2. I have two questions for you today.

3. Question:
How’s our community doing?

4. We Graduated!
We are now a Top Level Project at the ASF
This was less than 1 year from CloudStack
entering the Incubator

5. Since August 2010:
Over 18,000 commits
by hundreds of developers
creating 2.5 million lines of code

6. We Released 4.1.0
Significant Architectural Improvements
20 new features, 24 “improvements”, 155
bug fixes
Helped several 2.x users be able to
upgrade to 4.1

7. We’re Collaborating Better than Ever

8. Translation Community
Documentation Progress UI Progress

9. Educating Others
CloudStack University Initiative
Google Summer of Code Projects
Apache CloudStack Training Courses

10. Books

11. User Groups Have Formed
Around the Globe

12. Japan CloudStack User
Group (JCSUG)
 Hundreds of members
 Coordinated release testing
 Doc Translation Sprints
 Working with LPI Japan to create an
OSS Cloud certification
 Active in multiple cities throughout
Japan

13. Question:
How’s our community doing?
Answer:
We’re stronger than ever, and
growing rapidly

14. Question:
How are users affecting
the Apache CloudStack project?

15. CloudStack’s Users Are
 Cloud Operators
 Want to easily design, install, support, upgrade and scale their
diverse cloud platforms
 Application Owners
 Want infrastructure to get out of the way of delivering
applications to the end users

16. 272+ Operators in Production

18. We are users
Builds the next generation of developers
Drives project sustainability
Improves quality
Why is this so important?

19. Our User Focus Has Given Us
 Strong support for both traditional and cloud-era workloads
 Flexible deployment options and infrastructure choice
 Real-world experiences with scale
 Upgrades that work
 New technology integrations by and for the operators
 Testing of our APIs from diverse consumer tools

20. Question:
How are users affecting
the Apache CloudStack project?
Answer:
They’re driving the Project

21. Announcing the Next
CloudStack Collaboration Conference
Amsterdam
November 20-22, 2013

22. Let’s make sure we avoid this
moment for our users…

23. Because infrastructure and
applications are means to an end.
Our job is to make them easy to consume.

24. Get Involved:
cloudstack.apache.org

25. Thanks, and enjoy the conference!