The EucalyptusCommunity Bar

Greg DeKoenigsberg, VP Community, Eucalyptus Inc.greg.dekoenigsberg@gmail.com / @gregdek

25 April 2012

(the Bar is a lie.)

Welcome, EucaDay NYC attendees.

EucalyptusCommunitySays Hello

What are the 3 key success factors of an open source software project?

What are the 3 key success factors of an open source software project?

1. Users

What are the 3 key success factors of an open source software project?

1. Users2. Users

What are the 3 key success factors of an open source software project?

1. Users2. Users3. Users

The reasonable user adapts himself to the software; the unreasonable user persists in trying to adapt the software to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable user.

--George Bernard Shaw, hacker(paraphrased)

I unreasonable users

User-Driven Innovation

Eric Von HippelProfessor of Technological Innovation, MIT SloanDemocratizing InnovationThe MIT Press, 2005http://web.mit.edu/evhippel/www/democ1.htm

Moving users up the open source pyramid

Serving the users:

users

1. Functional, stable code

2. Easy to install

3. Solves key problems

Serving the users:

users

1. Eucalyptus 3.1 release

2. Faststart/Silvereye

3. On-premise AWS

Serving the seekers:

users

1. Great knowledge base and forums

2. Immediate availability

seekers

Serving the seekers:

users

1. engage.eucalyptus.com

2. irc.freenode.net #eucalyptus

seekers

Serving the participants:

participants

1. Infrastructure

2. Hyper-responsiveness

3. Recognition

seekers

Serving the participants:

participants

1. projects.eucalyptus.com, bugtracker, github

2. IRC, mailing lists

3. Recognition in many forms

seekers

Serving the core contributors:

corecontributors

participants

1. Agency

2. Responsibility

3. Opportunity

It is our responsibilityto build the steps up to the top.

EucalyptusCommunityFilm Festival

(in case you don't make it to Tribeca)

habuka036Osamu Habuka

Author, Let's deploy a private cloud with Eucalyptus

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBEGj4XJdBchttp://amzn.to/lnArJF

04:57:16 < habuka036> Oops, my wife called me, and I have got to go to dinner. Type to you later. (^_^)/~

pdunniganPatrick Dunnigan

Founder, Chief Architect, Cloud Sidekick

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqP3qHETNUchttp://cloudsidekick.com

12:37 < pdunnigan> emis.eucalyptus.com is slowwwwwwww

pweissPaul Weiss

Senior Cloud Engineer, Eucalyptus

https://vimeo.com/40987726http://www.eucalyptus.com

08:04 <pweiss> what do you need another video on?

shaonMd. Imran Hossain Shaon

Eucalyptus Ambassador, BangladeshSoftware Engineer, Amadeyr Cloud Ltd.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-lfEkBFxwghttp://mdshaonimran.wordpress.com

13:52 < shaon> I think I should sleep now, it's 3.52am here

Engaging with Eucalyptus, Part Iengage.eucalyptus.com

* User Forums * Knowledge Base

Internet Relay Chat (IRC)

* Real-time chat with Euca users, developers, community* server: irc.freenode.net* web ui: webchat.freenode.net* #eucalyptus - general user channel* #eucalyptus-devel - developers channel* #eucalyptus-meeting - meetings channel* #eucalyptus-classroom - classes for EucaSchool

Mailing Lists

* http://lists.eucalyptus.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/community* http://lists.eucalyptus.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/images* http://lists.eucalyptus.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/eutester

Engaging with Eucalyptus, Part IIprojects.eucalyptus.com

* Documentation* EucaSchool* Silvereye* Eutester* Events* Images* Recipes* Nilgiri* Culture

Meeting logs: http://meetbot.eucalyptus.com/meeting-logs/eucalyptus-meeting/ Meeting times: http://sl.eucalyptus.com/ircmeetings

Engaging with Eucalyptus, Part III

...have a drink.

questions/comments/thanks

Greg DeKoenigsberg, VP Community, Eucalyptus Inc.greg.dekoenigsberg@gmail.com / @gregdek

25 April 2012