Open vSwitch Fall Conference 2017

1. Welcome!
Ben Pfaff
Open vSwitch 2017 Fall Conference

2. Open vSwitch 2017 Fall Conference

3. Important information
● The wifi AP is “lfevents”, password is “linux1991”.
● Power is available under each table.
● Recordings will be posted by end of next week on the conference website.
● Lunch will be in the garage accessed via the back hallway.
● Feel free to look at the cars but please don’t climb on them or in them.

4. Linux Foundation
Open vSwitch is a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project. Benefits include:
● Clear independence of any single company
● Event organization assistance
● Technical help (mailing lists, website, etc.

5. Code of Conduct
Summary: Treat everyone with respect.
Details:
http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/open-vswitch-2016-fall-conference/a
ttend/code-of-conduct
To raise an issue, please speak to anyone at the registration desk.

6. Open vSwitch Hall of Fame: New Inductees
Contributors with 10 or more commits now (but not in November 2016):
Shashank Ram
Shu Shen
Sugesh Chandran
Timothy Redaelli
Yi Yang
Yi-Hung Wei
Alin Balutoiu
Anand Kumar
Antonio Fischetti
Darrell Ball
Eric Garver
Greg Rose
Guoshuai Li
Jan Scheurich
Mark Michelson
Mickey Spiegel
Miguel Angel Ajo
Pelayo
Paul Blakey
Roi Dayan
Thank you!

7. ● Details: https://ovs17.sched.com/
● Today:
○ 9:10-10:25: Talks, session 1(theme: DPDK)
○ 10:25-10:40: Break
○ 10:40-11:50: Lunch!
○ 1:05- 1:40: Lightning talks
○ 1:40- 2:55: Talks, session 2 (theme: OVN)
○ 2:55- 3:10: Break
○ 3:10- 4:50: Talks, session 3 (theme: connection tracking)
○ 4:50- 5:00: Closing
● Tomorrow: more talks and keynotes
Agenda

8. ● We prefer to run talks, including lightning talks, from the AV desk instead
of from personal laptops. Please go to the AV desk if you have not already
submitted slides.
● 10 minutes before your talk, please go to the AV desk to be mic’d up.
Please speak to Christian or Luke.
● Please pay attention to the timer visible from the podium:
○ 20 minute timer counts down the talk content.
○ Yellow light indicates 5 minutes or less.
○ Red light indicates out of time.
For speakers

9. ● Open vSwitch Hackathon 2013, Sept. 6-7, in IRC and email
○ ~20 participants
● Open vSwitch Hackathon 2014, March 26-27, at Cisco in San Jose
○ ~50 attendees each day; included many impromptu talks
● Open vSwitch Fall Conference 2014, Nov. 17-18, at VMware in Palo Alto
○ 200 registered attendees + 100 on waitlist
○ 23 talks (30 minutes each)
● Open vSwitch Fall Conference 2015, Nov. 16-17, in San Jose
○ 300 registered attendees + 150 on waitlist
○ About 27 full talks (25 minutes) and 7 lightning talks (5 minutes)
● Open vSwitch Fall Conference 2016, Nov. 7-8, in San Jose
○ ~200 registered attendees
○ $200 registration fee (previous events were free)
○ About 25 full talks (25 minutes) and 6 lightning talks (5 minutes)
History

10. Sponsors
Registration fees for the Open vSwitch 2017 Fall Conference cover less than
half of the cost of hosting the conference. Our generous sponsors make this
event possible. Please thank them.

11. Program Organization
● This year’s program committee:
○ Russell Bryant (Red Hat)
○ Ethan Jackson (kelda.io)
○ Justin Pettit (VMware)
○ Ben Pfaff (VMware)
● Talk selection criteria:
○ Diversity of topics
○ Diversity of presenters
○ Diversity of organizations
○ PC’s subjective interest in topics

12. Speaker Gift
(Limited availability. We don’t anticipate extras.)
Thank you, speakers!

13. Interviews and topics of interest to Open vSwitch
developers and users.
● Published about twice a month.
● On the web, RSS, Google Play, Apple Podcasts, ...
● Always looking for topics and guests.
● Visit ovsorbit.org for more information.
OVS Orbit Podcast