Matt Fischer, principal engineer at Time Warner Cable, shares his takeaways from Philadelphia and a wish list for future improvements.

“The first commit has a steep learning curve, especially if you haven’t had experience with Git, Gerrit, and the rest of the OpenStack tooling.” says HP developer Susanne Balle. “My experience has been that the community is very welcoming and always ready to help a newbie with his/her first commit.”

“When we encounter a problem with our system implementations, the extremely vibrant community of users, operators and developers is on hand to help us figure out how to fix it for ourselves and for everyone else as well.”

“Systems that optimize for diversity are stronger, faster, smarter, and infinitely more adaptable,” says Gretchen Curtis of Piston.

The life of an OpenStack operator is always interesting, says Matt Fischer. “There’s no shortages of things to fix, things to improve, and things to learn, and that’s why I love it.”

Two Blue Box engineers share a first-hand account of the problems and solutions that they’ve encountered in their experience operating OpenStack clouds.

How the e-commerce giant performed a seamless migration from the Folsom Nova-network to Havana Neutron.

Flavio Percoco, Zaqar PTL, describes the updates we can expect to see in the Kilo release cycle.

“Because of the experience and success we’ve had with OpenStack, Budd Van Lines is ordering specific hardware and newer equipment that will end up in production.”

Part 2 of Lew Tucker’s Paris Summit session reveals the strategy guiding Cisco’s corporate strategy as it relates to OpenStack.