 Hi, my name is Michael Datesman, and I want to take a moment to thank this community. I work on a project called the Mass Open Cloud. It's a unique effort between academia, industry, nonprofits, and the government. This cloud is used indirectly by tens of thousands of users. It has hundreds of servers. It's used to teach hundreds of students annually, host dozens of projects, as well as continuous integration and deployment for a few open source projects. The Mass Open Cloud, or MOC as we usually call it, exists thanks to the work of this community. And yet, I didn't have anywhere near this much white hair until I tried to manage a team operating an open source cloud. It's hard. Why is that? Well, it's because every open source cloud is different. Each is built on different hardware configurations, unique installation steps, different services, and there's no common set of monitoring and billing capabilities integrated into all the services. It's all unique to each cloud. This means there's no way to encapsulate best practices into the configuration, no easy way to compare information between clouds, and each of us solves the problems we encounter in a different way, largely by ourselves. Moreover, there's no visibility by the open source developers of the software into how that software is actually deployed, operated, or used, which means that the community may be working on problems that the operators just don't care about. And it's really hard for the developers of the software to reproduce or debug it. And this probably helps explain why some of you have white hair, too. If you look at the public clouds, they are prescriptive. They have one way of solving everything. They have real visibility into what users are doing and they can evaluate their software with real usage and then evolve things dynamically using continuous integration and deployment. We believe that if open source pods are going to be successful in the long run, the open source community needs its own cloud. In 2018, we reached out to the OpenStack Foundation to explore our idea, and we thought we were going to piss them off. But Mark and Jonathan said, yes, finally. And together, we launched OpenInfo Labs. We got together in real life to talk and plan. We had concrete goals and great clarity on our MVP. And I'm not kidding here. This is a card we wrote that day. It's really hard to argue with avoid doom as an MVP. Our goal is to create a federated large-scale cloud starting with academia. The plan is starting with the MOC to create highly-prescriptive cloud-in-a-box solutions first deployed at the MOC that can be replicated at multiple academic institutions and then federated into a large-scale cloud.