This document introduces the Iran OpenStack Community, an official OpenStack user group in Iran approved in 2014. It provides an overview of OpenStack, notes that the Iran community has held initial meetings and been featured in the OpenStack Superuser magazine. It outlines the community's goals, and invites people interested in cloud computing and OpenStack to join.

1. Iran OpenStack Community
Introduction
Presentation By Roozbeh Shafiee

2. OpenStack Overview
● Founded by Rackspace and NASA in 2009
● The most favorite open source project after Linux kernel
● More than 1400 developer and contributor from 80 country
● More than 140 user community around the world
● OpenStack foundation established in 2010 to support this project
● HP, Red Hat and Mirantis are top company contributors in Juno release
● More than 80% of source code is based on Python
and many more which you know...
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3. Iran OpenStack and OpenStack Foundation
● Iran OpenStack community approved by OpenStack foundation as an
official user group along side of other communities in all around the
world in March 2014.
Iran OpenStack Community Introduction

4. Initial Meetings
● 3 meetings hold off by 11 initial members in March, April and May 2014.
Unfortunately 8 members of community migrated to out of Iran because
of job apply.
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5. Superuser Magazine
● First interview and story about Iran OpenStack community published in
official OpenStack magazine the Superuser, before 4th birthday
celebration of OpenStack.
Iran OpenStack Community Introduction

6. Roadmap and Goals
● Iran OpenStack community meetings will be organized for:
● Community gathering
● Technical discussions
● Defining and working on software projects
● Training and workshops
● Seminars and Conventions
Iran OpenStack Community Introduction

7. Sponsors and Supporters
● Companies, organizations, universities and etc can support Iran
OpenStack community to spread the software, hold off meetings and
conventions and all predicted activities around the community.
Iran OpenStack Community Introduction

8. OpenStack Meetings
● All meetings will be organized via our official MeetUp account. All of our
activities will trace by OpenStack foundation and other user groups
● MeetUp.Com/Iran-OpenStack
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9. Follow Us
● Iran OpenStack is accessible on the web and social networks.
● @OpenStackIR , #OpenStackIRAN
● +OpenStackIRAN
● #OpenStack-ir IRC channel on freenode.net
● fb.com/OpenStackIRAN
● OpenStack.ir , OpenStack-ir.org
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10. Join Us
● And finally the community means gathering people. OpenStack
community established for you
● If you are a system administrator
● If you are a developer
● If you are owner of a business
● If you are a student, teacher or researcher
● If you are interested in cloud computing
● If you are a human
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11. Special Thanks
● Special thanks to guys who were with us in this period:
● Ehsan Derakhshan, The CEO of innfinision cloud solutions
● Mehdi Jalali the IT manager at TPNU
● Morteza Javan and OCCC community
● And Specially Samaneh Mirshafi, our Weblady (a retrieved word from
webmaster) to develop and maintain OpenStack.ir
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12. Thank you