As you know, OpenNebula 2.0 is out the door, and we’re delighted with the response from our community. Besides the huge spike in downloads, we have received many congratulations over email and Twitter from many of our users, specially those who are deploying OpenNebula in very large infrastructures. However, we would like to take a moment to acknowledge that, if OpenNebula 2.0 has gotten so far, it is in no small measure due to the many users and organizations in our community who have actively contributed to OpenNebula.

So, besides our major and regular contributors, we want to thank the following people and organizations:

Community Contributors

We would like to acknowledge the work of many community members who contributed to the development of OpenNebula by actively participating on our mailing list or our IRC channel, answering user questions, or providing patches for bugfixes, features and documentation:

Sander Klous, Sebastien Goasguen, Ulrich Schwickerath, Jeroen Nijhof, Tiago Batista, Nils Dijk, Marlon Nerling, Alexandre Joseph, Ariel Garcia, Carsten Friedrich, Charles Loomis, Chris Usher, Claude Noshpitz, Damien Raude-Morvan, Enrique Alvarez, Florian Kruse, Frank Stutz, Gyula Csom, Jason Heiss, Johan Tordsson, John Dewey, Lakshan Perera, Marc-Elian Begin, Martin Kopta, Matt Lavin, Michael Coram, Neil M, Nuno Cardoso, Patrick Naubert, Petri Lammi, Rahul Chandra, Rangababu Chakravarthula, Shi Jin, Stefan Freitag, Tres Wong-Godfrey, Waheed Iqbal, and others who might have slipped through the cracks. An latest list can always be found in the OpenNebula development site.

The OpenNebula Ecosystem

The extensible and open architecture of OpenNebula has enabled various contributors to develop substantial pieces of software that, while not strictly a part of OpenNebula, can be used in combination with OpenNebula to provide additional functionality. This thriving ecosystem includes projects such as schedulers, additional drivers, and tools that enhance the OpenNebula user experience.

The following organizations have contributed to our ecosystem: CloudScaling, Telefonica I+D, C12G Labs, SARA Supercomputing Center, University of Chicago, Clemson University, and CRS4 Computing Center.

Cloud Computing R&D Projects

OpenNebula is the result of many years of research and the interaction with world leading industrial and academic organizations in cloud computing. OpenNebula is being enhanced in the context of several flagship international projects in cloud computing to address the requirements of business and research use cases from leading IT organizations across multiple industries. We would like to especially acknowledge these pioneering projects and their partners for their invaluable contributions.

• RESERVOIR, main contributor with significant impact on OpenNebula’s design and innovative features, coordinated by IBM and with the participation of Telefonica I+D, University College of London, Umeå University, SAP AG, Thales Services SAS, Sun Microsystems Germany, ElsagDatamat S.p.A, DSA-Reasearch at UCM, CETIC, Universita Della Svizzera italiana, Universita degli Studio di Messina and the European Chapter of the Open Grid Forum.

• StratusLab, coordinated by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and with the participation of DSA-Reasearch at UCM, Greek Research and Technology Network S.A., SixSq Sárl, Telefonica I+D and Trinity College Dublin.

• BonFIRE coordinated by Atos Origin and with the participation of University of Edinburgh, SAP AG, Universitaet Stuttgart, FRAUNHOFER, Interdisciplinary Institute for Broadband Technology, DSA-Reasearch at UCM, Fundacio Privada I2CAT, Hewlett-Packard Limited, The 451 Group Limited, Technische Universitaet Berlin, IT-Innovation, and Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique.

• 4CaaSt coordinated by Telefónica I+D and with the participation of UPM, 2nd Quadrant Limited, BonitaSoft, Bull SAS, Ericsson GMBH, FlexiScale, France Telecom, Universitat St Gallen, ICCS/NTUA, Nokia Siemens Networks, SAP AG, Telecom Italia, DSA-Reasearch at UCM, Universitaet Stuutgart, UvT-EISS, and ZIB.

From all of us at OpenNebula: Thank you!