OpenStack Community By The Numbers
There are lot of questions about whether OpenStack Community can be truly vendor neutral. The OpenStack Foundation Board has three tiers (see my previous post questioning the neutrality of such a structure); Platinum Members, Gold Members and Individual Members. Platinum and Gold members have 2/3 of the votes in the board with Platinum Members enjoying [...]
OpenStack Elections: Troubling Questions
Last weekend there was an uproar in the cloud community over a post made by Shanley Kane, geek in the valley working for Basho. The post is now removed from her Github account but it was apparently forked by Justin Sheehy and it is missing too. Even more surprisingly, it is also gone from Google [...]
OpenStack Momentum Is Amazing
Last week I was at OpenStack Analyst Day held on the sidelines of OpenStack Design Summit and Conference at San Francisco. I had a chance to talk with OpenStack people, partners, developers and, even, some users. If I can sense something out of the conference, it is the excitement shared by the community and their [...]
OpenStack Foundation: Dear OpenStack, I Want You To Succeed
I am one of the group of people who called upon Rackspace to put OpenStack under a foundation because I thought it was the right way to do an open source project that stays fair to the entire community. So, when Rackspace announced OpenStack Foundation, I got very excited. But I didn’t hear much about [...]
OpenStack Foundation Launched
The OpenStack Project (previous CloudAve coverage), so far under the “control” of Rackspace, announced their intention to launch a foundation which will control the governance and trademarks of the project. This is a big news and warrants a short analysis because I have talked about this issue when it erupted after Rick Clark’s departure and [...]
