We’re making progress on the next OpenStack Design Summit (April 16-18) & Conference (April 19-20) at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco — one week, two events.

Hotel Rooms
We have a discounted hotel room block at the Hyatt under OpenStack, which is now available to book. Please make sure to designate yourself with the OpenStack Design Summit & Conference when booking.

Sponsorship Prospectus
Sponsorships are going fast, and the prospectus is available to download at the Conference website. There are a limited number of opportunities at the top levels, which are first come, first serve, with a signed agreement. If you have any questions about the prospectus, please contact sponsors@openstack.org.

Speakers & OpenStack Demo Session
We’ve also opened the OpenStack Conference call for speakers. We need your help to build out an informative and compelling agenda, including user stories, technical advancements, best practices and visions on the future of OpenStack. New to this Conference, we are also planning an OpenStack demo session, a chance for companies building products around OpenStack to present in front of the community and a panel of judges. The deadline to submit speaking sessions is February 15, and more details and deadlines for the OpenStack demo session will be announced shortly.

As a reminder, the OpenStack Design Summit is made up of working sessions for developers contributing to OpenStack. The OpenStack Conference reaches a broader audience, including users and the business ecosystem, in addition to the OpenStack technical community. Because the events are co-located, the sponsorship prospectus and hotel room block cover both events, but the call for papers is strictly for the OpenStack Conference. The Design Summit sessions and schedule will be determined by blueprint submissions, the Project Technical Leads and Release Manager.

We encourage you to make travel arrangements for the April events, and registration will open shortly. Look forward to seeing everyone in San Francisco!

OpenStack Community Newsletter –January 27, 2012

HIGHLIGHTS

• OpenStack Bug Squashing Day Is Coming On Feb 2nd http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/01/the-first-openstack-bug-squashing-day-is-coming-on-feb-2nd/ and you can follow its evolution on http://wiki.openstack.org/bugstats/
• Meet OpenStack developers at FOSDEM http://fnords.wordpress.com/2012/01/27/openstack-developers-meeting-at-fosdem/
• OpenStack Jenkins dashboard available for testing Ubuntu snapshots http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/01/openstack-jenkins-dashboard-available-for-testing-ubuntu-snapshots/
• GrydDynamics team contributed a billing plugin for Horizon https://openstackgd.wordpress.com/2012/01/24/billing-plugin-for-horizon
• OpenStack Australian community had another successful meetup http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/01/openstack-melbourne-australia-meetup-jan-17/
• Opened the Call for speaker for OpenStack Conference http://www.openstack.org/conference/san-francisco-2012/speakers/
• Book your room for the week https://resweb.passkey.com/go/DRAC2012

EVENTS

• FOSDEM 2012 Feb 04 – 05, 2012 – Bruxelles, BE http://fosdem.org/2012/schedule/track/virtualization_and_cloud_devroom
• OpenStack Bug Squash Day San Francisco Feb 02, 2012 – Rackspace San Francisco, 620 Folsom, San Francisco, CA http://www.meetup.com/openstack/events/48362422/
• OpenStack Bug Squash Day Austin Feb 02, 2012 – Rackspace Austin 2420 Ridgepoint Dr, Austin, TX http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-Austin/events/48406252/
• “Ceph Lords” San Francisco Stackers Free Event! Feb 02, 2012 – DreamHost San Francisco, 221 Pine St [2nd Floor] http://www.meetup.com/openstack/events/48829962/
• Inaugural OpenStack DC Meetup Feb 16, 2012 – Washington, DC http://www.meetup.com/OpenStackDC/events/47106902/
• FLOSSTalk Kosovo Feb 22, 2012 – UNICEF Innovations Lab Kosovo in Prishtina, Kosovo http://www.flossk.org/en/blog/flosstalk-arturo-suarez-openstack
• OpenStack Spring 2012 Design Summit Apr 16 – 18 and Conference Apr 19-20 – San Francisco, California http://openstack.org/conference/

OTHER NEWS

• Three  (and more) things about documentation https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg07082.html
• Cleaning up code after Essex feature-freeze https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg07065.html
• Announcing a new and improved Keystone https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg07063.html
• Ubuntu package / ppa for the git-review tool https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg07061.html
• Essex-3 milestone available for Keystone, Glance, Nova and Horizon https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg06989.html
• Nexenta SAN volume driver for Nova https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg06961.html
• OpenStack Wiki Recent Changes – http://wiki.openstack.org/RecentChanges
• MultiRealm Keystone http://wiki.openstack.org/MultiRealmKeystone
• Smokestack http://wiki.openstack.org/smokestack
• OpenStack Design Summit http://wiki.openstack.org/Summit
• Project meeting summary http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack-meeting/2012/openstack-meeting.2012-01-24-21.01.html

COMMUNITY STATISTICS

• We’re working to improve the community stats. We hope to be back next week.

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 leave a comment.

The keener eyed of you may have noticed:

https://jenkins.qa.ubuntu.com/view/Precise%20OpenStack%20Testing/

James Page has setup the jobs in the Ubuntu OpenStack QA Lab to start publishing to the public Jenkins QA instance this morning. We now have automated build testing of all core OpenStack components triggered from upstream trunk commits. This is followed by automated deployment (-deploy) of OpenStack in the lab with a serving of testing (-test) once its all up and running.

Credit to Adam Gandelman for the Juju charm work, deployment framework and test execution and to Chuck Short for the hugely misnamed tarball.sh script which completes the git/bzr/packaging fu to build and deploy OpenStack packages!

The plan is to get the upstream Tempest test suite running in the lab; at the moment we are running a more limited test script just to ensure that you can spin up and instance and see it on the network.

(Crossposted from cloud.ubuntu.com)

On Tuesday January 17 at the Exchange Hotel in Melbourne the inaugural Australian OpenStack Users Group meetup Part 2 took place. This followed up on the Sydney event last month and took the same format, being a casual informal get together for some drinks and conversation focused on OpenStack. We kicked off around 6pm and had an attendance of around 45 OzStackers. Many many thanks to everyone that came along!

Once again we had our attending vendors present a short overview of their company’s involvement in the project. The speakers were Mark Randall, Rackspace Country Manager for AU/NZ, Daniel Pendlebury, Citrix Lead Systems Engineer for Datacenter and Cloud, Gavin Coulthard, Manager – Field Systems Engineering A/NZ at F5, Peter Jung, Cloud Solutions Architect at Dell, and Andrew White, Data Centre Architect from Cisco. Following the vendors, an awesome contribution to the evening came from Dr Steven Manos, ITS Research Director from the University of Melbourne, who presented an overview of the NeCTAR project. Rounding out the talks again was Phil Rogers from Aptira.

Again as in Sydney, there was a great sense of community, lots of smiles and laughter and much conversation and enthusiasm to share information and experiences. As social events go, both this and the Sydney events have been very successful, the next round of meetups scheduled for early March will see us presenting a more structured meetup schedule with a focus on technical, with demos and the like.

Head to our Australian Meetup group to get involved, or join the AU Google group.

OpenStack Community Newsletter –January 20, 2012

HIGHLIGHTS

• The First OpenStack Bug Squashing Day Is Coming On Feb 2nd http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/01/the-first-openstack-bug-squashing-day-is-coming-on-feb-2nd/
• Making more solid OpenStack releases http://fnords.wordpress.com/2012/01/18/making-more-solid-openstack-releases/
• Performance testing tool for Glance https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg06724.html
• OpenStack Nova and Glance 2011.3.1 released https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg06834.html
• GridDynamics released “nova-billing”, resource usage accounting system for OpenStack http://openstackgd.wordpress.com/2012/01/19/resource-usage-accounting-system-for-openstack/
• Dan Prince and Russell Bryant giving an introduction to OpenStack ad FUDCon http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/videos/2012/fudcon-blacksburg/openstack.ogg

EVENTS

• Southern California Linux Expo SCALE10x, Jan 20-22 – Los Angeles, CA http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale10x/presentations/state-openstack
• Lecture on OpenStack: Open source cloud computing Jan 21, 2012 – Pune, India (no URL: email me for details)
• FOSDEM 2012 Feb 04 – 05, 2012 – Bruxelles, BE http://fosdem.org/2012/schedule/track/virtualization_and_cloud_devroom
• Inaugural OpenStack DC Meetup Feb 16, 2012 – Washington, DC http://www.meetup.com/OpenStackDC/events/47106902/
• OpenStack Spring 2012 Conference Apr 16 – 20, 2012 – San Francisco, California http://openstack.org/conference/

OTHER NEWS

• OpenStack Community picks “Folsom” as the official name of next release https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg06785.html
• OpenStack Wiki Recent Changes – http://wiki.openstack.org/RecentChanges
• OpenStack Academic Initiative http://wiki.openstack.org/AcademicInitiative
• Puppet configuration for Nova http://wiki.openstack.org/PuppetConfigForNova
• Team meeting summary http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack-meeting/2012/openstack-meeting.2012-01-17-21.01.html

COMMUNITY STATISTICS

• We’re taking a break from producing the graphs this week. We hope to be back next week showing more precise information from commits to the master branch of OpenStack projects.

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 leave a comment.

For those that couldn’t participate to past week’s webinar, here is the recording of Mark Collier and Jonathan Bryce presenting the draft mission of OpenStack Foundation and its roadmap. (The audio starts around minute 2:50). A total of 86 people participated to the events, 51 on Thursday and 35 on Friday. Since the chat was not visible to every participant, we’re disclosing the complete logs of the chat for both events, unedited . All questions were addressed by Mark and Jonathan. We’re looking for a different tool to use for future webinars.

Shine your keyboards, hackers of OpenStack: on February 2nd 2012 you will be called to fight the ever growing number of bugs that keep creeping in our beloved code.  On Bug Squashing Day all the OpenStack developer community will focus mainly on Nova to:

• Close old fixed bugs. Old bugs are nasty. Even when they are long dead, they clog bug views and render the lists unusable. Just look at old bugs and check if they still apply ! If they don’t, close them as FixReleased (if you can pinpoint when they were fixed) or Invalid (if you can’t).
• Fix bugs. The best thing you can do on a bug squashing day is to kill a live one. Just look at the list of Confirmed or Triaged and pick your target. Submit a change that fixes it. Ask for review help on the channel.
• Triage incoming bugs. It’s sometimes hard to distinguish fresh bugs from false alarms. You can help by using your expertise or reproduction skills on New bugs. If you can confirm the issue, set the bug to Confirmed. If you can fix it, read the previous chapter. If you need more info from the reporter, set it to Incomplete. And if it happens to not really be valid, set it to Invalid.

You don’t have to be an experienced Nova developer to participate, and we believe that February 2nd will be a great way to get started with the OpenStack community. You can get started by looking at Devstack to build your complete OpenStack development environment. The other projects are welcome to focus on quality that day but Nova is the one that will get more attention.

The event will happen mostly online, in a dedicated #openstack-bugsquash IRC channel on Freenode (that all participants are encouraged to join for the duration of the event). There will also be live meetings in Austin and San Francisco, hosted by Rackspace with food, drinks and games.

Do you want to host a Bug Squash Day on Feb 2nd? Let us know and we’ll add it to the list.

OpenStack Community Newsletter –January 13, 2012

HIGHLIGHTS

• Announced the date and venue for next OpenStack Conference and Design Summit http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/01/the-openstack-spring-2012-conference-in-san-francisco-california-april-16-20-2012/
• Comment on OpenStack Foundation  mission and roadmap http://wiki.openstack.org/Governance/Foundation
• Let the community know how you would want Swift to manage object versioning https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg06666.html
• New section on openstack.org tells stories from OpenStack users : what’s your story? http://www.openstack.org/user-stories/
• Help make history, name OpenStack ‘F’ release https://launchpad.net/~openstack/+poll/f-release-naming
• AT&T joins OpenStack community http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/01/please-welcome-att-to-the-openstack-community/

EVENTS

• Australian OpenStack Users Group Inaugural Meetup Part 2 Jan 17, 2012 – Melbourne, AU http://aosug.openstack.org.au/
• Southern California Linux Expo SCALE10x, Jan 20-22 – Los Angeles, CA http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale10x/presentations/state-openstack
• FOSDEM 2012 Feb 04 – 05, 2012 – Bruxelles, BE http://fosdem.org/2012/schedule/track/virtualization_and_cloud_devroom

OTHER NEWS

• OpenStack Wiki Recent Changes – http://wiki.openstack.org/RecentChanges
• How to triage OpenStack bugs http://wiki.openstack.org/BugTriage
• Quantum L2 Linux Bridge Plugin http://wiki.openstack.org/Quantum-Linux-Bridge-Plugin
• How OpenStack picks the names for its release http://wiki.openstack.org/ReleaseNaming
• Using the HybridFox plugin to manage Openstack Nova http://docs.stackops.org/display/documentation/Using+the+HybridFox+plugin+to+manage+Openstack+Nova
• Team meeting summary http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack-meeting/2012/openstack-meeting.2012-01-10-21.06.html

COMMUNITY STATISTICS

• Top 10 contributors of 2011 for each repository, from Jan 2 00:00:00 UTC 2012 to Jan 9 00:00:00 UTC 2012

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 leave a comment.

We are excited to announce that the Spring 2012 OpenStack Design Summit & OpenStack Conference are planned for April 16-20, 2012 in San Francisco, California. Please start making plans to join us!

Learn more about the events on The Official Event Page.

Please note: Registration has not yet opened. More details, including accommodations, call for papers and the sponsorship prospectus will be available shortly.

Note that two events take place the same week: The Design Summit and the Conference. So, which should you attend?

Everyone: If you are an OpenStack user, provider, researcher, developer, or enthusiast, you’ll want to attend the OpenStack Conference held Thursday and Friday, April 19 & 20th. This is the main event and it includes keynotes, panel sessions, and vendor exhibitors who can help you get the most out of OpenStack.

Developers: If you are an active developer in the OpenStack community, you’ll also want to attend the Design Summit, happening right before the conference (April 16-18th). The Design Summit is kept intentionally small so that we can have productive working sessions as we discuss and plan for development on the next release of OpenStack.

We hope you’ll make the trip and join us at what’s shaping up to be a fantastic and informative event.

Jonathan Bryce and Mark Collier will host two webinars to illustrate the draft mission for the future OpenStack Foundation. The draft was published on http://wiki.openstack.org/Governance/Foundation/ and it’s the fist building block of the organisation that was announced in Boston. They will be available to answer questions about the roadmap and deadlines proposed for the project.  We believe a live conversation will complement the online discussion on the foundation mailing list. We picked the times of the webinars to accommodate the needs of people living across the world and we picked the technology that is most accessible. You can use your favourite operating system or dial in using toll free numbers for virtually anywhere in the world. If you encounter problems please let us know.

The first webinar will be held on Thursday Jan 12, 2012 at 06:00 PM CST (register here https://cc.readytalk.com/r/ogxx717wjy06) and the following day on Friday, Jan 13, 2012 at 9:00 AM CST (register here https://cc.readytalk.com/r/9o9bdh6hb3vn).

You may find the converter useful http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html to find your local time.