The document summarizes updates from the OpenStack Design Summit held in April 2011 in Santa Clara, California with over 450 attendees. Key technical topics discussed included introducing Network as a Service, Database as a Service, Load Balancing as a Service, and strengthening Volume as a Service. The OpenStack community also showed support for recovery from the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami through charitable donations. Additionally, the document discusses a Japanese saying about evacuating alone during a tsunami and how communities can apply similar principles of independent action while maintaining shared goals.