The planning process for the October 5-7, 2011 OpenStack Conference in Boston, MA is underway and we need volunteers for the Program Committee.

Currently the Program Committee consists of:

• Stephen Spector, Community Manager
• Thierry Carrez, Release Manager

Ideally we would like to have around 10 people on the Program Committee, so there is currently space for eight more volunteers. The Program Committee will be responsible for

• Participation in the high level agenda organization
• Participation in the creation of the event agenda
• Speaker recruitment and assignment based on agenda
• Event speaker introductions (if able to attend the event)

Any community members interested in being part of the Program Committee should email me (summer.fouche@rackspace.com) by Thursday, July 7th.

The Program Committee, as well as the event theme will then be announced Friday, July 8th. So, if you have suggestions for a Boston event theme you can submit them here: http://etherpad.openstack.org/boston-themes
As always the agenda development process for the event will be done in the open so that everyone can contribute. An Etherpad link for this process will be posted soon.

Planning is underway for the OpenStack Conference in Boston, MA from October 6-7 and I am looking for community feedback on event theme ideas. As with our other events, we select a theme before the event and ensure that all signage and look/feel stay within that theme. The last theme for the OpenStack Conference was state and national parks in California with the focus on the event shirt being the Bixby Canyon Bridge.

If you are interested in submitting an idea for the Boston event theme this October, please go to this Etherpad and add you idea: http://etherpad.openstack.org/boston-themes. Themes will be accepted until July 7, 2011 at which time a selection will be made from the existing concepts. Please contact me if you have any questions or wish to submit an idea anonymously.

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.

Activities

• Diablo Release Schedule – http://wiki.openstack.org/DiabloReleaseSchedule
• Swift 1.4.1 Released – https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg02902.html

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

This is select list of topics discussed this week in the developer mailing list and is not a complete list.  Please visit the archive to see all the topics.

• Feedback on Portable Configuration Drive Blueprint – Thorsten von Eicken provided feedback to the Configuration Drive blueprint at https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/configuration-drive.  Scott Moser, Paul Voccio (blueprint author), and Vish Ishaya provided feedback and discussion
• Swift+Keystone error – Tres Henry reported issues in trying to get a Swift+Keystone development environment setup. Jesse Andrews responded with an updated Keystone GitHub link. Todd Wiley responded with a proxy-server.conf setting to try; account_autocreate = true.  Tres responded with the error showing up even after trying this configuration file setting.

Statistics

• Number of OpenStack Developers on Contributors List – 213
• Diablo Release Status – Blueprints
  • NOVA – https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/diablo
  • SWIFT – https://blueprints.launchpad.net/swift/diablo
  • GLANCE – https://blueprints.launchpad.net/glance/diablo

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
• Diablo Release Schedule – http://wiki.openstack.org/DiabloReleaseSchedule
• Developer Mailing List – https://launchpad.net/~openstack
• IRC Discussions – #openstack on freenode

OpenStack Community Newsletter – June 24, 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.

Egpyt OpenStack Meeting

HIGHLIGHTS

• “E” Release Named – Essex
• OpenStack Project Glance Webinar Recording – https://cc.readytalk.com/cc/playback/Playback.do?id=d7aki1
• Egypt Cloud Forum Presentations – http://www.slideshare.net/egyptcloudforum/

EVENTS

• Bay Area OpenStack Meet & Drink – June 29, 2011 in Mountain View, CA -  http://www.meetup.com/openstack/events/21662381/
• EMEA OpenStack Day – June 13, 2011 in London, England -  http://emeaopenstackday.eventbrite.com/
• OSCON – July 25-29, 2011 in Portland, OR –  http://www.oscon.com/oscon2011
• LinuxCon NA – August 17-19, 2011 in Vancouver, Canada -  http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/linuxcon/

DEVELOPER COMMUNITY

• Diablo Release Schedule – http://wiki.openstack.org/DiabloReleaseSchedule
• OpenStack Nova Architecture by Ken Pepple – http://ken.pepple.info/openstack/2011/04/22/openstack-nova-architecture/
• PuppetLabs and OpenStack – https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-openstack
• OpenStack launches incubation program (video) by Barton George – http://bartongeorge.net/2011/06/24/structure-openstack-launches-incubation-program/
• Meeting Minutes – June 21
  • Summary: http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack-meeting/2011/openstack-meeting.2011-06-21-21.03.html
  • Meeting Log: http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack-meeting/2011/openstack-meeting.2011-06-21-21.03.log.html

GENERAL COMMUNITY

• IRC Community Meetings Schedule – http://wiki.openstack.org/Meetings
• Project Policy Board Meeting Minutes – June 21
  • Summary: http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack-meeting/2011/openstack-meeting.2011-06-21-20.00.html
  • Meeting Log: http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack-meeting/2011/openstack-meeting.2011-06-21-20.00.log.html
• Running OpenStack in Production: Part 1 – Hardware by Everett Toews – http://cybera.ca/tech-radar/running-openstack-production-part-1-hardware
• Porting Windows to OpenStack by Poolside Menance -  http://blogs.poolsidemenace.com/2011/06/16/porting-windows-to-openstack/
• Quantum: a new building block for virtual networks in OpenStack clouds by Salvatore Orlando – http://blogs.citrix.com/2011/06/22/quantum/
• OpenStack Cloud Deployed with StackOps (Video) -  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRX5NIxbrWg
• OpenStack Wiki Recent Changes – http://wiki.openstack.org/RecentChanges
  • Heterogeneous Architecture Scheduler -  http://wiki.openstack.org/HeterogeneousArchitectureScheduler
  • Os-api-floating_ip – http://wiki.openstack.org/os_api_floating_ip
  • How To Release – http://wiki.openstack.org/HowToRelease

COMMUNITY STATISTICS (6/17– 6/23)

• Data Tracking Graphs – http://wiki.openstack.org/WeeklyNewsletter
• OpenStack Compute (NOVA) Data
  • 22 Active Reviews
  • 289 Active Branches – owned by 81 people & 16 teams
  • 1355 commits by 68 people in last month
• OpenStack Object Storage (SWIFT) Data
  • 3 Active Reviews
  • 69 Active Branches – owned by 23 people & 6 teams
  • 121 commits by 13 people in last month
• OpenStack Image Registry (GLANCE) Data
  • 6 Active Reviews
  • 27 Active Branches – owned by 9 people & 6 teams
  • 118 commits by 11 people in last month
• Twitter Stats for Week:  #openstack 190 total tweets; OpenStack 535 total tweets  (does not include RT)
• Bugs Stats for Week: 474 Tracked Bugs; 88 New Bugs; 43 In-process Bugs; 0 Critical Bugs; 31 High Importance Bugs; 312 Bugs (Fix Committed)
• Blueprints Stats for Week:  209 Blueprints; 10 Essential, 16 High, 19 Medium, 26 Low, 138 Undefined
• OpenStack Website Stats for Week:  12,621 Visits, 31,835 Pageviews, 49.30% New Visits
  • Top 5 Pages: Home 41.41%; /projects 11.63%; /projects/compute 16.86%; /projects/storage 10.74%; /community 6.29%

OPENSTACK IN THE NEWS

• DreamHost Pledges Support to OpenStack Project – Press Release – http://www.thehostingnews.com/dreamhost-pledges-support-to-openstack-project-18808.html
• Calxeda Joins OpenStack Community; Leads ARM-based Server Movement for Emerging “Green Clouds” – Press Release – http://www.design-reuse.com/news/26711/arm-based-server-green-cloud.html
• Startups Seeking to Shake Up Networking by Rich Miller; DataCenter Knowledge; http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2011/06/24/startups-seeking-to-shake-up-networking/
• StackOps Distribution Offers an Introduction to OpenStack Cloud by Jason Brooks; eWeek.com; http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Cloud-Computing/StackOps-Distribution-Offers-an-Introduction-to-OpenStack-Cloud-679865/
• The Big Open Source Winner May Be Rackspace by Dana Blankenhorn; Seeking Alpha.com; http://seekingalpha.com/article/276158-the-big-open-source-winner-may-be-rackspace
• The future of the cloud, as seen by Cisco by Katie Fehrenbacher; Gigaom; http://gigaom.com/cloud/the-future-of-the-cloud-as-seen-by-cisco/
• The world wants cloud coders. Where are the cloud coders? By Matt Asay; The Register; http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/17/where_are_cloud_developers/
• Server admin kit spans heaven and data center by Cade Metz; The Register; http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/22/scalextreme_launches_servers_into_clouds/
• A Field Guide to the Cloud by Dave Rosenberg; Cnet.com; http://news.cnet.com/8301-13846_3-20073160-62/a-field-guide-to-the-cloud/
• Linux is all Growed Up Now by Brian Proffitt; ITWorld.com; http://www.itworld.com/it-managementstrategy/177311/linux-all-growed-now
• The open-source licensing landscape is changing by Gordon Haff; Cnet.com; http://news.cnet.com/8301-13556_3-20071811-61/the-open-source-license-landscape-is-changing/
• Xen Boys Start Bromium to Secure the Cloud by Maureen O’Gara; Sys-Con.com, http://www.sys-con.com/node/1884257
• TMCnet Next Gen Network Solutions Week in Review by Carrie Schmelkin; TMCnet.com; http://next-gen-network-solutions.tmcnet.com/topics/platform/articles/187425-tmcnet-next-gen-network-solutions-week-review.htm

The 7th annual O’Reilly Open Source Awards are now accepting applications for announcement at OSCON next month. Here is the basic information on the awards directly from O’Reilly:

The awards recognize individual contributors who have demonstrated exceptional leadership, creativity, and collaboration in the development of Open Source Software. Past recipients have included Brian Aker, Angela Byron, Karl Fogel, Pamela Jones, Bruce Momjian, Chris Messina, David Recordon, and Andrew Tridgell. Last year they selected five individuals to honor: http://www.oscon.com/oscon2010/public/content/2010/07/20-os-awards. The nomination process is open to the entire open source community and all entries will be judges by the 2010 winners.

To nominate an OpenStack contributor, please complete the submission form at http://www.oscon.com/oscon2011/public/sv/q/324.

Over 57 community enthusiasts joined Jay Pipes, Project Glance Team Leader, and James Weir, CTO of UShareSoft, for a 1 hour overview the project as well as a discussion on the future direction for Glance and cloud computing. A recorded session of the webinar is available at http://cc.readytalk.com/play?id=d7aki1. For more general information on Glance, visit http://www.openstack.org/projects/image-service/.

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We are excited to announce the first EMEA OpenStack Day for anyone interested in using, developing for or building products around the open source cloud project. EMEA OpenStack Day will take place Wednesday, July 13, in London.  We expect the one-day event will cover a variety of topics, including:

• Getting started with OpenStack
• Capabilities and use cases
• Ecosystem of participating organizations
• Technical deep-dive into the three core projects

The event is free and open to all, but registration is limited to 125 based on the size of the venue. We encourage you to reserve your spot quickly. Please visit the event page to register and find more details.

We welcome feedback and recommendations for the agenda as we confirm speakers. Contact lauren@openstack.org with any feedback, and stay tuned for updates!

http://emeaopenstackday.eventbrite.com/

From June 10 – 19, I will be outside the country traveling to remote regions of the Caribbean with no access to the Internet or my mobile phone. During this time period, I will not be releasing the weekly community newsletter but I have a fellow community member assisting in the weekly data tracking to maintain statistics. If you have any issues related to becoming a participating company, weekly data or other community related question please contact Summer Fouche who is the Community Manager Intern this summer.

Image: Flickr.com

The OpenStack Community requests that you mark your calendars as booked for October 5-7, 2011 for the OpenStack Conference in Boston, MA. With an opening reception on the evening of October 5 and two full days of all things OpenStack, this conference is the must attend event for open source enthusiasts, cloud computing technologists, and OpenStack participating company ecosystem partners.

More details soon to come from OpenStack on this event.

Over the past week, the OpenStack Community Management team has conducted an online Social Media Engagement survey to better understand the needs and wants of various community member types in relation to the information available. The survey results are available, SurveySummary_06082011 with no details on the participants who answered questions.

Based on these results, we are taking the following three actions to meet the needs of the community:

1. Result – OpenStack.org and the OpenStack presence on various social networks (especially Twitter and LinkedIn) are the primary information sources of most respondents with 60% looking to receive even more information on a regular basis.

Action –  A social network plan will be drafted to better link the various OpenStack information repositories with community member information access points. This plan will drive content from OpenStack Slideshare, Vimeo, Flickr, OpenStack.org and other repositories to Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, etc. Be on the lookout for this plan as we intend to ask the broader community for feedback on the various options available in this plan.

2. Result – Two community member types stood out in the survey: Participating company prospects and Active contributor prospects.

Action – A “Getting Started with OpenStack” document is planned for publication with all the information on becoming a participating company, active participant, developer, etc. This document will be visible in many social networking sites including the OpenStack home page to provide critical information for these community prospects.

3. Result – The OpenStack Forum is showing strength for people looking for information and answers to common OpenStack user questions.

Action – New marketing and promotion initiatives will be started to significantly raise the awareness of the OpenStack Forum and help drive more participation.

Thanks again for everyone that participated and if you have more thoughts on this issue, please contact Summer Fouche; or Stephen Spector.

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