User Group Newsletter December 2017

Summit recap
With 2300+ attendees and 54 countries represented, it was a fantastic week in Sydney. Thank you to all who attended!
You can catch all the action from the Keynotes here. The Summit talk videos are live, find them here. Superuser also covered the Summit with an awesome article covering 50 things you need to know.
Next Summit
Our next Summit destination is in Vancouver. Registration and Hotel booking are now available. Last time we went to Canada, these sold out quick. Don’t miss out and secure yours today.
Congratulations to SuperUser award winners!
On the final day of the Sydney Summit, the Community Contributor Awards gave a special tip of the hat to those who might not know how much they are valued. Read more about the ceremony here.  
Stay tuned to Superuser and OpenStack’s social channels for when nominations open for Vancouver.
2018 CFP dates
Cloud Native Con/KubeCon Europe
Closing date: January 12, 2018
ONS 2018
Closing date: January 14, 2018
LF Open Source Leadership
Closing date: January 21, 2018
OSCON 2018
Closing Date: January 30, 2018
LinuxCon ContainerCon | CloudOpen China
Closing Date: March 4, 2018
ONS Europe
Closing Date: June 24, 2018
Superuser articles of interest
Some fantastic Superuser articles have been published in recent weeks. They include tutorials, information about a new working group and project updates.
Making your first contact with OpenStack
Check out these OpenStack project updates
Working together: OpenStack and Kubernetes
Travel grants support global community to attend OpenStack Summit
How to use OpenStack Glance Image Import
Launch of Kata Containers
The Foundation is excited to announce Kata Containers. This project unites the security advantages of virtual machines with the speed and manageability of containers for running container management tools directly on bare metal without sacrificing workload isolation. Kata Containers delivers increased performance, faster boot time and cost efficiencies. Kata Containers will have its own governance, community and communication channels.
To find out more and get involved:
Sign up for Kata Containers updates at katacontainers.io
Get involved on the Kata Containers Mailing List, Slack* and IRC* (#kata-dev)
Follow Kata Containers on Twitter: @katacontainers
HPC book update
The Scientific Working Group has updated the Crossroads of Cloud and HPC: OpenStack for Scientific Research. Version 2 of the popular book details multiple enhancements made to OpenStack for HPC workloads over the past year and added several new in-depth case studies on how OpenStack supports radio astronomy, bioinformatics, cancer and genome research and more. Read or order the book at https://www.openstack.org/science/ to find out exactly how OpenStack allows researchers to spend less time managing infrastructure and more time on research that matters. To learn more or get involved in the Scientific Working Group, visit https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Scientific_SIG
THANK YOU!
It has been a fantastic 2017!!! Thank you to all community members for your industrious efforts and contributions! Wish you all a Happy Holiday break and a great New Year.
 
Quelle: openstack.org