 I'm really excited to be here today, and to welcome you to a new program, the HP Helion Most Valuable Professional Program. And here in this room today, we have several of our brand new MVPs who will be presenting to you in sort of a showcase style. And I want to talk just a little bit with you about our agenda and then just run through really quick a little bit about the MVP program. Maybe that's better. So today I'm just going to do a brief introduction, and then I'm going to turn it over to Kenneth, and Kenneth is doing a talk on OpenStack for VMware. And Martin is doing a conversation on the OpenStack community, and Shriram Subramanian will be doing a talk on running workloads in OpenStack Cloud, and then we'll take a brief break. And then we have a really great tech panel coming up with Nigel Cook from Intel, hosted by Michael A. Day from HP, and then also featuring a couple of our MVPs. And then closing out our day, Farron Rodanis will be doing a talk on OpenStack and Cloud Foundry, and then just a brief closing and a couple of reminders about some cool things happening this evening. So just really quickly, I want to talk a little bit about the MVP program, which is really why we're bringing this together today. So we decided to reward and acknowledge deep technical experts who also are great influencers in the online and offline communities. And these community leaders have been recognized with the HP Helion MVP award. Right now we have about 20 HP Helion MVPs around the world, and we have a great representation here today. So I hope you all enjoy the presentations. And without further ado, I am going to go ahead and turn it over to Kenneth. Hello, everyone. My name is Martin Kiss, and I am one part of OpenStack Ambassador. And I am one of the guy who founded the Hungary and user group in Eastern Europe in Hungary. And as an OpenStack Ambassador, I started to build up the Central European user groups. So anyway, a little different question. Who saw the keynotes today? Yeah, so Hungary was a little bit overrepresented today about this internet taxing story. So it will be my personal opinion anyway, but I think it is so stupid thing that I'm sure that it is just some cover story to hide something other different political thing in Hungary. So I'm sure we won't pay any additional tax on internet there. Because it will ruin the entire internet economy in Hungary in that form. Okay, so we started this OpenStack Hungary user group. And we have some very nice initial goals. First of all, drink beer and talk about OpenStack. Basically I started OpenStack more than four years ago in very, very early days. And when I first downloaded the source code, it was very simple. And I heard it came from NASA. And my first talk was that I don't want to travel with this spaceship. And it had a very bad quality, but I came from the telecommunications sector. And we were running services in 24 per seven way. And everything needed to run. And when I first checked the architecture of OpenStack, I saw it have the same enterprise architecture, but we used to use in telecommunications sector. So I thought that we can start something similar as the other open source groups are doing, maybe start some community. Because one of the most important leg of open source project is the open source community. Because maybe if we are referring back to Canonical or Ubuntu, there are a lot of communities exist all around the world. And nobody's doing that in Hungary. And we can start or lead something similar there. So we started this in this transit cafe place. There was maybe just five of us then two years ago. And since then we built up a very diverse community. For example, most of the OpenStack diversity can be seen in Budapest, in the user group. Because there was some startup represented, some the education sector, enterprises, small businesses, financial and delco sector. And the goal of this user group that we can sit down and talk about OpenStack without any vendor related things or very similar types. And it was very nice to know what the others started to do with OpenStack, how they wanted to deploy that. So we started with five people. And somehow we needed to raise the number of attendees and tell about OpenStack, the DevOps culture, and this entire open source cloud thing to others. So we needed to build up the promotion channels from scratch. What I wanted to start to get more people into this community. And first of all, I tried to find other open source communities. Like for example, I go to the Python group or I go to the Linux group. And I try to tell this OpenStack story to them and invite them to participate in our community. And I also get some invitation to different conferences where I can introduce OpenStack. And we can participate on some mineros show. For example, with a guy from the hunger and user community, we traveled to Slovenia and Croatia and Serbia. And we had a little talk to enterprise customers about the opportunities we can see here. And of course, as an OpenStack ambassador, I used to do some vendor presentations. For example, I had a talk in front of HP customers in Hungary or for example, I get an invitation from Oreklu in Vienna and I was talking about OpenStack there. So in Eastern Europe, we had some very interesting challenges building up this user group because we experienced a lot of cultural difference. For example, the Eastern Europeans, people used to be shy and don't like to ask questions. It is a very interesting thing because if you are going to a meetup in the Silicon Valley, it is very open and everybody is very positive. But in Eastern Europe, and it is not just true for Hungary, it is true for Poland and the other countries, people don't like to ask questions. Maybe it is very interesting because I think it has some historical reasons and maybe some deep roots in the educational system. But it is true. So we are trying to challenge them to ask questions and open up and try to participate in the community activity. The other challenges we experienced the so-called enterprise silos. That for example, if HP have some customer, he is very tightly linked to HP and this is true for VMware and the others. And it was very hard for us to reach the enterprise sector because start-up companies started to open stack and started to do some pilot projects. But the enterprise guys are waiting for some sales speeches from different vendors. And it was very hard to open them up and invite them to the community. But it happened during maybe the last one year. Another challenge was that the typical, we used to do that way attitude. That we don't want to use cloud because we used to use virtualization and maybe some legacy hypervisor system. And I don't want to change and I don't want to learn new things. So we needed to change that somehow. And some collaboration inside the user groups and free speaking and discussion next to some beer helps to break down those barriers. So now we have a very active community. We have regular meetings in Budapest and we have a so healthy core member and new ratio. So we have a very active core community there and we always have newcomers. And we have almost around 300 members in Hungary. So regarding back the size of the country, I think it is a very nice number. And we reached that it is a real graph. So it represents the real growth of the community. So it is not going down. So I have, I'm used to tell that if somebody knows Monty Python, there was a theory about the Brontosaurus that every Brontosaurus is very, very weak at the start and very strong in the middle and weak at the end again. And it is true for every other open source project. So every other open source project is very bad in the start and the early days. And it can grow, grow very quickly. And if it survives this growth period that it will be a successful open source project. And I think that this same story is true for OpenStack. And we are in the weak part currently and we are just growing and clinging that mountain currently. So this is our status of the user group. Okay, so we build that user group. We used to do regular meetings. We enjoy that. But what is the next step? So we decided to organize one day mini conference called OpenStack CD. It was two years ago. And it is my seventh summit here in Paris. And I started in Boston. And when we were in Boston, OpenStack was a very small community. And it was like a small village. Everybody knows everybody else. And I have those connections and use that. And even we can invite some key people of OpenStack. Maybe Jonathan Brice came to Budapest and visited our conference. But we started to focus Central Europe as of all not just Hungary. So we plan to do an all day business and technical sessions. Because those days the summits was available in the United States only. And most of our audience cannot afford to travel to an OpenStack summit maybe into the States. And it was very hard to ask their bosses to let them out to those type of conferences. So we brought OpenStack to Central Europe. And we can win some very, very nice speakers from the OpenStack ecosystem. And we had a little bit different scale tasks there because we needed to find the proper venue. We needed to hire some staff to handle the event. We need to manage the internet connection for several hundred people. We needed to manage some registration badges. We needed to start an event promotion, manage the speakers and handle the hotel bookings. And of course it cannot run without money. And it have a different budget than a simple meetup group. So we needed to handle the funding and the sponsorship part also. But we managed that. So we already have two one day conferences in Budapest. So the first one was in a Boscolo, New York Palace. So it was a bit confusing. Some people could talk that it is not in Budapest but in New York, but everybody finally find that. And we had this format that we have morning keynotes. And we split that on the afternoon into a business and into a technical track. So we have case speakers, for example, Jonathan Brice or Tim Bell from Zen did a wonderful presentation there, Bruce David from VMware or Joe Gordon from HP. And in the next year, we can do it in a very nice theater in Budapest. And we changed a little bit the section format because we had morning keynotes. We had the business and technical tracks. And we started to organize workshops. So everybody could bring his own notebook and maybe can try to deploy DevStack and learn about the key influencers of OpenStack. So we have a lot of support from other vendors. And maybe we had even a PTL, Mark McLean came from. He was an Eutron PTL those days. So it was very nice. So we have around 250 visitors from 11 different countries. And finally, we got back very positive feedbacks from even from the speakers and from the audience. So it seems to be that we will organize in the next year. So we have some future plans for that. We plan to do more training because currently it is lacking the training part. And we need to educate the people how to use OpenStack. And we want to extend the international channels. For example, we want to start new user groups in Poland. And we want to strengthen the user groups in Czech Republic and Bulgaria and other Central European countries. And what we want, we want to keep the vendor diverse. It is so we are always checking not to give the entire show just into one vendor. Because OpenStack is a very diverse community. And we want to display the same very diverse ecosystem in this event. So basically, this is our story in Hungary. And this is what we want to do there, yeah? Yeah, I think recruiting is very important there. Because everybody see that it is very, very hard to find proper people with OpenStack skillsets who is ready. And usually to teach somebody for OpenStack maybe took six months to one year. And there is a huge gap between the companies to hire the most skilled people. And it is very hard. But we see it a little bit different way. So we saw the old school or so-called legacy system administrator way that I'm used to deploy maybe Apache servers or MySQL servers as a repetitive task. But managing OpenStack and using this DevOps culture is totally different. So we need people with different skillsets. We need a system administrator who understands the code or can automatize all of the previous tasks he did. So I think this hiring story is good for OpenStack currently. And we used to be careful not to let just one company to present his job offers. So if somebody comes and everybody ends his presentation, we are hiring now. But we used to give space for others to tell about what they are planning, who they want to, how they want to hire new people, and what type of jobs are available there. And I'm used to motivate the people, especially when I talk in technical universities and somewhere else, that it is a good career opportunity for them to join to OpenStack and get hired quickly and join to a fantastic new ecosystem and project. Yeah, we are trying to not make it into a sales show. So we should focus on some community activity or other efforts. Because if they want to sell something, they can organize their own events. And I think this is the proper place. It is the community part. So we are trying to be careful to keep this rule for everybody. Yeah, but I guess it is the responsibility of the organizers of the event. So if I promote this as a community event, let it be a community event. Yeah, but from other side, you cannot leave without the vendors. So finally, if you want to organize large events, you need to find some funding from them. So you need to find a good balance between the community and the vendor content. Yeah, of course. There is a difference between the community and it's not about my program and my cost about you. And it's about you and your community. Yeah, but I guess a great technology and a great speaker can sell the product anyway in a different way. So it is open source. It is a little bit different from the typical sales we used to do maybe years ago. Yeah, for the user group, initially, I found it from my own pocket. Yeah, because it was just a hobby project for me to find out how can we survive. But we used to get some offerings from different companies. Maybe think about small things they are offering a venue for the event or offering some free piece or beers. It is not a huge cost anyway. And the other story, maybe there used to be some official programs from the foundation, maybe funding the birthday parties. And it is a good start for a new user group to start somehow and get an initial funding for that. OK, thank you. Thank you so much, Martin.