----- Original Message ----- > From: "Sally Khudairi" <[email protected]> > To: "Daan Hoogland" <[email protected]>, "Giles Sirett" > <[email protected]>, [email protected] > Cc: [email protected], "Pierre-Luc Dion" <[email protected]>, > "Apache CloudStack Press Team" > <[email protected]>, "ASF Marketing & Publicity" <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, July 28, 2014 9:04:57 AM > Subject: [DRAFT FOR REVIEW] Announcing CloudStack v4.4 [was Re: press release > for 4.4] > > Hello again! As promised, please review the initial draft below and forward > any comments/corrections/additions. > > Hugo, I'd also love a quote from you, as well as any supporting quotes from > the community (let's limit this to no more than 3-5). > > Thanks in advance for your help with this. > > - Sally > > + copying [email protected] as well as [email protected] to keep everyone > in the loop. I'd like to move the final editing process over to press@ once > comments/quotes are received. > > = = = > > The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache™ CloudStack™ v4.4 > > > Mature, easy-to-deploy Open Source IaaS Cloud computing software platform now > more efficient, with improved storage, monitoring, resource scheduling, > virtualization, and performance. > > > Forest Hill, MD –NN August 2014– The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the > all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 170 Open > Source projects and initiatives, announced today the availability of Apache™ > CloudStack™ v4.4, the mature, Open Source turnkey software platform used for > creating Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud computing in private-, > public-, and hybrid cloud environments. > > > "QUOTE," said Hugo Trippaers, Vice President of Apache CloudStack. "MORE FROM > HUGO."
Not to put words in Hugo's mouth (ha ha) - as he of course may have his own ideas - but just a suggestion... Much of the press release focuses on what's new/features, and that it's "enterprise ready" with a long list of companies implementing - and a bit light on the community angle, outside of the info on the wider apache foundation community. While I know it's a bit tricky, given that folks are contributing "as individuals" - but somehow highlighting that the work in the release continues to reflect the increasing community participation and contributions by a diverse group of developers and operators seems like it might ... highlight a nice unified community feeling :) > > > Apache CloudStack users power billions of dollars' worth of business > transactions annually across their clouds, and has become the Open Source > platform for many service providers to set up on-demand, elastic public > cloud computing services, as well as enterprises to set up a private or > hybrid cloud for use by their own employees. In addition, CloudStack is > available to individuals and organizations that wish to study and implement > an IaaS for personal, educational, and/or production use. > > > Lauded by Gartner Group as "a solid product", Is a citation/permission needed for this? (At least, a year, or "in their yearly report," or something a bit more concrete seems like it would have more authenticity.) -robyn CloudStack includes an > intuitive user interface and rich APIs for managing the compute, networking, > software, and storage infrastructure resources. CloudStack entered the > Apache Incubator in April 2012 and became an Apache Top-level Project in > March 2013. > > > CloudStack v4.4 reflects dozens of new features and improvements, including > root disk resize and storage management, support for DRS VMware and > Microsoft Windows Hyper-V, Virtual Router notification, and 135 bug fixes, > as detailed in the release notes > http://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/projects/cloudstack-release-notes/en/latest/ > > > CloudStack is in use/production at Alcatel-Lucent, ASG, Autodesk, BT Cloud, > Bechtle AG, China Telecom, Cloudera, DataPipe, Dell, Digital China Advanced > Systems, Disney, Edmunds.com, Exoscale, GreenQloud, Hokkaido University, > Huawei, IDC Frontier, Ikoula, Juniper Networks, KDDI, KT/Korea Telecom, > Kyuden Infocom, Kyushu University, LeaseWeb, MCPc, Microland Ltd, Nokia, > NTT, NVision Group, Orange, PCextreme, PPTV, Safe Swiss Cloud, Schuberg > Philis, ShapeBlue, Shopzilla, Slovak Telekom, SolidFire Storage, Stratosec, > SunGard AS, Taiwan Mobile, Targus Technologies, Tata, Trader Media Group, > TrendMicro/TCloud Computing, TomTom, University of Melbourne, University of > Sao Paolo, Verizon, WebMD, Zenoss, and Zynga, among others. > > > [@@CLOSING QUOTE FROM HUGO.] > > > Catch Apache CloudStack in action at the 20th Japan CloudStack User Group > MeetUp (Osaka Prefecture; 1 August 2014 @cloudstackja, > http://lanyrd.com/2014/csstudy20/) and CloudStack Collaboration Conference, > the official user/developer conference of the Apache CloudStack community > (Budapest, Hungary, 19-21 November 2014). For more information and to > register, visit > http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/cloudstack-collaboration-conference-europe > and follow @CCCEU14 on Twitter. > > > Availability and Oversight > CloudStack v4.4 is available immediately as a free download from > http://cloudstack.apache.org/downloads.html. As with all Apache products, > 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. For > documentation and ways to become involved with Apache CloudStack, visit > http://cloudstack.apache.org/ and @CloudStack on Twitter. > > > About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) > Established in 1999, the all-volunteer Foundation oversees more than one > hundred and seventy 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 450 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(c)(3) charitable organization, > funded by individual donations and corporate sponsors including Budget > Direct, Citrix, Cloudera, Comcast, Facebook, Google, Hortonworks, HP, > Huawei, IBM, InMotion Hosting, Matt Mullenweg, Microsoft, Pivotal, Produban, > WANdisco, and Yahoo. > For more information, visit http://www.apache.org/ or follow @TheASF on > Twitter. > > > "Apache", "Apache CloudStack", "CloudStack", "ApacheCon", the Apache > CloudStack logo, and the Apache CloudStack Cloud Monkey logo are trademarks > of The Apache Software Foundation. All other brands and trademarks are the > property of their respective owners. > > > # # # > > [MEDIA CONTACT -SALLY] > > > >________________________________ > > From: Sally Khudairi <[email protected]> > >To: Daan Hoogland <[email protected]>; Giles Sirett > ><[email protected]> > >Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>; > >Pierre-Luc Dion <[email protected]> > >Sent: Monday, 28 July 2014, 10:06 > >Subject: Re: press release for 4.4 > > > > > > > >Thanks so much for the suggestion, Daan. > > > > > >I can start drafting something this week. > > > >Kind regards, > >Sally > > > >= = = = = > >vox +1 617 921 8656 > >skype sallykhudairi > > > > > > > >>________________________________ > >> From: Daan Hoogland <[email protected]> > >>To: Sally Khudairi <[email protected]>; Giles Sirett > >><[email protected]> > >>Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>; > >>Pierre-Luc Dion <[email protected]> > >>Sent: Monday, 28 July 2014, 4:06 > >>Subject: press release for 4.4 > >> > >> > >>Sally et al, > >> > >>The vp asked me if I could arrange with you to create a press release > >>that will be inviting to write articles. Pierre-Luc's release notes > >>should help with that. I can assist but am not the person to do this. > >> > >>-- > >>Daan > >> > >> > >> > > > > >
