Personas were made famous by Alan Moore in "The Inmates are Running the Asylum," a seminal book on user interface design for computer programmers. They have been used for decades in the marketing industry, in user experience design, and in product planning to help target specific market segments with features, ads, and product design.
Personas help you frame feature discussions while developing your software, guide your communication and event strategy, and ultimately help you to have a more popular, better project. As the OpenStack project evolves beyond its original base and seeks to engage with a broader user community, understanding the profile of OpenStack users becomes critical in increasing participation and thus improving the project.
This session will cover the basics of:
* What is a persona and why should I care?
* How do I come up with persona(s) for my project?
* What can I do with personas?
This session will be useful to those interested in better understanding their target audiences, and specifically those seeking to grow a community around an open source project.
Representing the user committee, we will review the current status of the OpenStack user committee, its scope, the plans for next year along with the input from the user groups, industry sectors and foundation members.
Discussions on the best approaches to identify user requirements, profile the user community and continue supporting the ongoing user activities around OpenStack will be welcome. Some initial ideas are available at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yD8TfqUik2dt5xo_jMVHMl7tw9oIJnEndLK8Y qEToyo/edit
In the summer of 1787, a community of diverse individuals with a common challenge met in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to discuss their problems with the Articles of Confederation and work towards a better outcome.
The attendees desired that the different states better understand and communicate with each other, and so they debated how best to do something new while organizing a framework for the entities which were represented and those new ones which were to come. The result of those discussions became the U.S. Constitution which has stood for over 225 years.
Come discover the similarities between Open Source and OpenStack communities and the Constitutional Convention over 200 years ago and what lessons there might be from history for our community.
Becoming an OpenStack contributor is easy, people are welcoming, and it's a rewarding experience. To the point that we forget that it's worth training for it. Running is easy too. But if you want to go to the Olympics or get sponsored, you better learn and train for them.
Ceilometer was a deliberate contribution to OpenStack: Nick Barcet and I started careful planning for it in March 2012. One summit and twelve man-months of work later, it has become an OpenStack incubated project.
In November 2012 twelve computer science students at the Université du Litoral in the north of France contributed to OpenStack for the first time. For half of them it was their first exposure to the social dynamics of Free Software contributions. It took a few hours of their time, and you could feel, even through IRC, that it was a defining moment for their future professional life.
Nick Barcet's happiness when Ceilometer became an incubated project under his leadership is very much like the sparkle that was in William Oprandi's eyes when his documentation patch got merged into OpenStack.
Will William Oprandi need twenty years of experience to go from contributing a one-liner to driving a new component in OpenStack? Upstream University ( http://upstream-university.org/ ) was funded by the Free Software Foundation France shortly after the April 2012 OpenStack summit to speed up the process, and enable even a skilled contributor to level up. It celebrates its first anniversary with a training session ( http://upstream-university.org/news/2013/02/11/upstream-university-openstack-summit/ ) dedicated to OpenStack in Portland, just before the summit. Feel free to apply to the April 13th session (http://upstream-university.org/apply/ ).
In this session, we'll discuss experiences to date and near-term plans for expanding the community through user groups and universities.
OpenStack has shattered adoption benchmarks set by previous open source projects and gained acceptance as the de facto standard for open source public and private clouds. As the global demand for OpenStack expertise increases, employers are finding it difficult to recruit talent, which is slowing down the ability for organizations to adopt and implement OpenStack and supporting tools and services. For the community and the project to continue to flourish, an effort must be made not only to focus on creating the next wave of OpenStack experts, but to enable application developers to build and deploy on the plethora of public and private OpenStack clouds coming in the next few years.
As a follow-up to last year's successful OpenStack Careers Panel, come join Rackspace Cloud Evangelista Niki Acosta, as she shares her thoughts on the OpenStack talent gap and what the community must do-- short term and long term-- to accelerate adoption and usage of OpenStack-powered public and private clouds.
In this 90-minute session, we'll explore the new OpenStack Community Activity Board, as well as facilitate an overall discussion about community metrics and other quantitative ways to measure who built Grizzly.
We will continue the 90-minute session, we'll explore the new OpenStack Community Activity Board, as well as facilitate an overall discussion about community metrics and other quantitative ways to measure development activities of OpenStack.
Gather with marketers and event planners in the OpenStack community for a chance to network and discuss 2013 plans, in particular to provide feedback for a new marketing portal.
Food and drinks will be provided - join us!