Monthly Archives:: June 2013

Report: June month OpenStack meetup,Chennai, India

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On 8th June we organized a meetup in Chennai, India http://www.meetup.com/Indian-OpenStack-User-Group/events/120677342/ The meetup was attended by over 33 people from varied backgrounds: startups  students, researchers, developers, etc Event started with a keynote from T Srinivasan of Collabnet, he gave us brief description about their work on Openstack along with companies contribution to other Open Source projects. Kavit… Read more »

OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (May 31 – June 7)

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OpenStack 2013.1.2 released The OpenStack Stable Maintenance team is happy to announce the release of the 2013.1.2 stable Grizzly release. We have been busy reviewing and accepting backported bugfixes to the stable/grizzly branches. A total of 80 bugs have been fixed across all core projects. OpenStack “I” release naming The next release cycle for OpenStack,… Read more »

Lessons, Learning, and Long Views for Internship Programs

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In January 2013 the OpenStack project welcomed aboard three interns and excitedly assigned them to work on fairly complex projects in our first attempt at an organized project-level internship program. The OpenStack Foundation participated as one of the organizations with the GNOME Outreach Program for Women and learned quite a few lessons during the six… Read more »

Havana: An Enterprise IT Perspective

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Intel IT has been working with OpenStack in our labs starting with Cactus, our first deployments into production were with Diablo, which we quickly moved forward to Essex and have been running production apps on this since the summer of 2012.  Since then we have been getting deeper and deeper into OpenStack, and recently had… Read more »

OpenStack Project Infrastructure Sees Rapid Growth

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The OpenStack project infrastructure has grown tremendously over the past year, and now is a great time to get involved in helping to run one of the largest and fastest-growing open source projects! The project infrastructure encompasses all of the systems that are used in the day to day operation of the OpenStack project as… Read more »

Ripple Effect

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I enjoying hiking, and one trek I enjoy is a climb to over 10,000 feet within the Great Basin National Park to a small lake called Stella Lake.  Stella is very small and insignificant, if measured by size and depth. It sits at the foot of a small ancient glacier cirque sheltered by 13,000-foot Wheeler… Read more »

New Foundation Gold Members & Corporate Sponsors

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The OpenStack Foundation was thrilled to add two new Gold Members and 13 corporate sponsors so far this year to the already impressive list of companies who are supporting the Foundation and driving innovation on the platform.    Ericsson and Juniper Networks won the OpenStack Board’s approval at the April board meeting and joined the Foundation as Gold members.  To… Read more »

Busy, Busy OpenStack in SF Bay

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Two weeks ago Piston Cloud hosted the first SFBay OpenStack Meetup in San Francisco since August of last year. That was a long, sad drought, and the San Francisco participants of SFBay OpenStack are working on correcting it. This meet up, “Blue Night“, was focused on mutnauQ. We had collaborators from Piston Cloud, VMware &… Read more »