Matt Fischer, principal engineer at Time Warner Cable, shares survival tips for the Summit: backup plans, a beer list and a talk that he promises will be better than “Cats.”

In part two, IT specialist/consultant Luc Van Steen walks you through connectivity and moving your data to the OpenStack platform.

In this tutorial, IT specialist/consultant Luc Van Steen walks you through moving first generation cloud servers to the OpenStack platform.

Niki Acosta of Cisco on how on the cloud computing platform is good for job security and her hopes for a “Jetsons” future.

Shilla Saebi, operations engineer at Comcast, provides her equation for success with OpenStack.

Matt Fischer, principal engineer at Time Warner Cable, shares his takeaways from Philadelphia and a wish list for future improvements.

“The first commit has a steep learning curve, especially if you haven’t had experience with Git, Gerrit, and the rest of the OpenStack tooling.” says HP developer Susanne Balle. “My experience has been that the community is very welcoming and always ready to help a newbie with his/her first commit.”

“When we encounter a problem with our system implementations, the extremely vibrant community of users, operators and developers is on hand to help us figure out how to fix it for ourselves and for everyone else as well.”

“Systems that optimize for diversity are stronger, faster, smarter, and infinitely more adaptable,” says Gretchen Curtis of Piston.

The life of an OpenStack operator is always interesting, says Matt Fischer. “There’s no shortages of things to fix, things to improve, and things to learn, and that’s why I love it.”