[Lustre-discuss] Lustre-discuss Digest, Vol 57, Issue 22

[Andreas Dilger]

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.