official & Unofficial Projects
• Working groups
• User groups
• Events
  • Summits/Forums
  • Project Teams Gatherings (PTGs)
  • Operators' meet ups
  • OpenStack Days

Methodologies

• Agile
  • Who's familiar with the term?
• Manifesto for Agile Software Development
  • Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
  • Working software over comprehensive documentation
  • Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
  • Responding to change over following a plan
• Principles behind the manifesto

OpenStack and Agile

• Exercise - Collect answers/ideas within your group to the two questions below:
  • Why Agile methodologies are a good fit to a community like OpenStack?
  • Why they are not a good fit?
• Discuss the answers with the class