We are very excited to welcome AT&T to the OpenStack community today!

John Donovan, AT&T’s Chief Technology Officer made the announcement at their annual AT&T developer’s summit in Las Vegas today:

“We also announced today that AT&T has become the first U.S. telecom services provider to join the OpenStack initiative, a community of more than 140 technology companies worldwide. We’ve been participating in OpenStack for more than a year and have already contributed a blueprint for a potential new function within OpenStack, focused on transactional task management.

We’re housing our OpenStack capabilities on dedicated infrastructure in three AT&T data centers today, with locations in Dallas, San Diego and Secaucus, New Jersey. We plan to more than double the number of our centers with open-source capabilities in 2012.”

Read more about it in their blog post.

OpenStack has been a global phenomenon since the community formed in July 2010, and it has only gotten more diverse since then. One of my favorite stats is that we had people from 6 continents attend the most recent Design Summit & Conference in Boston. Still looking for that elusive Antarctica user.

I spent a few minutes digging through Google Analytics to pull out some other interesting 2011 stats to share.

• People in over 13,000 cities from over 200 countries visited OpenStack.org this year!
• We had a total of 750k+ visits from 430k+ unique visitors.
• The most popular city was Beijing, followed by Seoul, London, and Bangalore
• China was #2 after the U.S. as a source of visitors to openstack.org
• Full details available here.
• This is a google docs embeded graph that will overlay visits by region:

• There is clearly a need for a true global open source software platform, and lots of people are seizing that opportunity in over 200 countries.
• This is a powerful movement!  It is much bigger than any one company or country.
• We have much to do to support the diverse community, including more international events and localized content.  To coordinate an event or to talk sponsorships contact events@openstack.org and also check the events page to make sure your event is listed there. Lauren Sell and Dee Rosales are good people to talk to about how to make your OpenStack event a success.
• If you’d like to help with translating content (web pages, overview docs, more technical docs, or openstack itself such as the dashboard) drop us a note at translate@openstack.org with some info on how you’d like to help. Todd Morey, Anne Gentle, Stefano Maffulli (and other stackers) are starting several translation projects now and could use your help!

Here’s to an even bigger and stronger global OpenStack community in 2012!
Mark Collier
@sparkycollier

Last week, we got together for the OpenStack Conference in Boston and started things off talking about plans to create an OpenStack Foundation. Thursday afternoon, we had a great session as a community talking about initial goals for the foundation and how to keep the discussion going after the conference. Ryan Lane had a nice post on the session, and we’ll also be posting the video of the session to vimeo soon. Scott Sanchez was also kind enough to take notes.

The first action we all agreed on was to create a mailing list to continue the conversation, which is now live and you can subscribe here.

Based on last week’s discussion, I think it makes sense to start at a high level by talking about the Mission of the foundation as well as the Scope of OpenStack for the foreseeable future before getting too bogged down in potential structures and funding etc. We should also talk about the need for any additional communication tools beyond the list itself.

Tomorrow at the OpenStack Conference in Boston, Lew Moorman will discuss Rackspace’s intention to form an OpenStack Foundation in 2012, which will be responsible for Project Governance and ownership of the OpenStack trademark.  This marks a major milestone in the evolution of OpenStack as a movement to establish the industry standard for cloud software.

Rackspace, NASA, and over 20 other companies launched OpenStack in July of 2010 with the goal of building the ubiquitous open source cloud operating system.  In just over a year, the community has grown to over 100 organizations all over the globe, producing 4 software releases in a short period of time.  A founding goal was to grow the community well beyond Rackspace, both in terms of code contributions, and users.  As we approach 2012, those goals are within reach. Some recent highlights:

• Code contributions are coming from a broad group.  For example, in a recent Diablo milestone 12 features were contributed by developers from 8 different companies.
• The number of companies and organizations backing OpenStack is now well over 110, including industry giants such as Cisco, HP, and Dell.
• OpenStack start ups are also being funded at an amazing rate, including Piston and Nebula, both founded by ex-NASA folks who helped create OpenStack and are now leading companies around it, and Techstars recently announced an incubator program for Cloud start ups focused on OpenStack.
• User adoption is really taking off, and we’ll be hearing from MercardoLibre, CERN, Sony Computer Entertainment America, Fidelity, Disney, and NeCTAR tomorrow during the OpenStack Conference in Boston.

Rackspace will be gathering feedback from others in the community on the best structure and processes to adopt as the OpenStack Foundation is established in 2012, starting with a Town Hall session tomorrow during the OpenStack Conference in Boston.  You can also share your thoughts by sending an email to foundation@openstack.org

OpenStack is poised for an even bigger year in 2012, with so much passion from an amazing group of people across the globe and an independent OpenStack foundation.  The promise of a vendor-neutral, truly open cloud standard is within reach.  By doing this important work together, as a community, we can achieve something much bigger with a lasting impact on the future of computing.

OpenStack Community Newsletter – September 16, 2011

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 stefano@openstack.org.

HIGHLIGHTS

• Diablo release is approaching: focusing on bug fixing and documentation
• Documentation blitz on Monday, Sep 19th: http://www.openstack.org/blog/2011/09/openstack-documentation-blitz/
• If you haven’t already, register to the OpenStack Conference – http://www.openstack.org/blog/2011/09/openstack-conference-registration-are-you-coming/

EVENTS

• OpenStack in action – September 21, Paris, France https://openstackinaction.eventbrite.com/
• Boston OpenStack User Group Meeting -  September 21, Boston, MA http://bostonopenstack.eventbrite.com
• OpenStack Conference – October 5-7, Boston, MA
• OpenStack Meetup -  October 13, New York City -  http://www.doodle.com/m9cki3wt3sdqhwk8
• OpenStack Hackaton, Wikimedia Foundation – October 14-16, New Orleans, LA  http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/NOLA_Hackathon

DEVELOPER COMMUNITY

• Swift project moved its code to Github https://github.com/openstack/swift
• Diablo Release Schedule – http://wiki.openstack.org/DiabloReleaseSchedule
• Developer Team Meeting Minutes – September 13
  • http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack-meeting/2011/openstack-meeting.2011-09-13-21.01.html

GENERAL COMMUNITY

• OpenStack Wiki Recent Changes – http://wiki.openstack.org/RecentChanges
  • Documentation Meeting Logs http://wiki.openstack.org/Documentation/MeetingLogs
  • Nova Review Days http://wiki.openstack.org/Nova/ReviewDays
  • Draft proposal for Dynamic Cloud Network Services http://wiki.openstack.org/DynamicCloudNetworkService

COMMUNITY STATISTICS (8/12– 8/18)

• OpenStack Compute (NOVA) Data
  • 38 Active Reviews
  • 413 Active Branches – owned by 102 people & 18 teams
  • 1,658 commits by 76 people in last month
• OpenStack Object Storage (SWIFT) Data
  • https://github.com/openstack/swift/graphs/impact
• OpenStack Image Registry (GLANCE) Data
  • https://github.com/openstack/glance/graphs/impact
• Bugs Stats for Week: 948 Tracked Bugs; 136 New Bugs; 67 In-progress Bugs; 17 Critical Bugs; 133 High Importance Bugs;
• Blueprints Stats for Week:  245 Blueprints; 4 Essential, 13 High, 24 Medium, 20 Low, 157 Undefined
• OpenStack Website Stats for Week:  16,421 Visits, 39,697 Pageviews, 56 % New Visits
  • Top 5 Pages: Home 41.32%; Compute 16.15%; /projects 13.39%; Storage 10.35%; Community 5.60%

The OpenStack community is once again in full preparation for our twice annual community events, this time in Boston, Ma in October.  There are two different (but related) events during the week of October 3rd-7th:  At the beginning of the week, we have the OpenStack Design Summit which is a set of small, focused developer working sessions where the roadmap will be set by active contributors on the project.  Later in the week, the broader community of Users, Developers, and Business folk will gather for the OpenStack Conference.  Those of you who attended the events in April may notice that, this time, we’ve reversed the order.  This will allow the broader community to hear and discuss the output of the Design Summit.

To better understand which event is right for you, here are some additional details:

OpenStack Design Summit – Held October 3 – 5, 2011, this event is targeted at OpenStack developers and architects to collaborate on the features, designs, and development methodology for the Essex product release. Developers submit their feature ideas for Essex via the Launchpad blueprint process and the three Project Technical Leads work with the Release Manager to create the final agenda. It is highly recommended that only OpenStack developers or architects attend as the sessions are extremely technical and focused on individual features for Essex. Registration for this group of attendees will be handled via launchpad accounts. The developer registration process will also offer you the option to indicate that you intend to stay for the Conference portion of the week, so you will NOT need to go to two places to register if you are attending both events.  In fact:  Please don’t!

OpenStack Conference -  Held October 5 – 7, 2011, this event is targeted at the broader OpenStack community including ecosystem companies, system administrators, users, and business executives interested in the OpenStack open source project. Senior executive leaders in the cloud computing marketplace present their ideas on the future of the industry and OpenStack’s influence in the general sessions along with a business track and technical track containing information for attendees on how OpenStack works and why OpenStack matters. The OpenStack community welcomes all attendees interested in cloud computing and open source to this event to learn about the OpenStack project and become an active part of the community. Click here to register for the Conference.

Click here to book your room at the Boston Intercontinental hotel (where the events are located) at a discount rate.  We have a block of rooms, so please use the link to ensure they are tracked appropriately.  The special rate is substantially cheaper than the normal rate, and is only guaranteed if you book by September 9th.

If you have any further questions on these two events, please contact Stephen Spector for more information.

We are excited to announce the first EMEA OpenStack Day for anyone interested in using, developing for or building products around the open source cloud project. EMEA OpenStack Day will take place Wednesday, July 13, in London.  We expect the one-day event will cover a variety of topics, including:

• Getting started with OpenStack
• Capabilities and use cases
• Ecosystem of participating organizations
• Technical deep-dive into the three core projects

The event is free and open to all, but registration is limited to 125 based on the size of the venue. We encourage you to reserve your spot quickly. Please visit the event page to register and find more details.

We welcome feedback and recommendations for the agenda as we confirm speakers. Contact lauren@openstack.org with any feedback, and stay tuned for updates!

http://emeaopenstackday.eventbrite.com/

OpenStack Community Newsletter – May 27, 2011

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 stephen.spector@openstack.org.

OS Event Recap Spring 2011 from OpenStack on Vimeo.

HIGHLIGHTS

• OpenStack at Citrix Synergy – http://www.openstack.org/blog/2011/05/openstacks-big-day-at-citrix-synergy/
  • Project Olympus –  http://deliver.citrix.com/projectolympus
• OpenStack Community Forums -  http://forums.openstack.org/
• Q&A: Pual Carmody of Internap on its OpenStack-Based IaaS Cloud – http://www.thewhir.com/web-hosting-news/052711_QA_Paul_Carmody_of_Internap_on_its_OpenStack_Based_IaaS_Cloud

EVENTS

• OpenHelp – June 3-5 in Cincinnati, OH http://openhelpconference.com/
• Cloud Expo East – Jun 6-9 – New York, NY http://cloudexpo2011east.sys-con.com/
• Interop Tokyo – June 7-10 in Tokyo, Japan http://www.interop.jp/2011/english/index.html
• SouthEast LinuxFest – June 10-12 in Spartanburg, SC http://www.southeastlinuxfest.org/
• O’Reilly Velocity – June 14-16 in Santa Clara, CA – http://velocityconf.com/velocity2011
• Open Source Bridge – June 21-24 in Portland, OR http://opensourcebridge.org/
• Structure – June 22-23 in San Francisco, CA http://event.gigaom.com/structure/

DEVELOPER COMMUNITY

• Diablo Release Schedule – http://wiki.openstack.org/DiabloReleaseSchedule
• Meeting Minutes – May 24
  • Summary: http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack-meeting/2011/openstack-meeting.2011-05-24-21.01.html
  • Meeting Log: http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack-meeting/2011/openstack-meeting.2011-05-24-21.01.log.html

GENERAL COMMUNITY

• Simon Crosby, CTO Citrix Video on OpenStack, Citrix, and Project Olympus – http://www.ngn.nl/ngn/weblogs/citrix-blog/citrix-synergy-interview-met-simon-crosby/?waxtrapp=lelzanBsHyoOtvOXEGJE
• Rob Hirschfeld, Dell – Virtualizing OpenStack Nova: looking at the many ways to skin the CAcTus (KVM v XenServer v ESX) – http://robhirschfeld.com/2011/05/27/virtualizing-openstack-nova/
• Billy Cox, Intel – Let’s just leave the barn door open… (http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/server/blog/2011/05/25/let-s-just-leave-the-barn-door-open)
• Diego Parrilla, StackOps – Using collectd to gather performance statistics of StackOps OpenStack Nova Distro –(http://blog.stackops.com/2011/05/26/using-collectd-to-gather-performance-statistics-of-stackops-openstack-nova-distro/)
• Joseph George, Dell – One Giant Leap for Cloud: Citrix, Dell, and Rackspace Step Up with OpenStack – http://jbgeorge.net/2011/05/25/one-giant-leap-for-cloud-citrix-dell-and-rackspace-step-up-with-openstack/
• OpenStack Wiki Recent Changes – http://wiki.openstack.org/RecentChanges
  • Atlas-LB – http://wiki.openstack.org/Atlas-LB
  • Keystone R1 – http://wiki.openstack.org/KeystoneR1
  • Boot from ISO – http://wiki.openstack.org/bootFromISO
  • Network Use Cases – http://wiki.openstack.org/NetworkUsecases
  • 3 Month Release Cycle – http://wiki.openstack.org/3MonthReleaseCycle

COMMUNITY STATISTICS (5/20– 5/26)

• Data Tracking Graphs – http://wiki.openstack.org/WeeklyNewsletter
• OpenStack Compute (NOVA) Data
  • 39 Active Reviews
  • 270 Active Branches – owned by 74 people & 15 teams
  • 1214 commits by 69 people in last month
• OpenStack Object Storage (SWIFT) Data
  • 1 Active Reviews
  • 68 Active Branches – owned by 23 people & 6 teams
  • 134 commits by 16 people in last month
• OpenStack Image Registry (GLANCE) Data
  • 5 Active Reviews
  • 25 Active Branches – owned by 7 people & 5 teams
  • 75 commits by 8 people in last month
• Twitter Stats for Week:  #openstack 326 total tweets; OpenStack 1381 total tweets  (does not include RT)
• Bugs Stats for Week: 380 Tracked Bugs; 69 New Bugs; 40 In-process Bugs; 0 Critical Bugs; 23 High Importance Bugs; 248 Bugs (Fix Committed)
• Blueprints Stats for Week:  208 Blueprints; 13 Essential, 19 High, 18 Medium, 25 Low, 132 Undefined
• OpenStack Website Stats for Week:  14,537 Visits, 34,442 Pageviews, 54.71% New Visits
  • Top 5 Pages: Home 39.93%; /projects 10.64%; /projects/compute 16.09%; /projects/storage 11.65%; /community 6.29%

OPENSTACK IN THE NEWS

• Citrix Adopts OpenStack for Project Olympus by Sean Michael Kerner; ServerWatch; http://www.serverwatch.com/news/article.php/3934616/Citrix-Adopts-OpenStack-for-Project-Olympus.htm
• KT Puts Commodity Spin on Cloud by Carol Wilson; LightReadingAsia; http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=208330&f_src=lightreading_gnews
• The Future of the OpenStack Open Source Cloud by Sean Michael Kerner; Internetnews.com; http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3934221/The+Future+of+the+OpenStack+Open+Source+Cloud.htm
• Using the Cloud To Manage the Cloud by Kurt Marko; Information Week; http://www.informationweek.com/news/infrastructure/management/229700064
• Epic voyage to true automation: the world according to VMware CEO Paul Maritz by Stuart Kennedy; AustralianIT; http://www.theaustralian.com.au/australian-it/epic-voyage-to-true-automation-the-world-according-to-vmware-ceo-paul-maritzer/story-e6frgakx-1226061381834

The Silicon Valley Cloud Computing Group is hosting a 1 day cloud computing event this Saturday, April 30 at 1:30 pm. Register at http://www.meetup.com/cloudcomputing/events/16701362/.

The agenda is at http://talkcloudy2011.sched.org/list/descriptions/ with 2 OpenStack sessions from Citrix and Piston.

Thanks to Sebastian Stadil  from Scalr for the information.

The OpenStack Conference agenda for the first two days of the 4 day event is now finalized and ready for attendee consumption. The Design Summit agenda for the final 3 days of the event is still in active development following a process detailed here.

All attendees will receive a program guide with the agenda at the event and we have also published the agenda via an online tool with options to download the agenda to your smart phone. The published online agenda is at http://openstack-spring2011.sched.org/.

Finally, we have three parties set for the event to allow for time to relax and get to know your fellow OpenStack community members:

• Welcome Reception Sponsored by Cisco – April 26th from 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm
• OpenStack Developer Gathering Sponsored by Niciria – April 27th from 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
• Developer Party at Dave and Buster’s Sponsored by Cloudscaling – April 28th from 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm