Rob Hirschfeld, OpenStack Foundation board member and CEO, co-founder of RackN, discusses the mission and challenges of deployment fidelity, which aims to prevent expensive reworking, miscommunication and increase the overall efficiency of the OpenStack deployment process.

Heidi Joy Tretheway, senior marketing manager at the OpenStack Foundation, shares how the results of the latest user survey will be used in the community and significant highlights, including how the number of production deployments doubled in the latest report.

Egle Sigler, principal architect at Rackspace and co-chair of the diversity working group, discusses the mission of the group as well as the outcome of the recent survey and what’s next.

Mike Perez, development coordinator at the OpenStack Foundation elaborates on the process of taking user feedback from OpenStack working groups to identify and implement features that will benefit multiple projects.

Shamail Tahir, an offering manager for OpenStack initiatives at IBM and Carol Barrett, a member of the data center planning team at Intel, dive into the process of collecting operator feedback and creating meaningful user stories to move the OpenStack project forward.

Kyle Mestery, distinguished engineer at IBM and a member of the Technical Committee, discusses how NFV and OpenStack work together, and how users can build the exact solution they want with OpenStack’s pluggable framework.

Jonathan Bryce and Mark Collier, the executive director and COO at the OpenStack Foundation sat down to discuss the new tools announced at the Tokyo Summit and the impact they will have on the community.

Thierry Carrez, director of engineering at the OpenStack Foundation and chair of the Technical Committee, discusses the Big Tent and why the change was made in the Liberty release.

Akihiro Hasegawa, one of the Japanese user group organizers shares how much the community has grown and identifies progress and goals for the local OpenStack community in the upcoming year.

Allison Randal, the president of the Open Source Initiative describes how open source fosters collaboration and drives innovation.