Hi Chip, Joab Jackson from IDG News Service would like to schedule a briefing with you. What is the best time that will work for you tomorrow (03/22) between 9:30am - 3:30pm ET?
Best regards, Karen From: Joab_Jackson Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2013 2:36 PM To: Karen Vuong Subject: RE: The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache CloudStack as a Top-Level Project: Request for Briefings Eastern time zone! Thanks! joab -------------------------------------------------------------------- Joab Jackson New York Correspondent IDG News Service About IDG News Service: News Service content is featured on Computerworld, Infoworld, PC World and hundreds of other IDG properties, as well as through a range of other news organizations (http://www.idg.net<http://www.idg.net/>). From: Karen Vuong <karen.vu...@citrix.com<mailto:karen.vu...@citrix.com>> To: Date: 03/21/2013 05:04 PM Subject: RE: The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache CloudStack as a Top-Level Project: Request for Briefings ________________________________ Hi Joab, No problem! I can check to see if the spokesperson has some time tomorrow for an interview. Which time zone? Best regards, Karen From: Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2013 1:57 PM To: Karen Vuong Subject: Re: The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache CloudStack as a Top-Level Project: Request for Briefings Karen, Terrific! Thanks! Would your spokesperson have some time tomorrow for any interview? Anytime would work for me, between 9:30 - 3:30. Thanks! Joab Joab -------------------------------------------------------------------- Joab Jackson New York Correspondent IDG News Service About IDG News Service: News Service content is featured on Computerworld, Infoworld, PC World and hundreds of other IDG properties, as well as through a range of other news organizations (http://www.idg.net<http://www.idg.net/>). From: Karen Vuong <karen.vu...@citrix.com<mailto:karen.vu...@citrix.com>> To: Date: 03/21/2013 04:47 PM Subject: The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache CloudStack as a Top-Level Project: Request for Briefings ________________________________ Hi Joab, The Apache Software Foundation will be announcing Apache CloudStack as a Top-level project on Monday, March 25th at 10:00am Eastern time. As you may know, Citrix proposed the project to Apache in April 2012, and the graduation from an Apache incubator to a Top-Level project is a major milestone for Apache CloudStack. It signifies that the Project's community and products have been well-governed under the ASF's meritocratic process and principles. This is not a Citrix release, but we'd like to help facilitate conversations between press and contributors to Apache CloudStack. I've attached the project release below, and would be happy to help arrange a time today, tomorrow, or this weekend for you to speak with a member of the project. You can reach me via email or at +, to schedule time for a briefing. Please let me know if you have any questions, I'd be more than happy to answer them. Thanks, Karen Vuong Open Source Cloud Marketing Coordinator, Cloud Platforms Group Office: + Mobile: + karen.vu...@citrix.com<mailto:karen.vu...@citrix.com> [cid:_2_0A6E6FBC0A6E5ED80076A4A785257B35]<http://www.citrix.com/> Powering mobile workstyles and cloud services. [ANNOUNCE] The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache CloudStack as a Top-Level Project Mature, Open Source turn-key platform widely used for delivering scalable, full-featured Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) clouds. Forest Hill, MD ¬25 March 2013¬ The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of nearly 150 Open Source projects and initiatives, today announced that Apache CloudStack has graduated from the Apache Incubator to become a Top-Level Project (TLP), signifying that the Project's community and products have been well-governed under the ASF's meritocratic process and principles. "When CloudStack first became an Apache Incubator project, it was a well-established cloud management platform with a mature codebase," said Chip Childers, Vice President of Apache CloudStack. "Our work in the Incubator has focused on growing a really strong community around the code and establishing the governance practices expected of a top-level project within The Apache Software Foundation." Widely used in production by many organizations, CloudStack is formerly the product of Cloud.com, which was acquired by Citrix in 2011, and was submitted to the Apache Incubator by Citrix in April 2012. Apache CloudStack is a complete software suite for creating Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud computing in private-, public-, and hybrid cloud environments. It has been proven to be both stable and highly scalable, underpinning production clouds with more than 30,000 physical nodes, in geo-distributed environments. "Becoming a TLP is an important step in the project's evolution and growth," added Childers. "CloudStack had the advantage of having many long-term, large deployments which had proven the stability and scalability of the technology. This helped us concentrate on adopting the 'Apache Way' of governance, which is well understood and open, delivering so many great pieces of software over the years." CloudStack's target environments include service providers and enterprises; it is used by many service providers to set up an on-demand, elastic cloud computing services and by enterprises to set up a private cloud for use by their own employees. Apache CloudStack is also available to individuals and organizations that wish to study and implement an IaaS for personal, educational, and/or production use. "We believe that Infrastructure-as-a-Service is the next generation of IT infrastructure, and that people will demand open standards and open governance for such an important layer in their IT stack," explained Childers. That is why having the CloudStack project meet the rigorous standards of ASF governance is so significant." Underscoring the ASF's edict of "Community over Code", Childers said: "we've managed to build a diverse, friendly and very open community around CloudStack. New participants receive a really warm welcome and we make sure that all contributors are on an equal footing, whether they are writing code or helping with any other aspect of the project. Anybody thinking of getting involved in the project would quickly find what a great community we are. In addition to online involvement, we've already had a global collaboration conference and there are many CloudStack groups established in many different countries." Availability and Oversight Apache CloudStack software is released under the Apache License v2.0, and is overseen by a self-selected team of active contributors to the project. A Project Management Committee (PMC) guides the Project's day-to-day operations, including community development and product releases. Apache CloudStack source code, documentation, mailing lists, and related resources are available at http://cloudstack.apache.org/. About the Apache Incubator The Apache Incubator is the entry path for projects and codebases wishing to become part of the efforts at The Apache Software Foundation. All code donations from external organizations and existing external projects wishing to join the ASF enter through the Incubator to: 1) ensure all donations are in accordance with the ASF legal standards; and 2) develop new communities that adhere to our guiding principles. Incubation is required of all newly accepted projects until a further review indicates that the infrastructure, communications, and decision making process have stabilized in a manner consistent with other successful ASF projects. While incubation status is not necessarily a reflection of the completeness or stability of the code, it does indicate that the project has yet to be fully endorsed by the ASF. For more information, visit http://incubator.apache.org/. About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) Established in 1999, the all-volunteer Foundation oversees nearly one hundred fifty leading Open Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server < the world's most popular Web server software. Through the ASF's meritocratic process known as "The Apache Way", more than 400 individual Members and 3,500 Committers successfully collaborate to develop freely available enterprise-grade software, benefiting millions of users worldwide: thousands of software solutions are distributed under the Apache License; and the community actively participates in ASF mailing lists, mentoring initiatives, and ApacheCon, the Foundation's official user conference, trainings, and expo. The ASF is a US 501(3)(c) not-for-profit charity, funded by individual donations and corporate sponsors including AMD, Basis Technology, Citrix, Cloudera, Facebook, Go Daddy, Google, HP, Hortonworks, Huawei, IBM, InMotion Hosting, Matt Mullenweg, Microsoft, PSW Group, SpringSource/VMware, WANdisco, and Yahoo!. For more information, visit http://www.apache.org/ or follow @TheASF on Twitter. "Apache", "CloudStack", "Apache CloudStack", and "ApacheCon" are registered trademarks or trademarks of the Apache Software Foundation in the United States and/or other countries. All other brands and trademarks are the property of their respective owners. # # #
