Linux.com's article

[Chip Childers <ch...@sungard.com>]

Another one:

http://www.linux.com/news/enterprise/cloud-computing/711234-cloudstack-ups-enterprise-credibility-with-apache-top-level-status

I especially appreciated this article, because Stephen O'Grady and Jay
Lyman said things that I think are both complementary and appropriate.
As much as we want to make our voices heard, I'm a *stong* proponent of
staying positive and being complementary of similar OSS projects.  The
OpenStack Foundation, for example, is doing great work.  We can continue
to include Swift storage as a valuable secondary storage plugin option,
and perhaps we'll find ways to take advantage of other work going on
there.  The same goes for OpenNebula.  Frankly, I hope that we can pick
back up on the little bit of momentum Sebastian seemed to have started
to get ACS and the Open Nebula market place working together.

Jay's quotes were also very similar to the verbal discussion we had this
morning.  I think that smart analysts like these two are the ones that
we want to continue to foster relationships with.

Yes, perhaps this opinion feeds some of the trolls out there (I've seen
several people comment that we sounded to "friendly", which is
apparently a bad thing), but I see it as a position of strength for our
community.

Sorry about a little bit of a rambling email there, but the thoughts
above can be generalized into how I see us continuing to craft messages
around our project:  user focused and willing OSS collaborators.

-chip

Re: Linux.com's article

[Joe Brockmeier <jz...@zonker.net>]

On Wed, Mar 27, 2013, at 09:39 PM, Chip Childers wrote:
> Yes, perhaps this opinion feeds some of the trolls out there (I've seen
> several people comment that we sounded to "friendly", which is
> apparently a bad thing), but I see it as a position of strength for our
> community.

Where've you seen trolling that we're too friendly?

Frankly, I've never liked it when OSS projects snipe at one another.
Having more than one option is healthy. The "enemy," if there is one,
are the proprietary options. 

Best,

jzb
-- 
Joe Brockmeier
jzb@zonker.net
Twitter: @jzb
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Re: Linux.com's article

[David Nalley <da...@gnsa.us>]

On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 10:59 PM, Musayev, Ilya <im...@webmd.net> wrote:
> Chip,
>
> Really like the article and awesome work you and others do on promoting CS.
>
> Speaking of Secondary storage, I imagine this going to be asked quite frequently, can we support any other secondary store other than NFS backed > ssvm?

In 4.1 you can use any Swift or S3-compatible object stores, fronted
by NFS to serve as a cache..

>
> Would you have any insight? Can we make secondary store totally independent of NFS?
>


John Burwell was working on eliminating the NFS dependency for 4.2,
might ask him for status on dev@.

RE: Linux.com's article

["Musayev, Ilya" <im...@webmd.net>]

Chip, 

Really like the article and awesome work you and others do on promoting CS.

Speaking of Secondary storage, I imagine this going to be asked quite frequently, can we support any other secondary store other than NFS backed ssvm?

Would you have any insight? Can we make secondary store totally independent of NFS?

Thanks
ilya

-----Original Message-----
From: Chip Childers [mailto:chip.childers@sungard.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2013 10:40 PM
To: marketing@cloudstack.apache.org
Subject: Linux.com's article

Another one:

http://www.linux.com/news/enterprise/cloud-computing/711234-cloudstack-ups-enterprise-credibility-with-apache-top-level-status

I especially appreciated this article, because Stephen O'Grady and Jay Lyman said things that I think are both complementary and appropriate.
As much as we want to make our voices heard, I'm a *stong* proponent of staying positive and being complementary of similar OSS projects.  The OpenStack Foundation, for example, is doing great work.  We can continue to include Swift storage as a valuable secondary storage plugin option, and perhaps we'll find ways to take advantage of other work going on there.  The same goes for OpenNebula.  Frankly, I hope that we can pick back up on the little bit of momentum Sebastian seemed to have started to get ACS and the Open Nebula market place working together.

Jay's quotes were also very similar to the verbal discussion we had this morning.  I think that smart analysts like these two are the ones that we want to continue to foster relationships with.

Yes, perhaps this opinion feeds some of the trolls out there (I've seen several people comment that we sounded to "friendly", which is apparently a bad thing), but I see it as a position of strength for our community.

Sorry about a little bit of a rambling email there, but the thoughts above can be generalized into how I see us continuing to craft messages around our project:  user focused and willing OSS collaborators.

-chip