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With OpenStack turning 4 years old in mid-July, meetup groups around the world have been throwing birthday bashes all month. Wednesday night was San Francisco's turn, organized by the SFBay OpenStack developer meetup group.

A great time was had by all. Scroll through the photos below and see for yourself.

 

[caption id="attachment_14774" align="alignnone" width="300"] Cynthia Thomas and Chris Calandro of Midokura.[/caption]

 

[caption id="attachment_14775" align="alignnone" width="300"] With 356 confirmed attendees, the meetup easily filled 111 Minna, a downtown art gallery frequently used for corporate events.[/caption]

 

[caption id="attachment_14782" align="alignnone" width="300"] One of two bars in 111 Minna. It's not your usual art gallery.[/caption]

 

[caption id="attachment_14783" align="alignnone" width="300"] Emcee for the evening, Sean Roberts — an OpenStack board member and an SFBay meetup organizer.[/caption]

 

[caption id="attachment_14773" align="alignnone" width="300"] Lisa-Marie Namphy of HP welcomes new members to the meetup, warning us, "They don't all look like this."[/caption]

 

[caption id="attachment_14772" align="alignnone" width="300"] Eileen Evans of HP gave a brief history of OpenStack.[/caption]

 

[caption id="attachment_14771" align="alignnone" width="300"] Geoff Arnold of Cisco was rocking Google Glass.[/caption]

 

 

[caption id="attachment_14777" align="alignnone" width="300"] Nils Swart (Plexxi), Amir Sharif (Nuage), and Scott Sneddon (Nuage).[/caption]

 

 

[caption id="attachment_14770" align="alignnone" width="300"] Artist at work.[/caption]

 

 

[caption id="attachment_14781" align="alignnone" width="300"] Kyle MacDonald again. This guy's everywhere![/caption]

 

[caption id="attachment_14779" align="alignnone" width="300"] Jonathan Alparaque, Tyler Cole, and Che Hsu, chilling amid works by local artist Romanowski.[/caption]

 

 

[caption id="attachment_14780" align="alignnone" width="300"] What's a birthday without a cake? And of course, it had to be adorned with ... whatsitsname. (Say, what is the little robot's name?)[/caption]