The OpenStack community held an open discussion on the existing and future governance policy of the community. I taped the meeting with my FLIP camera so apologies for the so-so video; however the audio sounded fine when I ran through the tape. OpenStack Conference: Governance Discussion from OpenStack on Vimeo.
Posts By: Stephen Spector
OpenStack Conference and Design Summit -Day 1 Recap
The first day of the OpenStack event in Santa Clara, CA has finally ended (at least for me) and here are some event highlights as well as some great pictures taken by various community members. Gordon Mangione of Citrix Systems talks about his keynote today – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClGnuECnfFE Attendance – Just over 400 people attended the… Read more »
Community Weekly Newsletter (April 15 – 22)
This weekly newsletter is a way for the community to learn about all the various activities occurring on a weekly basis. If you would like to add content to a weekly update or have an idea about this newsletter, please email [email protected]. Korea OpenStack User Group Technical Seminer HIGHLIGHTS Cactus Release – http://www.openstack.org/blog/2011/04/openstack-announces-cactus-release/ Cactus Overview… Read more »
OpenStack Community Supports Japan Tsunami Relief Efforts
OpenStack is a global community, and contributors from Japan have been in our thoughts since the tragic earthquake and tsunami. To show our support, at next week’s OpenStack Conference and Design Summit, we will be selling ‘OpenStack for Japan’ t-shirts benefiting the Red Cross. The suggested minimum donation for a t-shirt is $25, and 100%… Read more »
OpenStack Cactus Webinar Recording Available
The Cactus Webinar on Thursday, April 21 at 4 pm EST recording is available: https://cc.readytalk.com/play?id=39ban4 This webinar covered the new features implemented in the OpenStack Cactus release. Presenting these features will be the new Project Team Leads for Glance, Swift, and Nova.
Announcing Project RedDwarf – Database as a Service
From Daniel Morris in the OpenStack developer mailing list comes a new incubation project announcement… Today Rackspace is announcing the introduction of Database as a Service (Project RedDwarf) for a possible affiliated OpenStack incubation project. To give you some background, Database as a Service is a scalable relational database service that allows users toquickly and… Read more »
Mark Collier on Facebook’s Open Compute
Mark Collier has a detailed blog post with plenty of videos on the recent Facebook announcement of Open Compute. The complete post is here. My favorite part… Starting today, communities like Open Compute can combined forces with other open communities like OpenStack and Cloud Foundry to get real world data on how a given workload… Read more »
OpenStack Cactus Release Webinar – UPDATE
OpenStack Cactus Release Webinar Thursday, April 21, 4:00 pm ET The OpenStack Cactus webinar will cover new features implemented in the Cactus release of OpenStack. Presenting these features will be the Project Technical Leads: Vish Ishaya for OpenStack Compute (Nova), John Dickinson for OpenStack Object Storage (Swift), and Jay Pipes for OpenStack Image Service (Glance). … Read more »
OpenStack Conference is OPEN EVENT – Overflow Policy and Process
Next week is the OpenStack Conference and Design Summit sponsored by Citrix in Santa Clara, CA at the Hyatt Regency. For those of you who have been following the registration saga, we originally planned a 350 attendee event based on the Fall event in San Antonio with 250 attendees; however demand for this event has… Read more »
More Open Compute Project Videos from OpenStack team
Here are some more videos from the Open Compute event at Facebook… Facebook’s Open Compute Launch, April 7th, 2011 from OpenStack on Vimeo. Facebook’s Open Compute Launch, April 7th, 2011 from OpenStack on Vimeo.