Yesterday the OpenStack summit kicked off here in Austin, TX. This week’s event is being attended by 7,500 individuals.
To give some perspective on the project’s growth, at the inaugural design summit back 
in 2010 there were 75 people in attendance. The purpose of this initial invite-only event was to “develop a roadmap for the first release, spec out the software and spend the last two days prototyping and hacking.”
Since that time the project has been spun out of Rackspace and has become an independent foundation and today “Hundreds of the world’s largest brands rely on OpenStack to run their businesses every day.”
Thoughts from day zero
To give you a feel for the project’s origins and what it’s aspirations were at that time, below is a set of interviews conducted at the event with some of the key players.
This first one, which does a good job of setting the stage, is an interview with the initial architect/project lead for OpenStack compute, Rick Clark.
- Blog: Introducing OpenStack — an open source cloud platform
- Blog: NASA’s chief cloud architect talks OpenStack
- Blog: Talkin’ to the project lead of OpenStack Object Storage
The project has come quite a way since the initial meeting back in 2010 at the Omni hotel here in Austin. It will be interesting to see where it is six years from now.
Pau for now…
