Design Documents

SlapOS design has been already discussed in public mailing lists and scientific articles.

SlapOS Introduction initially released to OW2 Compatible mailing list in 2010 provides a good overview of SlapOS goals, philosophy and architecture
SlapOS: a Multi-purpose Distributed Cloud Operating System Based on an ERP Billing Model - Jean-Paul Smets-Solanes, Christophe Cerin and Romain Courteaud - preprint submitted to IEEE 2011 International Workshop on Performance Aspects of Cloud and Service Virtualization
SlapOS Economic Rationale introduces the economic rationale which drives SlapOS research and development.
[French] Integration des intergiciels de grilles de PC dans le nuage SlapOS : le cas de BOINC

Presentation videos

SlapOS - Reduce your sysadmin work by 80% and fly across 36 clouds by Cédric de Saint Martin at Open World Forum for Open Source Developer Conference (OSDC), France 2012.

Mioga on SlapOS - A collaborative Extranet rises into the Clouds by Viktor Horvath at Open World Forum for Open Source Developer Conference (OSDC), France 2012.

SlapOS leverages solid, community-driven open source technologies.

buildout is the community-driven, open source build technology which is used by SlapOS to specifiy software stacks which are then deployed on the Cloud. More informations at the Why Buildout page.
supervisord is the community-drive, open source process control technology which slapgrid relies on.
ERP5 is the open source Zope-based ERP which powers SlapOS Master to provide accounting, provisionning and billing.
NEO is a distributed transactional NoSQL object database which provides scalability to SlapOS master.
Kiwi image system has been used to build SlapOS images.
IPv6, while not a "open source" technology, is in the core of SlapOS. [french] Here (mirror link) is a state of the art of IPv6.