Greg DeKoenigsberg discusses the efforts of the Eucalyptus community at EucaDay NYC on 25 April 2012.

1. The Eucalyptus
Community Bar
Greg DeKoenigsberg, VP Community, Eucalyptus Inc.
greg.dekoenigsberg@gmail.com / @gregdek
25 April 2012

2. (the Bar is a lie.)

3. Welcome, EucaDay NYC attendees.

4. Eucalyptus
Community
Says Hello

5. What are the 3 key success factors of
an open source software project?

6. What are the 3 key success factors of
an open source software project?
1. Users

7. What are the 3 key success factors of
an open source software project?
1. Users
2. Users

8. What are the 3 key success factors of
an open source software project?
1. Users
2. Users
3. Users

9. The reasonable user adapts himself to the
software; the unreasonable user persists
in trying to adapt the software to himself.
Therefore all progress depends on the
unreasonable user.
--George Bernard Shaw, hacker
(paraphrased)

10. I unreasonable users

11. User-Driven Innovation
Eric Von Hippel
Professor of Technological Innovation, MIT Sloan
Democratizing Innovation
The MIT Press, 2005
http://web.mit.edu/evhippel/www/democ1.htm

12. Moving
users up
the open
source
pyramid

13. 1. Functional, stable code
Serving
the users: 2. Easy to install
3. Solves key problems
users

14. 1. Eucalyptus 3.1 release
Serving
the users: 2. Faststart/Silvereye
3. On-premise AWS
users

15. 1. Great knowledge base and forums
Serving the
seekers: 2. Immediate availability
seekers
users

16. 1. engage.eucalyptus.com
Serving the
seekers: 2. irc.freenode.net #eucalyptus
seekers
users

17. 1. Infrastructure
Serving the
participants: 2. Hyper-responsiveness
3. Recognition
participants
seekers

18. 1. projects.eucalyptus.com,
Serving the bugtracker, github
participants: 2. IRC, mailing lists
3. Recognition in
many forms
participants
seekers

19. 1. Agency
Serving the core
contributors: 2. Responsibility
3. Opportunity
core
contributors
participants

20. It is our responsibility
to build the steps
up to the top.

21. Eucalyptus
Community
Film Festival
(in case you don't make it to Tribeca)

22. habuka036
Osamu Habuka
Author, Let's deploy a private cloud with Eucalyptus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBEGj4XJdBc
http://amzn.to/lnArJF
04:57:16 < habuka036> Oops, my wife called me, and I have
got to go to dinner. Type to you later. (^_^)/~

23. pdunnigan
Patrick Dunnigan
Founder, Chief Architect, Cloud Sidekick
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqP3qHETNUc
http://cloudsidekick.com
12:37 < pdunnigan> emis.eucalyptus.com is slowwwwwwww

24. pweiss
Paul Weiss
Senior Cloud Engineer, Eucalyptus
https://vimeo.com/40987726
http://www.eucalyptus.com
08:04 <pweiss> what do you need another video on?

25. shaon
Md. Imran Hossain Shaon
Eucalyptus Ambassador, Bangladesh
Software Engineer, Amadeyr Cloud Ltd.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-lfEkBFxwg
http://mdshaonimran.wordpress.com
13:52 < shaon> I think I should sleep now, it's 3.52am here

26. Engaging with Eucalyptus, Part I
engage.eucalyptus.com
* User Forums
* Knowledge Base
Internet Relay Chat (IRC)
* Real-time chat with Euca users, developers, community
* server: irc.freenode.net
* web ui: webchat.freenode.net
* #eucalyptus - general user channel
* #eucalyptus-devel - developers channel
* #eucalyptus-meeting - meetings channel
* #eucalyptus-classroom - classes for EucaSchool
Mailing Lists
* http://lists.eucalyptus.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/community
* http://lists.eucalyptus.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/images
* http://lists.eucalyptus.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/eutester

27. Engaging with Eucalyptus, Part II
projects.eucalyptus.com
* Documentation
* EucaSchool
* Silvereye
* Eutester
* Events
* Images
* Recipes
* Nilgiri
* Culture
Meeting logs: http://meetbot.eucalyptus.com/meeting-logs/eucalyptus-meeting/
Meeting times: http://sl.eucalyptus.com/ircmeetings

28. Engaging with Eucalyptus, Part III
...have a drink.

29. questions/comments/thanks
Greg DeKoenigsberg, VP Community, Eucalyptus Inc.
greg.dekoenigsberg@gmail.com / @gregdek
25 April 2012