Hi, I'm Diane Mueller and I've made recently the shift to Red Hat. As Red Hat's newest Cloud Ecosystem Evangelist, my focus here will be on developing the OpenShift Origin Open Source PaaS ecosystem and developer community.
Those of you who know me know that I've been a long-time Open Source advocate and a huge fan of Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) in all its various incarnations. IMHO, no Cloud offering is truly complete without a PaaS layer. Whether it's Public or Private or Hybrid, PaaS facilitates the IT & DevOps ability to scale, allocate, manage and deliver computing resources to Developers without the long delays and compliance risks of the past. To me, PaaS is more just a place to deploy your web applications; it's a scalable, compliant way of delivering IT services and computing resources that is changing the face of computing.Hi, I'm Diane Mueller and I've made recently the shift to Red Hat. As Red Hat's newest Cloud Ecosystem Evangelist, my focus here will be on developing the OpenShift Origin Open Source PaaS ecosystem and developer community.
Those of you who know me know that I've been a long-time Open Source advocate and a huge fan of Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) in all its various incarnations. IMHO, no Cloud offering is truly complete without a PaaS layer. Whether it's Public or Private or Hybrid, PaaS facilitates the IT & DevOps ability to scale, allocate, manage and deliver computing resources to Developers without the long delays and compliance risks of the past. To me, PaaS is more just a place to deploy your web applications; it's a scalable, compliant way of delivering IT services and computing resources that is changing the face of computing.
As with any seismic shift in technology such as this one, the only way forward is community-driven Open Source initiatives.
PaaS has been in my blood since the early public PaaS days, where I launched my pet web application projects watching as PaaS providers came and went in a risky high volume/low margin game of chance. The PaaS game has now shifted and I'm excited to be working with the next-generation of PaaS: Red Hat's OpenShift Enterprise and OpenShift.Com that truly scale my applications and deliver production level services both on-premise, public and as privately hosted clouds.
However, it's OpenShift Origin, the Open Source project that upstream feeds both OpenShift Enterprise and OpenShift.Com that I am really thrilled to be working on for Red Hat. Open Source is what makes the real change in the world of computing.
Shift that Matters: OpenShift Origin is Open Source
The opportunity to shift gears and work at Red Hat on the next generation technologies required to build an Open Cloud, with access to the deep Linux, OpenStack, and OpenShift expertise and to help lead the Open Source charge for a truly Open Cloud, was one that I could not turn down and would not miss for the world.
With Red Hat's experience helping develop multiple collaboration-driven Open Source initiatives - JBoss, Fedora, Gluster - it's no surprise that, when it comes to the OpenShift Origin PaaS initiative, Red Hat is keenly aware that building a collaborative open community is fundamental to Origin's success. The lessons learned in creating vibrant communities that are driven by an ethos that is open, inclusive, and governed by representatives from across the community have been taken to heart and incorporated in everything we do on the OpenShift team.
OpenShift happens in the "Open"
Be sure to come join me and the rest of the OpenShift community at this upcoming OpenShift Origin Community Day (April 14th in Portland Oregon).
You can find me on our community forums, on irc, in our feedback/voting forums, or email me at dmueller@redhat.com or follow me on twitter @pythondj
More about Diane Mueller:
Diane Mueller is the Cloud Ecosystem Evangelist at Red Hat and is currently focusing on building the Open Source community around OpenShift Origin, OpenStack, and Fedora. She is also a polyglot developer who specializes in geo-location, mobile and social curation applications. She has a particular sweet spot for Platform-as-a-Service as it has made programming "fun" again and enabled her to get back to her programming roots. Diane is a long-time Open Source advocate, and a Python/Django enthusiast.
She has authored dozens of articles, white papers and posts about Cloud technologies. She has been a well-received speaker at many major technology conferences. Diane was also deeply involved in the development of the XML financial standard XBRL. Diane lives in Sechelt, British Columbia, Canada. She is committed to using her influence to advocate for an open & honest debate about the technologies that underpin a truly Open Cloud.
