 Well, welcome, folks. I'm Heidi Joy Twethaway. I'm senior marketing manager here at the Open Stack Foundation, and I'm very happy to introduce you to Jonathan Bryce, our executive director of the foundation. And then also, we have many members. Oops, looks like we have some interference. Oh, thank you for meeting yourself. And we also have many members of the foundation here, as well as community members, including Jamile Tahir, who spearheads the roadmap projects with the product workgroup, and will give us some extra support and color commentary on what we have to expect with the Newton release. We're a couple weeks out still from the Newton release. That'll be on October 6. But between now and then, we like to give the members of the marketing community a sneak preview of what we're working on, key themes and messages to give you an opportunity to blend that in to your press releases and your customer communications. So to that end, we'll include this presentation, as well as opportunities to download slides in a follow up to the marketing list. We want to give you as many assets as possible to help you build your own customer communications for your company. All right. That said, I'm going to scoot over to sharing a screen with you. And I want to share the Newton release. Here we go. Okay. Are we seeing that all right? Yeah. Yep. So coming through. All right. Go, Jonathan. Go. I guess the first thing I would say just is I covered the agenda with you. And so, Jonathan, take it away, please. Okay. Thanks, Heidi Joyce. It's good to have everybody join us again for this little pre-release ritual that we do where we start to preview the themes that we've seen emerge in the latest release cycle. As you're probably all aware, the next open stack release is code named Newton. And this is, I think, the 14th release of open stack. So it's, you know, we're pretty far along in the process now. And as we go through some of the themes and some of the features, I think what you're going to continue to see is really the continued maturity and stability of the software that has really led to significant production usage in the last year, year and a half, a big uptick in that. One of the things that we started talking about kind of towards the end of 2015 as a key message was open stack as a platform for integrating multiple types of technology. And we see that that's becoming even more capable and more versatile with the latest releases. If we look at Newton, it has support across fair metal, virtual machines, and containers for managing a lot of different kinds of workloads and a lot of different industries. And that versatility is something that, that over and over again, we hear how valuable that is to organization. You know, the landscape inside of most data centers out there is one that is very mixed. It has a lot of different technologies, has different kinds of hardware, different kinds of software, different applications. And so, you know, islands of technologies, islands for managing these different resources don't help companies have a really strong and versatile strategy. But open stack, you know, has the ability to really manage a lot of different components. We can go ahead and move to the next slide. With this release specifically, some of the themes that we break down the progress in that we think were the kind of the key highlights were scalability, resiliency, and user experience. And if you have followed along over the last couple of releases, you've probably noticed that some of these themes have continued from release to release like scalability. But one that I think is was really strongly represented in Newton is the resiliency component. And that is something that's evidenced in a variety of updates across multiple projects. We'll talk about some of those details in a second. But resiliency is really about high availability about, you know, the availability not just of the open stack infrastructure, but also the ability to run highly available workloads on top of the open stack infrastructure. And so that includes the ability to do no downtime upgrades, the ability to do live migration, the ability to do active-active configurations for various services. So progress was made in a lot of the projects in different areas around that. And I think that's another one of those things that we see leading to this trend of increased production usage. User experience is one that we identified in Mitaka as a key theme. And we see that continued in Newton as well. And that is both the user experience for operators who are operating the open stack cloud as well as for the end users who are consuming the open stack cloud to deploy applications or to program against the open stack API. So this is improvements to documentation, to out-of-the-box defaults and configuration, to things like get me a network, the ability to easily have a kind of a default network topology that comes with virtual machines. A lot of things that, again, span the project and really improve the user experience. We can go ahead and move to the next one. And at this point, I want to also invite Shamail to chime in here. The product work group, for those of you that aren't familiar with it, has been putting together a lot of really, really in-depth information across the projects. They spend a lot of time talking to the PTLs and to core developers and aggregating information about the work that's been done on each release and kind of the overall planning and roadmap, so to speak, for where the projects are planning to go over the next couple of releases. And they do a lot of research and put together some really detailed documents. This material, we try to boil a lot of that up into something that's more high-level and bite-sized. But I think that we have the link somewhere for those documents. But if you really want to dive deep, then I definitely encourage you to go through their full roadmap document. I think the one roadmap PDF is like 48 pages, but it's got a lot of good info in there. So I want to invite Shamail to go ahead and talk about some of the specific updates across these key release themes and to highlight whatever he wants to bring out from the work of the product working group as well. Absolutely. Thank you, Jonathan. Appreciate it. The key themes of scalability, resiliency, and user experience are very prominent in Newton. Some of the things that we can talk about specifically to highlight that are significant enhancements to ironic integration with NOVA. And being able to do multi-tent networking for bare metal nodes is a huge one, as well as the ability now to support multiple compute services from NOVA, running ironic or provisioning ironic bare metal servers. And so what this means is this now allows better scale for ironic, because you're not depending on a single service, as well as it provides some additional resiliency as well, because you can actually run multiple, if one instance of the compute service goes down, other compute services could fulfill the request still. Along those same lines, we've also seen some groundwork be laid by the sender team to get to active, active volume services in the near future. So Newton were not quite there, but a lot of the legwork required to get to active, active, in certain components of sender has occurred, as well as Jonathan mentioned, you know, no downtime upgrades. And a big one, this release is neutronizability to be able to do no downtime API service upgrades. So just a ton of work, again, scale building resiliency, and then user experience, of course, is also being addressed constantly. Actually, that's what we need for most of the open-sac releases that we've been, and Newton is no exception here. And some of the things that are really around user experience in Newton are the ability, for example, for sender service to be able to provide some great messages that can give back information on why a request failed, for example. So just better hinting for end users, as well as NOVA has now moved the configuration options for the compute service into code, meaning that there's less policy files to manage, unless you want to modify one of the default settings. So again, just a ton of work being done across the teams. And the roadmap document, as we talked about, is 49 slides and covers about 25 projects in depth across Newton and even some future directional insights after Newton as well. Jonathan, do you want to move on to the next slide? No, I think that again, as we mentioned, the roadmap deck has a lot more detail than we can go into here. But I think that you hit the highlights. Obviously, I think the neutron work and the NOVA work, and the other thing that with NOVA is SalesV2, which is a feature that we've talked about the last couple of releases, is moving along, and I think they're expecting a big milestone in the next release in Ocata. So this is one of the things that's nice about the roadmap and kind of the way that the team has been tracking these things is you're able to see also the progress on some of these bigger work efforts that do take more than a six-month release cycle. And it's cool to see some of those landing here in Newton, and then also being able to see that we're getting close to some of these big updates for Ocata as well. But yeah, let's go on to the next slide. So the other thing that we like to do when we do these updates is also look at the kind of the community progress overall in the release cycle. And we've had the opportunity to go to a number of events in Asia and Europe and be able to talk with some really interesting users. And it's always great to hear what is driving their usage of OpenStack. And these are increasingly, these are not technology companies that we're seeing deploy OpenStack. I think that's a really important shift that again has happened as the software has matured where companies like JFE Steel in Japan, they're one of the largest steel manufacturers in the world. And this is a very mainstream business that uses OpenStack to power their IT. And why would they do that? Well, they did that because they were able to improve their performance pretty dramatically and at the same time cut their overall IT cost. So better performance for lower cost, that's a really compelling business case. And that's why we see companies that are not just really technology driven, starting to use OpenStack as well. In China, the state grid corporation of China, they spoke in Austin. We were also able to hear them in Beijing at an event there and get even more details about what they're doing. They're the seventh largest company in the world. They have a million and a half employees and they do power generation and transmission for I think 27 provinces in China. They've rolled OpenStack out in nine regions and continue to expand it. And it's just again, a really interesting use case to see them using this. Next slide. Infrastructure for infrastructure. Yeah, infrastructure for physical world infrastructure. These two companies are more on the technology side. Snapdeal is India's online marketplace, similar to eBay or Mercado Libre. We're really getting all of the online marketplaces. But they launched an OpenStack deployment recently and they went pretty big out of the gate with 100,000 cores. And again, they are a technology company. But what's driving them is not just because OpenStack is new technology or whatever, it's really business drivers, performance and cost. And we have a great case study on SuperUser about them that goes into some detail about what drove their decisions, how they did their deployment, and what it looks like. And it's a really interesting one to look at. Betfair is actually Patty Power Betfair. I think they merged just recently. They are the largest betting site in gaming exchange. They do more exchange transactions than the New York Stock Exchange and the London Stock Exchange combined. So it's a really large exchange that they run. And it's something that is very much in kind of the software defined world where they have a real need to move quickly, to roll features out, and they have implemented a continuous deployment workflow on top of OpenStack in production. They have over 200 applications, as it says here. And they run this in two redundant data centers where they are operating a private OpenStack cloud. And another really, really interesting use case and got to spend some time with their team in the UK last week or the week before last and talk to them about how they built it all out. And it's just so encouraging and interesting to be able to talk to these companies and see how this technology that we've worked on and that the community develops is really enabling their businesses to do things that they would really struggle to do with other technologies. And as it says, you know, more case studies at superuser.openstack.org. As we look at kind of the community side, there were a couple of things that were interesting developments in the Newton cycle. One that we're going to highlight at the summit in Barcelona is about the security team, which has put together some really good material on security in OpenStack, both the resources that document how to implement a secure OpenStack cloud, as well as how we manage security in the software development process and an ongoing basis with the deployers, the vulnerability management team, code testing and all of the efforts around that. But because of that, we were recently awarded the core infrastructure initiative badge, which is an effort that has come about in the last couple of years to really encourage open source communities to be security minded. You know, this was something that came out of kind of the aftermath of the Heartbleed incident where we see these core infrastructure systems that so many businesses and research organizations and government organizations depend on that sometimes are not getting the resources that they could really use on security specifically. And this is something that we've had a pretty good focus on in OpenStack and it's really increased recently. And so the core infrastructure initiative recognized that. I think we're the largest open source project to receive that yet. So that's a cool recognition of what our security teams have been doing. And then the other update is around the interop working group, which was the rename for the Def Core group. It's kind of, you know, just clear over clever. Let's say what it is. It's a working group that works on the interop standards. So this is, if you see interop working group, that is what we used to refer to as Def Core. There was a big update to the interop spec in the August board meeting. The latest spec is really expanded. It includes over 100 new tested capabilities. I think it went from about 120 to 225, something like that. And it includes a lot more coverage around networking, authentication, image management. So some of the really key components that have stabilized and are now part of the interop guideline. So that was a very big and important update. And it took a lot of work on the part of the interop group to kind of put that in place. Next slide. So another area that's been interesting to see as we've traveled around is the growth in OpenStack Public Clouds. There are more than 30 OpenStack Public Clouds worldwide. I think that it's in something like 50 cities. Is that right, Mark? Yeah, I was going to say, this is Mark. We're actually been pulling the numbers as they continue to grow all over the world. And so we're actually in 50 cities. So if you think about OpenStack in aggregate across all these public cloud providers, not only are you getting lots of choices in terms of who you would potentially work with, but the regional options in terms of location for where you might want to have your data or be closer to your users or customers is really pretty impressive. And I think if you look at the total footprint, it's growing rather rapidly. It's probably one of the few stories we haven't talked as much about. But as we head into the next summit, I think we'll be pulling that data and sharing it more and more often. Yeah, and I mentioned already about the state-grade corporation of China. But we've also started to see a number of production use cases in addition to that one come out from China. China Union Pay was a really interesting one that we heard about at the OpenStack event there. China Union Pay is, I think, the only card provider in China. So it's a pretty big one, pretty important. And they're using OpenStack in production. Dongfeng Motors is maybe the second largest car manufacturer there. China Telecom, China Mobile, obviously very large telecom companies with hundreds of millions of customers, a number of banks, including Hongfeng Bank and Post Savings Bank of China. And another thing that was really cool to see when we were in China was how strong the startup community there is. There were, I think, eight startups at the OpenStack event there. And two of them, EasyStack and UnitedStack, are actually gold members of the foundation. But there are a number of other companies there who are startups that are really building businesses and helping to spread OpenStack in China. And so a spotlight on some of the other types of compute. I think people are generally pretty familiar with OpenStack as a way to manage virtual machines. But increasingly, we're seeing that workloads run on a variety of modes of compute, including containers and also bare metal. Ironic had a lot of really strong updates in this cycle that Schmel touched on earlier. One of the things that's interesting to see is that as you look across these, you'll notice that there's tighter integration between all of these components. So for instance, Magnum has support for doing Kubernetes directly on bare metal now. Magnum is the provisioning engine for container orchestration tools. She said Kubernetes on bare metal. Kubernetes on bare metal. That's pretty cool. So Magnum started out with placing container orchestration systems into virtual machines through NOVA. But obviously for a lot of people, one of the appeals of containers is improved performance and being able to run those containers directly on bare metal. So that's a great update to see in Magnum. Magnum itself had some updates in how it's structured and the tools that are available to manage the different orchestration systems that it supports, Swarm, Kubernetes, and Meso. And one of the things that again ties it all together is the networking support for containers. Courier, we talked about at the Tokyo summit almost a year ago now, but it's made a lot of progress in the last year. And there are releases now for Swarm integration using LibNetwork and then also for Kubernetes integration. And in Newton, there is a preview or an early release of doing what's called nested VMs, but basically the ability to expose a network from Neutron up through a virtual machine into a container that's running in the virtual machine. So this is a really powerful component to have so that you can have individual containers on separate networks and be able to manage their network traffic the way that you would want to for especially any kind of regulated industry, but really just anything that's security-tensitive. This has been one of the specific things that has in some ways limited or caused people to have some concern about running containers in production. It is just kind of like the network models and the integration with kind of standards for enterprise network security. So this is a really good update inside of Courier. And I think again, it just shows the power of having one platform that ties all of these together because there really isn't another technology out there that's approaching all of these needs in a holistic way to integrate them together and really take advantage of the strengths of the different kinds of compute networking and storage. And no one's doing that like OpenStack is. So I think this is just kind of wrapping it up. As we've mentioned, a lot of good updates that are based off of user needs and user experience, improving the ability to manage and scale it as well as run production workloads on resilient infrastructure. And that concept of the integration engine that ties all of these technologies and really supports the versatility that people need in their environments while just making sure that it's all integrated together and really kind of gives you the platform that you need for your workloads today as well as a place to take advantage of emerging technologies. I think that that's it for the Newton update and Heidi Joy. I'll hand it back to you. Thank you so much, Jonathan and Jamile, for your very excellent and detailed information here. But we know that there's a lot more to dig into. And one of the things I really like to learn about is what were the user needs or the problems that companies were facing that we're trying to solve in each release? And so we wanted to give you a little bit of a sense of how to learn more about those. If you want to learn more about individual features or individual projects and what they're doing, we have more than 25, maybe seven minute recordings that are one-on-ones with the project team leaders about what are those user needs or what were the hot topics coming out of the last design summit? And this again is a project of the product work group doing interviews one-on-one with these PTLs and then pulling PowerPoint slides out of them that just really boils down those short conversations into an even shorter bulleted list that supplies the roadmap's key information. So we have a YouTube playlist, I put up a short URL for you so you can head right over there if you'd like to now kind of be in conversation with those PTLs. So we're going to take questions in just a second, but I wanted to share a little bit more about the marketing release plans for Newton. As we're looking toward our release date here very shortly, this marketing preview is recorded and then it'll be shared also with the community. We also have a press release in progress, a release website in progress that will live at opens.org slash software slash Newton. Nothing is up there yet that'll come out on the 6th of October. And then we also just as we did in the Metaca release and previous releases have this wonderful video demonstration of core features and the key features and enhancements that you're going to see coming out in Newton. And that will be released with the press release and the website on October 6th. But the video demo is really essential to be able to see how things work. And then we also take some excerpts and screenshots there that you see in on the right hand side of your screen, just kind of a taste. This is what we did for Metaca as well. We also wanted to give you an opportunity to dig into the community-generated roadmap further. So I've added a couple of just slides from that roadmap so you get a sense of which projects are covered. Generally the roadmap team tries to cover every project with greater than 10% adoption based on the last user survey. And then for every project that it does cover, you get a wealth of information not only for the Newton release, but looking forward three total cycles into Okada and Pike so you can learn more about not only what's being delivered next week, but also what will be delivered in future releases. You can look at 100-foot view that's really specific to the project that you could see in the bottom right hand corner of your screen. You can boil that up to 1,000-foot view and see what specific project themes that each project is working toward and then a 10,000-foot view. Really big picture on that. I want to pause for a moment. Shamile, do you want to add anything about the roadmap since you spearheaded? No, I think you summed it up really well, Heidi Joy. Thank you. Yeah, so team actively works on this about twice every release cycle and we really do try to cover as much projects as we can. So the current release does have about 25 projects that it's covering. Awesome, thank you. So now I'm going to take everybody off mute. I just muted folks so that we get a chance to ask questions and it sounds like we do still have a little bit of background noises, but I unmuted everyone so that we can do a little bit of Q&A and then we'll start talking about the collaborative campaign. So any questions that you might have, we'd like to hear them. All right, well don't be shy to speak up. I've given you some fair warning and then we will definitely love to hear your questions here at the foundation as well, but please speak up here in the next few minutes if you have any more questions. Heidi, it's Tim. Oh yes, please go. Hi, Tim. Hi. Do you have an outlook for the user survey results? Will those be in line with the Barcelona Summit? Yes, we do. So we closed the user survey on Sunday. We have the data and we're working on doing a little bit of data validation and then we're going to our data scientists with about 10 key questions. So you saw the really big 60 page report that came out in Austin that was a full-scale community survey of more than 1,600 community members and about 400 different deployments. For the Barcelona cycle, we really narrowed it down, narrowed down the number of questions and also the number of participants where we were specifically targeting folks with deployment. So we have a smaller group of folks that we spoke to and that we heard from, but we will be updating those kind of key slides that everybody goes to that we see in almost every single open stack day around the number of deployments in production, for example, or the emerging technologies that people are most interested in. You can expect to have a short form report sometime around the Barcelona Summit that gives us an update on the user survey. We have a foundation lounge and I'll be giving a short update on the user survey there in kind of a little lightning talk in the foundation lounge and then we'll also be sharing that through SuperUser, of course. Sounds great. Thanks. Great. Thank you, Tim.