Wednesday, April 09, 2014

Presentation: How OpenStack is paralleling Linux adoption (and how it isn't)

I gave this presentation at the Linux Collaboration Summit in Napa last month. It brings together various thoughts for a couple of earlier blog posts of mine. When I have time, I'll put up an annotated version.

OpenStack is paralleling and will likely continue to parallel the adoption of another open source project that has become enormously popular and successful—namely Linux. The parallels are educational and useful in that they lend insight into the rate at which adoption takes place and what we might expect successful adoption to look like. At the same time, this session will provide appropriate caveats about assuming that OpenStack can be viewed as just a latter-day Linux. By applying this sort of historical perspective, we can better understand what might be the most effective approaches to collaboration, community-building, and cooperation moving forward.

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