OpenStack is pleased to open registration for the Design Summit San Antonio 2010 from November 9 – 12, 2010. Due to facility limitations we are only accepting 300 registrations for this event so please register soon to avoid complications. Local hotels, evening events, and current agenda information is listed on the registration site so please feel free to return to the site if the information you are looking for is not yet available. We anticipate having the complete business track agenda ready next week and the developer track later this month as the OpenStack developers are building that track within Launchpad.

We look forward to this OpenStack event as the community continues to expand in terms of membership, contribution, and ideas. Your participation is the key in OpenStack’s success.

Registration Site: http://www.openstack.org/register

Stackers,

When we published the Governance Doc recently, I mentioned that we had some deadlines coming up fast.  Namely, the deadline for nominating someone for a seat on the Architecture Board.  To give the community some additional time, we’ve extended the nomination deadline to October 15th, 2010.

Additionally, this pushes out all of the other dates by 2 weeks:

• Date we’ll publish the candidates is now:  October 20th, 2010
• Date of the vote is now:  November 1st, 2010

The official doc is now updated to reflect the new dates.

Please send your nominations to Jonathan Bryce: jonathan@openstack.org

In other news, we have passed feature freeze for the “Austin” release of OpenStack Compute, and are rapidly approaching the release date of October 21st.  After that, we look forward to seeing everyone at the next Design Summit on November 9th-12th, 2010 in San Antonio Texas.

Mark Collier

@sparkycollier

With more and more people becoming interested in OpenStack on a daily basis, it becomes critical that we establish a proper (as they say in the UK) communication system to ensure all participants have a voice within the community and can easily find the information they are looking for. To further improve this system, I am announcing several new mailing lists which are all open to any community member interested in various parts of the OpenStack project.

• openstack-announce : General information about the OpenStack project including product release information and general community activity. Register at http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-announce
• openstack-advisoryboard : Follow the OpenStack Advisory Board on this mailing list. Register at http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-advisoryboard
• openstack-users : Support questions and advice for users of the various OpenStack products. Register at http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-users
• openstack-partner : Discussions and information for companies looking to partner with the OpenStack community. Register at http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-partner
• openstack-events : Information on OpenStack events including Design Summits, Meetups, etc. All developers or people hosting an event should post here to notify the community about their event. Register at http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-events

Please look over these lists and subscribe to the various lists that best meet your needs. We have chosen to use Mailman for these lists as this is a common tool found in most open source projects. I will also be posting a new web page this week which contains the full list of OpenStack Mailman mailing lists along with Archive links. I will also be working with MarkMail to ensure that all OpenStack mailing lists are included in their amazing open source mailing list search tool at http://markmail.org/ [More on that soon].

If you have any questions, please email me at stephen.spector@openstack.org.