As part of our commitment to open source, Dell is a sponsor of OSCON 2011.  The Dell OpenStack Cloud team will have a booth presence with our well-travelled Crowbar Install rack (now with BOTH PowerEdge C6100 & C6105s).  We’re doing our famous 30 minute OpenStack installs and handing out goodies including USB keys. 

Joseph George (@jbgeorge) and I are speaking:

• When: Thursday 7/28 10:40am
• Title: “Prying Open the Cloud with Dell Crowbar and OpenStack.” 

We’ll be giving specifics about how Crowbar works to deliver the Dell OpenStack Cloud Solution including a narrated demo and details about how the community can extend Crowbar using barclamps.

Note:  Stephen Spector (opnstk_com_mgr), the amazing OpenStack community manager, wanted me to remind everyone that we’re celebrating OpenStack’s 1 year anniversary with activites at OSCON.  He’s asking for video commentary about OpenStack and RSVPs if you can attend the events.  More at OpenStack Blog.