OpenStack Community Newsletter – January 14, 2011

This weekly newsletter is a way for the community to learn about all the various activities occurring on a weekly basis. If you would like to add content to a weekly update or have an idea about this newsletter, please email stephen.spector@openstack.org.

HIGHLIGHTS

• Bexar Feature Freeze (1/13)
• Black Duck Software Names Open Source Rookies of 2010; http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/black-duck-software-names-open-source-rookies-of-2010-113073829.html
• Mark Shuttleworth at DELL on UEC and OpenStack – http://bartongeorge.net/2011/01/11/mark-shuttleworth-on-uec-and-openstack/

EVENTS

• Fudcon: January 29-31, 2011 Tempe, Arizona http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Tempe_2011
• O’Reilly Strata: Feb 1 – 3, 2011 Santa Clara CA http://strataconf.com/strata2011
• FOSDEM 2011: Feb 5 – 6. 2011 Brussels, Belgium http://www.fosdem.org/2011/about/fosdem
  • Building a free, massively scalable cloud computing platform
• Cloud Seminar@NII – Three OSS IAAS Talks – http://www.grace-center.jp/event/node/71 (in Japanese)
• SCALE 2011: Feb 25-27, 2011: Los Angeles, CA http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale9x/
• PYCON 2011: March 9-17, 2011: Atlanta, GA http://us.pycon.org/2011/home/

DEVELOPER COMMUNITY

• Meeting Minutes – January 11
  • Summary: http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack-meeting/2011/openstack-meeting.2011-01-11-21.01.html
  • Meeting Log: http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack-meeting/2011/openstack-meeting.2011-01-11-21.01.log.html
• Translator, start your engines… – https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg00277.html
  • Austrian, Chinese (Simplified), Danish, Italian, Japanese, Russian, & Ukrainian underway for OpenStack Compute (NOVA)
  • Respond to mailing list if interested in helping with other languages
• Lazy import of modules discussion – https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg00267.html

GENERAL COMMUNITY

• OpenStack Conference / Design Summit Program Committee (Apr 26-29)
  • Planning Schedule – http://etherpad.openstack.org/dsignsummit-scheduleapr2011
  • Event Agenda Discussion – http://etherpad.openstack.org/DesignSummitApril2011
  • Event Theme Proposal – http://etherpad.openstack.org/DSApr11-Theme
• OpenStack Wiki Recent Changes – http://wiki.openstack.org/RecentChanges
  • OpenStack REST API – http://wiki.openstack.org/OpenStackRESTAPI
  • Instance Availability Zones – http://wiki.openstack.org/InstanceAvailabilityZones
  • Branch Merge Proposal Freeze (BF) – http://wiki.openstack.org/BranchMergeProposalFreeze
  • All changes for week at http://wiki.openstack.org/RecentChanges

COMMUNITY STATISTICS (1/7– 1/13)

• Data Tracking Graphs – http://wiki.openstack.org/WeeklyNewsletter
• OpenStack Compute (NOVA) Data
  • 10 Active Reviews
  • 101 Active Branches – owned by  32 people &  6 teams
  • 1,118 commits by 60 people in last month
• OpenStack Object Storage (SWIFT) Data
  • 2 Active Reviews
  • 36 Active Branches – owned by  19 people & 2 teams
  • 181 commits by  12 people in last month
• Twitter Stats for Week:  #openstack 77 tweets; 48 re-tweets; all OpenStack total tweets 542
• Bugs Stats for Week:  225 Tracked Bugs; 50 New Bugs; 15 In-process Bugs; 7 Critical Bugs; 27 High Importance Bugs; 85 Bugs (Fix Committed)
• Blueprints Stats for Week: 125 Blueprints; 1 Essential, 6 High, 14 Medium, 13 Low, 91 Undefined
• OpenStack Website Stats for Week:  11,076 Visits, 24,838 Pageviews, 70.31% New Visits
  • Top 5 Pages: Home 43.27%; /projects 12.02%; /projects/compute 18.29%; /projects/storage 12.71; /Community 5,40%

OPENSTACK IN THE NEWS

• 10 New Open Source Projects to Watch; PCWorld; http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/216377/10_new_open_source_projects_to_watch.html
• Black Duck lists rookie open source projects to watch in ’11 by Paula Rooney; ZDNet; http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/black-duck-lists-rookie-open-source-projects-to-watch-in-11/8054
  • 54 related articles at http://news.google.com/news/more?pz=1&cf=all&as_qdr=w&as_drrb=q&cf=all&ncl=dbLC6Jz4q8GgYVMcBIxIpemxJkSjM
• It’s Official: Ubuntu Will Embrace the Cloud—Flexibly by Sam Dean; GIGAAOM; http://ostatic.com/blog/its-official-ubuntu-will-embrace-the-cloud-flexibly
• Ubuntu and Dell join in a cloud alliance by Edward Berridge; The Inquirer; http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1936500/ubuntu-dell-join-cloud-alliance
• Ubuntu’s Narwhal rides OpenStack cloud by Gavin Clarke; The Register; http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/01/12/ubuntu_goes_open_stack/
• Social-network open source project Diaspora named ‘rookie of the year’ by Katie Serignese; SDTimes; http://www.sdtimes.com/SOCIAL_NETWORK_OPEN_SOURCE_PROJECT_DIASPORA_NAMED_ROOKIE_OF_THE_YEAR_/By_Katie_Serignese/About_BLACKDUCK_and_OPENSOURCE_and_DIASPORA_and_OPENSTACK/35138
• The New Linux: OpenStack aims for the heavens by Cade Metz; The Register; http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/01/08/openstack/
• Is Salesforce Entering a Year of War?; SFGate; http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/01/11/prweb4953804.DTL
• Putting numbers on the Scoble Effect by Dennis Howlett; ZDNet; http://www.zdnet.com/blog/howlett/putting-numbers-on-the-scoble-effect/2760
• Hacker Poll: What was the best new open source project of 2010? By Klint Finley; ReadWriteHack; http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/2011/01/hacker-poll-open-source-2010.php

I am pleased to announce the formation of the OpenStack Conference/Design Summit Program Committee who will work as a group to create the event agenda as well as overall conference theme. The following community members have volunteered their time:

• Glen Campbell, Rackspace
• Ram Durairaj, Cisco
• David Holland
• Jaesuk Ahn, Korea Telecom
• Andrew Shafer, CloudScaling
• Thierry Carrez, OpenStack Release Manager
• Stephen Spector, OpenStack Community Manager

As the event is for the entire community, all community members are encouraged to participate with this group of volunteers in providing feedback and ideas for the agenda and theme. To monitor all event planning please watch this Wiki page (http://wiki.openstack.org/Summit/Spring2011) as well as the following three EtherPads:

• The complete schedule for planning the event is live at http://etherpad.openstack.org/dsignsummit-scheduleapr2011
• The public event agenda discussion and creation is live at http://etherpad.openstack.org/DesignSummitApril2011
• The public event theme discussion and creation is live at http://etherpad.openstack.org/DSApr11-Theme

I am also announcing that we have signed the contract with the Hyatt Santa Clara hotel for the event from April 26-29, 2011 and have obtained a discounted room rate for attendees with a room block. Please plan on staying at the hotel during the event as we will have a 24 hour lounge available for attendees to meet and work together as well as plenty of time for community members to hang out. If you are budget minded, we can also setup a room sharing program to ensure attendees can take part in this 24/7 event.

Many people have asked for more insight into the developer activities for OpenStack as the large number of code changes and proposals make it difficult to monitor everything happening. In hopes of exposing more of the developer activities, I plan to post a weekly or biweekly blog post on the latest development activities. If you have any ideas for this blog post, please email me at stephen.spector@openstack.org. I am always ready to listen to the community for new ideas.

Activitites

• Branch Merge Proposal Freeze (January 6, 2011) – Only impacts branches introducing new features or changes in expected behavior; not branches fixing bugs. To submit a new feature you must follow the exception process found at http://wiki.openstack.org/BranchMergeProposalFreeze
• Feature Freeze for Bexar scheduled for January 13th

Developer Mailing List (archive: https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/)

• BZR Plugin – Josh Kearney has created a plugin (https://github.com/jk0/bzr-pre-commit-hook) to ensure that PEP8 and unit tests are run automatically when submitting code
• OpenStack Programming Model Framework – John Purrier has proposed (https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg00225.html)  a model where developers will  interact with the OpenStack services will not interact directly with the service API’s, but rather will have a set of published language bindings that define the programming model. This does not preclude direct service calls, but this will be discouraged in favor of using the bindings. The bindings will be considered the “Nova API” for all intents and purposes. Further discussion on this issue led to the community not being in favor of the idea of only using language bindings for developers as there is no guarantee that a specific language binding would be available for a specific release.
• OpenStack API Discussion – John Purrier has posted (https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg00181.html) some comments on the OpenStack API discussing availability for Bexar and/0r Cactus release which also prompted the community focus on what the internal APIs are for OpenStack developers and what the external APIs are for  ecosystem developers to leverage. The current naming is devAPI for internal OpenStack development and OpenStack API for people creating solutions around OpenStack. Please note, naming of the internal devAPI is subject to change. Further details on OpenStack API for Bexar can be found at https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/openstack-api-parity.

For the latest on development activities on OpenStack please check these sites for more details:

• OpenStack Wiki Home Page – http://wiki.openstack.org/StartingPage
• How to Become a Developer on OpenStack – http://wiki.openstack.org/HowToContribute
• Bexar Release Schedule – http://wiki.openstack.org/BexarReleaseSchedule
• Developer Mailing List – https://launchpad.net/~openstack
• IRC Discussions – #openstack on freenode

OpenStack Community Newsletter – January 7, 2011

This weekly newsletter is a way for the community to learn about all the various activities occurring on a weekly basis. If you would like to add content to a weekly update or have an idea about this newsletter, please email stephen.spector@openstack.org.

Join OpenStack at New York City Meetup Next Week (image worldwideluxuryfamilytravel.com)

HIGHLIGHTS

• Microsoft HyperV support development branch accepted into OpenStack Compute (NOVA) main source code tree
• OpenStack Meetup in NYC Next Week (sponsored by AppFirst) -  http://www.openstack.org/blog/2011/01/openstack-meetup-in-new-york-city-next-week/
• OpenStack for the Enterprise: At Cloud Expo Silicon Valley; webcast discussion with Jim Curry – http://cloudcomputing.sys-con.com/node/1664243

EVENTS

• OpenStack User Group NYC: January 12, 2011; http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-New-York-Meetup/calendar/15634525/
• Fudcon: January 29-31, 2011 Tempe, Arizona http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Tempe_2011
• O’Reilly Strata: Feb 1 – 3, 2011 Santa Clara CA http://strataconf.com/strata2011
• FOSDEM 2011: Feb 5 – 6. 2011 Brussels, Belgium http://www.fosdem.org/2011/about/fosdem
  • Building a free, massively scalable cloud computing platform
• SCALE 2011: Feb 25-27, 2011: Los Angeles, CA http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale9x/
• OpenStack Design Summit Spring 2011: April 26-29, 2011 in Santa Clara, CA
  • Event Planning Home Page – http://wiki.openstack.org/Summit/Spring2011
  • Event Theme Development (1/6 – 1/26) – http://etherpad.openstack.org/DSApr11-Theme
  • Event Agenda Development (12/15 – 3/1) – http://etherpad.openstack.org/DesignSummitApril2011
  • Program Committee – Announcement on Monday January 10th

DEVELOPER COMMUNITY

• OpenStack Bexar Branch Merge Proposal Freeze – http://fnords.wordpress.com/2011/01/07/openstack-bexar-bmpfreeze-report/
• Meeting Minutes – January 4
  • Summary: http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack-meeting/2011/openstack-meeting.2011-01-04-21.00.html
  • Meeting Log: http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack-meeting/2011/openstack-meeting.2011-01-04-21.00.log.html
• Developer Discussions  – New blog post starting today with summary of significant developer discussions (will post every other week)

GENERAL COMMUNITY

• Spanish Language User Group -  http://groups.google.com/group/openstack-en-espanol
• Ed Leafe to speak at PyCon 2011; Dealing with Concurrency in Large Scale Systems
• Q4 2010 Community Data Snapshot -  http://www.openstack.org/blog/2011/01/q4-2010-openstack-community-snapshot/
• OpenStack Wiki Recent Changes – http://wiki.openstack.org/RecentChanges
  • Getting Images that Work on OpenStack – http://wiki.openstack.org/GettingImages
  • OpenStack Compute (NOVA) Deployment Manual – http://wiki.openstack.org/NovaDeploymentManual
  • Usage of Live Migration Feature – http://wiki.openstack.org/UsageOfLiveMigration
  • All changes for week at http://wiki.openstack.org/RecentChanges

COMMUNITY STATISTICS (1/1– 1/6)

• Data Tracking Graphs – http://wiki.openstack.org/WeeklyNewsletter
• OpenStack Compute (NOVA) Data
  • 20 Active Reviews
  • 108 Active Branches – owned by 36 people & 8 teams
  • 909 commits by 51 people in last month
• OpenStack Object Storage (SWIFT) Data
  • 8 Active Reviews
  • 46 Active Branches – owned by 21 people & 2 teams
  • 119 commits by 12 people in last month
• Twitter Stats for Week:  #openstack 42 tweets; 67 re-tweets; all OpenStack total tweets 516
• Bugs Stats for Week:  180 Tracked Bugs; 43 New Bugs; 11 In-process Bugs; 4 Critical Bugs; 21 High Importance Bugs; 76 Bugs (Fix Committed)
• Blueprints Stats for Week:  141 Blueprints; 1 Essential, 12 High, 18 Medium, 16 Low, 94 Undefined
• OpenStack Website Stats for Week:  6,630 Visits, 21,693 Pageviews, 61.18% New Visits
  • Top 5 Pages: Home 29.05%; /projects 6.67%; /projects/compute 11.99%; /projects/storage 6.51%; /Community 3.72%

OPENSTACK IN THE NEWS

• 8 Cloud Companies to Watch in 2011 by Derrick Harris; New York Times; http://www.nytimes.com/external/gigaom/2011/01/05/05gigaom-8-cloud-companies-to-watch-in-2011-53327.html?ref=technology
• How the Wikimedia Foundation is Using OpenStack to Build a Cloud Infrastructure by Klint Finley; ReadWriteWeb; http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud/2011/01/how-the-wikimedia-foundation-i.php
• Cisco Bank on Open Source in Cloud Shift by Sean Michael Kerner; Internetnews.com; http://www.internetnews.com/infra/article.php/3919266/Cisco+Banks+on+Open+Source+in+Cloud+Shift.htm
• Cisco to Leverage Open Source in Cloud Computing by Sean Michael Kerner; Datamation; http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3919576/Cisco-to-Leverage-Open-Source-in-Cloud-Computing.htm
• NASA Open Source Architecture Wins Apache Support by Elizabeth Montalbano, InformationWeek; http://www.informationweek.com/news/government/enterprise-architecture/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=229000056&cid=RSSfeed_IWK_All
• Still need a job? Learned Drupal yet? By Dave Rosenberg; Cnet.news; http://news.cnet.com/8301-13846_3-20027411-62.html
• A Wikimedia Foundation Usa o OpenStack para Construir uma Infra-Estrutura em Nuvem by Diogo Bedran; ReadWriteWeb Brasil; http://readwriteweb.com.br/2011/01/05/a-wikimedia-foundation-usa-o-openstack-para-construir-uma-infra-estrutura-em-nuvem/
• Administrataion Cloud: Rackspace se paie Cloudkick by Marc Hypollite; Tom’s Hardware; http://www.presence-pc.com/actualite/cloud-rackspace-cloudkick-administration-42005/
• Como crear una insfraestructura en la nube; ReadWriteWeb en Espanol; http://www.readwriteweb.es/tecnologias/como-crear-infraestructura-nube/
• I cloud providers: I migliori nel corso del 2010 per numeri e fatturato by Stefano Ellasio; Hosting Talk.it; http://www.hostingtalk.it/news/cloud-computing/8045/i-cloud-providers-i-migliori-nel-corso-del-2010-per-numeri-e-fatturato

As the OpenStack community moves into 2011, I feel it is important to take a snapshot of the community at this moment in time to better help us gauge our growth and success in 2011. Listed below are some important values that I track regularly for future comparison.

End of Q4 Data

Q4 Totals Data

I am also tracking several data points (bugs, blueprints, etc) that I publish in the OpenStack Wiki at http://wiki.openstack.org/WeeklyNewsletter.  If you are interested in having me track additional data, please contact me directly and I will add that item to my weekly tracking.

The first OpenStack Meetup event in New York City is coming up next Wednesday; sponsored by AppFirst. It will be held on January 12th, 2011 @Dogpatch Lab (36 East 12th Street). Our guest speaker will be George Vanecek, PhD, he is a principal architect at Huawei’s US Innovation Center R&D where his team is currently designing a carrier-grade eBento Cloud Platform including VoIP extensions and supporting capabilities for M2M and SMB SaaS solutions.

Huawei is a leader in the telecom market, innovating to provide robust, scalable IaaS and PaaS services to their customers. When looking around the market Dr. Vanecek and his team considered building everything from scratch and adopting commercial technologies. Their decision ended up being to adopt OpenStack.

In this open discussion Dr. Vanecek will share what led him and his team to decide on OpenStack and some of the technical concerns he wrestled with. Dr. Vanecek has extensive experience in designing and building software systems, applications, and service platforms working as a solutions architect at Cordys, a chief scientist at AT&T Internet Platforms Organization, founder and lead developer at several software startups, and an assistant professor at the computer science department at Purdue University.

To RSVP, please go to: http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-New-York-Meetup/calendar/15634525/. And don’t forget to forward this event to anyone who might be interested.