The Third China OpenStack Hackathon Was Held in Chengdu

[Shenzhen, China, March 11, 2016] Huawei, Intel, and China Electronics Standardization Institute (CESI) jointly hosted the third China OpenStack Hackathon in Chengdu from March 7 to 9, 2016. As members of the OpenStack board of directors, Huawei and Intel are playing a more and more important role in the OpenStack international community. Both parties have been actively contributing to the community (ranked in top 8).

With rising industry influence, Huawei, Intel, and CESI hosted this OpenStack feast, joined by 59 top OpenStack developers from 9 companies such as Intel, Huawei, ChinaCloud, 99Cloud, AWCloud, UnitedStack, and EasyStack. In addition, OpenStack experts from Huawei, Intel, and HP were invited to provide technical support and deliver presentations about cutting-edge OpenStack technologies. During the three-day collaboration, developers worked closely together to overcome the technical difficulties and resolved over a hundred of bugs in the OpenStack Mitaka release among which 28 are critical bugs, which laid a solid foundation for a high-quality OpenStack release.

Attendees at Huawei, Intel, and CESI's Third China OpenStack Hackathon

This Hackathon in Chengdu was one of the community activities held in 11 cities worldwide for resolving bugs. Besides Intel and Huawei, other global members of the OpenStack ecosystem such as IBM, Red Hat, Mirantis, Rackspace, SUSE, and Aptira participated in this joint action, which was widely spread across the United States, Australia, India, Germany, Russia, Taiwan, and a great many other countries and regions. Since the first China OpenStack Hackathon held in April, 2015, Chinese resourceful OpenStack developers were increasingly contributing to global open-source cooperation and allowing the community to hear the voice of open-source technologies from China.

About Huawei and OpenStack

Huawei joined OpenStack Foundation in October 2012, officially became a Gold Member of OpenStack Foundation in November 2013, and was elected as a Member Director for the OpenStack 2016 Board in January 2016. Since joining the OpenStack Community, Huawei actively participated in the R&D and optimization of OpenStack. More than 600 R&D engineers were involved in the development of OpenStack open-source projects. By January 12, 2016, Huawei ranked 6th in commitments to the OpenStack Liberty release, 6th in resolved bugs, 5th in completed blueprints, and 8th in lines of codes. In addition, Huawei owned 5 project team leaders (PTLs) and 15 core members in the OpenStack community. Besides all of its painstaking efforts, Huawei was committed to encouraging large enterprises, carriers, and service providers to use the OpenStack cloud platform in data centers, laying a solid groundwork for the development of the cloud service, mobile service, social networking, big data, and IoT in the future. Intel regarded OpenStack as a key component of its cloud strategy in 2012, and initiated the China Open Source Cloud League (COSCL) on August 9, 2012 for the OpenStack development, operating system support, performance optimization, and large-scale deployment. Through cooperation in the industry, COSCL explored OpenStack solutions and promoted the industrial application of OpenStack. Moreover, COSCL actively brought its achievements such as codes to the global OpenStack open-source community, expanding China's influence on the community.

For details about the activity, visit the official website of OpenStack Foundation: https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/OpenStack-Bug-Smash-Mitaka.