Monthly Archives:: December 2011

Community Weekly Review (Dec 17-23)

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OpenStack Community Newsletter –December 23, 2011 HIGHLIGHTS OpenStack Around The Globe in 2011 http://www.openstack.org/blog/2011/12/openstack-around-the-globe-in-2011/ Planning OpenStack events for 2012 http://www.openstack.org/blog/2011/12/openstack-2012-events/ Report from OpenStack meetup in Austin http://www.openstack.org/blog/2011/12/openstack-deployments-abound-at-austin-meetup-129/ OpenStack in Production – Event Highlights http://www.openstack.org/blog/2011/12/openstack-in-production-event-highlights/ Proposal to change Gerrit workflow http://wiki.openstack.org/GerritWorkflowChanges  Blueprint for transactional task management https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/task-management Discussion about API versioning https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg06256.html EVENTS Holiday season started… Read more »

OpenStack Around The Globe in 2011

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OpenStack has been a global phenomenon since the community formed in July 2010, and it has only gotten more diverse since then. One of my favorite stats is that we had people from 6 continents attend the most recent Design Summit & Conference in Boston. Still looking for that elusive Antarctica user. I spent a… Read more »

OpenStack 2012 Events

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We are working on the 2012 event calendar, and are actively seeking feedback and sponsorship support for OpenStack to be well-represented at industry events.  There is a public etherpad where you can suggest an event to attend (or pass up!), and we would love to get  your input.  Right now, we are hoping to have OpenStack… Read more »

OpenStack Deployments Abound at Austin Meetup (12/9)

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I (Rob Hirschfeld) was very impressed by the quality of discussion at the Deployment topic meeting for Austin OpenStack Meetup (#OSATX). Of the 45ish people attending, we had representations for at least 6 different OpenStack deployments (my employeer Dell, HP, ATT, Rackspace Internal, Rackspace Cloud Builders, Opscode Chef)!  Considering the scope of those deployments (several are… Read more »

More details about seminar “Open and safe in the cloud” in Ljubljana, Slovenia

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On December 14th company CHS d.o.o. hosted seminar on Open and Secure Cloud Computing, which was held in Tehnološki park in Ljubljana. This unique occasion assembled 49 attendants from academic and government representatives to small businesses and additional 17 students. Participants were eager to get to know leading IT trends in building own cloud environments… Read more »

Brief report from Ljubljana, Seminar “Open and safe in the cloud”

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On December 14th I completed my talk about OpenStack in Slovenia, in front of 66 people (49 registered, 17 more showed up last minute) from Slovenian small businesses, government agencies and academia. Incredible vibe, very competent crowd about cloud computing and IaaS in general. The agenda of the day (full agenda, in Slovenian) OpenStack –… Read more »

OpenStack Sydney Australia Meetup Dec 13

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Tuesday night December 13 saw the inaugural meetup of the Australian OpenStack Users Group at the Harbour View Hotel in Sydney, Australia. There was obvious enthusiasm right from the start because even though we weren’t meant to start until 6.30pm there were already about 30 people there at 6.00pm. By 7.30pm we peaked at about… Read more »

Community Weekly Review (Dec 9-16)

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OpenStack Community Newsletter –December 16, 2011 HIGHLIGHTS Proposal to move non-standard ec2 “admin” api in essex https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg06218.html Proposed branches for Essex-2 milestones have been cut https://launchpad.net/openstack/+milestone/essex-2 Number of open bugs on Nova keeps increasing http://webnumbr.com/open-nova-bugs Documentation Team started to work on localization effort and new Launchpad project for openstack.org Full meeting summary http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack-meeting/2011/openstack-meeting.2011-12-12-20.03.html EVENTS Holiday… Read more »