In 2015, Intel took the chance of sponsoring the 8th Intel-Cup National Collegiate Software Innovation contest in China to promote OpenStack by defining the theme to be User Experience Innovation Based on Cloud Service. The college students, who are mainly from school of software and new to OpenStack, were required to set up cloud environment on nested virtualization of a rack in a day, deploy their innovative applications on it and then showcase the demonstrations to the judges. However, we found it was not easy for them to deploy OpenStack as their infrastructures of the innovations, especially for network. We made a survey amongst all the teams, summarized the feedbacks, and analyzed the results, in order to try to find the weaknesses and the reasons why OpenStack is not easy to use to some extent. At the OpenStack summit, we hope to share those results with the audience and think about how OpenStack wins the next generation together with the community.
As a member of the community, the attendees expect to know how the innovation contest based on cloud in China went, how the people are doing to win the next generation for OpenStack, and how OpenStack practice went among the college students which are new to OpenStack. The attendees also expect to know what kind of problems the students faced by treating them as experienced people at IT and computer science but new to the OpenStack project, and further think about why it is not convenient for users to deploy OpenStack and how we are going to improve thru the survey.