This document provides updates on Ceph community events and initiatives, including: - An upcoming APAC roadshow for Ceph Days events in various cities from August 18-29 - Metrics on community growth tracked via various platforms - Details on the User Committee and steps towards broader governance - Recurring technical talks and developer meetings held monthly - Plans to redesign the Ceph.com website on a new hosting platform - A traveling Ceph demo pod to demonstrate the technology - An upcoming MOOC course on open source storage technologies including Ceph - Notes on the new stable release of CephFS in Jewel and need for more testing - Announcement of Cephalocon 2017 conference

1. Community Update
Ceph Day APAC Roadshow
2016

2. Copyright © 2013 by Inktank | Private and Confidential
CEPH PROMO VIDEO
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3. CEPH DAYS
 You’re here!
 100% Community-focused
 APAC Roadshow (18-29
Aug)
 Beijing
 Kuala Lumpur
 Taipei
 Seoul
 Tokyo
 Volunteer to host!
 Ceph.com/cephdays
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4. METRICS
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 Bitergia Platform
 Ceph-brag
 Community-driven
 Good growth
 Code/Tracker/IRC/Lists
 Continuing to evolve

5. 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

6. GOVERNANCE
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7. 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

8. 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

9. CEPH.COM
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 New host due to security breach
 Some things didn’t port over
well
 Designing new update
 Community feedback welcome
 New.ceph.com
 Porting to a new host soon
 Stay tuned to lists!

10. 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!

11. EdX MOOC
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 In cooperation w/ The Linux
Foundation
 “Massively Open Online
Course”
 Open Source Software Defined
Storage Survey
 Ceph / Gluster / Swift / ??

12. CephFS
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 It’s Here!
 Stable in Jewel release
 Continuing to dogfood and test
 Need more testing!

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

14. THANK YOU!
Patrick McGarry
Dir Ceph Community
pmcgarry@
redhat.com
@scuttlemonkey