This document provides a community update on Ceph activities in 2017. It discusses several Ceph Days conferences scheduled around the world, metrics on community growth, the User Committee and governance efforts. It also outlines technical talks, performance discussions, developer meetings and the new Ceph.com site. The document highlights contributions from the China community including code commits, meetups with over 1,000 attendees, an upcoming Ceph white paper, new books and the first Ceph training and certification program.

1. Community Update
2017

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Welcome from Patrick McGarry
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CEPH PROMO VIDEO(Chinese
Subtitle)
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4. CEPH DAYS
 100% Community-focused
 Volunteer to host!
 http://Ceph.com/cephdays
 Upcoming:
 11 May – Boston
(OpenStack)
 10 June – Beijing
 19 July - Taipei
 20 Sep – Netherlands
 18 Oct - Stockholm
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5. METRICS
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 Bitergia Platform
 Ceph-brag
 Community-driven
 Good growth
 Code/Tracker/IRC/Lists
 Continuing to evolve

6. USER COMMITTEE
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 Started after Dumpling
 Current chair: Wido den Hollander
 Periodic meetings to discuss community matters
 Most recently:
 Release cadence
 Contributor credits
 Global mirror network
 First steps towards broader governance

7. GOVERNANCE
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8. Ceph Tech Talks
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 Monthly technical presentation about Ceph
 4th Thursday of the month
 Online via BlueJeans tool
 http://ceph.com/ceph-tech-talks/
 We welcome any community member who would like to
present

9. Ceph Performance Weekly
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 Weekly discussion about Ceph performance work
 Every Thursday (used to be Wed)
 Online via BlueJeans tool
 http://ceph.com/performance/
 We welcome any community member who would like to
participate
 History: http://pad.ceph.com/p/performance_weekly

10. CEPH DEVELOPER MONTHLY
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 Ex-“Quarterly” developer
summit
 First Wed of the month
 Next 01 June
 100% online (Blue Jeans / IRC)
 Videos on Ceph YouTube
channel
 https://goo.gl/7Eig8A

11. CEPH.COM
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 Brand new Ceph.com
 Highlights:
 /video
 /resources
 /use-cases
 /events
 /performance
 /featured-developers
 /planet

12. CEPH DEMO POD
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 Minnowboard TurboT
 Intel Atom 1.46 GHz
 2GB RAM
 SATA!
 Samsung Evo 850 SSD
 CentOS
 Foreman installer
 Traveling Ceph Demo!
 Also building ARM version

13. CEPHALOCON 2017!
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 Ceph Conference
 Boston, MA
 23-25 Aug 2017
 Ceph.com/cephalocon2017/

14. GSoC / Outreachy
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 http://ceph.com/gsoc2017/
 5 student slots awarded
 3x ceph-mgr
 RBD
 RGW
 4th year
 http://ceph.com/outreachy2017/
 1 student sponsored
 RGW
 2nd year

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Ceph on ARM
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16. Ceph China Community Update
2017

17. Ceph China Community Update
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 Code Contribute
 Ceph Meetups
 Ceph While Paper
 Ceph Books & Training

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China Code Contribute
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China Mobile
ZTE
Xsky
EISOO
Alibaba
UMCloud
T2CloudTecentUnitedStackKylin CloudEasyStack99cloudinwinSTACKChinac
Commits
China Mobile
ZTE
Xsky
EISOO
Alibaba
UMCloud
T2Cloud
Tecent
UnitedStack
Kylin Cloud
EasyStack
99cloud
inwinSTACK
Chinac

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Ceph Meetups
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Beijing/Shanghai/Shenzhen/
Chengdu/Wuhan Ceph
Meetups, total attendances
1000+
Finance, Telecom, Internet,
Game, Energy,
Government, Broadcast

20.  Joined Companies: CESI(标准化研究院), Intel, China Mobile, Xsky,
Lenovo, ZTE, UMCloud, 99cloud, FirbreHome(烽火科技),
SandStone(杉岩), H3C, Prophetech(博飞信息), CTRUST(大唐高鸿因
特信安), 中油瑞飞
 Finish prototype and study case collections
 Finish 1st stage
 Will be published in this year
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Ceph White Paper
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Ceph Books
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Ceph Training
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1st standard SDS training
material based on Ceph
1st official SDS certification
and authorized by CESI &
COSOL

23. THANK YOU!
Patrick McGarry
Global Community Director
pmcgarry at gmail.com
孙琦（Ray）
博飞信息科技CTO
xiaoquqi at gmail.com