Monthly Archives:: May 2012

Recap: OpenStack Meetup Apr 26

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About a month ago, LA had its third OpenStack™ Meetup, “This Calls for Essex-y Party”.  The atmosphere was electric and the air was thick with love – love for OpenStack and burritos. It could have been that many of us were still flying high from the OpenStack Summit/Conference that occurred the week before.  It could have… Read more »

Upcoming OpenStack Events in Australia

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We have some Australian OpenStack User Group (AOSUG) events organised around the country in the coming months. Brisbane June 26 – Meetup We’re holding a meetup on June 26th, at a venue yet to be determined. I’m looking for assistance in picking a venue in Brisbane, a pub will be fine but preferably one where… Read more »

OpenStack Events Update

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OpenStack will be represented at several industry conferences this summer, and community members across the world are hosting regional OpenStack days.  Below are some highlights from the event schedule,  including how you can sponsor or participate. Global OpenStack Days OpenStack Israel 2012 | May 30 | Tel Aviv, Israel More than 250 people are registered… Read more »

Community Weekly Review (May 18-25)

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OpenStack Community Newsletter — May 25 Highlights of the week  S3 emulation to OpenStack Swift has moved Following PPB’s decision of May 15 meeting the S3 emulation layer to OpenStack Swift has moved to a new home: https://github.com/fujita/swift3 [more…] Building a Swift Storage Cloud? Avoid Wimpy Proxy Servers and Five other Pitfalls The Zmanda team… Read more »

OpenStack Melbourne Australia Meetup May 15

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Last Tuesday night (17/5) in Melbourne I attended the 2nd meetup of the Melbourne contingent of the Australian OpenStack User Group. It was a fantastic night with great speakers and a great group of people who are passionate about OpenStack. There was a mix of people with various OpenStack experience, from the NeCTAR team who have… Read more »

Starter docs and articles

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I wanted to send a note out to discuss the growth of all the starter docs and “articles” on a particular topic. Thanks all who are sending these as links to the mailing list or tweeting ’em. We are listening. The doc team has been discussing ways to ensure we help people find what they… Read more »

Community Weekly Review (May 11-18)

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OpenStack Community Newsletter — May 18 Highlights of the week  Decision On Third Party APIs The PPB in its May 15 meeting decided that: An OpenStack project will support an official API in it’s core implementation(the OpenStack API). Other APIs will be implemented external to core. The core project will expose stable, complete, performant interfaces… Read more »

Here is what happens inside Nova when you provision a VM

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At the Essex conference summit this past month, we presented a session on  OpenStack Essex architecture. As a part of that workshop we visually demonstrated the request flow for provisioning a VM and went over Essex arthicture. There was a lot of interest in this material; it’s now posted in Slideshare: Recap of the request flow… Read more »

Indian User Group first meet up

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The first formal meetup of the Indian OpenStack User Group was held in Bangalore last weekend on the 5th of May. The event was attended by 25 enthusiastic InStackers. We were hoping to see a few more people but there were a couple of other tech events on the same day. The venue for the meetup… Read more »

Community Weekly Review (May 4-11)

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OpenStack Community Newsletter – May 4, 2012 HIGHLIGHTS Comment on the first draft of OpenStack Foundation’s bylaws http://wiki.openstack.org/Governance/Foundation/Bylaws The mailing list message is on http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/foundation/2012-April/000255.html The Project Policy Board made important decisions regarding 3rd party APIs and Cinder (formerly known as Nova Volume): third party apis are not part of openstack core, and we focus… Read more »