Monthly Archives:: August 2012

OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Aug 24-31)

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Highlights of the week Nominations now open for OpenStack Project Technical Leads It’s that time again 🙂 Anyone who would like to be a candidate for the forth-coming elections for the OpenStack Project Technical Leads may now submit their names! Valid candidates must currently be an Active Technical Contributor (within the 6 months prior to… Read more »

Openstack at barcamp XII, Bangalore, India.

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Barcamp, Bangalore was organized on 25th  august and we had registered for a talk on Openstack. Our talk got scheduled for later in the day. Barcamp is a unconf style event so after meeting few other Openstack contributors from HP and others, we decided lets keep the session more of a QA and whiteboard centric than slide centric. So me  Sajid and Yogesh joined for the session.  🙂 The session… Read more »

OpenStack at CloudOpen

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OpenStack is a protagonist of CloudOpen, the only conference providing a collaboration and education space dedicated to advancing the open cloud. Next week, from Aug 29 to 31 in San Diego there will be plenty of chances to hear talks about OpenStack and how it’s shaping the cloud industry. On Tuesday Aug 28th join the… Read more »

OpenStack at PuppetConf: Tim Bell of CERN to Keynote

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PuppetConf is coming up September 27-28 in San Francisco, and we’re excited to announce some great OpenStack content, including a keynote presentation from Tim Bell of CERN!  Tim’s talk, ‘Accelerating Science with Puppet and OpenStack,’ will review CERN’s objectives, and how their computing infrastructure is evolving to address challenges at scale using community supported software… Read more »

OpenStack Won Unprecedented Popularity in Asia/Pacific

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On August 10 -11, the first two-day OpenStack Asia-Pacific Conference (OSAC) was held in Beijing and Shanghai concurrently. This conference is  jointly organized by CSDN (Chinese Software Develop the Net), the world’s largest Chinese IT technology community and the OpenStack user group (COSUG). This conference is the highest-level OpenStack meeting held in the Asia-Pacific region so far,… Read more »

OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Aug 10-17)

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Highlights of the week OpenStack Foundation Board – Gold Member Election Results The Gold Members completed their election as planned. DLA Piper administered the election and has passed along the results. The eight elected companies and the individuals they intend to appoint to the board are listed alphabetically below: Cisco – Lew Tucker Cloudscaling – Randy… Read more »

How I contribute to OpenStack series

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Rackspace is running a series of interviews to the protagonists of OpenStack development. Titled ‘How I contribute to OpenStack’, it  collects insight straight from key developers on the front lines about how they became involved in OpenStack and the open cloud, and what contributions they’ve made. The first two installments saw SolidFire Software Engineer John… Read more »

First OpenStack User Group Meetup in Delhi NCR, India!

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OpenStack Delhi NCR User Group chapter started this past weekend and Syed Armani has blogged about it at http://syedarmani.blogspot.in/ Thank to Syed for initiating the group and providing the venue and local organisation, and thanks to Kavit, Aptira‘s Head of Indian Operations for co-organising and sponsoring food and beverages.