The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) is a not-for-profit organization with a mission to promote the use of best practices for providing security assurance within Cloud Computing and to provide education on the uses of Cloud Computing to help secure all other forms of computing. The Cloud Security Alliance is led by a broad coalition of industry practitioners, corporations, associations and other key stakeholders. Cloud Security Alliance, Austin Chapter meetings are organized at www.austincloud.org. …

The Austin Cloud User Group (ACUG) is a group for people interested in learning about the growing cloud computing industry and community. It is open to all, and has a mix of developers, systems/ops, sales and marketing, and product development folks attending regularly.  We have monthly meetings (free admission, and we try to get sponsors to buy food for us) on specific Tuesday evenings (the schedule is on our wiki) and there is a mailing list you can join for ongoing discussion. We are always l …

Users and developers of the open source cloud, OpenStack.org. The group objective is to create a community for collaboration in the Austin Texas area.   Please use the #OSATX twitter tag!