Re: Thoughts on CloudStack while starting as new VP

2015-03-26 Thread Marco Sinhoreli
Sebastien,


About documentation, now transifex uses fragmented texts and it creates
some times no sense texts translated. My suggestion is get together the
text blocks but I think it will be a hard work to reorganize code and
transifex. Another thing is support UTF-8 to supports special characters
in others languages.

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On 23/03/15 11:15, Sebastien Goasguen run...@gmail.com wrote:

Dear members of the CloudStack community,

Last week the Apache Software Foundation board unanimously voted a
resolution to make me the new VP of Apache CloudStack. This came after a
unanimous vote of the CloudStack PMC and is regular process of our
community as described in our bylaws.

I am excited to take on this new role after two amazing VP (Chip and
Hugo) since CloudStack came to the ASF. Many thanks to them and
especially Hugo for the work he has done in the past year.

The ASF is setup so that the governance of a project really belongs to
the community itself. CloudStack is what we all make it to be, we all
have equal footing when time comes to develop the code, create events,
take decisions and so on. As VP I do not have a special say in our
direction. This governance model is in stark contrast with other open
source project that follow more of a benevolent dictator model. I mention
this as a bit of disclaimer and to re-enforce the fact that while I have
views about what we should do, they are my personal views and that they
do not represent any sorts of official roadmaps, and that anyone is
welcome to disagree :)

In Budapest, we had a great conference. Chip and I showed several
CloudStack use cases. Our user base is strong with over 300 production
deployments. Our community is large and diverse with 2000 people on the
mailing lists, but we need to keep advocating for CloudStack, make it an
even greater software and grow our community. At the very least this
helps us learn from each other, better our own skills and our employers
IT infrastructure. At the very best AWS switches to CloudStack :)

So here are some food for thoughts that will hopefully excite you, want
to get engage, talk about CloudStack and bring on board your friends:

On the code:
-
- Keep improving quality, remove dead code, cleanup JIRA, cleanup Review
Board
We have successfully moved to GitHub pull requests, we should stop using
RB
- Simplify the dev process and adopt a new committing system to avoid
regressions at all costs.
We have talked about this for a long time but have failed had doing
something concrete. It is time.
- Remove the AWSAPI (there is a branch without it right now), we should
merge it in master
I am going to push for IP clearance of ec2stack and gstack to get them
under ASF governance.
- Several Cloud Providers have unveiled new CloudStack UI, maybe it¹s
time we do the same.
- Solidify the testing infrastructure, keep Jenkins builds running
- Brainstorm on the future of CloudStack and IaaS in general. What should
CloudStack be in 10 years ?
While CloudStack is what it is now, nothing prevents us to re-architect,
re-think, re-code it within the current framework.
- Finally, package the mgt server and the KVM agent as Docker containers
Docker is a great portability mechanism. We should embrace Docker as a
packaging tool (first) and provide container images for our mgt server
(at a minimum).
This could become a type of release artifact that could be easily
continuously built.


On the ecosystem:
-
We have a really strong ecosystem. From configuration management tools,
API wrappers, PaaS plugins etc.
We need to feature our ecosystem clearly on our website, support it and
keep on growing it as new technologies emerge.

Things that come to mind:
- Push to get our Ansible module into the Ansible core
- Publish ³official² chef recipes to deploy CloudStack
- Identify and publish ³official² Puppet recipes
- Build Docker native templates (coreOS, rancherOS, Snappy, Atomic)
- Finally cleanup cloud-init support for CloudStack, this is preventing
us from having upstream centOS templates.
- Publish playbooks/recipes to deploy workloads on CloudStack (think
Hadoop, Spark, Kubernetes)
- Work actively on up to date integration with CloudFoundry

On documentation:
-
I and couple others successfully moved our docs to the Read The Docs
service. This was a first great move but we need to finish the job.
We need to rethink our documentation tree, maybe merge all guides in one,
correct the docs, create a new theme for it.
This is an easy area to contribute to if you are using cloudstack. Just
send a pull 

Re: Thoughts on CloudStack while starting as new VP

2015-03-24 Thread Rohit Yadav
Great proposals Sebastien! Let's AWSAPI, improve code, remove dead code, 
cleanup JIRA/RB cleanup and move to Github PR.

I hope we’ll have a better UIs for ACS users soon!

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Re: Thoughts on CloudStack while starting as new VP

2015-03-23 Thread Nux!
Great email, I love the enthusiasm. :-)

I hope we can tick many of those points this year.

Lucian

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- Original Message -
 From: Sebastien Goasguen run...@gmail.com
 To: d...@cloudstack.apache.org, users@cloudstack.apache.org, 
 market...@cloudstack.apache.org
 Sent: Monday, 23 March, 2015 14:15:47
 Subject: Thoughts on CloudStack while starting as new VP

 Dear members of the CloudStack community,
 
 Last week the Apache Software Foundation board unanimously voted a resolution 
 to
 make me the new VP of Apache CloudStack. This came after a unanimous vote of
 the CloudStack PMC and is regular process of our community as described in our
 bylaws.
 
 I am excited to take on this new role after two amazing VP (Chip and Hugo) 
 since
 CloudStack came to the ASF. Many thanks to them and especially Hugo for the
 work he has done in the past year.
 
 The ASF is setup so that the governance of a project really belongs to the
 community itself. CloudStack is what we all make it to be, we all have equal
 footing when time comes to develop the code, create events, take decisions and
 so on. As VP I do not have a special say in our direction. This governance
 model is in stark contrast with other open source project that follow more of 
 a
 benevolent dictator model. I mention this as a bit of disclaimer and to
 re-enforce the fact that while I have views about what we should do, they are
 my personal views and that they do not represent any sorts of official
 roadmaps, and that anyone is welcome to disagree :)
 
 In Budapest, we had a great conference. Chip and I showed several CloudStack 
 use
 cases. Our user base is strong with over 300 production deployments. Our
 community is large and diverse with 2000 people on the mailing lists, but we
 need to keep advocating for CloudStack, make it an even greater software and
 grow our community. At the very least this helps us learn from each other,
 better our own skills and our employers IT infrastructure. At the very best 
 AWS
 switches to CloudStack :)
 
 So here are some food for thoughts that will hopefully excite you, want to get
 engage, talk about CloudStack and bring on board your friends:
 
 On the code:
 -
 - Keep improving quality, remove dead code, cleanup JIRA, cleanup Review Board
 We have successfully moved to GitHub pull requests, we should stop using RB
 - Simplify the dev process and adopt a new committing system to avoid
 regressions at all costs.
 We have talked about this for a long time but have failed had doing something
 concrete. It is time.
 - Remove the AWSAPI (there is a branch without it right now), we should merge 
 it
 in master
 I am going to push for IP clearance of ec2stack and gstack to get them under 
 ASF
 governance.
 - Several Cloud Providers have unveiled new CloudStack UI, maybe it’s time we 
 do
 the same.
 - Solidify the testing infrastructure, keep Jenkins builds running
 - Brainstorm on the future of CloudStack and IaaS in general. What should
 CloudStack be in 10 years ?
 While CloudStack is what it is now, nothing prevents us to re-architect,
 re-think, re-code it within the current framework.
 - Finally, package the mgt server and the KVM agent as Docker containers
 Docker is a great portability mechanism. We should embrace Docker as a 
 packaging
 tool (first) and provide container images for our mgt server (at a minimum).
 This could become a type of release artifact that could be easily continuously
 built.
 
 
 On the ecosystem:
 -
 We have a really strong ecosystem. From configuration management tools, API
 wrappers, PaaS plugins etc.
 We need to feature our ecosystem clearly on our website, support it and keep 
 on
 growing it as new technologies emerge.
 
 Things that come to mind:
 - Push to get our Ansible module into the Ansible core
 - Publish “official” chef recipes to deploy CloudStack
 - Identify and publish “official” Puppet recipes
 - Build Docker native templates (coreOS, rancherOS, Snappy, Atomic)
 - Finally cleanup cloud-init support for CloudStack, this is preventing us 
 from
 having upstream centOS templates.
 - Publish playbooks/recipes to deploy workloads on CloudStack (think Hadoop,
 Spark, Kubernetes)
 - Work actively on up to date integration with CloudFoundry
 
 On documentation:
 -
 I and couple others successfully moved our docs to the Read The Docs service.
 This was a first great move but we need to finish the job.
 We need to rethink our documentation tree, maybe merge all guides in one,
 correct the docs, create a new theme for it.
 This is an easy area to contribute to if you are using cloudstack. Just send a
 pull request (click on the top right ribbon).
 If you don’t know how, then it will teach you how to use github, great 
 exercise.
 We also need to routinely build the multi languages support.
 
 On Events:
 -
 We

Thoughts on CloudStack while starting as new VP

2015-03-23 Thread Sebastien Goasguen
Dear members of the CloudStack community,

Last week the Apache Software Foundation board unanimously voted a resolution 
to make me the new VP of Apache CloudStack. This came after a unanimous vote of 
the CloudStack PMC and is regular process of our community as described in our 
bylaws.

I am excited to take on this new role after two amazing VP (Chip and Hugo) 
since CloudStack came to the ASF. Many thanks to them and especially Hugo for 
the work he has done in the past year.

The ASF is setup so that the governance of a project really belongs to the 
community itself. CloudStack is what we all make it to be, we all have equal 
footing when time comes to develop the code, create events, take decisions and 
so on. As VP I do not have a special say in our direction. This governance 
model is in stark contrast with other open source project that follow more of a 
benevolent dictator model. I mention this as a bit of disclaimer and to 
re-enforce the fact that while I have views about what we should do, they are 
my personal views and that they do not represent any sorts of official 
roadmaps, and that anyone is welcome to disagree :)

In Budapest, we had a great conference. Chip and I showed several CloudStack 
use cases. Our user base is strong with over 300 production deployments. Our 
community is large and diverse with 2000 people on the mailing lists, but we 
need to keep advocating for CloudStack, make it an even greater software and 
grow our community. At the very least this helps us learn from each other, 
better our own skills and our employers IT infrastructure. At the very best AWS 
switches to CloudStack :)

So here are some food for thoughts that will hopefully excite you, want to get 
engage, talk about CloudStack and bring on board your friends:

On the code:
-
- Keep improving quality, remove dead code, cleanup JIRA, cleanup Review Board
We have successfully moved to GitHub pull requests, we should stop using RB
- Simplify the dev process and adopt a new committing system to avoid 
regressions at all costs.
We have talked about this for a long time but have failed had doing something 
concrete. It is time.
- Remove the AWSAPI (there is a branch without it right now), we should merge 
it in master
I am going to push for IP clearance of ec2stack and gstack to get them under 
ASF governance.
- Several Cloud Providers have unveiled new CloudStack UI, maybe it’s time we 
do the same.
- Solidify the testing infrastructure, keep Jenkins builds running
- Brainstorm on the future of CloudStack and IaaS in general. What should 
CloudStack be in 10 years ?
While CloudStack is what it is now, nothing prevents us to re-architect, 
re-think, re-code it within the current framework.
- Finally, package the mgt server and the KVM agent as Docker containers
Docker is a great portability mechanism. We should embrace Docker as a 
packaging tool (first) and provide container images for our mgt server (at a 
minimum).
This could become a type of release artifact that could be easily continuously 
built.


On the ecosystem:
-
We have a really strong ecosystem. From configuration management tools, API 
wrappers, PaaS plugins etc.
We need to feature our ecosystem clearly on our website, support it and keep on 
growing it as new technologies emerge.

Things that come to mind:
- Push to get our Ansible module into the Ansible core
- Publish “official” chef recipes to deploy CloudStack
- Identify and publish “official” Puppet recipes
- Build Docker native templates (coreOS, rancherOS, Snappy, Atomic)
- Finally cleanup cloud-init support for CloudStack, this is preventing us from 
having upstream centOS templates.
- Publish playbooks/recipes to deploy workloads on CloudStack (think Hadoop, 
Spark, Kubernetes)
- Work actively on up to date integration with CloudFoundry

On documentation:
-
I and couple others successfully moved our docs to the Read The Docs service. 
This was a first great move but we need to finish the job.
We need to rethink our documentation tree, maybe merge all guides in one, 
correct the docs, create a new theme for it.
This is an easy area to contribute to if you are using cloudstack. Just send a 
pull request (click on the top right ribbon).
If you don’t know how, then it will teach you how to use github, great exercise.
We also need to routinely build the multi languages support.

On Events:
-
We have at least four great events coming in 2015. Austin, Seattle, Tokyo and 
Dublin.
Let’s meet at one of those events.
Let’s submit a talk or a poster, tell everyone about the great stuff you are 
doing with CloudStack.
If you are in a position at your company to sponsor the event, please do, we 
need your help to make those great events.
Open Source is about collaboration and sharing, so let’s meet around the globe 
from Sao Paulo to Dublin to Tokyo and talk Cloud, DevOps and Docker :)


Finally on the Website:

Re: Thoughts on CloudStack while starting as new VP

2015-03-23 Thread Ian Rae
Great overview of important priorities Seb and proof positive of your
qualification in the VP role.

Development process, marketing/`communications, refactoring of secondary
storage and networking, support for Docker/CloudFoundry, Hadoop/Spark and
AWS/OpenStack APIs are on my mind. Sorting through the existing JIRAs and
associated housekeeping will be important to moving forward.

Interested in having CloudOps contribute where we are well positioned to
add value, and definitely up for meeting in Austin!

*Ian Rae*
CEO | PDG
c: *514.944.4008*

*CloudOps** | *Cloud Infrastructure and Networking Solutions
www.cloudops.com *|* 420 rue Guy *|* Montreal *|* Canada *|* H3J 1S6

On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 10:15 AM, Sebastien Goasguen run...@gmail.com
wrote:

 Dear members of the CloudStack community,

 Last week the Apache Software Foundation board unanimously voted a
 resolution to make me the new VP of Apache CloudStack. This came after a
 unanimous vote of the CloudStack PMC and is regular process of our
 community as described in our bylaws.

 I am excited to take on this new role after two amazing VP (Chip and Hugo)
 since CloudStack came to the ASF. Many thanks to them and especially Hugo
 for the work he has done in the past year.

 The ASF is setup so that the governance of a project really belongs to the
 community itself. CloudStack is what we all make it to be, we all have
 equal footing when time comes to develop the code, create events, take
 decisions and so on. As VP I do not have a special say in our direction.
 This governance model is in stark contrast with other open source project
 that follow more of a benevolent dictator model. I mention this as a bit of
 disclaimer and to re-enforce the fact that while I have views about what we
 should do, they are my personal views and that they do not represent any
 sorts of official roadmaps, and that anyone is welcome to disagree :)

 In Budapest, we had a great conference. Chip and I showed several
 CloudStack use cases. Our user base is strong with over 300 production
 deployments. Our community is large and diverse with 2000 people on the
 mailing lists, but we need to keep advocating for CloudStack, make it an
 even greater software and grow our community. At the very least this helps
 us learn from each other, better our own skills and our employers IT
 infrastructure. At the very best AWS switches to CloudStack :)

 So here are some food for thoughts that will hopefully excite you, want to
 get engage, talk about CloudStack and bring on board your friends:

 On the code:
 -
 - Keep improving quality, remove dead code, cleanup JIRA, cleanup Review
 Board
 We have successfully moved to GitHub pull requests, we should stop using RB
 - Simplify the dev process and adopt a new committing system to avoid
 regressions at all costs.
 We have talked about this for a long time but have failed had doing
 something concrete. It is time.
 - Remove the AWSAPI (there is a branch without it right now), we should
 merge it in master
 I am going to push for IP clearance of ec2stack and gstack to get them
 under ASF governance.
 - Several Cloud Providers have unveiled new CloudStack UI, maybe it’s time
 we do the same.
 - Solidify the testing infrastructure, keep Jenkins builds running
 - Brainstorm on the future of CloudStack and IaaS in general. What should
 CloudStack be in 10 years ?
 While CloudStack is what it is now, nothing prevents us to re-architect,
 re-think, re-code it within the current framework.
 - Finally, package the mgt server and the KVM agent as Docker containers
 Docker is a great portability mechanism. We should embrace Docker as a
 packaging tool (first) and provide container images for our mgt server (at
 a minimum).
 This could become a type of release artifact that could be easily
 continuously built.


 On the ecosystem:
 -
 We have a really strong ecosystem. From configuration management tools,
 API wrappers, PaaS plugins etc.
 We need to feature our ecosystem clearly on our website, support it and
 keep on growing it as new technologies emerge.

 Things that come to mind:
 - Push to get our Ansible module into the Ansible core
 - Publish “official” chef recipes to deploy CloudStack
 - Identify and publish “official” Puppet recipes
 - Build Docker native templates (coreOS, rancherOS, Snappy, Atomic)
 - Finally cleanup cloud-init support for CloudStack, this is preventing us
 from having upstream centOS templates.
 - Publish playbooks/recipes to deploy workloads on CloudStack (think
 Hadoop, Spark, Kubernetes)
 - Work actively on up to date integration with CloudFoundry

 On documentation:
 -
 I and couple others successfully moved our docs to the Read The Docs
 service. This was a first great move but we need to finish the job.
 We need to rethink our documentation tree, maybe merge all guides in one,
 correct the docs, create a new theme for it.
 This is an easy area to 

Re: Thoughts on CloudStack while starting as new VP

2015-03-23 Thread Rene Moser
Hi Sebastien

Congrats from me too! I like your thoughts! Especially the cleanup and
polish part.

On 23.03.2015 15:15, Sebastien Goasguen wrote:

 - Several Cloud Providers have unveiled new CloudStack UI, maybe it’s time we 
 do the same.
+1

 Things that come to mind:
 - Push to get our Ansible module into the Ansible core

Working on that as you know. I do some polish and cleanup atm and my
plan is to make a PR after the release of Ansible 1.9. We are having a
rc2 going on, so it won't be too far away.

Anyone is welcome helping me out!
https://github.com/resmo/ansible-cloudstack

Yours
René



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Re: Thoughts on CloudStack while starting as new VP

2015-03-23 Thread Sally Khudairi
Wow --Sebastien! That looks like a well-thought-out plan.
I know that there's been a lot of energy put towards making Apache CloudStack 
an even better project. Here's to continued building from strength to strength 
--hats off to all involved! I'll be at ApacheCon and happy to meet up should 
you need anything.
Warmly,Sally

  From: Sebastien Goasguen run...@gmail.com
 To: d...@cloudstack.apache.org; users@cloudstack.apache.org; 
market...@cloudstack.apache.org 
 Sent: Monday, 23 March 2015, 10:15
 Subject: Thoughts on CloudStack while starting as new VP
   
Dear members of the CloudStack community,

Last week the Apache Software Foundation board unanimously voted a resolution 
to make me the new VP of Apache CloudStack. This came after a unanimous vote of 
the CloudStack PMC and is regular process of our community as described in our 
bylaws.

I am excited to take on this new role after two amazing VP (Chip and Hugo) 
since CloudStack came to the ASF. Many thanks to them and especially Hugo for 
the work he has done in the past year.

The ASF is setup so that the governance of a project really belongs to the 
community itself. CloudStack is what we all make it to be, we all have equal 
footing when time comes to develop the code, create events, take decisions and 
so on. As VP I do not have a special say in our direction. This governance 
model is in stark contrast with other open source project that follow more of a 
benevolent dictator model. I mention this as a bit of disclaimer and to 
re-enforce the fact that while I have views about what we should do, they are 
my personal views and that they do not represent any sorts of official 
roadmaps, and that anyone is welcome to disagree :)

In Budapest, we had a great conference. Chip and I showed several CloudStack 
use cases. Our user base is strong with over 300 production deployments. Our 
community is large and diverse with 2000 people on the mailing lists, but we 
need to keep advocating for CloudStack, make it an even greater software and 
grow our community. At the very least this helps us learn from each other, 
better our own skills and our employers IT infrastructure. At the very best AWS 
switches to CloudStack :)

So here are some food for thoughts that will hopefully excite you, want to get 
engage, talk about CloudStack and bring on board your friends:

On the code:
-
- Keep improving quality, remove dead code, cleanup JIRA, cleanup Review Board
We have successfully moved to GitHub pull requests, we should stop using RB
- Simplify the dev process and adopt a new committing system to avoid 
regressions at all costs.
We have talked about this for a long time but have failed had doing something 
concrete. It is time.
- Remove the AWSAPI (there is a branch without it right now), we should merge 
it in master
I am going to push for IP clearance of ec2stack and gstack to get them under 
ASF governance.
- Several Cloud Providers have unveiled new CloudStack UI, maybe it’s time we 
do the same.
- Solidify the testing infrastructure, keep Jenkins builds running
- Brainstorm on the future of CloudStack and IaaS in general. What should 
CloudStack be in 10 years ?
While CloudStack is what it is now, nothing prevents us to re-architect, 
re-think, re-code it within the current framework.
- Finally, package the mgt server and the KVM agent as Docker containers
Docker is a great portability mechanism. We should embrace Docker as a 
packaging tool (first) and provide container images for our mgt server (at a 
minimum).
This could become a type of release artifact that could be easily continuously 
built.


On the ecosystem:
-
We have a really strong ecosystem. From configuration management tools, API 
wrappers, PaaS plugins etc.
We need to feature our ecosystem clearly on our website, support it and keep on 
growing it as new technologies emerge.

Things that come to mind:
- Push to get our Ansible module into the Ansible core
- Publish “official” chef recipes to deploy CloudStack
- Identify and publish “official” Puppet recipes
- Build Docker native templates (coreOS, rancherOS, Snappy, Atomic)
- Finally cleanup cloud-init support for CloudStack, this is preventing us from 
having upstream centOS templates.
- Publish playbooks/recipes to deploy workloads on CloudStack (think Hadoop, 
Spark, Kubernetes)
- Work actively on up to date integration with CloudFoundry

On documentation:
-
I and couple others successfully moved our docs to the Read The Docs service. 
This was a first great move but we need to finish the job.
We need to rethink our documentation tree, maybe merge all guides in one, 
correct the docs, create a new theme for it.
This is an easy area to contribute to if you are using cloudstack. Just send a 
pull request (click on the top right ribbon).
If you don’t know how, then it will teach you how to use github, great exercise.
We also need to routinely build the multi

Re: Thoughts on CloudStack while starting as new VP

2015-03-23 Thread Osay Osman Yuuni
First of all congratulations on your appointment.  It is ample recognition
for your work at the project.  I'm delighted with the passion in this
piece.  I for one think you're on the right path.  It is frustrating to
note that everyone who's sat at this table has gotten up filled and content
yet when one looks at the internet there's so little on Cloudstack.  Kind
of reminds me of Novell, good products but poor visibility.  I've followed
with interest the latest developments in infrastructure ala Docker,
kubernetes and CoreOS and every time Cloudstack is last to be served,
thanks to efforts from yourself and other colleagues whose passion for the
project makes you go the extra mile to bring these into the Cloudstack
sphere.

The experience of being last to the table is set to change with this well
thought out plan.  I hope the community will take this in their stride so
that Cloudstack will bring cloud enthusiast salivating to dine at.  Let the
UX gurus come out with a UI that will make ACS stand out and friends with
Kubernetes and CoreOS experience factor in some goodies to help ACS take
the next logical step away from IaaS.  As for configuration management
there have been really good work done by the community but as Seb says, it
all needs to be tied into the ecosystem to make them an integral part of
ACS.  The product is already easy enough to deploy and use but I think
these tools could make it even easier to manage.

Kudos Seb.

Osay

On 23 March 2015 at 16:15, Sebastien Goasguen run...@gmail.com wrote:

 Dear members of the CloudStack community,

 Last week the Apache Software Foundation board unanimously voted a
 resolution to make me the new VP of Apache CloudStack. This came after a
 unanimous vote of the CloudStack PMC and is regular process of our
 community as described in our bylaws.

 I am excited to take on this new role after two amazing VP (Chip and Hugo)
 since CloudStack came to the ASF. Many thanks to them and especially Hugo
 for the work he has done in the past year.

 The ASF is setup so that the governance of a project really belongs to the
 community itself. CloudStack is what we all make it to be, we all have
 equal footing when time comes to develop the code, create events, take
 decisions and so on. As VP I do not have a special say in our direction.
 This governance model is in stark contrast with other open source project
 that follow more of a benevolent dictator model. I mention this as a bit of
 disclaimer and to re-enforce the fact that while I have views about what we
 should do, they are my personal views and that they do not represent any
 sorts of official roadmaps, and that anyone is welcome to disagree :)

 In Budapest, we had a great conference. Chip and I showed several
 CloudStack use cases. Our user base is strong with over 300 production
 deployments. Our community is large and diverse with 2000 people on the
 mailing lists, but we need to keep advocating for CloudStack, make it an
 even greater software and grow our community. At the very least this helps
 us learn from each other, better our own skills and our employers IT
 infrastructure. At the very best AWS switches to CloudStack :)

 So here are some food for thoughts that will hopefully excite you, want to
 get engage, talk about CloudStack and bring on board your friends:

 On the code:
 -
 - Keep improving quality, remove dead code, cleanup JIRA, cleanup Review
 Board
 We have successfully moved to GitHub pull requests, we should stop using RB
 - Simplify the dev process and adopt a new committing system to avoid
 regressions at all costs.
 We have talked about this for a long time but have failed had doing
 something concrete. It is time.
 - Remove the AWSAPI (there is a branch without it right now), we should
 merge it in master
 I am going to push for IP clearance of ec2stack and gstack to get them
 under ASF governance.
 - Several Cloud Providers have unveiled new CloudStack UI, maybe it’s time
 we do the same.
 - Solidify the testing infrastructure, keep Jenkins builds running
 - Brainstorm on the future of CloudStack and IaaS in general. What should
 CloudStack be in 10 years ?
 While CloudStack is what it is now, nothing prevents us to re-architect,
 re-think, re-code it within the current framework.
 - Finally, package the mgt server and the KVM agent as Docker containers
 Docker is a great portability mechanism. We should embrace Docker as a
 packaging tool (first) and provide container images for our mgt server (at
 a minimum).
 This could become a type of release artifact that could be easily
 continuously built.


 On the ecosystem:
 -
 We have a really strong ecosystem. From configuration management tools,
 API wrappers, PaaS plugins etc.
 We need to feature our ecosystem clearly on our website, support it and
 keep on growing it as new technologies emerge.

 Things that come to mind:
 - Push to get our Ansible module into the Ansible core
 - Publish