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Events
OpenStack Events
The OpenStack Foundation organizes multiple events per year to bring together the community as well as companies and individuals interested in the technology and to embrace and encourage open collaboration.
OpenStack/Open Infrastructure Summit
The Summits are bi-annual events with thousands of attendees from all around the globe. The event in Spring is located in North America and the Fall occasions are alternating somewhere between Europe and Asia.
The event is designed to bring together users, operators and developers to discuss feedback and future plans and you will also find a lot of options to collaborate with representatives from adjacent communities.
To see how OpenStack and further OpenStack Foundation projects are utilized you will find exhibitors at the Market Place area.
The sessions are grouped into two major parts, the conference and the Forum.
Conference
The conference sessions consist of 40-minute-long presentations and panel discussions organized into tracks, like 'Public Clouds', 'Containers', or 'Telecom/NFV'.
There is a Call For Papers (CFP) process before each Summit where anyone can propose sessions for the upcoming event. After the CFP deadline the proposals go through a community vote after which a group of track chairs decide about the final content for each track.
Forum
The Forum sessions are also 40 minutes long, but the sessions are intended to be working sessions as opposed to presentations.
The purpose of the Forum is to provide space for the developer and user community to get together and discuss feedback and find solution to problems and new challenges and requirements.
The Forum sessions are proposed by the community through a proposal period and the final sessions are selected by a committee.
You can find both the conference and Forum sessions on the Summit schedule.
Project Teams Gathering (PTG)
This event is created to provide space and time for developers and operators to get together and have detailed technical discussions.
The PTG is one week long with working sessions organized in parallel tracks. The week is devided between Working Group, SIG, cross-project and project team sessions and further sessions dedicated to operations related discussions.
PTGs are scheduled to the beginning of each release cycle which makes it possible to do a more thorough release planning and ensure that the more complicated proposals are discussed with all the affected teams.
This event is recommended to developers, operators and end users who are already involved in community activities. If you are a new comer you might want to consider one of the OpenStack Summits first where you can find several sessions to help you find your way within the community.
OpenDev
OpenDev is a small event designed for discussing new innovative technologies and use cases that are relevant to open infrastructure like Edge Computing or CI/CD.
The event is occasionally co-located with the OpenStack Summit, in which case it is accessible to Summit attendees as well as a standalone event.
Community-organized Events
There are community organized events all year all around the globe. Be sure you check when the next one is in your area!
OpenStack/OpenInfra Days
OpenStack Days events are similar to the OpenStack Summits that are organized by the local community, users groups and companies.
The events are one or days long and filled with mainly presentations and panel discussions about the latest hot topics in the community's life. It gives you a great opportunity to meet the local community and find people who are interested in the same challenges and technology as you are. Connecting with people in the same region where you are gives you the advantage to be able to reach out easier to them later as they are in the same time zone, maybe even in the same city.
In some cases there are training sessions and workshops as well and you can the OpenStack Upstream Institute training on the agenda as well.
Meet-ups
Meet-ups are organized by local user groups with different cadence. They are a few hours long with a few presentations, discussion topics and some snacks.
Look for meet-ups in your area and if you cannot find one you can go ahead and organize!