Following on from our 2nd meeting, the Swiss OpenStack user group met on 24th of April at the University of Bern.It was an excellent event with many attention grabbing presentations! A big thanks goes out to the sponsors:
- Red Hat: for extra tasty on-demand pizza as a service
 - SwiNG: for a great selection of beverages
 - University of Bern: for the facilities
 
Once we kicked off
, there were five presentations, 3 which were more detailed and 2 that were more lightning talks in nature. The presentations in there running order were:
- OpenStack Quantum SDN with Open vSwitch, Redhat, Thomas Graf.
 - OpenStack on SmartOS, ICCLab, Daniele Stroppa.
 - Packstack, Systemx, Sandro Mathys
 - OpenStack in Hepia, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, Dimitri Racordon
 - Impressions from the Summit in Portland, Rackspace, Muharem Hrnjadovic
 
Upcoming
There are other upcoming Swiss events that will include much talk of OpenStack. Of note are:
- Academic Cloud Computing Experience, April 29th.
 - OpenStack DACH at LinuxTag, 24th May.
 - Swiss Open Systems User Group, Open Cloud Day 2013, June 11th.
 
Also the Swiss Informatics Society have started a cloud computing special interest group, where all folk active in cloud are welcomed to join. More details can be found at their site.
Swiss OpenStack User Group channels






