Every year, hundreds of developers, users and administrators of OpenStack apply to speak at the annual OpenStack Summit, which takes place May 12 through May 16 this year in Atlanta.
In the true spirit of “open,” the conference agenda is determined by the OpenStack community in a public vote.
This year, Rackspace specialists submitted more than 70 speaking proposals with topics ranging from getting started with OpenStack and federated identity, to unicorns and the search for the cloud’s elusive “God” particle.
The voting period is now open for OpenStack Summit Atlanta presentations — and the process is simple. You can rate your favorite sessions online after you create a username on OpenStack.org. Remember to cast your ballot before the voting period closes on Sunday, March 2.
Here’s a roundup of proposed speaking sessions from Rackspace experts:
So You Want to Be an OpenStack Contributor? (Angela Streeter; Egle Sigler; Rainya Mosher; Iccha Sethi)
Ask the Experts: Storage Considerations for OpenStack (Kenneth Hui, Rackspace; Ben Kepes, Independent Consulting; Brian Gracely, EMC; Greg Knieriemen, HDS; John Griffith, SolidFire; Manju Ramanthpura, HDS; Val Bercovici, NetApp)
Bridging The Gap: OpenStack For VMware Administrators (Kenneth Hui, Rackspace; Cody Bunch, Rackspace; Scott Lowe, VMware)
From Infrastructure Administrator To Cloud Architect (Kenneth Hui; Cody Bunch; Niki Acosta; Jason Grimm)
Getting Started with OpenStack (Kenneth Hui, Rackspace; Niki Acosta, Rackspace; Dan Radez, Red Hat)
Laying Cinder Block (Volumes): Use Cases and Reference Architectures (Kenneth Hui, Rackspace; James Ruddy, EMC; John Griffith, SolidFire)
OpenStack in Production: Use Cases and Reference Architectures (Kenneth Hui, Jason Grimm)
Scaling Out OpenStack Clouds in the Enterprise (Kenneth Hui, Rackspace; Boris Renski, Mirantis; Caroline McCrory, Piston Cloud; Jan Mark Holzer, Red Hat; Jesse Proudman, Blue Box; Manju Ramanathpruda, HDS)
We Need You! Building a Better Cloud Community One Voice At a Time (Kenneth Hui, Rackspace; Aaron Delp, Citrix)
Your OpenStack DevOps Team: Encouraging Innovation with Open Source Development (Rainya Mosher; Gabe Westmaas; Toan Nguyen; Uma Goring; Matt Van Winkle; Mike Wilson, Bluehost)
Learning to Scale OpenStack: An Update from the Rackspace Public Cloud (Rainya Mosher; Paul Voccio)
Using Continuous Integration with an Open Source Code Base for Large-Scale Infrastructure Deployments (Rainya Mosher; Brian Lamar)
Announcing developer.openstack.org (Everett Toews)
Cloud Portability With OpenStack Toolkits (Everett Toews, Kyle Rames, Dana Bauer, Ken Perkins)
You Sir, Sir Vey (Everett Toews)
OpenStack Python and the Holy Grail: A new proposal for image portability (John Garbutt; Brian Rosmaita)
Product Development in the Open (Brian Rosmaita)
SDN: A View From the Trenches (Paul Voccio)
Improving Database Management with Private Cloud Database Services (Daniel Morris, Rackspace; Chris Kasten, eBay; Auston McReynolds, eBay)
State of OpenStack Security (Cody Bunch; Rob Clark, HP)
Unicorns, Happiness, and Hybrid Cloud (Niki Acosta; Scott Sanchez)
A Hands-on Lab: Deploying your first app to OpenStack (Niki Acosta; Scott Sanchez)
Deploying Marconi For Production (Oz Akan)
OpenStack Software-Defined Networks (Phil Hopkins)
Troubleshooting Neutron Virtual Networks (Phil Hopkins)
Neutron at Scale (Justin Hammond; Andy Hill; Chad Norgan)
Marconi: Please Leave a Message (Kurt Griffiths; Alejandro Cabrera; Flavio Percoco, Red Hat)
Designate: Interactive Workshop – Install and Operate (Vinod Mangalpally, Rackspace; Joe McBride, Rackspace; Rich Megginson, Red Hat; Kiall Mac Innes, HP; Graham Hayes, HP; Ron Rickard, eBay)
Federated Identity & Federated Service Provider Support for OpenStack Clouds (Joe Savak, Rackspace; Brad Topol, IBM; Jorge Williams, Rackspace; Steve Martinelli, IBM)
Orchestration for Public Cloud: The Experience of Running Heat at Rackspace (Randall Burt; Keith Bray)
Automating Service Orchestration with Docker and CoreOS (John Yi)
Vagrant Up Your Rackspace Private Cloud (James Thorne)
Start Focusing on the Developer Experience (Jesse Noller)
Why OpenStack Interoperability is needed for Application Developers (Jesse Noller)
Develop for all the Clouds! (Jesse Noller)
The branding problem is a UX problem (Jesse Noller)
Introducing the Unified python-openstacksdk (Jesse Noller)
Making Test-Driven Development [Somewhat] Bearable on OpenStack (Hart Hoover)
Working with Security Groups (Jacob Walcik)
Preparing to Deploy a Private Cloud (Jacob Walcik)
The Search for Cloud’s Elusive ‘God’ Particle (Chris Jackson)
Why OpenStack Should Care About PHP (Glen Campbell)
Herding Cats: the Zen of Open-Source Leadership (Glen Campbell)
Configuration Discovery – Satori (Ziad Sawalha)
OpenStack – QA Security Code Analysis (Jim Freeman)
How to Build OpenStack Docs and Contributors through Community (Anne Gentle; Diane Fleming)
Saved By the Bell: Alerting, logging and monitoring OpenStack with open source tools. (Jason Grimm)
Schrodinger’s Cat: Evangelizing the possibilities of what’s in the OpenStack “box” for your organization. (Jason Grimm)
Turning up the Heat: Advanced Heat templating including the creation of routers, load balancers and security groups. (Jason Grimm)
Where have all the cowboys gone?: Utilizing Heat and other tools to build an automated, segregated, self-service lab utility for your sandbox users. (Jason Grimm)
Stockade – Building security tools backed by OpenStack (Douglas Mendizabal)
Work with OpenStack in Any Programming Language (Ed Leafe)
How I learned to love using Ruby with OpenStack (Kyle Rames)
Introducing Solum (Demo!) (Adrian Otto, Rackspace; Angus Salkeld, Rackspace; Clayton Coleman, Red Hat)
Multi-Tenant Bare Metal Provisioning with Ironic (Russell Haering)
Using ZeroVM and Swift to Build a Compute Enabled Storage Platform (Blake Yaeger)
Public Cloud on OpenStack: The Challenge of Knowing What to Push to Production and How to Keep it Running (Nick Barcet, eNovance; Topher White, HP; Jonathan LaCour, Dreamhost; Nick Van Winkle, Rackspace)
Best Practices for Operating OpenStack Using Chef (Joe Breu; Justin Shepherd)
Dogtag and Barbican: Open Source Key Management (Jarret Raim; Ade Lee, Red Hat)
Shared Responsibility is Better than No Responsibility (Jarret Raim)
OpenStack Trove with Apache jclouds (Zack Shoylev)
Introducing the OpenStack.NET SDK (Don Schenck)
Mimic: Fast development and testing against OpenStack (Lekha Jeevan)
Reducing Deployment Time of Public Cloud capacity using Ansible Playbooks (Matt Van Winkle)
Getting Your Feet Wet with the PHP SDK for OpenStack (Jamie Hannaford)
Bridging the divide: working on OSS projects with worldwide teams (Jamie Hannaford)
Implementing and Understanding HA for OpenStack using Galera (Rags Srinivas)
Repose – The OpenStack API Filter (Felix Sargent)
Database High Availability with OpenStack (Rags Srinivas)
Developers and OpenStack: Should they care? (Rags Srinivas, Rackspace; Chris Ferris, IBM; Lew Tucker, Cisco; Diane Mueller, Red Hat; Adrian Otto, Rackspace)Designing Applications on top of OpenStack (Rags Srinivas)