OpenStack: Just how big can this get?

It has been a year since OpenStack was announced at OSCON. The community responded with broad support for the project. But what has been accomplished? Where does OpenStack seem to be going? And more importantly, where are the business opportunities? In this meeting we will hear from OpenStack consulting companies, distributors and representatives of OpenStack itself. Please join us at this meeting for what is likely to provide a glimpse into the future of the software program that could become as widely adopted as the Apache web server (http://httpd.apache.org/ABOUT_APACHE.html).

Moderator:

Dave Nielsen ( twitter (http://twitter.com/davenielsen)) of cloudcamp.org. Founder & Co-chair of SVForum CloudSIG (http://svforum.org/cloudsig) Speakers:

Rick Clark: OpenStack Project Lead & Chief Architect, Principal Engineer, Cisco Systems (prev. RackSpace) Joshua McKenty ( blog (http://www.cognition.ca)) of Piston (http://www.pistoncloud.com), Nova Core Team member, OpenStack Project Policy Board, formerly NASA Nebula Architect Vish Ishaya of Rackspace Cloud Builders (http://www.rackspace.com/cloudbuilders/), OpenStack Compute Technical Project Lead Joe Arnold ( blog (http://joearnold.wordpress.com/2011/06/27/swift-in-the-small/)) of Cloudscaling (http://cloudscaling.com). Deployer of OpenStack Object Storage (aka "Swift") (http://www.openstack.org/projects/storage/) James Urquhart ( blog (http://news.cnet.com/wisdom-of-clouds/)), Cloud Programs & Communications Manager, Office of the Cloud CTO, Cisco Systems Christian Reilly ( blog (http://blog.theloosecouple.com/)) Cloud Architect, Cloud Platforms Product Group, Office of the CTO, Citrix (which acquired cloud.com) Agenda:

6:30 pm Registration / Networking / Refreshments / Pizza
7:00 pm Presentations (15 mins each)
8:20 pm Speaker Panel - Q&A / Discussion