Monthly Archives:: January 2013

OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Jan 18 – 25)

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Highlights of the week Project Incubation Process Update is Underway Alan Clark, Chairman of the Board, wrote about the effort to improve the existing open source incubation process for OpenStack. This is one of the most important processes kickstarted by the OpenStack Foundation whose objective is to help ensure that projects receive the focus, visibility… Read more »

Project Incubation Process Update is Underway

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If you take a moment to view the different projects, committees and work groups that are currently underway within the OpenStack project, 2013 is looking to be a very exciting year for cloud computing.  I could easily write an entire dissertation about the accomplishments the community will make this year now that the OpenStack Foundation… Read more »

Introducing the User Committee

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As the number of production OpenStack deployments increase and more ecosystem partners add support for OpenStack clouds, it becomes increasingly important that the communities building services around OpenStack guide and influence the product evolution. When the OpenStack Foundation was launched in 2012, there were two initial structures created. The management board provides strategic and financial… Read more »

Technical Committee & Grizzly Update

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The OpenStack development teams continue to make progress in many areas. We recently published the grizzly-2 development milestone. It marks the middle of the “Grizzly” development cycle, which will end on April 4. So far 99 feature blueprints have been completed, and 113 more are still likely to be included before our feature freeze date… Read more »

Let’s Get this Started!

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I went to college in Indianapolis as one of the fine Butler Bulldogs. Each spring the Indy 500 car race is a celebrated event. On Labor Day weekend, the call for the engines to start is made by stating “Gentlemen, start your engines!” When female drivers are competing, the call becomes “Lady and Gentlemen…” or… Read more »

Report: January month OpenStack meetup,Bangalore, India

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In January we organized a meetup in Bangalore, India. http://www.meetup.com/Indian-OpenStack-User-Group/events/93144352/ The meetup was attended by over 75 people with different background start-up/students/researchers/MNC/Developers. We started the meetup with general introductory session followed by few minutes session on OpenStack project and components. Divakar Padiyar gave presentation on Cloud inventory, monitoring and alerting using HealthNMon Nithya, Sarad and Suresh presented Introduction to Tempest… Read more »

OpenStack at FOSDEM’13

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OpenStack will be showing a strong presence at FOSDEM 13, the largest gathering of free and open source developers in Europe.  There will be a number of talks in the Cloud devroom in the Chavanne auditorium on Sunday, February 3rd and in other places: At 9:30, Thierry Carrez will open the devroom with State of… Read more »

Summary and Review of the 2012 Openstack China Tour

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In August 2012, the OpenStack Asia Pacific Technology Conference was successfully held in Beijing, Shanghai and the city, setting off public’s interest in OpenStack. On this basis, China OpenStack User Group(COSUG)  continues to work together with CSDN to further promote OpenStack in China, thus, a series of activities of the 8-city speech tour came into… Read more »