OpenStack community is growing at a very fast pace. The panel will give an overview of this growth, with some metrics and charts. The session will be the venue to discuss and decide how to: create local OpenStack ambassadors to help promote the project worldwide give recognition to all the people helping in the success of Openstack share best practices for establishing user groups for OpenStack. The panel will be open to comments and questions from the attendees.

1. Growing the
OpenStack International
Community
Panel at OpenStack Conference
April 2012, San Francisco

2. S o me s ta ts
Essex developed by ~200 developers from
~50 companies
~20 countries represented at Design
Summit
Worldwide network of user groups (North
America, South America, Europe, Asia and
Africa)

8. Traffic on http://docs.openstack.org

9. Traffic on http://docs.openstack.org, excluding US

10. Traffic on http://docs.openstack.org, excluding US and China

11. Expanding the community with
OpenStack User Groups
Panel

12. H o w t o p a r t ic ip a t e
Websites:
http://openstack.org/community
http://openstack.org/blog
Mailing List:
http://launchpad.net/~openstack-community
Wiki:
wiki.openstack.org/OpenStackUserGroups
Twitter: @openstack