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Project Caerus Code Release
by Hui Lei 17 May '21

17 May '21

Dear all, As you may know, the Caerus project of the Open Infra Labs investigates techniques such as near-data processing and semantic caching to optimize the performance of disaggregated data lakes. I am pleased to announce that an initial version of the project code is now available in the open infra lab repo (https://github.com/open-infrastructure-labs/caerus) The initial code base enables the pushing down of Spark SQL operations to the data nodes of HDFS. Attached is a preliminary … [View More]

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backing up github
by Daitzman, Michael S 11 May '21

11 May '21

We don’t have an enterprise account with github which led to a a realization that we don’t have an explicit “backup” model for openinfralabs repositories. Historically I think we’ve depended on people having local copies in case of “outages”. I was curious, does the open infrastructure foundation have a way to do “backups” of repositories? --- Michael Daitzman (He/Him) msd(a)bu.edu cell:978-201-9965

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May 11 meeting of Telemetry Working Group cancelled
by Jeremy Stanley 11 May '21

11 May '21

I received a notification from Jennifer Stacy at BU letting me know that this month's Telemetry Working Group meeting, originally scheduled for May 11 (tomorrow), is cancelled due to lack of availability for key participants. The June 8 meeting is still planned as usual. Feel free to follow up here on the mailing list, IRC/Slack, or GitHub issues with any important topics of discussion in the meantime. -- Jeremy Stanley

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Call for papers for an AI-focused event
by Ildiko Vancsa 30 Apr '21

30 Apr '21

Hi, I'm Ildikó Váncsa, Senior Manager, Community & Ecosystem at the Open Infrastructure Foundation. I’m reaching out to you to draw your attention to a new AI-focused event which could be a great opportunity to highlight related activities in OpenInfra Labs. The event is called awAIre and will be held June 22nd - 24th, 2021. The CFP for this event is currently open and closes this Friday (April 23): https://www.awaire.events/call-for-papers-2021 I’m sorry for the short notice. Please … [View More]

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Exciting announcement today!
by Daitzman, Michael S 28 Apr '21

28 Apr '21

Hi everyone, I wanted to make sure that everyone saw the exciting announcement coming out of Red Hat Summit today. Today, Red Hat is providing $551.9 million USD<https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-and-boston-universit…> in software subscriptions and resources to the Hariri Institute’s<https://www.bu.edu/hic/> open research cloud initiative,<https://www.bu.edu/hic/centers-initiatives-labs/orci/> in addition to $20 million to support research and deepen … [View More]

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Red Hat Collaboratory Colloquium Series: Sage Weil, Ceph Project Lead; Sr Distinguished Engineer, Red Hat
by Daitzman, Michael S 22 Apr '21

22 Apr '21

Please join us for the next Red Hat Collaboratory at Boston University Colloquium Series event! Pause for democracy: Leaving open source storage to help Americans vote in 2020<http://www.bu.edu/rhcollab/2021/04/08/colloquium-pause-for-democracy-leavin…> Sage Weil Ceph Project Lead; Sr Distinguished Engineer, Red Hat Thursday April 29, 2021 2:00 - 3:00 PM Location: Zoom Meeting ID: 924 4393 8387 Passcode: 770902 Abstract In 2020 I took a leave of absence to work on democracy and … [View More]voting related efforts with VoteAmerica, a national get-out-the-vote organization with a focus on voter registration, voter turnout, and voter protection. This was a huge departure from my usual role at Red Hat leading Ceph, an open source distributed storage project, both in terms of the technical work and the underlying motivation and purpose. This talk will cover a mix of both what I did and why, as well as how the journey has changed the way I view my work and career goals going forward. I will talk about what drove me to take what seemed at the time like a drastic move, how I (eventually) found a place where I felt I could be effective, who I worked with and what we accomplished, and how that has changed my perspective now that I have returned to my “real” job. About the Speaker Sage Weil is the lead architect and co-creator of the Ceph open source distributed storage system. Sage helped design Ceph as part of his PhD research at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Since finishing in 2007, he has continued to refine Ceph with the goal of providing a stable next generation distributed storage system for Linux. Sage co-founded Inktank in 2012 to bring enterprise-quality open source storage to the enterprise. After Red Hat acquired Inktank in 2014, Sage has worked in Red Hat's Office of the CTO to improve Ceph and help shape Red Hat's overall storage strategy. About the Collaboratory A partnership between Red Hat and Boston University, the Red Hat Collaboratory connects BU faculty and students with industry practitioners working in open-source software communities. The Collaboratory aims to advance research focused on emerging technologies in a number of areas including operating systems, cloud computing services, machine learning and automation, and big data platforms. * This is a Red Hat Collaboratory at Boston Univeristy Colloquium Series <http://www.bu.edu/rhcollab> Talk * Contact Jennifer Stacy<mailto:jstacy@bu.edu> with any questions [cidimage002.png(a)01D73063.838A1840] --- Michael Daitzman (He/Him) msd(a)bu.edu cell:978-201-9965 [View Less]

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Updated Homepage Design Proposal
by Jimmy McArthur 20 Apr '21

20 Apr '21

Hi OpenInfra Labs! We have been discussing some options to help showcase the upcoming April 27th keynote which will feature Chris Wright of Red Hat directly promoting openinfralabs.org. In an effort to help new site visitors better understand what OpenInfra Labs is, we're suggesting a new diagram (thanks to Michael for the rough draft) as well as a place to prominently promote the video and announcement. The design for reference [1] and many thanks to James Cole, our lead designer, for putting … [View More]

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vPTG April 2021 Team Signup
by Kendall Nelson 02 Apr '21

02 Apr '21

Greetings! As you hopefully already know, our next PTG will be virtual again, and held from Monday, April 19 to Friday, April 23. We will have the same schedule set up available as last time with three windows of time spread across the day to cover all timezones with breaks in between. *To signup your team, you must complete **BOTH** the survey[1] AND reserve time in the ethercalc[2] by March 25 at 7:00 UTC.* We ask that the PTL/SIG Chair/Team lead sign up for time to have their discussions … [View More]

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[all] April 2021 PTG Dates & Registration
by Kendall Nelson 02 Mar '21

02 Mar '21

Hello Everyone! I'm sure you all have been anxiously awaiting the announcement of the dates for the next virtual PTG[1]! The PTG will take place April 19-23, 2021! PTG registration is now open[2]. Like last time, it is free, but we will again be using it to communicate details about the event (schedules, passwords, etc), so please take two minutes to register! Early next week we will send out info to mailing lists about signing up teams. Also, the same as last time, we will have an ethercalc … [View More]

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2020 Open Infrastructure Foundation Annual Report
by Jeremy Stanley 29 Jan '21

29 Jan '21

Despite being a very different year than most, the Open Infrastructure community, which has over 110,000 community members, made it a productive and successful year. One of the biggest milestones that happened in the global community last year was that OpenStack, one of the top three most active open source projects with 15 million cores in production, marked its 10th anniversary in 2020. The Open Infrastructure Foundation would like to extend a huge thanks to the global community for all of … [View More]

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