Monthly Archives:: October 2013

The Hong Kong Summit: Why I’m Excited

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We asked our community why they’re looking forward to the OpenStack Summit in Hong Kong next week. We received a number of colorful responses and we’re sharing some of the best here. Have something to add?  Let us know why you’re excited for the Summit in the comments below!   Terri Yu, @terrimyu 1) Why are you… Read more »

Reviewing how Blueprints are handled

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OpenStack Compute Tech Lead Russell Bryant has triggered an important discussion on the OpenStack Development mailing list about the process to review blueprints. The Blueprints wiki page currently assigns to Project Tech Leads the task of assigning priority to the blueprints and Russell is suggesting that a wider group of people in the community shares… Read more »

OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Oct 18 – 25)

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Register Now For The Summit in Hong Kong 在全体大会中将提供英文至中文之即时翻译。 要得到更多信息， 请查阅注册信息页 Solum: Open Development From Day One Solum is a project designed to make cloud services easier to consume and integrate into your application development process. Solum begins as a shared vision, not a complete product. It’s a vision that a coalition of contributors believes… Read more »

Open Mic Spotlight: Alex Meade

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This post is part of the OpenStack Open Mic series to spotlight the people who have helped make OpenStack successful. Each week, a new contributor will step up to the mic and answer five questions about OpenStack, cloud, careers and what they do for fun.  Alex Meade is a Software Developer at Rackspace and an… Read more »

OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Oct 11 – 18)

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Register Now For The Summit in Hong Kong 在全体大会中将提供英文至中文之即时翻译。 要得到更多信息， 请查阅注册信息页 OpenStack Havana is out OpenStack Havana, the eighth release of the open source software for building public, private, and hybrid clouds, has nearly 400 new features to support software development, managing data and application infrastructure at scale. The OpenStack community continues to attract the… Read more »

Open Mic Spotlight: Dan Smith

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This post is part of the OpenStack Open Mic series to spotlight the people who have helped make OpenStack successful. Each week, a new contributor will step up to the mic and answer five questions about OpenStack, cloud, careers and what they do for fun.  Dan Smith is a Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat…. Read more »

OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Oct 4 – 11)

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Register Now For The Summit in Hong Kong 在全体大会中将提供英文至中文之即时翻译。 要得到更多信息， 请查阅注册信息页 CoreOS, a good operating system for your OpenStack controllers Sébastien Han explains why in his opinion CoreOS is an excellent operation system for your OpenStack controllers. Even if CoreOS is not mature enough to be put in production, the technology has a lot of… Read more »

Open Mic Spotlight: Armando Migliaccio

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This post is part of the OpenStack Open Mic series to spotlight the people who have helped make OpenStack successful. Each week, a new contributor will step up to the mic and answer five questions about OpenStack, cloud, careers and what they do for fun.  Armando Migliaccio is a restless Italian expatriate who moves back and… Read more »

The Growing Diversity inside OpenStack Object Storage

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Of all OpenStack projects, Object Storage (also known as Swift) has always been considered mature or, in other words, a place where new things rarely happen. I’ve always been looking at the Object Storage project closely and I’m happy to report a lot of exciting things are happening in Swift, specifically around the community participation… Read more »

OpenStack at the Grace Hopper Conference

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I love reporting back from events where we grow our inclusive contributor base! On the Saturday after the Grace Hopper Conference, four of us ran a workshop to onboard future OpenStack contributors. Grace Hopper is a celebration of women in computing and over 4500 women attended the conference this year, showing great growth over the… Read more »