I am busy changing the world

Last night, in a cozy conference room in Seoul, South Korea, I had had a very friendly meetup with the OpenStack Korea User Group with around ten or so people. I and Sa Pham, the Vietnam OpenInfra User Group representatives, were there to share our experiences on OpenStack and networking with others. This is not my first time with the Korea User Group but meeting people working on open source projects or want to learn about OpenInfra technologies made me super excited. Like last time, I had a brief presentation about OpenStack Searchlight showing folks what was going on and my plan for the Ussuri development cycle. And, that is why the title of my talk is "Searchlight for U". Even though in Train, I had not put much effort into Searchlight but while presenting people the progress, I was amazed how far we have gone. I had been Searchlight's PTL for two cycles and now one more time. Hopefully, I could move the project forward with some real-world adaptation, use case...

In the last summit (Denver, CO), the Searchlight team had an opportunity to introduce its cool stuff to everyone. Due to the visa issues, there only one out of three members can come to the US. Thuy Dang, one of the core tea,, delivered the presentation and had a great conversation with the other community members. The key points you can take out from the Project Update [1] and Project Onboarding [2] sessions are: Review of Searchlight current status: 3 active contributors Features introduced in Stein: support ES 5.x, bug fixes, multi-cloud vision Features for Train: multi-cloud support, new resource indexed (e.g., Tacker, Octavia, etc.) Introduce different ways you can contribute to Searchlight. Hopefully, after the summit, there will be more contributors interested in Searchlight. You can check out the slides for Project Update [4] and Project Onboarding [5]. Even though there were not many people attend the sessions, Thuy had had a great chance talking to some of...