The document discusses the OpenStack community in India and future plans. It introduces Aptira, an OpenStack consulting company. It describes how the Indian OpenStack User Group started small in 2012 with 10 people but has grown significantly to over 1500 people across multiple cities. Future plans include expanding to more cities and towns, organizing beginner and advanced meetups, collaborating on educational materials, and starting an internship program to help students contribute to OpenStack.

1. OPENSTACK COMMUNITY IN INDIA – THE
FUTURE
Kavit Munshi, CTO, Aptira
Co-founder and organizer of the Indian OpenStack User Group

2. AGENDA
• About Aptira
• Building an OpenStack community
• Trends
• Future plans

3. INTRODUCTION TO APTIRA
• Founded in 2009
• Based in Sydney,Australia
• Managed Services
• Managed Hosting
• Cloud infrastructure
• Infrastructure Consultancy & System Integration
• Training
• Aptira India founded May 2011

4. INTRODUCTION TO APTIRA
• Specialise in Complex Infrastructure
• High load promotional sites
• Facebook and Mobile apps
• No cookie cutter
What do we do on OpenStack now?
• Hosted and on premise private clouds
• Business Intelligence
• Scalable web applications
• Media and content delivery
• DR and Hybrid
• Consulting and SystemIntegration
• OpenStack Training

5. IMPORTANCE OF THE COMMUNITY FOR OPENSTACK
• Fastest growing OpenSource Project due to community
efforts
• Similar OpenSource Cloud projects have not been as
successful, community has been the difference
• Both studentsand professionals getting involved
• Place for both corporates and startups
• InnovativeEcosystemdue to community involvement

6. BUILDING THE OPENSTACK COMMUNITY
Why start a User Group?
• Resourcing issues
• Lack of market awareness
• Lack of vendor support (initially)
What do we do with the User Group at Meetups?
• Educate new comers
• Find like minded people
• Discuss use cases
• Demo
• Socialise!

7. BUILDING THE OPENSTACK COMMUNITY
Indian Community Started April 2012
Thanks to Canonical for providing space after Ubuntu Cloud
Day for first meetup.
Third largest meetup group
From 10 to 15 people present that day to 1500 people today
24 meetups till date
5 different cities

8. BUILDING THE OPENSTACK COMMUNITY

9. • Average meetup size has gone up from 10 to 45 in
Bangalore
• Average meetup size in other cities has gone from 7 to 29
• Attendees are a mix of professionals and students
• Venues have changed from cafes and rooftops to meeting
and conference rooms at various Vendors’ offices
• Increased support from Vendors and Colleges
THE STORY SO FAR AND TRENDS

10. • Leave the metros, double the number of cities and towns
in next year. Help needed from the people present here
• Start organizing beginner level meetups for an
introduction to OpenStack.One meetup for all model not
working anymore.
• Provide community based introductory material, work
with existing efforts like www.ilearnstack.com
• Organise hack-a-thons for advanced users
FUTURE PLANS

11. • Empower students to approach their friends in other
universities/collegesto organise “Introductionto
OpenStack” events
• Work with industry players and OpenStack foundation to
start an internship program for students to drive up code
contribution and allow students be better prepared for
the job market
• Collaborate with other OpenSource meetup groups like
Hadoop, Python etc to organise joint meetups
FUTURE PLANS

12. Questions?
Meetup Page at http://www.meetup.com/Indian-OpenStack-
User-Group/
More at http://openstack.org
Aptira is at http://aptira.com or follow @aptira
I am at kavit@aptira.com or follow me @KavitAptira
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