Mission
to produce the ubiquitous Open Source Cloud Computing platform that will meet the needs of public and private clouds regardless of size, by being simple to implement and massively scalable.
Borrowed from Ubuntu
Time Based Releases
Six Month Cadance
Design summits each cycle
Release codenames in alphabetical order
Different from Ubuntu
No BDFL
All decisions are democratic
Naming Process
Pick a name from names of cities or geographical features near the summit locationGrizzly
San Diego
Grizzly bear on the flag
Havana
Portland, OR
not Cuba
Icehouse
Hong Kong
Street in HK
Juno
Atlanta, GA
Town in Georgia
Kilo
Paris
location of the actual kilogramme
The L Word
Vancouver
Lemming?
Lemming Peak
The Marketing Community was not thrilled
Lemmings commit mass suicide by following each other off cliffs
Except they don't
White Wilderness
1958 Disney Documentary
Staged footage
Camera crew forced them off the cliff
Won an Oscar, of course
Definition of Irony
The actual meaning is the opposite of the literal meaning
Recursive Definition of Irony
The lemmings metaphor only works because people are lemmings in their adherence to the myth that lemmings are like lemmings.
This could never happen to us, right?
MySQL doesn't have transactions
MongoDB is Web Scale
PHP is insecure
Frequent password rotation is secure
sysvinit needs to be replaced
Results
We didn't pick Lemming - we picked Liberty
Liberty is a town in Saskatchewan
Four Freedoms
0 - to run the program as you wish, for any purpose
1 - to study how the program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish
2 - to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor
3 - to distribute copies of your modified version to others
GPL is anti-business
Except it isn't
Definition of Eating Crow
humiliation by admitting wrongness or having been proven wrong after taking a strong position
Enjoyable Definition of Eating Crow
Microsoft purchases Revolution Analytics
R language is GPL
Sun/MySQL
Sun bought MySQL for $1 Billion
Oracle bought Sun
Oracle now develops and ships MySQL under the GPL
Linux
anybody here heard of it?
Android is the market leading Mobile OS
Linux runs:
They run MySQL too
Linux is not just for big companies - it's startup friendly too!
HP ships a Linux server every minute
business unit that does is a $28B business
Why is Free Software Important?
1984 - Apple's 1984 Super Bowl Commercial
1985 - Apple's Lemmings Super Bowl Commercial
1997 - Apple's Think Different Campaign
Don't be a lemming
Everybody in this room is wearing a uniform and don't kid yourself
Frank Zappa
"Think Different" isn't about allowing for individualism, it's about defining an alternate tribe
And don't kid yourself, it's about selling product
What if you're this poor fellow?
http://worstcats.tumblr.com
How much of your life is computerized?
How many of the four freedoms do you have with each of those things?
superfish
My laptop did not come with any software pre-installed that is designed to "improve my shopping experience"
If it had, I am empowered to remove it
Why are we here? I think many people assume, wrongly, that a company exists solely to make money. Money is an important part of a company's existence, if the company is any good. But a result is not a cause. We have to go deeper and find the real reason for our being.
David Packard
Free Software is a way that I can make the world a better place
Free Software is a way to reconnect with our humanity in a sea of white privilege
Free Software drives an unprecedented amount of innovation
Believe you can change the world
David Packard