Lustre discuss - Oct 2010 - Lustre-discuss Digest, Vol 57, Issue 22

Norm,

This is great news. Congratulations to you and the founding members for getting
OpenSFS off the ground. Is there a public mailing list to which interested
community members can subscribe for on-going news and updates? I didn''t
see anything on the web site other than the membership application.

Cheers,
Bojanic

On Oct 19, 2010, at 13:05 , lustre-discuss-request at lists.lustre.org wrote:
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> Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 06:58:58 -0500
> From: Norman Morse <normanrmorse at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Lustre-discuss] Announce the establishment of Open Scalable
> 	File	Systems, Inc. (OpenSFS)
> To: lustre-discuss at lists.lustre.org
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> Dear Lustre Community Member:
> 
> It is with great pleasure that I announce the establishment of Open
Scalable
> File Systems, Inc. (OpenSFS), a non-profit mutual benefit corporation
> focused on the advancement and promotion of scalable, open-source file
> systems for the high performance computing (HPC) and data intensive
> computing community.  OpenSFS will focus initially on requirements and
> priorities supporting Lustre? file system stabilization and future
> development on the Linux operating system.
> 
> Established with the strategic support and multi-million dollar membership
> funding from the organization''s founding members - Cray Inc.,
DataDirect
> Networks Inc. (DDN), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and Oak
> Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), OpenSFS will provide a collaborative
> environment in which parallel file system requirements can be
> aggregated, distilled, and prioritized to coordinate development activities
> targeted at meeting the needs of the HPC community.
> 
> Guided by input from the entire Lustre? community, OpenSFS participants
will
> formalize requirements for Lustre? advancement (education, community
> outreach, new features, bug fixes, etc.) and will establish priorities for
> those requirements within OpenSFS to guide awarding contracts to Lustre?
> developers to address those requirements.  The contracts will be funded
> using OpenSFS participant dues.
> 
> Following the example of successful open-source collaborative organizations
> that have preceded it - OpenSFS aims to help establish the open source file
> systems it promotes and contributes to as industry-wide open standards by
> driving education, community outreach, stability, usability and
> forward-feature development.
> 
> At its inception, OpenSFS is backed with funding levels and an
> organizational structure that will allow an immediate positive impact for
> the Lustre? community.  We are now soliciting participation to begin the
> requirements gathering and prioritization process.  We would like your
> input, contribution, and ongoing participation in OpenSFS and our various
> working groups to ensure that community interests are best represented.
> 
> 
> 
> You can join the OpenSFS community by visiting us at
> openSFS.org<http://opensfs.org/>.
> Here you will find our bylaws, participation terms, forms and working group
> details as they become established (as some of the working groups are still
> under construction, this is a good time to join and influence development).
> An overview summary of the OpenSFS organization, objectives and structure
> can also be found on our web site.
> 
> 
> 
> We will host an OpenSFS Information Session in parallel with SC10 in New
> Orleans currently scheduled for 2:30-4:00pm on Tuesday November 16th.  We
> will give a short overview of OpenSFS and answer questions regarding the
> organization as well as provide a chance for everyone to meet and interact
> with other Lustre? community members.  Details regarding meeting location
> will be posted on our web site before SC10.
> 
> 
> 
> I and all the OpenSFS founding members invite you to join us in improving
> existing and creating new open source file systems to support the HPC
> environment.  Together, we can truly make a difference.
> 
> 
> 
> With Best Regards,
> 
> 
> 
> Norm Morse
> 
> President and CEO, OpenSFS

Peter,

Thank you very much for the kind words.  We''re excited to move forward.
 We''ve spent a lot of cycles making sure the mechanics of setting up
the
corporation were done correctly and will now turn all our entire attention
to the business (the important aspect) of OpenSFS functions.  We''re
setting
up working groups, continuing to improve the web site and adding important
functionality such as the publish/subscribe capability you mention.  We look
forward to working with you and the entire Lustre community.

With best regards,

Norm

On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Peter Bojanic <peter at bojanic.ca>
wrote:
> Norm,
>
> This is great news. Congratulations to you and the founding members for
> getting OpenSFS off the ground. Is there a public mailing list to which
> interested community members can subscribe for on-going news and updates? I
> didn''t see anything on the web site other than the membership
application.
>
> Cheers,
> Bojanic
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On 2010-10-19, at 11:40, Peter Bojanic wrote:
> This is great news. Congratulations to you and the founding members for
getting OpenSFS off the ground. Is there a public mailing list to which
interested community members can subscribe for on-going news and updates? I
didn''t see anything on the web site other than the membership
application.
Norm,
great to hear that OpenSFS a reality.  We look forward to working with the
developers that OpenSFS is funding, in order to continue making Lustre better.

If you are interested we just created the lustre-community mailing list to
facilitate the discussion surrounding open/community development and surrounding
processes.  I think this would be a good place to keep the community informed
about OpenSFS.

Anyone can subscribe at
http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-community, or send an email to
lustre-community-request at lists.lustre.org with the subject
"subscribe".
> On Oct 19, 2010, at 13:05 , lustre-discuss-request at lists.lustre.org
wrote:
>> It is with great pleasure that I announce the establishment of Open
Scalable
>> File Systems, Inc. (OpenSFS), a non-profit mutual benefit corporation
>> focused on the advancement and promotion of scalable, open-source file
>> systems for the high performance computing (HPC) and data intensive
>> computing community.  OpenSFS will focus initially on requirements and
>> priorities supporting Lustre? file system stabilization and future
>> development on the Linux operating system.
>> 
>> Established with the strategic support and multi-million dollar
membership
>> funding from the organization''s founding members - Cray Inc.,
DataDirect
>> Networks Inc. (DDN), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and
Oak
>> Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), OpenSFS will provide a collaborative
>> environment in which parallel file system requirements can be
>> aggregated, distilled, and prioritized to coordinate development
activities
>> targeted at meeting the needs of the HPC community.
>> 
>> Guided by input from the entire Lustre? community, OpenSFS participants
will
>> formalize requirements for Lustre? advancement (education, community
>> outreach, new features, bug fixes, etc.) and will establish priorities
for
>> those requirements within OpenSFS to guide awarding contracts to
Lustre?
>> developers to address those requirements.  The contracts will be funded
>> using OpenSFS participant dues.
>> 
>> Following the example of successful open-source collaborative
organizations
>> that have preceded it - OpenSFS aims to help establish the open source
file
>> systems it promotes and contributes to as industry-wide open standards
by
>> driving education, community outreach, stability, usability and
>> forward-feature development.
>> 
>> At its inception, OpenSFS is backed with funding levels and an
>> organizational structure that will allow an immediate positive impact
for
>> the Lustre? community.  We are now soliciting participation to begin
the
>> requirements gathering and prioritization process.  We would like your
>> input, contribution, and ongoing participation in OpenSFS and our
various
>> working groups to ensure that community interests are best represented.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> You can join the OpenSFS community by visiting us at
>> openSFS.org<http://opensfs.org/>.
>> Here you will find our bylaws, participation terms, forms and working
group
>> details as they become established (as some of the working groups are
still
>> under construction, this is a good time to join and influence
development).
>> An overview summary of the OpenSFS organization, objectives and
structure
>> can also be found on our web site.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> We will host an OpenSFS Information Session in parallel with SC10 in
New
>> Orleans currently scheduled for 2:30-4:00pm on Tuesday November 16th. 
We
>> will give a short overview of OpenSFS and answer questions regarding
the
>> organization as well as provide a chance for everyone to meet and
interact
>> with other Lustre? community members.  Details regarding meeting
location
>> will be posted on our web site before SC10.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> I and all the OpenSFS founding members invite you to join us in
improving
>> existing and creating new open source file systems to support the HPC
>> environment.  Together, we can truly make a difference.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> With Best Regards,
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Norm Morse
>> 
>> President and CEO, OpenSFS
> 
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Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
Lustre Technical Lead
Oracle Corporation Canada Inc.