On Wed, 20 Jan 2010, Peter Robinson wrote: > > 1. Getting a basic image uploaded and working for anybody (Justin is on > > this, but maybe could use some help?); > > > > 2. Getting a basic image uploaded and working for everybody (which means > > coordinating a testing account for Fedora people to use free-of-charge, > > which we have funding for, and then finding actual people to test); > > > > 3. Getting that basic image created as part of the Fedora release process > > (which was discussed at FUDCon, but I don't know if any of those > > conversations continued); > > > > 4. Providing proper tools for people to create their own images, since > > creation of a custom "spin" is basically an essential activity in the > > cloud. > > I'm happy to help out where I can on all of the above. From the discussion @ > FUDCon I'd add two points to this > > 5. A fedora mirror within EC2 so people don't have to pay for updates etc. > This allows us to provide a very small base image and people can just do > "yum groupinstall some-service" to get what they want. I'm pretty sure that Amazon will be happy to help with this, since it's in their interest. > 6. The tools and API etc (if they aren't already) for the redhat deltacloud > stuff. So I would say that this is Big Goal #2, but I'm afraid we'll get ahead of ourselves -- my guess is we've got a ton of work to do to nail down Big Goal #1 first. Still, this is *definitely* the direction we should be heading, and if someone wants to jump in on that, I'm certainly happy about it. > > It may be that some of this activity is going on already, and that's a > > large part of what this SIG is about: to find those people and get them > > talking in one place, away from the clutter of fedora-devel and other > > lists.? So if you're working on tools that will help with this goal, by > > all means, speak up. > > I've not heard a whisper since the FUDCon discussion and was wondering what > the status of it was. Well, I guess this is it. :) > > And now, a couple of questions. > > > > * For Justin.? How's your current image looking?? Does it work well enough > > for other folks to try it out?? If not, what's the issue, and can anyone > > help? > > > > * For everyone.? Have you played with EC2 yet?? If not, do you have a > > side project that could benefit from its use, that furthers the goals of > > Fedora / free software / etc., and are willing to test our images?? If so, > > let us know -- we've got an account for this purpose, and can send you the > > info needed to get started.? Even if we don't have the latest Fedora up > > yet, there are plenty of images that you can play with to get a sense of > > how EC2 works. > > Briefly, not as much as I would have liked but its on my ToDo list. The > details to get started would be great, I've got 2 weeks spare in Feb where I > should be able to get a good look at this. I'll get that to you soon. > > * For everyone.? Would an IRC meeting to talk through some of this stuff > > be useful -- sort of a kickoff where everyone takes an hour out of their > > life to think about all this -- or should we stick to the mailing list for > > now? > > I'd prefer mailing list discussion where possible. I find it notoriously > hard to make it to IRC meetings due to other schedules and timezones. With > list discussion it makes that easier. --g -- Computer Science professors should be teaching open source. Help make it happen. Visit http://teachingopensource.org.
