 Hi, thank you for coming. So my name is Sean Roberts. I run the San Francisco user group with my two colleagues Lisa Marie Namphee and Rick Evans. We're not here, but And these are my friends ambassadors that represent other user groups from other areas So we're gonna give you a community update on where the user groups are in for open stack globally Very quickly each one of us does introduce ourselves Hello, my name is Martin Kish, and I'm doing the European region. I'm actually based in Hungary, Budapest And we are running Europe together with Erwan and Christian. Hi, my name is Ches Ogan. I'm Running the open-stack Korea user group with like 10 or 12 people Yeah, nice to meet you guys Hi, nice to meet you. My name is Akihiro Asugawa I'm basically based in the Tokyo and also covering the Asian area with Asian ambassadors and in the Tokyo area in Japan area Recently we are really focusing the ops Meetup or a workshop because of the open-stack user is getting increased Every year at the time we not only sharing the implementation information, but also the sharing the ops Information's also. Yes. Thank you very much for coming Hi, my name is Erwan Gelene. I'm running the French user group I'm covering Europe under some some group in Africa Hello, I'm Akira Yoshiyama from Japan Open-stack user group Thanks for coming Hello, my name is Marcelo Jader and I am the open-stack ambassador in Latin America and I have the countries in Latin America to growing other groups My name is Christian Baird and I operate one of the user groups in Germany and South Germany and help us to organize of the Open-stack day in Germany as well Okay, so I'd like to Give a quick insight into the numbers. It seems to be very Interesting that actually we have 86 user groups worldwide and those user groups are recognized on the group's community portal and We have amazing numbers. So actually we have 47,000 members, so this is the actual situation and It is very interesting that you can see that North America is really leading the community but I think it is a very normal story here and Europe is Competing with Asia in the community numbers and and South America Generated a very nice group during the last one year and some folks started to use Open-stack in Africa and we can see it on the numbers also and If we are looking back to the growth rate that happened since Vancouver. It seems really amazing. So we can see 37% growth average growth and in some areas it is actually much much higher Okay, so the Sorry about that. So our last summit we announced the official user groups programs and now we Permitted to the 11 Open-stack user group is be the official those the 11 user groups already permitted as officials and Go to the next slide and If you get the official user groups, you can get the original robots for the each user groups members and also that can help some support from the Open-stack foundations and It clearly the be the official user groups then very easy to communicate to the and helping each region's user groups and if you Not You don't know about the official user group processes. Please check the web page groups.openstack.org There is a thunder script for how to be the official user group. There is a Better briefly steps. There are six steps here and please check your status of that and if you have any the questions or Ask the ambassadors or ask to Tom. Don't you feel? Yes, and go to the next So who is the talk about a new user group? Yeah, actually since Tokyo since Tokyo we had some new user groups approved So we have a new user group actually in South Africa and we have a brand new in central Florida and we have a very active one actually in Pakistan in Islamabad and We had some rest Sure happened in in Germany. Maybe Christian can Give a little insight about we started in Germany to to approve the existing user groups And we had a good progress. So we have now I think four official user groups in in Germany and that's really a good progress and restructuring the the existing user groups Yes, and and also we announced the last summit again and We opened the speakers video foundations open the speaker videos. So everyone knows that this Site itself Please raise your hand if you know, okay, okay good Good man and in the maybe the just summit if we Do the some the speakers proposal then automatically add that this speakers videos programs. I think if you don't reject So you can find out speakers in the last summit or some other cases already provided the information on this site Please access to the just open stock or committee speakers page And you can find out the correct person. For example, please go to the next page So this is Mac Korea. Maybe everybody knows and if you want to Need a his speech in your local user groups Then just put on the contact mark and name of the organizer and the email and so on Then system automatically maybe send the offering to the is this correct But do you think that it is so easy to get mark on the board? I don't know it's up to him maybe and Anyway, and this information also including the willing to the participating via the video conference or willing to travel and This information also Mentioned how to covering the travel expense and Precheck such kind of a part and find out the good speakers from here and invite them by yourself very Useful tools, I think do you have any other extra comment for this Martin? No, it's okay Okay, please use this for finding out the good speakers. Yeah, okay, and who is running a user group from this room? Yeah, raise your hands and Yeah, I think it is a really useful tool from the foundation and and I know that everyone else who are not living in the In San Francisco or in the valley had those problem with finding speakers and If you do not find Speakers in the website do not hesitate to contact each of us in the regions because we have also contact And try to push more speakers to join this this program that do know is but I know for for few user groups it's difficult to have a speaker for For every month or every for each each meet-up each meeting so don't hesitate to contact us Okay, and we also And some of us also running opens tag the event all around the world And it all also gets some official branding and logos and Yeah, open stag days Basically or go with open stag day was that we like to clone a little bit this summit to the local region because a lot of people simply cannot afford to visit one week long event here and and Basically, we will run one in June 16 Budapest, but We have a calendar Here so but I think we are all around the world now so you missed that we already did Open stag days in Korea in February. So open stag day was So Japanese group started three years ago and Korea is going to burst of our old Japanese group to start it three years ago that was just just the the regional event each user group is Having and the foundation decide to make that official brand from this year So in Korea, we had third open stag day event But in this year it was officially branded event from the foundation so as you see that you can get the logo from foundation and foundation have to advertise your open stag day event in social and media and Also, so that's a big difference between previous years of the open stag days and this year So having said that I Have all the materials I used for you to run the open stag day event in Korea this year including like a vector image for the banners and Sponsorship prospectus documentation. So I'm willing to share those materials with community So I suggest if we have any kind of repository maybe in GitHub to share those materials I will be happy to Provide those documents and the banners and other information you might want to know Okay about open stag day and the foundation has prepared Documentation to help you if you want to launch in your region an open stag day So you can have few steps to prepare to to If it's a sponsor the event you will have to create a public prospectus so So you you will have lots of help if you have an idea to to launch this type of event on the the foundation can help with funding up to $5,000 so I think it's a it's really more easy now to run this type of event I know in Asia and in Budapest It was the first Big event but but now we are there is all this help of a foundation ambassador also can help for this for this event And please go to the next page and there is this year's calendars And I have personally the question one questions because open stag day Mexico has a two days to separate days maybe the Wow, each of one is some mistake and please check it Yeah And so anyway, if in our case if we start we are usually preparing the open stag days event before the 10 months ago Because we need a lot of the times to preparing the sponsors and the sessions and finding a venue so on and also foundations Resources is limited if you are not started to the new open stag day event It's better to start in one other be careful for your scheduling to managing such kind of things and In this year, maybe June is European tour Almost and July is a giant tour and also the South America. Yes, right? South America right and There are another event is here. Yes, if you are interesting to join that, please check the Open stag days web page and also the contacting us and ask us Yeah, and it is important to mention here that those events are really non-profits and usually organized by The local community members and the local ecosystem players Yeah, I think it really depends on the on the region and the develop Just repeat the question Okay, so it the question was whether We can run multiple events per year in the same same side But I think it really depends on the region so if you have a very strong and and and huge community that requires two events per year and You have a very strong ecosystem who can sponsor that event. Then yeah, you can do it But actually I think for the Central European region One event per year is more than enough actually because it means a lot of work So so it is not so easy to organize everything. It means usually Ten or six months of very hard work Was your question partially around whether or not this is developer focused or just around users Like I see that there are lots of even that's happened around June time frame June July is it I mean is there a specific reason for this or if I want to organize something or In December, I will be the only open-stack day that happens in December. Is it an issue? Yeah, I think it is it is Really depends on the Schedule of the foundation stuff. So if you like to get some some foundation stuff on board then then you need to do a very very Very good planning and and for example for for the open-stack day Budapest We decided to do it in June because because in October We will have a big event in Barcelona summit. So we don't like to overlap the two So it doesn't matter. So last year Japan and Korea did on February and this year Korea did February and Japanese June. So it's up to you up to your availability To do the event but from this year foundation will ask at the beginning of year When you are going to have open-stack days, they just don't want to check It's user group when it's user group is hosting open-stack days. So they're checking if there is any conflict there or so they can make any further planning from the foundation resources, so It's important to communicate with the other user groups and foundation But it's up to you decide when you can have the open-stack day event Yeah, because what might be interesting if If there are multiple open-stack days happening in the same region like Europe for example In the same time frame it may be a lot easier for some speakers like maybe speakers from the foundation To come in Europe during two or three weeks and do multiple open-stack days. That's interesting I think I think it also is because there are a party birthday of open-stack and is in July on some some groups Doing the the event to commemorate the the birthday in July. I think because it's the most One So one of the things we have tried to do but unfortunately oscon got moved up so far this year as we tried to Have the birthday parties Happened before oscon so we could actually help promote the birthday party at oscon But I think that kind of became difficult since oscon is just in a couple weeks. It's kind of So close to the conference Did I say conference in mid-summit? Oh my god so So I think that's kind of an outgrowth and We're still gonna have in terms of just go the birthday party in July But you know, it won't really be able to go into oscon this year since it was months before Okay, and we will have an ombudsman others working group session on thursday So I think we will discuss about the future plans there and what we plan to do and What are the plans of the foundation With this program So if you have time, I suggest to visit that it should be very interesting And we'll be posting an etherpad just like the rest of their groups So if you want to look at the ether pad afterwards, it'll be posted just alongside the rest If you don't get to join us and you want to see what we're talking about what we're planning Okay, and the question for the ambassadors Um Does anyone have a good locale story about his own region During the last year or last half year Or happened anything important I can talk about uh, uh, so for american and In the last years you can Back to the the growing the groups Where the groups yes the growing person did yeah and uh We are planning a lot of Meetups online meetups local meetups and we can see more growing in the south america So I think we we need We can talk about this It's important to do regular meetups In our groups because we can attract more users to to use it to learn more about OpenStack, so I think we need to do in others groups also So once again and recently you are really focused on the ops meetup or ops workshop So if possible, I would like to do the such kind of the workshop or meetup event for the each region Why you do we do the region because very easy to communicate each other there is not so much big the Time lapse and distance also but We need much more the knowledge is and experiences As you know the open stack itself is like a Lego blocks So people can choose a lot of the types of the environment This case may be the operations Program is also the difference So if we can Merging and sharing the such kind of the informations we can reduce the Operations costs and we can give the much more the good functions For such kind of things to the upstream So if you are interesting to do the such kind of the activities, please ask us And let's do the such kind of the keep doing the such kind of the activities. Thank you Okay, we have 10 minutes left. So if you have any questions We are happy to answer I have a question so Maybe it's a little bit of a statement and a question. So on the west coast And ken Hughes not here right now. He's one of them ambassador for the east coast out of new york of the united states and So but we in the west coast have started organizing we're getting closer to being able to pool money and And be able to pull speakers and try to coordinate times so we don't step on each other Because there are some people that go back and forth So is anybody else Thinking about maybe doing that trying to coordinate maybe in a certain region or Perhaps within Well, just that is anybody else thought about that or Interested in maybe talking to us about what we've done so far what we're planning and doing Okay, so one one of the ideas that we talked about last year And unfortunately, we haven't had a chance to do it was to Create a sister city or a sister user group program where some of the areas like silken valley usually I have too many sponsors So if I wanted to I could probably get a lot more money and I've been actually pushing people away But if I was able to like A user group that has a problem not getting sponsors You know being able to fund them with a company in my area that would be so Is that interesting to anybody here or anybody in the group and like to Talk about that anybody interested. Yeah, I think it sounds great, but As you know the industry it is really separated by the american region. Maybe the america region in europe And they are using very different funds to sponsor the local events And I don't know how can this work in the real life or in practice But I would be very very happy to join to this kind of program anyway, so What so I'm now working for walmart and walmart labs So one of the first things I did is I sucked has seeked out one of the guys in the finance department and said hey Do you want to be my banker? so I haven't I'm that close to getting them to agree, but Assuming I can get them to agree then essentially the idea is that um they'll act as accounts receivable for money coming in for um open stack user group fund and um people All I'll manage the essentially the the money of who has what in the fund. They'll just write the checks And um, then it's essentially that point if I have a sister city, let's say like vietnam for example And they they need a sponsor To help some run some events. I just get approval from the sponsors in my area to be able to source them some money and My guy in the finance just write some checks Yes, so you're assuming that you're assuming that the companies that usually sponsor us events us meetups Would be interesting in sponsoring events In another country. Um, yes, actually I've spoken to a few of them. They are interested So, uh much the same reason of getting involved in working with, you know Frenemies, you know companies that you're competitive with but collaborating on code and some of them are like, oh, yeah Why wouldn't I want to do that because? $5,000 for a lot of these companies is like teeny tiny For sponsorship money. I mean they're spending a lot more Today over this week. So, um, but $5,000 for a small user group can go really really far I mean that would that would probably help Even the 500 birthday support helped a lot for for different user groups to to boost up in the early days Yeah, if you remember this time So, um, if anyone wants to talk to us about that, um that idea, um, you can jump onto the etherpad Talk to us afterwards or, um Just to you know get get to us through the normal methods to these your that The group site on open stack So, uh, yeah that so yes, sir Some of you probably already know me I run the the Manchester user group in uk Which is obviously just arrived on that list of official user groups, um So one thing I did, um email Irwin and Martin about was the You know, we all use meetup basically and meetup has a limited Interface for what logos you can upload on it. What's the and the logo that is Is a square logo and there's nowhere to put it on meetup What's the chances of getting that logo reshaped into a meetup friendly logo? Yeah, so I have received a request on the yeah, it's in progress. So excellent Thank you guys so, uh Do you want to answer that from the group's perspective or because I mean I certainly use meetup and a lot of people do use meetup, uh, but it is ultimately just a tool Um, and it's not even available all the way across the world. So in certain ways, it's not even an option So I I try very hard not to say we're holding meetups, but say that we're holding user group meetings Because it meetups is a tool. So, um, I would love to extend meetup to be more flexible and to do more things Martin's been working with it quite a bit because he's he's been doing a lot of the work around the groups so I my hope is that Going into the future that we um, we still use these tools, but they're Essentially read only and the the group site becomes the the right and then we can kind of get away from that but um, so people would have a tendency to go to the group site and maybe just use meetup for Managing the getting people together part. I mean, I think sorry that would solve your problem. I don't know Still wouldn't solve the logo. Yeah, I understand what I understand what you're saying about meetup I mean, I would say from a user group perspective, you know, we get a hell of a lot of cross pollination from meetup Which, you know, if we don't if we decide we're going to use some totally other tool As the as the method for promoting user group meetings Then, you know, I suspect that some of those folks who we get who just happen to go to a lot of meetups I mean, you know, manchester, for example, as a very strong Tech community and you know, there's lots of people who are who are members of a lot of different meetups And you know, so we get a lot of folks who maybe you know wouldn't Have maybe come for the first time because they're interested in open stack and they just happen to see on meetup.com Yeah, anyway, meetup.com is a fantastic marketing channel from that aspect But from the other side, it is a little bit of trap Because it is not so trivial to move the members from that side to the group site because It is not it is not allowing to ask for for example the email address. Yeah Yeah, yeah, and I wasn't suggesting we'd not use meetup because it is a very excellent Way to attract people Especially in west coast united states. It's used very very heavily and that's why it's become a verb now people say oh I go do Anyway, um, so what I was suggesting is that um, what I'm hoping to get to is that uh, we could start using the group site Um as the thing the source of truth of information and we distributed throughout a bunch of different things including meetup and facebook and and google groups and all and not only so we can get to more people but also for Um, so that uh, we don't get trapped like you were saying. Yeah, actually We are using the group's portal analytics features Um In a daily basis and I think it is the most important part of that portal that we can collect all those information and we are owning that data and we can Run a different queries on that. So I think uh, it is a good topic for this third day meeting Yeah, and and we can discuss those there. Yeah, and we have I guess one minute left or something I just want to mention in korea. We we are not using meetup meetups not popular in there. So I heard that's a great tour but I just wanted to say For other reasons of word meetup is mean nothing. So we just need to care for about that Okay, thank you for coming and thank you for the ambassadors for their work and I think we will meet in barcelona and We will present the updates. Thank you