Red Hat and CentOS
Joining Forces to Speed Open Source Innovation
THE OPPORTUNITY
IMPACT
A community of developers produces better code; A community
of users creates an audience that makes code impactful.
PACE
Cloud technologies are rapidly evolving, necessitating a platform
well-suited to the needs of technologies that integrate in and
around the operating system.
COMMUNITY REACH
Build a community vehicle to get emerging technologies for
cloud, big data, virtualization, and Software-Defined
Networking (SDN) into the hands of millions of community
users.
EXISTING PLATFORMS
Operating system innovation
across the stack
Commercial development and
deployment
ADDRESSING NEW PROJECT REQUIREMENTS
EXPANDED PLATFORMS
Red Hat and the CentOS Project join forces to drive community adoption and
innovation for next-generation open source projects such as OpenStack
Operating system
innovation across
the stack
Community
integration
beyond the
operating system
Commercial
development and
deployment
THE NEW CENTOS PROJECT
NEW FRAMEWORK
Establishes NEW project governance
Supports special interest groups (SIGs)
OPEN FOR CONTRIBUTION
Open builds process + community compose
Accepts more contributions (git.centos.org)
EXPANDED SCOPE
Provides infrastructure to expand beyond current scope
Allows SIGs to work on package variations
Enables faster innovation of projects that require additional bits
such as OpenStack (and more)
THE NEW CENTOS PROJECT (CONTD)
ACCESSIBLE INNOVATION
Streamlines user experience
Combines access to all CentOS innovation and variations in a
unified installer
NEW ROADMAP
Releases will be driven from the additional projects CentOS
serves, such as OpenStack
In Planning
Multiple CentOS releases
SIGs (Special Interest Group) like Fedora Spins
- CentOS Core SIG
- CentOS Storage SIG
Gluster, Ceph, etc ...
- CentOS Cloud SIG
Openstack
- CentOS Cloud Instances SIG
- CentOS Atomic SIG
- CentOS Virtualization SIG
KVM, XEN, and more
Dozen of SIGs in discussion including : Desktop, Web hosting, VoIP, etc
Scientific Linux is considering joining with Red Hat
More information:
http://community.redhat.com/centos-faq
Leveraging communities
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