Let's have a Happy Hour during the Operator's Book Sprint

Updated to add: Rackspace is sponsoring! So bring your thirst for knowledge, heh. I've written a blog post explaining more about the sprint itself:

Bring on the Crazy: Zero to Book in Five Days. (http://www.openstack.org/blog/2013/02/bring-on-the-crazy-zero-to-book-in-five-days/)

The last week of February a group of brave souls is going to write the Operator's guide in five days, based on this outline: https://etherpad.openstack.org/EssexOperationsGuide. Don't let the URL fool you, we've been needing this guide for a long time and the OpenStack Foundation is sponsoring this sprint to get it done.

By Wednesday night I'm sure we'll all need to unwind a bit. Here's the writing team we've assembled. Let's get together to encourage the team, say hi, see how it's going.

Tom Fifield

Tom has been working on OpenStack clouds in production at the University of Melbourne and actively triages doc bugs as well as submitting many doc patches. He has provided a lot of his spare time to the doc team's efforts and has given great results. Tom and others have reviewed our outline for an Operators manual. Tom would be traveling from Melbourne, Australia.

Anne Gentle

Anne is the documentation coordinator for OpenStack and also served as an individual contributor to the Google Doc Summit in 2011, working with the Open Street Maps team. Anne has worked on doc sprints in the past with FLOSS Manuals’ Adam Hyde facilitating. Anne lives in Austin, Texas, so travel costs are not required.

Lorin Hochstein

Lorin started running OpenStack at the San Diego Supercomputer Center and now works a Lead Architect at Nimbis Services.

Adam Hyde

Adam is a respected expert in online book publishing techniques. He has been exploring online technologies and methods for communities to collaboratively produce content for over 10 years. He founded FLOSS Manuals—a community of some 3000 individuals developing Free Manuals about Free Software. He’s currently project manager for Booktype, an open source project for writing, editing, and publishing books online and in print.

Jonathan Proulx

Jon has been piloting an OpenStack cloud as a senior system administrator at MIT for his researchers to have as much computing power as they need. He started contributing to OpenStack documentation and reviewing the documentation so that he could accelerate his learning. Jon would be traveling from the Boston area with manager support for travel costs.

Everett Toews

Everett worked with Joe at Cybera prior to coming to Rackspace to be a developer advocate for those using the OpenStack APIs, and an important aspect of this advocacy is written code examples and code for the jclouds Software Development Kit. He also wrote internal documentation for deploying the OpenStack cloud at Cybera, and worked side-by-side with University of Melbourne admins like Tom to get their deployment up and running. Everett resides in Austin, Texas, so he has no travel costs.

Joe Topjian

Joe has a lot of experience putting OpenStack into production and blogs about his experiences in planning for a deployment as well as working on internal documentation at Cybera, where they are building e-infrastructure as a non-profit supporting entrepreneurs and local researchers. He brings hands-on experience and a lot of written material. Joe would be traveling from Alberta, Canada.