<p>Red Hat's OpenShift Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering started its life as a mostly proprietary product built on technology acquired from Makara in 2010.</p><p>In April of 2012, Red Hat made OpenShift available as open source under the OpenShift Origin effort. Simply making a project open source, however, doesn't make it a true open source community with contribution and collaboration.</p><p>Red Hat is now moving to further enable an open source collaborative development model for OpenShift, making it easier for non-Red Hat people to contribute and participate in the platform's evolution. To that end, Red Hat is now moving to a new model for contribution, using a public continuous integration (CI) environment and hosting a community day at the upcoming OpenStack Summit in Portland.</p><p>"We've been building up to this point for a long time, but with the announcement of the OpenShift Origin Community Day, we thought the timing was right to reach out to those who might want to get involved," Matt Hicks, director of OpenShift Engineering at Red Hat, told Datamation. "While we will continuously improve, we believe we are very close to allowing users to effectively participate in any capacity, in any part of the project they are interested in, which is a big milestone for us."</p><p><a href="http://www.datamation.com/cloud-computing/red-hat-opens-up-cloud-paas-development-on-openshift-origin.html">Keep reading...</a></p>