Thanks for having me, and thanks also to Rajesh et al for the Bangalore slot, too. We had some great CloudStack interest and questions at both events.
-kevin > -----Original Message----- > From: Rohit Yadav [mailto:rohit.ya...@citrix.com] > Sent: Friday, November 02, 2012 7:37 AM > To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org; cloudstack- > us...@incubator.apache.org > Cc: kis...@apache.org > Subject: [EVENT] CloudStack Hyd Meetup: A brief log, pics and keynotes > > Hello everyone, > > We had our first official meetup in Hyderabad yesterday, 1 Nov 2012, at Lemon > Tree, Hyderabad. We had a small keynote on CloudStack with the local Hadoop > User Group a month ago on CloudStack > (http://people.apache.org/~bhaisaab/meetups/sep-2012/), but this time it was > totally focussed on CloudStack. > > The meetup keynotes started at 5PM and ended at 7:20PM, followed by about > an hour of networking and discussions, and t-shirts for everyone. It was > attended by 134 people and organised by 7 people including Nitin, Kishan, > Prasanna, Bidisha, Sadhu, Praveen, Hari P. > > We started by welcoming the attendees and showing them an introductory > video about Apache CloudStack > (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ4b8HFmFTc&feature=plcp) and did a poll > to find out that all of them have heard of cloud computing, most of them use > or > are going to use cloud or are excited to learn about it. Most of the crowd > rated > themselves as users, some managers and some engineers. Most of them use > open source technologies on daily basis and there were few who contribute to > open source. > > Kevin Kluge spoke on building your own IaaS cloud with Apache CloudStack and > gave a small demo on same; followed by a brief keynote by Prasanna on ASF and > the community participation; followed by the last presentation by Chirag Jog > on > migrating applications to the IaaS clouds which had some good use cases and > interesting examples. > > We would like to thank all our speakers, attendees, and organizers who made > the event a success. > > All the presentations and photos are downloadable from the following: > http://people.apache.org/~bhaisaab/meetups/nov-2012 > > Or, select photos here: > https://plus.google.com/photos/105500838080334630026/albums/5806205455 > 776858881 > kis...@apache.org<mailto:kis...@apache.org> will upload the video and > share the link soon. > > Please feel free to comment, share your thoughts, suggestions and blog. > Thanks. > > Regards, > Rohit Yadav > PS. We've to do better camera work next time