 Welcome everyone back to another episode of Open InfraLive. Open InfraLive is the weekly hour-long show that we produce at 1,400 UTC every Thursday, and we bring together open source users, developers, operators, people from all over the world talking about use cases, demos. We have so many great topics every week, and we're just super excited you could all join us. We get people from all over the world joining every week. It's pretty incredible, and in fact, you can be engaged through the chat throughout the episode. We'd love to hear where you are tuning in from, so that's always exciting to see how many different people from around the world join us. Today's episode is actually about Open InfraLive, sorry, Open Infra Days, which are regional events that happen around the world every year. I've been very fortunate and I'm very grateful to have had the opportunity to join many of these events in person myself over the years. We've had Open Stack Days and Open Infra Days and many, many countries around the world. This year, of course, we had many virtual events and we have with us the organizers of three of those events that have just recently occurred, and they're going to come on the show, we're going to introduce them, and they're going to walk us through what they learned at these incredible events. Everybody, come on the stream and let's go ahead and do a round of introductions, and then we'll start off with some presentations to share some of what we learned. Go ahead and join and I will introduce everybody. We have with us today, we have all of these amazing people. Let's start with Tika, why don't you introduce yourself and I'll get started. Hi, everyone. Good morning, good afternoon and good afternoon for people around the world. I'm Tika from Open Stack Indonesia Community Organizer, and now I'm living well good. Thank you for joining us, Tika. Rico, why don't you introduce yourself next? Hi, everyone. I'm Rico. I'm the one with the organizer for Open Infra Days Asia, so today we're going to introduce you a little bit about Open Infra Days Asia. So stay tuned. All right. Hasegawa-san, welcome from Japan. Hi, my name is Akira Sagao, Open Stack ambassador in Japan. Today, I would like to introduce our event name is Crowd Operator Days Tokyo, so I'm so excited. All right. My best friend from Japan is on the live stream. I couldn't be more excited and I can't wait to get to all of your countries as soon as I can to actually see you in person, but today we get to talk in the live stream. So thank you all for joining the show. The first presentation to share the great news and discoveries from Cloud Operator Days in Tokyo is, of course, Akira Hasegawa. So please take it away and share what you've found, and then we'll all come back on later and reconvene. Thank you, Mark. So hello, everybody. Good morning, good evening, wherever. So my name is Akira. Today, I would like to introduce our event name is Cloud Operator Days Tokyo. Why we do and how we do this event working. So please do that next. And what is the Cloud Operator Days? It's a local tech event, but not only the Open Infra Foundation, Open Stack, but also the all of Cloud Operators. That means including the AWS, Azure, Google, or Kubernetes, some other, a lot of the technology. So covering technology is a very wide, wide, wide, because we are covering the AI machine learning or CRCD DevOps, so on. And this event we're expecting around 2,000 people joining. So go to the next slide. So let me introduce the history of our event. We are starting the Open Stack Days event on 2013, almost eight years ago. Maybe it's the first event in the world. Tokyo about the Open Stack Days. So we are growing the Open Stack Days event year by year, but things are getting changed. People is not only covering the Open Stack technology, but also they would like to know other technology like a container or something. So 2018, we are spreading our event. One is the Open Stack Days Tokyo keep doing. Another is the Cloud Native Days Tokyo. And the Cloud Native Days Tokyo is really focused on the Cloud Native Foundation's technologies. So from the 2019, we are totally separate these two events. But from the last year, 2020, we changed the name from the Open Stack Days Tokyo to the Cloud Operator Days Tokyo. So why we choose the Cloud Operator Days Tokyo? Because we need the spotlighting to the operators. Operator, so mainly such kind of a technology event, people is focused on how to use it, how to build it, or how to develop it, such kind of information. But Cloud is operation is very important. We need to keep operating the infrastructure, software, so on. But people don't care or don't focus on this point. And people don't, as I said, don't think important of the infrastructure's operators, as we think. So by sharing the technology, operation technology, sharing the operation technology is very important for us. And also educate in the training the young engineers, young operators. It's also important because the young people prefer to do the application development. And people don't know how infrastructure operation is important and excited or interested. So resolving the operator's shortage is also the main point of this event. And this year, we held our event from the 14th July to 27th August. Normally, we do the two-days event. But this year, we totally changed this format. We held a one-month broadcasting because today is too short to expanding the information. If we keep the one-month, people is sharing our video on the SNS or talking about the sessions through the chat or Twitter or Instagram. So it's very important for the online event. One day today is only this time, and cannot collaborate in the long term. So one month is a good influence for us because we get 2,000 registrations. And the total view is almost approaching 4,000. It's a big number. Today's event is usually we only get 1,000 something and 500 or less than 1,000 viewers. So we can achieve the good number. And also this year, we can successfully collaborate with media. So a lot of the Japanese media has introduced our event itself on their site. This is a very important thing because we keep the one-month event. So if media picking up the sessions, then people know, oh, this event is interesting. Let's go. Let's gather. So it's a good influence to Japanese market, I think. And one other challenging is this year, we set the best operator award. In this year, we get more than 50 sessions. And we choose one session as the best operator award. And this is a competition, how much viewer they can get to a good point. And also the screening committee, we have a screening committees. And the screening committee is coming from some academic side professors and also the media person writers. We can involve in such kind of non-commercial people and also the influence people to join this award. So this year, entity commission get the best operator award. But this award itself is, I think, a good influence to motivating the presentations, I think. So I would like to say thank you to our sponsors. This year, we get a lot of the sponsors for our event. Circle CI, Neuric, NGX, Red Hat, such kind of good tools for the operator, not only the operator, but the good tools for the cloud environment. Such company is helping and supporting our event. Thank you very much. So this is our last slide. So why cloud operators? Cloud technology is getting mature as everybody using the kind of the cloud technology. But operators are required, more wide-range tech, not only the hardware, network storage, and content, OS. It's pretty hard to catching up the whole of the such technology. So enhancing cloud operator fundamentals, it's also the need of education, educating the operators and DevOps, CI, CD, SRE. Operational is a very important part of the cloud. So to covering such kind of a large topic, one community cannot cover everything. So multi-colon community collaborations, not only the cloud, sorry, open infrastructure community, but also the cloud-native community or AWS community, Azure community, such kind of several large community collaboration is very important for the event. And our organization is non-commercial and everybody volunteer, voluntary doing. So our neutrality is very important to do such kind of the event, I think. So thank you very much, everybody. This is our event, so. Thank you so much for sharing that. I was gonna just ask you a couple of questions and then we can go to the next presentation. But it seems like one of the things you're really trying to help with is this knowledge and skills that are, there's a shortage of operators, operations knowledge. There's just not enough people that have that knowledge. So I guess we've seen a lot of interest in what we've done like jobs, episodes, hiring, but what kind of, which is more developer side, but maybe in the future we'll do an operations or operator jobs show. But what kind of skills do you think companies are looking for to try to add to their operations staff? Yes, so operator needs a full stack engineering, not only the one technology, but also covering the four over technologies and they would need to know the OS, one network. And also they need right down to some script or applications. So this is a requirement currently. That's why we are hard to find as a good operator. This is a bit, yeah. Yeah, that's great. And I think that these types of events can be super helpful for helping to expand that knowledge. So it's not just one or two people that have this special knowledge and we can expand it to more people, more jobs, people can get economic opportunity. I guess my last question would be just, it sounds like you've done a lot and learned a lot from virtual events on how to kind of make the best of it. It's difficult to do virtual events but you've made some changes in terms of making it longer and you've been able to reach more people. Is that kind of how you've adapted? Yes. So virtual event is, there are of course two points, good point and bad point. Bad point, we cannot collaborate in physical, it's pretty hard to say the movement or something. But the good point is video recording and the sharing is good for the social networking. So Twitter or Facebook, we can share such kind of information from there. So this year we do the one month event, one month broadcasting. Normally only the one month broadcasting, people don't see the video so much because every day we can see, every day we can see, oh, I forget watching the video. So that's why we set the operator award. Operator award is a competition and each session needs the view arts. So some of the influence sharing the videos and the competitions, this is maybe the, only the virtual event or collaborations I think. Such kind of, there are good point and bad point and nothing. Yes. Yes, well, I'm very impressed with the way your team and the organizers yourself especially have adapted and we're actually reaching more people with this knowledge. So very glad you could be on. So don't go far, we're gonna bring everybody back at the end of the show to kind of wrap it up and ask a few more questions. But next I'd like to welcome on Tika to share with us a lot of the learnings from the Open Infra Day Indonesia. So welcome. Okay, hello everyone, I'm Tika and today I want to show and share about how Open Infra Day is Indonesia and how it works in 2020 pandemic situation. And now I will tell you the vision and mission about Indonesia Open Infra Day is that we have a same mission with others maybe like Indonesia Open Infra Day is help to bring together users, business operators or providers of cloud community from various organizations that use Open Infra and open source cloud technology to share and discuss about how it works and how it used in this production and how to utilize the open source software and hardware in their business environment. And this is a timeline of Indonesia Open Infra Day. We have three events in 2019 we have the very first conference Indonesia Open Infra Day. It was an offline event and it was huge and that was the very first conference about Open Infrastructure and Cloud in Indonesia. And we start the online event in 2020 and in 2020 because of pandemic situation we collaborating with cloud native Indonesia community also to create the open infrastructure and cloud native days in Indonesia. And finally, we have in 2021 we have Indonesia Open Infra Days which held in last August as the road show to the Open Infra Days Asia. And this is the last event reports. We have over 220 participants and we have seven positions with total 130,000 viewers. And this is, you can see the demographic attendees of last Indonesia Open Infra Days. And this is our event highlight. We have to create the unboring event. We have door price to wheel the COA action voucher for participants. We create the wheel at the end of the event. And we also have great topics from speakers. It's like the cognitive and open infrastructure used in our government and in various organizations in industry, in Indonesia. And that was a great event. Another highlight is we have four keynote speakers in Indonesia Open Infra Days was from Open Infra Foundation from EasyStack, from BTEC, and from BTPN. The first is from Open Infra Foundation. They tell us about past progress since the release of OpenStack 9, 11 years ago and various projects have been released. The conference have been helped and the increase in community members. Also, Open Infra Foundation share about what challenge Open Infra will face in the next decade, such as more open source components to build, test and integrate in hardware and development platforms. Also, government needs the most important thing that Open Infra has shared with us is Open Infra Software Foundation is focused on infrastructure and trying to enable operators to share what challenge they have encountered and how they overcome that challenge. So it will involve a lot of knowledge sharing between Open Infra Software Foundation and community members. In the end, that collaboration is a big part of what Open Infra Foundation is focused on. And the second keynote is from EasyStack, which is its recall in. Rico explained how EasyStack journey start from the community to become the leading open source technologies enterprise cloud provider and how they do many things but not at lunch. They always try to think how they can be something bigger. So they're always the next mountain after another. And the third keynote speaker is from Mr. Dheergen Tara, who is working at one of banking industries in Indonesia. He shared, is it possible to transform the IT infrastructure to DevOps? And the answer is yes. He proved that providing digital banking service using open infrastructure technology and open source software solution is very possible and that's what he did from conceptualizing to implementing. In is his current workplace and proved to be reliable. Indeed, the time it takes, it's not short to make all happens, but it's worth it. And the last keynote is from Mr. Hakim from BTECH. Mr. Hakim explained about Adinosa Bootcamp Program. Adinosa is a digital part, academic platform, it's great to minimize the gap from IT industry and students. They have a mission to bring out the young talents who already work in IT environment, in IT industry. The bootcamp materials is focused and contains Linux, cloud, DevOps, and most is in open source technology. And the Adinosa is provided with the hands-on lab. So the students are the trainees. The trainees will have their hands-on lab and case to solve with the certified mentors. And next, this is our sponsor that we can shape the great event without them. The thank you for our other sponsor and the community partners from several open source community in Indonesia. And next, this is the organizer, which is our Alizen team because actually we prepare this event this last more than three months because we need to, okay, we create this event, we have to create this event for the roadshow to our very first open in Friday's Asia. And something unique about preparing this event is we organize this event fully virtual. We haven't met each other and we do the weekly meeting, synchronous weekly meeting and all virtual. Not only the event virtual, but organizing is virtual. Thank you for the organizer. And why we help the open in Friday's in Indonesia because Indonesia is now a try, always try to transforming from the existing technology to open infrastructure, cloud and open source are widely known and used nowadays in Indonesia. We most, the trend of this trend, the technology in Indonesia is open stack and cloud native now is emerging and grow in Indonesia. And we want to facilitate the community, organization, engineers, starting in technology in Indonesia together and bring Indonesia technology to the next level. Also, we want to create network with others from different background like from newcomers or from experts to share everything related to technology, especially in open source cloud and open infrastructure. We want to maintain and always collaborating with others open source, open infrastructure communities in Indonesia also in Asia and global communities. Next, Indonesia OpenStack user group community, this is the ground from us and we usually active on Telegram and Twitter. So make sure you see us, you look at to us, follow us in OpenStack English, in Twitter and Telegram, also in Facebook and see our last event, our documentation in our YouTube. I think that's all from Indonesia OpenInfraDIS. Thank you so much. That was very informative and it's exciting to see some of the things that are happening in Indonesia. And I believe some of your team members are chiming in. We have tons of people that are on live. So please everybody keep throwing your questions and we actually did get another question from chat, which was about the 2019 event. Where did it take place in Indonesia? Maybe get us a sense for where some of the tech hubs or activity are within the country? In 2019, we held the event in Surabaya in East Java of Indonesia. And actually we plan to help another OpenInfraDIS in several cities in Indonesia, like Sumatra or Kalimantan or Bali, but pandemic happened and we can do that. So we plan to another years, but we still help the online event. And actually we plan in next year because we mostly vaccinated, hope that we can help the in-person event like the 2019 event. That's great. Well, I'm just asking so I can plan my travel schedule now. But I would absolutely love to come in person to the next time it's in person. Sounds like an amazing event. One of the things you mentioned was that there's a lot of effort to bring students in and help them get started. We talked a little earlier about hiring and how much need there is for new talent. And then there's people obviously that wanna pursue careers. Can you talk a little more about that? Like how have you been, the community been able to support new students getting involved? Yeah, like we active in Telegram group which is we help the several regularly one limit up. It's like our community time. That we encourage the students, the newcomers to talk and share about what they learn and share to them what is open infrastructure and what is open source or what is cloud open source. And hey, you have to try this. This is the new big things to the future. Like you have to try this because this will work to you. We want to encourage students and new newcomers so we can bring the Indonesian technology to the next level. Well, that's great. I mean, I think this is super, super important and we wanna bring in the next generation of stackers, open source, developers, operators. And I will say I learned something new today which I didn't know you had a Telegram group. I think you might be the first user group in the world that I know of that's got a Telegram group. So that's very cool. I'll have to find it and join it. Sounds like everybody out there should learn about this Telegram group. And we have lots of people that have all kinds of other channels but Telegram is a very interesting system. So I'm excited to check out what you're doing there. It seems like you're breaking new ground for the community organizing by using Telegram. Yeah, you have to join us because the Indonesian enthusiasts will be more enthusiasts if they didn't know the case, the use case or the actual case from how the open stack and open infrastructure use in Indonesia, in global. That's great. Well, thank you for everything. You're doing very innovative and bringing together people from all parts of the community and really growing everybody's skills and connecting, making all those connections. So I really appreciate everything you've done. I think we will come back again at the end and ask a few more questions. Hopefully anyone out there who's watching this live can drop questions in the chat for any of our speakers. And when we get to the end, we'll bring everybody back. So thank you for sharing all that. Next, we're gonna bring on Rico to talk about the open-in for days Asia event and share all the learnings from organizing that awesome event. Welcome back. Thanks, Mark. So hello, everyone. It's a great day. So today we're gonna talk about the OpenFile Days Asia 2021. So if you've never heard about it in 2020 because it's not exists in the previous year. So everything starts, it's an interesting story. So everything starts at 2018 in the PDG. Like me and Ian, we talk about, do we want to have an event for OpenFile Days Asia? And at the time that to think about that idea, we're talking about to have a bunch of non-native speakers across like multiple languages with barriers. And we're talking about, is there any sponsors like willing to support such an event that is across different, across different areas? And it's quite difficult at the time that we're trying to discuss that. So we basically in 2018, we think it's machine, like machine possible. So we actually didn't looking forward for actions until 2021 that we start to think rethinking about this. So we decided to bring into actions. Next slide, please. So before I start anything, I would really like to appreciate and thanks to all the sponsors we have. Without the need of these sponsors, there is no way that we can like having this event. We actually having a lot of interesting stories and cooperation with sponsors. We built on trust and everything went well. So we really thank the sponsors. Next slide, please. And without organizers, this event cannot be happened. So this basically is an event that we built from zero. I mean, absolutely zero. But we borrow the passions from each local user groups. We have like in previous speaker, we have Satika in our group as well. We have Hasaka in our group as well. We have a lot of like from Korea as a group, we have a user group, Japan user group. We have all the different user group to join us too. Everybody is so excited because they are all the people who run in the local events. They know the value for OpenFathase Asia. Also, I would like to special thank to Asensu. So he's not in this YouTube life, but he really did a lot of work together to do. I would like to highlight him here. Thanks. So next slide, please. So I think this is important to explain like why we want to have our idea Asia. So to look around in the entire Asia area, you'll find like there are groups that are doing very well. They are groups like Indonesia user group. Like what you saw, they start from 2019s and they've been very active. They've been the new role. And there are places that people might have interesting on learning the open source cloud-related communities in Asia. And most importantly is we're trying to help and support and expose them. Not just expose them to the global but also expose all the different local organizers and all some people into each other. It's so easy to find out why we need this. Especially when you're asking what is the neighborhood areas opening for communities being doing. You probably have no clue because we find out there's no bridgeway to bridge out everybody. And also when you're trying to have an event on your local place, but you are on your own. So we try to build a stage for people in Asia. And also we're trying to like bridge up for the global community with Asia community. Not just the Asia communities, a single open source community, but for multiple open source cloud communities. We're trying to bridge everything like Hasakawa-san just mentioned. And I think Mark has also mentioned as well. There is no one open source cloud tools can solve the cloud operations issue because everything is binding together. Whatever there's Kubernetes, whatever it is, container, whatever it's open stack, everything is should be into one solution. And we believe that is also what the cloud community should be as well. So we do this in Asia, we're trying to bring it up. And the final thing is we're trying to bring the global community into Asia and bring Asia community into global. What I mean is we want to introduce a lot of global community activities like when is the PDG? What is under election? And also what is happening in Asia? Who is the Asia user group doing well? We're trying to bridge out all these informations. We're trying to have a Asia leadership in global community. So I think all those together is why we have this event. Next slide, please. So it finally happened. It didn't happen easy. We actually have a lot of different kind of things. When you're thinking about to have an event like opening for Asia, which has all organizers, volunteer organizers, we actually have the thinking about like, you have to think about like how to transfer a sponsor fees from one area to the other area. You have to do this kind of global finance. You have to do a global contract and contacts. It's not easy solution, but we're happy that we started this step because this is more like an experiment as a very first year. Like, is this actually something can be happened? Is it something that never be done, but can we do it? And is it good for other local user groups? So we have the answer, which is yes. Next slide, please. So our way is that we happy to repo to everyone that our very first opening about Asia is a success. I will explain why I think it is a success. So we have about 300 and 36 registration. We have, sorry, we have 600 and 36 registration. We have 356 attendees on event day. And it's an event that is over 10 hours, not just a show event, but it's a 10 hour event. There's more than 10 hour. We have four track with five keynotes and 44 sessions. The attendees all across Asia with prerecorded that provides full HD streaming ability. Next slide, please. So on the event that you will see something very interesting. Like when people, when early morning, the event started, you will have a lot of attendees from Korea, from Japan. They joined and they have a phone in the event. And the virtual event like this, like people can come and go and pick what they want to hear. We make sure the agenda and the schedule is friendly for everyone. So they can search on their own calendar to and pick time to attend during the day. And like about the, about lunchtime for the Japan's and people from Japan, Korea, like you will find that people from Indian shows up and saying good morning. And they excited to start the event with us. So it's so interesting to see this kind of, that's why we have like this kind of a 10 hour event. We want to make sure that everybody in Asia have a four day event. It's a long, it's a long, and especially when we're talking about four track, but I think it's totally worth it because everybody here and they have, they will make sure they have the four day event. The attendees kindly in the platform give us 8.6 stars, average rate, which I assume 10 is the four star. So we have, I think we have pretty good for experience for the audience, which I'm glad that audience are generally happy. Most like average people spend two hours and 43 seconds, sorry, throughout and 43 minutes on our event. So that means like, averagely everybody have been joining at least five, more than five sessions in our event, averagely. So which means like we provide, like we provide a lot of sessions for late, they are interesting to learn and to hear. We have 57% turnout. The peak attendees is 129. So that's about the number of attendees we have in day to day. And a lot of people actually join us till the end of the event. So we are very happy and thank for all the audience who joined. Next slide, please. So one of the interesting thing about OID Asia, that we start from zero, but we have, I would like to thank to the energy and cloud as our involved provider. So we're so happy and so excited to tell you that our event website is run on OpenStack. Our file services is run on OpenStack. Our video streaming, all our video streaming on the day in the event is all run on OpenStack. So we try to have this kind of like experience run on OpenStack because we want to make sure the network of bandwidth is totally covered. Not just, we not just need the machines, we need the network, we need a storage to be fast. We need everything to be stable. So that's why we choose OpenStack because we are part of OpenStack already. And we totally convinced that it can be run with this task. It turns out like with this kind of four HD events like nothing went down, nothing went to issues, everything is so stable. We actually have a lot of quotas of each VNs that still have placed up for extra loadings. So we're happy about this. And we decided to say like OpenStack is part of our events. Next slide, please. So during the event that I start to, we actually as organizer, we just hang around like everybody else. We have to do a lot of pre-event preparations on the event day. We just enable the streaming, hand over to OpenStack and we have fun with everybody else. And on a way that I have found that I found like people start to greet each other, people start to invite each other, like women of OpenStack and women of Kubernetes, they start to engage with each other, invite each other to the event. And also like long, long like long, like long long long term relationship, friends start to greeting to each other and they say missing to each other, we should join C and C each other on the physical event. And that is the things that I feel like we're not just sharing the technical and just sharing it to some of the video streaming. We actually provide the platform for everybody to be able to engage virtually with us. So that's what I find that we have a successful event. Next slide, please. So this will be very quick. If you're running with OpenNative 5 days or Kubernetes days in Asia, but you have no plan to run them, I can try to contact us. We will help to, we might be able to provide help, as I mentioned that we meant to support and provide to OpenNative and OpenNative 5 user group in Asia. Next slide, please. So our next year will be 2022 around probably on June, it will be OpenNative 5 and Kubernetes days Asia. We welcome all the open source, open source user group to join us. So feel free to contact us. Next slide, please. And feel free to follow us on the Facebook, Twitter and keep tracking our website. All the videos we have on the event day is all released on our YouTube channel. Just search, just go to search and open for days Asia and you will find our YouTube. Really thanks to everybody to check out and we're really looking forward for 2022. So thank you. Thank you so much. That was amazing. I love that you're running all of these tools on OpenStack. It really shows your, believe in the tools we're building and using them. I think that, we just had Sung Siu of Popin from the chat who's one of the organizers. So I'm glad you mentioned earlier how much help that was provided there because that was amazing. So hello and welcome. I hope everybody in the chat, hope everybody in the chat does get a chance to jump in and meet each other. I think I love that you not only broke new ground here with using all these different tools but you've offered other people a chance to help. So I guess, what is the easiest way for people to connect with you? You dropped some emails earlier but what's the best way people can contact you if they want help putting on an awesome show like this? So to contact me, you can so easily, you just find, you can find me all the information on the OpenStack. I mean, the OpenDAF OpenInfo website. I have like emails and you can find me on IRC, you find me on Facebook, you find me on Twitter, you find me on LinkedIn, you find me everywhere. You can find me and I'm there. I'm always there to support. So you find me or you find Mark Collier to find me. That's two ways. Yes, yes. Well, I've been very lucky myself to be able to work with you for many years in this community. So I want everyone else to have that opportunity but I know you're constantly helping people all day long so I'm just gonna keep sending more of them your way. So why don't we actually bring everybody back on and we can do a little round table. I promise that they'd all come back so hopefully they're still waiting in the green room. And we did get a few questions in chat but if anyone's on the live stream and does want to ask this group some questions, please drop them in and we'll try to get to them. So one of the questions that came in was about what are some of the local trends you're seeing in your region with your communities? Does anybody wanna take that one? So in Japan, of course the Cloud and IT or OpenInfo is very popular and big trends but the people is spreading a lot of the part of the technology. It's a kind of the diversity of technologies. Someone is very focused on the microservices or someone is AI or someone is an SRE. So it's getting more complicated. Not only the one big trend but there are a lot of several trends, clusters like a cluster. I think, yes, in Japan so, and of course mobility as a services, FinTech, some of the big enterprise project is going and such people is also using the technology opening clusters, it's also the big changes I think. Okay, Tika, do you have some thoughts on Indonesia? What kind of trends you're hearing from your community? Yeah, like in Indonesia like I said before that Indonesia is now migrating one by one to from existing technology to nowadays technology which is open in private and source cloud and the trend is now several or in numbers some industry is using OpenStack and mostly cognitive projects in Indonesia. It was banking in tech industry and public sectors in e-commerce, they mostly use the open in projects and cognitive projects because it's reliable on their services. That's great. So I'm hearing some connections here. It seems like, Hasa Galesan mentioned FinTech, you mentioned banking. So it seems like financial services is a common thread here, people that are really using this. Rico, what are you seeing in terms of regional trends is it similar or are you seeing any differences? Yeah, so it's kind of interesting because we actually also see the simulators. I cannot represent that multiple because Asia is a pretty big place. Yes. I've been in trouble, I love every one of them. But what I say is like, a lot of the things like people do speak different languages, but their needs actually are similar. This is so similar, if you can success in one areas about the banking, you can actually set the other place. I know we already have long-term big financial company, like Union Pay, and we have new kind of a financial group which is growing very big, like one of the largest, like N-group. Those are the very good example for them in Asia. And for this kind of like mentioned, like large telecoms, there is also a bento, bento network foundation. They're also doing very good as well. So it's like from Japan. I do like to borrow one of your work, my careers is that in the key notes that you mentioned about this, like 36% of annual growing rate in Asia. So we actually have explored like more and more from different kind of, I think from different domains of areas, trying to using OpenStack and trying to adapt for more kind of testing with OpenStack. And still nowadays they do more testing and I also learned about like some of the big companies that's trying to adapt more. So yeah, I definitely see the same trend and I also see like new people, not just from the information technology but for other areas, they're trying what they have. They combine OpenStack maybe with others, they combine Qatar with others, but they always kind of like maybe a layer place for an infrastructure project. Yeah, that's great. And I think Rico knows the way to get my attention is like just quote my own keynote back to me. So obviously he knows me well, but yeah, I think that we are seeing incredible growth in all regions throughout Asia. And in fact, we're just wrapping up our annual user survey for OpenStack and we don't have all the data analyzed yet, but we have seen an incredible number of users who their footprint for OpenStack is doubled or tripled in the last two or three years. So that kind of growth we're seeing and exactly to your point about combining technologies. Like there's nobody that's just running OpenStack, people are running it with Kubernetes. And of course there's Linux, you know, that's always in the mix and there's tons of other technologies in Seth and we're gonna have an episode coming up next week about OpenSecondSeth. So people combine all these things, but and I guess the last thing that you've made me think about is when we talk about sometimes the different verticals that the needs are really common across regions and verticals, right? If it's compute storage and networking, you need it to scale out, you need it to perform well and be secure and performant and reliable. And so sometimes the verticals really don't ultimately need radically different things, right? They actually are needing to do the same compute storage and networking reliably at scale. But I guess on the topic of users, I was gonna ask you all if there were a few user names that come to mind, companies that you heard about at your events or you've run into recently that are worth mentioning. I will go to Hasegawa-san for that one. Maybe everybody knows that Yahoo Japan is a big user in Japan and they are working the 19,000 physical server and 200 open stack clusters. So they are showing the how to operating the such a large big scale clusters, open stack clusters. It is a very useful knowledge. Yeah, that's amazing. 90,000 physical servers is a massive footprint. I just shudder to think how many cores that is. It's gotta be hundreds of thousands of cores. I don't know, but 90,000 physical machines with open source infrastructure, open stack Kubernetes and all those clusters they run is really impressive. So that's Yahoo Japan, great example. Tika, do you have any user names that come to mind? Yes, in Indonesia, I know some companies that use open infrastructure, mostly in open stack, like Word Technology and Business Geo Networks, like Games, Open Stack and Open Infra projects for their service. But I didn't know the details from the numbers, but they use open stack to their service and making cluster and provide like cloud, private cloud and things like that. Good, Rico, do you have any other users you wanna mention? Oh yeah, so I think I mentioned about the end groups and the in-pays and the internal network files and they're all very good. There's also like other users like China Mobile. I know one of the, actually I know a lot of Bank in China, they're using open stack, actually using that very large scale. Also, I know the telecoms in Asia, I do know at least like five, six big telecoms in Asia that they're using open stack. I think like as Tika and Hasakawa-san has mentioned, like there's a lot of great and new use cases in Indonesia's and in Japan as well. So I think there's actually a lot. I cannot like flash that out directly, but we actually have a lot of like user sharing session in OpenBase Asia. Good, well, thank you so much. I'm very thankful and just amazed by all the work you've done, all of you to organize these events. They're incredibly hard to do in person. They're even harder to do virtually and you've all adapted and found ways to bring people together in spite of travel restrictions. So thank you, thank you so much for everything you've been doing and for coming on the show today to share some of those things. So everybody out there, you should get to know these folks and they can connect you to many, many other people in these different communities around the world. And so with that, I think we're just about out of time. So I wanna just mention a few things that are coming up so that everybody can get involved in everything that's coming next. So first of all, the Super User Awards. These are, this is a super prestigious award. We just had an episode recently where we brought back some of the past award winners to see where they are now and what they're doing. And so we're having the awards again this year. So the URLs here, we'll drop it in the chat where you can nominate your organization or another organization that you know of that's running an open source infrastructure and is doing some interesting and innovative things. We always get incredible number of nominations every year and it's very difficult to pick a winner but it is an awesome opportunity. So please nominate your organization, nominate others that you know about. Secondly, I wanna just mention that there is one more Open Infra Day happening this year, Open Infra Day China. Registrations open now, it's coming October 15th and if you can and 16th and we will have the link dropped in chat as well. So these are, join us. Rico is excited to give you the call to action right there on video. Man, he is always innovating with how to do things online. Never seen that before, the live sticky note. So obviously we love these events and there's one more. So we don't wanna miss this one. The last thing I will mention on upcoming events is this weekly show Open Infra Live. We're doing a bigger, better expanded, even more in depth series of episodes over two days in November. We're calling it Open Infra Live Keynotes. So these will be over the span of two days. We'll have kind of shorter keynote style segments bringing lots of people in. Registrations open right now. If you go to openinfra.live, there's a button there to register for the keynotes and it is free. We also have sponsorships. If you go to openinfra.live and click through to learn more about the keynotes, there's details on the sponsorship packages or you can just drop an email to this email events at openinfra.dev. So as usual, we're dropping all the links in chat. We wanna get everybody involved in all the stuff we're doing going forward. And lastly, I will just say thank you to all of the companies that make the Open Infra Foundation possible. These are the companies that as members help us with the funding we need to invest in community building. And our mission is to build communities who write software that runs the production. Hopefully today you've seen a lot of examples of the power of that community, the software they're writing and how it's running in production. And if you wanna join, you can go to openinfra.dev slash join. Your company can become one of these awesome supporters. So thank you again for everybody who joined, especially all of our guests today and not just for the show but everything you're doing for the community. So remember to join us every week for Open Infra Live at 1400 UTC. And I hope you all have a good time with Open Infra. Thank you.