Monthly Archives:: April 2012

Community Weekly Review (Apr 20-27)

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OpenStack Community Newsletter – April 27, 2012 Welcome back to our regular publishing schedule. This week we still hear the echo of the Design Summit and Conference. HIGHLIGHTS If you participated to the summit or conference, remember to take the survey https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/openstack-folsom-events Notes, reports, post-mortem, comments from participants to last week’s events: http://maffulli.net/2012/04/26/back-from-openstack-design-summit-and-conference/ http://technicae.cogitat.io/2012/04/new-life-openstack-devops-community.html http://blog.doughellmann.com/2012/04/notes-from-openstack-folsom-design.html… Read more »

OpenStack Conference Spring 2012 Day 2

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And today marks the end of this full week of meetings, panels, formal and informal chats, parties, networking and lots of fun. The final count of registered people went well over 1,000! This calls for a celebration to this great community. [View the story “OpenStack Conference Spring 2012 Day 2” on Storify] Remember to publish… Read more »

Folsom Design Summit Day 3

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The Folsom Design Summit has ended. Tonight’s party marks the beginning of the OpenStack Spring 2012 Conference Highlights of the day @tcarrez: @OpenStack community maturing: last year at design summit we had “bzr vs. Git”, today we have “making configuration of OpenStack easier” Reminder- joint hackathon with core devs from @cloudfoundry and @OpenStack – 6pm… Read more »

Folsom Design Summit Day 2

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Highlights of the day: Slides PDF for @swifterdarrell Monitoring #OpenStack Swift With #StatsD talk: swiftstack.com/assets/ (pdf) slideshare version of today’s CS+SWIFT integration slideshare.net/ Openstack Quantum Security Groups Session slideshare.net/ For anyone looking for the slides the Melange Overview at the #openstack summit, you can find them on slideshare.net/troytoman/ and an announcement: tomorrow’s Cloud Foundry BOSH… Read more »

Folsom Design Summit Day 1

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Over 400 participant, more than 50 sessions today (over 150 in total). Not just developers in the rooms I’ve seen lots of users  involved in the sessions, asking questions and giving suggestions. Many discussisions revolve around real life problems and provide extremely  concrete solutions. There is the feeling that the OpenStack community is maturing.

Community Weekly Review (Apr 6 – 13)

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OpenStack Community Newsletter – April 13, 2012 HIGHLIGHTS OpenStack Foundation announces its founders http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/04/openstack-foundation-update/ Wired/Cloudline: http://www.wired.com/cloudline/2012/04/openstack/ InfoWorld: http://www.infoworld.com/t/cloud-computing/heavy-hitters-throw-weight-behind-future-openstack-foundation-190692 Gigaom: http://gigaom.com/cloud/its-official-ibm-and-red-hat-are-onboard-with-openstack/ Marketwatch (includes quotes from committed organizations): http://www.marketwatch.com/story/leading-technology-companies-support-formation-of-openstack-foundation-2012-04-12 IMPORTANT LINKS FOR THE SUMMIT AND CONFERENCE OpenStack Spring 2012 Schedule for Design Summit http://www.openstack.org/conference/san-francisco-2012/sessions/ OpenStack Spring 2012 Schedule for Conference http://www.openstack.org/conference/san-francisco-2012/sessions/conference Parties and other social events are on the official schedules… Read more »

OpenStack Foundation Update

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We’ve come a long way since announcing in October in Boston that we planned to create an OpenStack Foundation in 2012. We set out to solicit as much feedback as possible (and on the second day, there was a town hall) and to participate in as many open forums as possible (mailing lists, webinars, meetups,… Read more »

Community Weekly Review (Mar 30 – Apr 6)

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OpenStack Community Newsletter – April 6, 2012 HIGHLIGHTS OpenStack Essex is ready http://www.openstack.org/Essex/ Press release http://www.openstack.org/projects/essex/press-release/ Release notes http://wiki.openstack.org/ReleaseNotes/Essex Essex Hall Of Fame http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/04/openstack-essex-hall-of-fame/ The Secret History of OpenStack, the Free Cloud Software That’s Changing Everything http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/04/openstack OpenStack Community Pulls It Out Of The Bag http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/04/openstack-community-pulls-it-out-of-the-bag/ Ask not what OpenStack can do for you… http://fnords.wordpress.com/2012/04/04/ask-not-what-openstack-can-do-for-you/ There… Read more »