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Hello OpenStack Operators!

I’m happy to announce our second event! After some great feedback from our first event we have decided to introduce a slightly modified format. We will have several short presentations from the sponsors, a speaker and then we will breakout into smaller groups. Our hope is that the breakout sessions will allow members to discuss day to day experiences with fellow openstack operators.

The featured speaker for the event will be Geoff Arnold of Cisco’s Cloud Services.

Geoff Arnold is an OpenStack architect with Cisco Cloud Services. He’s been a software engineer in the UK and the US for 45 years, during which time he’s worked on two distributed operating systems, a DBMS, the first NFS for PCs, a Java PaaS, two Unix workstation OSs, economic modeling systems for the UK Treasury, the control system for a nuclear reactor, distributed AI, the WinSock TCP/IP API, and two IaaS clouds. (He’s also been a systems programmer, a consultant, an Entrepreneur-in-Residence, and managed two business units.) For the last 10 years, he’s been immersed in cloud computing for companies like Sun Microsystems, Amazon.com, Huawei, Yahoo!, and Brocade. He blogs on cloud computing at http://speakingofclouds.com, and Tweets as @geoffarnold.

The event will be held on March 3rd at Nimble Storage HQ located at 211 River Oaks Parkway, San Jose, CA; Schedule as follows: doors open at 5:30, featured speaker to start at 6:30, breakouts to follow speaker.

We are currently planning our 3rd meetup and are looking for speakers, sponsors, and your feedback!

Thank you,

Bill