The StackOps team held an OpenStack meeting in Madrid on the 14th and posted all their videos on YouTube. I am embedding a few and encourage you to search “OpenStack Madrid” to find the rest. Please note the presentations are in Spanish.

I am on my way home from San Jose writing this final event recap blog in the clouds…

Thanks again to approximately 480 enthusiastic OpenStack community members for an amazing 4 days of interactive and productive sessions, meetings, and demonstrations. The community continues to accelerate forward at a rapid pace in a highly collaborative environment with so many great ideas on such a variety of topics that it truly is becoming difficult to keep track of all the innovation. I look forward to once again working with the global community on our next event the first week of October 2011 and plan to announce its location in a few weeks. It is going to be tough to outdo this great event but I am confident that our community will rally together again to show the world how open source should be done.

If you took any pictures at the event please be sure to upload to the OpenStack Flickr account at http://www.flickr.com/groups/1574695@N22/. I am sending out a post-event survey to all attendees on Monday so please take a few moments to complete the survey. The questions will be easy to answer and your feedback is valuable as the event team and I are able to tweak future events to better serve the community.

Final highlights from today:

• OpenStack event presentations available at http://www.slideshare.net/event/openstack-conference-and-design-summit-apr-2011 ; 15 slides currently uploaded
• OpenStack session videos – I should have those uploaded and ready for viewing mid to late next week ; Stay Tuned for More Information
• Rackspace’s Jonathan Bryce and Dell’s Barton George discuss all things OpenStack – http://vimeo.com/23003968
• Great presentation from Masanori Itoh of NTT on Japanese Tsunami Lessons – http://www.slideshare.net/thatsdone/openstack-diablo-design-summit-talk-a-lesson-from
• Clanavi/SimCloud Demonstration Video – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-yGt5s1ZEE

Open Source at the Pool

Even the hotel supports OpenStack

Finally, I am not posting a Community Weekly Blog or Developer Activity Blog post this week as the last 4 blog recaps have already hit the weeks highlights. I did update the weekly statistics available at http://wiki.openstack.org/WeeklyNewsletter?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=2011+Data+Tracking+%28Excel%29.

The OpenStack community completed its third day with 15 sessions, 12 five-minute lighting talks, 6 unconference sessions, 1 demonstration session, and many hallway conversations; all in just 9 hours. To top off the evening, we headed over to Dave and Buster’s for fine food, beverages, and many, many video games. Here are your daily highlights:

• OpenStack Conference Slides (I keep adding them as I get them from the speakers) – http://www.slideshare.net/event/openstack-conference-and-design-summit-apr-2011
• PaaS on OpenStack – Run Applications on Any Cloud, Any Time Using Any Thing by Nati Shalom on his OpenStack talk – http://highscalability.com/blog/2011/4/28/paas-on-openstack-run-applications-on-any-cloud-any-time-usi.html
• AWS and OpenStack, An Interesting Contrast Worth Considering During Cloud Selection – http://www.zdnet.com/blog/forrester/aws-and-openstack-an-interesting-contrast-worth-considering-during-cloud-selection/640
• OpenStack, The House Elves of Your Datacenter (the picture is well worth the click-over) – http://upon2020.com/2011/04/openstack-the-house-elves-of-your-datacenter/
• Next OpenStack Conference & Design Summit – Hold week of October 3rd open on your calendars
• Moving to consolidated 6-month release cycle, with frequent per-project milestones in between; Diablo scheduled for September 22, 2011 Release
• Announcing SpotCloud for OpenStack   – http://www.elasticvapor.com/2011/04/announcing-spotcloud-for-openstack.html

Crowd at Dave and Busters

Github vs Launchpad Meeting

The Silicon Valley Cloud Computing Group is hosting a 1 day cloud computing event this Saturday, April 30 at 1:30 pm. Register at http://www.meetup.com/cloudcomputing/events/16701362/.

The agenda is at http://talkcloudy2011.sched.org/list/descriptions/ with 2 OpenStack sessions from Citrix and Piston.

Thanks to Sebastian Stadil  from Scalr for the information.

Another amazing day at the OpenStack Conference and Design Summit; highlights:

• OpenStack Conference Slides (working to get all the slides) - http://www.slideshare.net/event/openstack-conference-and-design-summit-apr-2011
• OpenStack Virtual Appliance Demo from Citrix – http://www.citrix.com/tv/#videos/3837
• OpenStack Cookbooks for Chef from Matt Ray at OpsCode – https://github.com/mattray/openstack-cookbooks
• Installing OpenStack on Cisco Equipment – http://www.cisco.com/web/solutions/sp/design_summit_2011.html#~Resources

Hallway Conversations – Making OpenStack Happen

Billy Cox from Intel

Lew Tucker from Cisco

The OpenStack community held an open discussion on the existing and future governance policy of the community. I taped the meeting with my FLIP camera so apologies for the so-so video; however the audio sounded fine when I ran through the tape.

OpenStack Conference: Governance Discussion from OpenStack on Vimeo.

The first day of the OpenStack event in Santa Clara, CA has finally ended (at least for me) and here are some event highlights as well as some great pictures taken by various community members.

• Gordon Mangione of Citrix Systems talks about his keynote today – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClGnuECnfFE
• Attendance – Just over 400 people attended the event today
• OpenStack Community donates $15,000 from event registration to Japanese Tsunami Relief Fund
• Other Keynote Speakers – Jim Curry from Rackspace – Ryan Lane from Wikimedia – James Williams from NASA – Neal Sample from eBay
• Nati Shalom from GigaSpaces – PaaS on OpenStack Slides- http://www.slideboom.com/presentations/344639/PaaS-on-OpenStack
• All keynote sessions taped – anticipate posting videos and slides next week

Morning Keynotes

Crowd in Networking for OpenStack Presentation

Lunch in great California weather

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.

Korea OpenStack User Group Technical Seminer

HIGHLIGHTS

• Cactus Release – http://www.openstack.org/blog/2011/04/openstack-announces-cactus-release/
• Cactus Overview Webinar Recording –  https://cc.readytalk.com/play?id=39ban4
• OpenStack Supports Japan Tsunami Relief Effort – http://www.openstack.org/blog/2011/04/openstack-community-supports-japan-tsunami-relief-efforts/
• OpenStack Conference & Design Summit 2011 sponsored by Citrix (SOLD OUT)
  • Conference Agenda – http://openstack-spring2011.sched.org/
  • Design Summit Agenda – http://wiki.openstack.org/Summit

EVENTS

• OpenStack Conference & Design Summit sponsored by Citrix – April 26-29 in Santa Clara, CA
• OpenStack Korea User Group Photos – http://www.flickr.com/photos/junwoo/sets/72157626375795627/
• Interop – May 8-12 in Las Vegas, NV  http://www.interop.com/lasvegas/
• OpenHelp – June 3-5 in Cincinnati, OH http://openhelpconference.com/
• SouthEast LinuxFest – June 10-12 in Spartanburg, SC http://www.southeastlinuxfest.org/
• Open Source Bridge – June 21-24 in Portland, OR http://opensourcebridge.org/
• Structure – June 22-23 in San Francisco, CA http://event.gigaom.com/structure/

DEVELOPER COMMUNITY

• Project Red Dwarf – Database as a Service – http://www.openstack.org/blog/2011/04/announcing-project-reddwarf-database-as-a-service/
• Developer Activity Weekly Review (April 9 – 15) – http://www.openstack.org/blog/2011/04/openstack-developer-activity-weekly-review-april-9-15/
• Meeting Minutes – April 19
  • Summary: http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack-meeting/2011/openstack-meeting.2011-04-19-21.01.html
  • Meeting Log: http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack-meeting/2011/openstack-meeting.2011-04-19-21.01.log.html

GENERAL COMMUNITY

• Cloudscaling FAQ on OpenStack Object Storage (Swift) – http://cloudscaling.com/blog/cloud-computing/cloud-faqs-openstack-storage-swift-basics-q-a
• Mark Collier on Facebook Open Compute – http://www.openstack.org/blog/2011/04/mark-collier-on-facebooks-open-compute/
• OpenStack Wiki Recent Changes – http://wiki.openstack.org/RecentChanges
  • NaaS Core Design – http://wiki.openstack.org/NaaSCoreDesign
  • Database as a Service – http://wiki.openstack.org/DatabaseAsAService
  • All changes for week at http://wiki.openstack.org/RecentChanges

COMMUNITY STATISTICS (4/15– 4/22)

• Data Tracking Graphs – http://wiki.openstack.org/WeeklyNewsletter
• OpenStack Compute (NOVA) Data
  • 40 Active Reviews
  • 237 Active Branches – owned by 62 people & 13 teams
  • 1,754 commits by 72 people in last month
• OpenStack Object Storage (SWIFT) Data
  • 0 Active Reviews
  • 54 Active Branches – owned by 21 people & 5 teams
  • 214 commits by 12 people in last month
• OpenStack Image Registry (GLANCE) Data
  • 2 Active Reviews
  • 17 Active Branches – owned by 5 people & 3 teams
  • 96 commits by 9 people in last month
• Twitter Stats for Week:  #openstack 397 total tweets; OpenStack 1,441 total tweets  (does not include RT)
• Bugs Stats for Week: 294 Tracked Bugs; 77 New Bugs; 44 In-process Bugs; 0 Critical Bugs; 15 High Importance Bugs; 158 Bugs (Fix Committed)
• Blueprints Stats for Week:  225 Blueprints; 2 Essential, 11 High, 12 Medium, 20 Low, 180 Undefined
• OpenStack Website Stats for Week:  15,551 Visits, 38,438 Pageviews, 57.06% New Visits
  • Top 5 Pages: Home 36.47%; /projects 11.77%; /projects/compute 18.08%; /projects/storage 11.90%; /projects/glance 6.08%

OPENSTACK IN THE NEWS

• Ubuntu 11.04 Adds OpenStack to Linux by Sean Michael Kerner; Internetnews.com; http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3931556/Ubuntu+1104+Adds+OpenStack+to+Linux.htm
• OpenStack Marches on, but Can’t Outrun Open Source Politics by Derrick Harris; Gigaom; http://gigaom.com/cloud/openstack-marches-on-but-cant-outrun-open-source-politics/
• OpenStack Cloud Hits Cactus Release by Sean Michael Kerner; Internetnews.com; http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3931056/OpenStack+Cloud+Hits+Cactus+Release.htm
• Two Open-Source Cloud Standards: What It Means to You by Kevin Fogarty; PCWorld; http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/225759/two_opensource_cloud_standards_what_it_means_to_you.html
• OpenStack Unveils Third Community-Driven Software Release by Raju Shanbhag; infotech; http://it.tmcnet.com/topics/it/articles/165843-openstack-unveils-third-community-driven-software-release.htm
• GigaSpaces Leverages Citrix OpenCloud to Deliver Flexible and Open PaaS Solution; press release; http://news.thomasnet.com/companystory/GigaSpaces-Leverages-Citrix-OpenCloud-to-Deliver-Flexible-and-Open-PaaS-Solution-845728
• NASA to Leverage Nebula for Gulf Ecosystem Project by Elizabeth Montalbano; InformationWeek; http://www.informationweek.com/news/government/cloud-saas/229401820

OpenStack is a global community, and contributors from Japan have been in our thoughts since the tragic earthquake and tsunami.  To show our support, at next week’s OpenStack Conference and Design Summit, we will be selling ‘OpenStack for Japan’ t-shirts benefiting the Red Cross.  The suggested minimum donation for a t-shirt is $25, and 100% of the proceeds will be donated to the charity organization. The limited-edition shirts were designed by popular cartoonist Hugh MacLeod (@gapingvoid).  Based on demand, we may also print and sell more shirts online after the event.

We look forward to the OpenStack community’s support in this effort next week in Santa Clara!

The Cactus Webinar on Thursday, April 21 at 4 pm EST recording is available: https://cc.readytalk.com/play?id=39ban4

This webinar  covered the new features implemented in the OpenStack Cactus release. Presenting these features will be the new Project Team Leads for Glance, Swift, and Nova.