Presentation by Mark Collier & Jonathan Bryce April 2012 to industry Analysts in San Francisco covering OpenStack background & and an update on the Foundation plans.

2. OpenStack Today

4. Explosive Community Growth
Developers Conference Attendees
Many New Companies Joining
Essex created by >200
Developers from 55
companies worldwide

5. Users all over the world deploying OpenStack

6. Community Experience
“The community is incredible. Everyone is willing
to jump in and provide help and answers
whenever we have a question. In fact, in my
experience, the OpenStack Community has
proven to be much better than phone support
from some of the more commercial, closed
products, ”
Stephen Meier, SDSC Platforms Manager

8. Related OpenStack
OpenStack Capabilities Project Code Name
Virtual Machines: provision & manage large pools of on-demand Nova
computing resources
Virtual Block Storage Devices: Volumes on commodity storage gear, Nova
and drivers for more advanced systems like NetApp, Solidfire, and Nexenta
Object Storage: petabytes of reliable storage on standard gear Swift
Virtual Networks: VLAN or Flat Network, automation coming with Nova, then
Quantum project (Folsom Release fall 2012) Quantum
Web Dashboard: self-service, role-based web interface Horizon
Middleware: multi-tenant Identity Management that ties to existing stores Keystone, Glance
(e.g. LDAP) and Image Service

9. How the Open Development process works
‣ Every 6 months:
‣ New Release of Software (Essex now, Folsom in Fall)
‣ Design Summit to plan next release
‣ Recent Trends
‣ Focus on quality (improved tools, dedicated QA time)
‣ Diversity of contribution: 200+ devs from 55 companies

10. Highlights for Essex, the latest release
‣ Stability & Quality
‣ Extensibility & Pluggability
‣ Enterprise requirements implemented
‣ Incubation

11. Where To Get Started
DISTRIBUTIONS DEVSTACK TRYSTACK.ORG

12. OpenStack Foundation

13. Road to the Foundation
‣ In October announced plans to start Foundation in 2012
‣ Spent remainder of 2011 researching foundation models, talking with
our community
‣ Kicked off formation process in January, developing a mission,
structure and funding model
‣ Lined up companies willing to express their commitment to the
proposed structure and funding requirements
‣ Currently drafting formation documents and starting community review
process
‣ Estimated completion and transition in Q3 of 2012

14. Foundation Approach
Provide a permanent legal home for OpenStack, with broad industry
support and the resources to support OpenStack’s success
While preserving what’s working – a.k.a. “The OpenStack Way”
Technical people making technical decisions based on merit
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Dedicated resources building the community and ecosystem
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A strong ecosystem of companies making money
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‣Encouraging and rewarding contribution in all forms, such as testing,
documenting, translating, integrating, extending, educating, financing,
training, supporting, facilitating, evangelizing, designing, or art making.
Always maintaining the proper balance between the individuals who
invest their time and effort, and the companies who build businesses.

15. Foundation Mission
The OpenStack Foundation is an independent body providing
shared resources to help achieve the OpenStack Mission by
Protecting, Empowering, and Promoting OpenStack software
and the community around it, including users, developers and the
entire ecosystem.
Latest: http://wiki.openstack.org/Governance/Foundation/Mission

16. Foundation Services
‣ Large scale testing and continuous integration coordination
‣ Tools to help developers contribute code easily
‣ Event management (Summit & Conf, other regional events)
‣ Legal (CLA process, trademark management & defense)
‣ Educational resources to help developers, sys admins,
users, CIOs, evaluate and implement OpenStack
‣ Promotion of the OpenStack brand, including webinars,
case studies, TCO studies, user interviews, and press
outreach for member companies to leverage when
promoting their OpenStack-powered products
‣ Promotion of ecosystem building OpenStack businesses
‣ "State of OpenStack” reports covering topics like the
OpenStack Jobs outlook, OpenStack economic impact

17. Membership of the Foundation: Three types
“Individual Members” who participate on their own or as part of their
paid employment. It’s free to join as an Individual Member and Individual
Members have the right to run for, and vote for, a number of leadership
positions.
“Platinum Members” are companies which make a significant strategic
commitment to OpenStack in funding and resources. Platinum Members
each appoint a representative to the Board of Directors
“Gold Members” are companies which provide funding and resources,
but at a lower level than Platinum Members. Gold Members as a class
elect representatives to the Board of Directors.

18. Structure Summary
‣ Board of Directors and Executive Director provide legal management of
organization, manage financial resources
‣ Technical Committee (formerly Project Policy Board) retains oversight over
technical matters. It is independent, meritocratic, with the ability to change
own structure and processes. Project Technical Leads (PTLs) continue to
lead individual projects. Committee and Technical Leads elected by
technical community.
‣ User Committee to provide feedback and input on direction
‣ Legal Affairs Committee to manage CLA, devise overall IP strategy

19. Funding Sources
Platinum Member Fees
‣$500,000 per year (paid annually) with a three-year commitment.
‣Contributing resources equivalent to 2 FTEs
‣AT&T, Canonical, HP, IBM, Nebula, Rackspace, Red Hat, and SUSE
Gold Member Fees
‣Total company revenue times 0.025%, minimum of $50,000, maximum of
$200,000.
‣Cisco, ClearPath Networks, Cloudscaling, Dell, DreamHost, ITRI, Mirantis,
Morphlabs, NetApp, Piston Cloud Computing and Yahoo!
Corporate Sponsorships
‣Other companies can support the OpenStack foundation at a lower cost by
becoming a Corporate Sponsor
‣Additional funds will be raised through event sponsorships, like the
OpenStack Design Summit & Conference, industry conferences and regional
events

20. What does it mean?
‣ Leading technology companies are standing strong with OpenStack and
backing the Foundation as the long-term, independent home for the
projects.
‣ Together, these companies can move the industry forward in an open
direction while continuing to innovate—the collective reach of these
companies drives adoption, and our joint commitment ensures the long-
term viability of the project.
‣ We are all committed to The OpenStack Way: an open development
process that is driven by a technical meritocracy and making significant
investments in community building
‣ This is all about doubling down on our community and driving key
initiatives like interoperability