Hi It’s a great idea. Will help infuse fresh ideas. I would be very interested in helping out in the co-ordination. More thoughts inline
> -----Original Message----- > From: openstack-bounces+dedutta=cisco....@lists.launchpad.net > [mailto:openstack-bounces+dedutta=cisco....@lists.launchpad.net] On > Behalf Of Stefano Maffulli > Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2011 9:04 AM > To: openstack@lists.launchpad.net > Subject: [Openstack] OpenStack Academic > Alliance|Circle|Initiative#unconference > > hello folks, > > a group of people interested in academia met in Boston during the > unconference. I was there to take notes and facilitate this community > run initiative. Here is what we agreed so far. I'm sharing it on the > list to gather more ideas. > > /stef > > OpenStack Academic Initiative > > Mission: > > * provide a place for all research academics efforts can be > advertised and found, about and around OpenStack (not generic > about IaaS or PaaS) > * a list of papers published and ongoing research > * a list of conferences about cloud We can start with some of the papers from SIGCOMM, OSDI/SOSP, NSDI to begin with. And list the conferences. > * maintain a list of ideas for the companies to sponsor research > like a "market" > * a place for the companies to say what they need and research can > execute > * undergrad level, gsoc-style, time starved but there are > many of them. it's important to be easy for them to > contribute They can contribute a lot of point features as part of academic projects. > * masters level, more in depth work, empirical studies > like performance evaluation Scalability analysis will be another area .... > * phd level, exploratory type of research I think Donabe has a lot of scope. So does Quantum .... especially from a SDN perspective. > * handle the funding, hr tasks, mentoring: who's going to manage > this? > * mentoring is intense and time consuming, but crucial for > the success of research Crowdsourced mentoring isn’t a bad idea. Also less taxing. > * provide resources, like hardware for tests, for researchers Could happen via industry grants or even partnering with NSF or some equivalent agency (NRC in Canada or some EU research agencies). > * advertise this initiative among researchers > * Example: setup OpenStack tracks at a couple of relevant > conference Maybe have a pure academic track (algorithms, distributed systems relevant to OS) and a poster session for long term ideas/opinions. > Next steps: Identify the group responsible for this initiative and > define action items, deadlines and deliverables. I am ready to volunteer for this. > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack > Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
