Monthly Archives:: March 2012

OpenStack Sydney Australia Meetup March 26

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Last Monday saw the latest meetup of the Australian OpenStack User Group in Sydney. Following on from our inaugural social meetups in December and January that were all about discovery of OpenStack, we moved to a more technical focus with presentations and real world demos. We had 4 presenters for the evening: John Dickinson – OpenStack… Read more »

I hear the Essex Train a-coming

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With Essex train in the wilds of testing, and the Essex release intended date less than 10 days away, we are pretty excited about everyone descending on San Francisco — practically our home town — for the Design Summit and Conference. Here at Mirantis, the company famous across OpenStack community for distributing vodka bottles at… Read more »

Community Weekly Review (Mar 23-30)

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OpenStack Community Newsletter –March 30, 2012 HIGHLIGHTS Submit session proposals for OpenStack Folsom Design Summit https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg08674.html OpenStack Spring 2012 Conference Schedule http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/03/openstack-spring-2012-conference-schedule/ EVENTS OpenStack Spring 2012 Design Summit Apr 16 – 18 and Conference Apr 19-20 – San Francisco, California http://openstack.org/conference/ OpenStack Israel 2012 May 30, 2012 – Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel http://www.meetup.com/IGTCloud/events/53864922/ Open Cloud and… Read more »

OpenStack Spring 2012 Conference Schedule

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The programming committee has published the schedule for the OpenStack Conference Spring 2012. The conference will feature Keynotes sessions from Biri Singh, SVP & GM of HP Cloud Services, Chris C. Kemp, CEO & Founder of Nebula; John Engates, CTO and Mark Interrante, VP of Products at Rackspace; and Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu; User… Read more »

Community Weekly Review (Mar 16-23)

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OpenStack Community Newsletter –March 23, 2012 A great community story: Over the course of just a week I’ve gone from despair and frustration to almost wanting to shout from the rooftops the achievements that have been made in OpenStack and my own deployments and testing Read the rest of it on https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg08950.html HIGHLIGHTS Submit session… Read more »

Community Weekly Review (Mar 9-16)

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OpenStack Community Newsletter –March 16, 2012 HIGHLIGHTS Submit session proposals for OpenStack Folsom Design Summit https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg08674.html Shout out to all folks who participated to sprints for OpenStack this year at PyCon http://oubiwann.blogspot.com/2012/03/openstack-at-pycon-2012-sprints.html The real way to start hacking on OpenStack http://www.linuxjedi.co.uk/2012/03/real-way-to-start-hacking-on-openstack.html OpenStack API’s and WSGI, Mike Pittaro’s presentation at South Bay OpenStack Meetup March 8th http://www.slideshare.net/lhrc_mikeyp/openstack-apis-and-wsgi… Read more »

Community Weekly Review (Mar 2-9)

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OpenStack Community Newsletter –March 9, 2012 HIGHLIGHTS OpenStack community elected new PTLs and two members of PPB http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/03/openstack-governance-elections-spring-2012-results/ OpenStack effort to join Google Summer of Code https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg08459.html Swift 1.4.7 released https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg08445.html Results of OpenStack Documentation Day https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg08403.html Help needed to enable remote participation at Folsom Design Summit https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg08360.html EVENTS Webinar: OpenStack Foundation update Mar 13,… Read more »

On your mark… Get set… CODE!

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The race is on to release the final candidate of Essex.  Join the OpenStack sprint team in Santa Clara during PyCon, March 12th-15th.  We need your help to push Essex across the finish line. DreamHost is co-sponsoring the PyCon Development Sprints and is organizing a group that will focus exclusively on the OpenStack project.  Food… Read more »

OpenStack Governance Elections Spring 2012 Results

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The OpenStack community has elected the Project Technical Leads and two members of the Project Policy Board. Here are the winners: NOVA Project Technical Lead (1 position) Official poll results http://www.cs.cornell.edu/w8/~andru/cgi-perl/civs/control.pl?id=E_db67df60654f6c8e&key=83b8ba2aeca3c8fd&akey=f52079a1711dd46e Winner: Vish Ishaya http://wiki.openstack.org/Governance/ElectionsSpring2012/Vishvananda_Ishaya KEYSTONE Project Technical Lead (1 position) Official poll results http://www.cs.cornell.edu/w8/~andru/cgi-perl/civs/control.pl?id=E_b16565f593d90e7a&key=6aa1fc41112e0ab9&akey=832fde7cb1ac9844 Winner: Joe Heck http://wiki.openstack.org/Governance/ElectionsSpring2012/Joe_Heck HORIZON Project Technical Lead (1 position)… Read more »