We are very excited to welcome AT&T to the OpenStack community today!

John Donovan, AT&T’s Chief Technology Officer made the announcement at their annual AT&T developer’s summit in Las Vegas today:

“We also announced today that AT&T has become the first U.S. telecom services provider to join the OpenStack initiative, a community of more than 140 technology companies worldwide. We’ve been participating in OpenStack for more than a year and have already contributed a blueprint for a potential new function within OpenStack, focused on transactional task management.

We’re housing our OpenStack capabilities on dedicated infrastructure in three AT&T data centers today, with locations in Dallas, San Diego and Secaucus, New Jersey. We plan to more than double the number of our centers with open-source capabilities in 2012.”

Read more about it in their blog post.

OpenStack Community Newsletter –January 6, 2012 — Happy New Year

HIGHLIGHTS

• First proposal for OpenStack Foundation  mission and roadmap with deadlines http://wiki.openstack.org/Governance/Foundation
• Starting preparation to BugSquashing day http://wiki.openstack.org/BugSquashingDay/20120202
• Several questions about HOW SWIFT WORKS https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg06472.html
• New Gerrit workflow http://wiki.openstack.org/GerritWorkflowChanges 
• Swift version 1.4.5 released https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg06516.html
• OpenStack PPA team https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg06509.html

EVENTS

• China OpenStack User Group (COSUG) Meetup Jan 08, 2012 – Shangai, China http://openstack.topgeek.org/2012/
• Australian OpenStack Users Group Inaugural Meetup Part 2 Jan 17, 2012 – Melbourne, AU http://aosug.openstack.org.au/
• FOSDEM 2012 Feb 04 – 05, 2012 – Bruxelles, BE http://fosdem.org/2012/

OTHER NEWS

• OpenStack Wiki Recent Changes – http://wiki.openstack.org/RecentChanges
  • Nova Support for Volume Backed Storage Repositories in Xen/XCP http://wiki.openstack.org/NovaXenPluginSupportforVolumeStorageRepositories
  • Instance And Floating IP DNS For Nova http://wiki.openstack.org/InstanceAndFloatingIPDNSForNova
  • New user group in DC metro area http://wiki.openstack.org/OpenStackUsersGroup
• Team meeting summary http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack-meeting/2012/openstack-meeting.2012-01-03-21.03.html

COMMUNITY STATISTICS

• Top 10 contributors of 2011 for each repository, from Jan 1 00:00:00 UTC 2011 to Dec 31 00:00:00 UTC 2011

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