1. OpenStack Board Update - Validating OpenStack Compatible Drivers - Professional Certification Program July 28, 2015

2. 10/04/12

3. 10/04/12
1H 2015 Highlights
Successful Summit in Vancouver! Best feedback we’ve received to date
Interoperability testing for OpenStack Powered products now available based on DefCore policy
Forrester report, “OpenStack is Ready – Are you?”
Strong collaboration with working groups, such as enterprise, ops and product teams
Google sponsorship of Foundation, building story around containers and application development

4. Recent OpenStack Foundation Sponsors4

5. 10/04/12
Hot Issues:
Issues
Interop efforts running into headwind with high rate of “flagged” Defcore tests
Inconsistency between projects (APIs etc)
Confusion around the “big tent” vs “defcore”
OpenStack demand still growing faster than talent pool
Cross project divergence means: headaches for operators and barriers for app ecosytem development

6. Hot Issues: Action Plan
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Hot Issues: Action Plan
Issues
Interop efforts running into headwind with high rate of “flagged” Defcore tests
Inconsistency between projects (APIs etc)
Confusion around the “big tent” vs “defcore”
OpenStack demand still growing faster than talent pool
Actions
Discuss during Defcore committee agenda item in today’s board meeting; mid-cycle this week
Foundation hiring cross project & app dev coordinators
Working with TC, UC to explain tags with a visualization system, and in discussions with projects looking to join “big tent”
Making good progress with certification; see subsequent slides
Cross project divergence means: headaches for operators and barriers for app ecosytem development

7. 10/04/12
Summary: 2H Year Focus
Continuing interoperability and product testing mission
Building the tools & application ecosystem
Clearing up confusion around the “big tent” vs “defcore”
Addressing the talent gap

8. Expecting sell out crowd; lots of engagement from local user group
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Expecting sell out crowd; lots of engagement from local user group
Schedule for the week (October 26-30):
Monday: Board & Joint TC/UC Meeting
Tuesday-Thursday: Conference & Design Summit
Friday: Design Summit Only
More than 75 sponsors and 1,500+ speaking submissions
After success in Vancouver, co-locating OPNFV and Container Days
Expect to publish Conference agenda late August / early September

9. Reminder: 2016 Summits Austin, Texas Convention Center + Hilton
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Reminder: 2016 Summits
Austin, Texas
Convention Center + Hilton
Week of April 25th, 2016
Barcelona, Spain
CCIB – Centre de Convencions Internacional
Week of October 24th, 2016

10. Recent Foundation Staff Hires (openstack.org/staff)
10/04/12
Danny Carreno Account Manager Joined May 2015
Kendall Watters Marketing Associate Joined June 2015
Heidi Joy Tretheway Senior Marketing Manager Joined June 2015
Mystery Person Cross-Project Development Coordinator Hired to Start October 2015
Jay Fankhauser Marketing Intern Joined June 2015

11. 10/04/12
We’re Still Hiring
Ecosystem Manager (focused on driving the Marketplace forward and liaising with industry groups)
Upstream developer advocate (backfill for Stefano)
App Dev Community Coordinator (liaise with SDK and developer communities, help solicit feedback and engagement from dev community)
Engagement Community Manager (support professional cert, university programs, upstream training, user groups)

12. Validating Compatible Products
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Validating Compatible Products

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Current State
We have “Powered”, “Compatible” and “Training” licensing programs today for products and services wishing to use the OpenStack TM
We added validation & testing for “Powered” products in May based on policy set by DefCore, which will continue to evolve over time
Now we have an opportunity to apply similar testing requirement to “Compatible” program

14. Why is it important to validate “compatible” products?
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Why is it important to validate “compatible” products?
Interop, integration and product validation stories have been strongly resonating with industry analysts, press and users
Creating a more consistent user experience is very important
Specifically, upstream community has made big strides in requiring CI (Continuous Integration) testing for drivers (think Cinder, Neutron, Nova)
By tying that testing to the logo licensing program, we ensure that “Compatible” has a meaning, create a stronger incentive for companies to invest in testing and align with the efforts of the PTLs to ensure upstream quality

15. 10/04/12
Proposed Next Steps
Work with upstream community to maintain source of truth for technologies tested with CI, most likely by cleaning up driverlog
For OpenStack Compatible products that use drivers, we will now require those products be tested through CI in order to meet the existing logo and product naming terms around “demonstrating compatibility”
Additionally, allow new naming format for companies that want to brand their driver i.e. “Widget driver for OpenStack”

16. Professional Certification Update
10/04/12
Professional Certification Update

17. Brief History; Why Professional Certification?
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Brief History; Why Professional Certification?
The talent gap is one of our biggest hurdles to adoption, cited by many industry reports (like 451 Research) as a major TCO variable
Board previously approved Foundation effort to create baseline professional certification program
Foundation does not intend to enter into the training business, rather support and promote the training ecosystem
Baseline professional certification test is intended to be target for curriculum of training companies, but companies are also welcome to create more advanced certification programs based on their own products or distributions
We recently toured Budapest, Istanbul, London, Tel-Aviv and Berlin for OpenStack Days events and meetups, and were consistently asked about opportunities for training and professional certification.
Board approved certification program in August 2013 board meeting:

18. Making Significant Progress
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Making Significant Progress
Signed agreement with Linux Foundation to accelerate creation and administration of baseline certification testing
Established rigorous, cross-community working group with representatives from many companies, to establish curriculum:
Team created skills assessment survey to be distributed across the community
First target is “OpenStack Certified Administrator”
Expect to announce program at Tokyo Summit and roll out first certification mid-2016

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