Rich has been contributing to open source since before we called it that. He's a member, and board member, of the Apache Software Foundation, and works on the Apache httpd project. Rich works on the Open Source Strategy team at AWS, where he educates teams about how to do open source.

Presentations

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RDO: Packaging OpenStack for CentOS

OpenStack is "Open source software for creating private and public clouds." As with most Open Source projects, they release source code, and leave it to third parties to provide packages and distributions. Also, since OpenStack is a complicated stack of components, deployment can be tricky, and there's a number of third-party solutions for that, too.

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Introduction to OpenStack

If you want the high-level picture of what OpenStack is, and how the pieces fit together, this is the place to come. We'll also talk a little about how the project functions, and the role of the OpenStack Foundation.

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