Tools, tags and large deployments: Updates from the operators meetup

VMware + Telcos snuggle up to OpenStack, hiring managers seek OpenStack expertise and free upstream training…

The new portal helps you keep current on OpenStack events near you, wherever you are.

Here’s your chance to meet with OpenStack thought-leaders from Aptira, EMC, Red Hat and Rackspace.

Whether you shouldn’t touch OpenStack with a barge pole, Kubernetes integration, what hiring managers want and more…

80 percent of attendees were students eager to learn the value of open source.

“There are great engineers all over the world, and your company is probably fighting to get as many of them as possible. Supply doesn’t meet demand, so it’s important to do everything you can to help attract and retrain talent,” says Dion Almaer of Walmart Labs.

“Like a lemming at the proverbial sea cliff, however, the enterprise would do well to avoid blindly following the group. With data infrastructure becoming so fungible these days, the ability to craft optimized solutions is cheaper and easier than ever, even on traditional data center infrastructure.” Arthur Cole, Tesora.

Understanding the release cycle, making your first contributions count and considering the culture will go a long way.

“We’re not going to beat the competition by raising more money or being smarter than they are,” Anderson said at the Linux Collaboration Summit. “We’ll do it by being more open.”