Quick AOSUG update - important PLEASE VOTE NEXT WEEK!!!
Tristan Goode
Hi OzStackers,
Happy New Year to everyone. During 2014 OpenStack continued its surge towards ubiquity and I am excited by what's in store for 2015. I've seen huge growth in the number of deployments with many companies who went into 2104 with proof of concept and test deployments moving to production during the year. Our group is also nearing 900 members! Last week I am humbled to have been elected a second time to a Gold Member director position on the OpenStack board. This is my fourth tenure after serving two terms as an individually elected director previously. I feel quite a weight of responsibility representing our region and also representing smaller organisations alongside all the big players.
Thanks to our organisers and sponsors
Please let me thank our State organizers for 2014, Martin Paulo, David Flanders, Jessica Field, August Simonelli, Tim Serong, Kieran Spear, Marten Hauville, Tim Hildred, Michael Still, and Katrina Clauscen. I know there are more of you too that have helped throughout the year, sincere thanks to you all. The Melbourne team are having a meetup later this month to plan out the year so if you are in Melbourne I encourage you to go along to that if you want to help or host or get involved as an organiser. I'll similarly be scheduling a Sydney meet for Sydney organisers later this month. Thanks also to our sponsors for providing us venues, food and drink throughout the year. Red Hat, Cisco, Anchor, Nuage Networks, HP, Rackspace, Tsubu, and Suse and I hope I haven't missed anyone.
OpenStack Elections - Important, please read and please find time to vote during next week!
Tomorrow, Monday January 12, the OpenStack individual elections begin.
Included on the upcoming individual elections ballot is set of proposed bylaw changes. The unprecedented growth, community size and active nature of the OpenStack community have precipitated the need for OpenStack Bylaw updates. The updates will enable the OpenStack community to adapt to the continued rapid growth, change and diversity, while reflecting the community success and market leadership. In order for the vote to change the bylaws to be effective at least 25% of the Individual Members must participate in this election!
Information on the election is available at this location:
http://www.openstack.org/election/2015-individual-director-election/
Complete details on the proposed bylaw changes are located at:
https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Governance/Foundation/2014ProposedBylawsAmendment
Eligible voters will receive election notices from the Foundation with further information. Each eligible voter is assigned 8 votes to which than can either assign all 8 to one person, or assign those 8 votes to multiple persons in any combination.
This year I'm hoping to see my Indian colleague and good mate Kavit Munshi get elected. Kavit is Aptira's CTO and based in Ahmedabad India, but most importantly he is the founder and lead organizer of the massive Indian OpenStack User Group. Kavit spent 2000 to 2011 living in Sydney and is the most Aussie Indian you could ever meet.
That's about it for now. Please call, email me or Skype me anytime, and see you at a meetup this year!
Cheers
Tristan
Email tri...@aptira.com
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