OpenStack Summit: Day 1

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The OpenStack Summit started in San Diego today. Mark Collier announced during the kickoff meeting that there are over 1,300 people registered at the conference. As a result, lines for lunch were a bit slower than we wished. We’re coordinating solutions with the hotel to improve the situation. There will be also more power strips… Read more »

OpenStack Governance Elections Autumn 2012 Results

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The OpenStack community has elected the Project Technical Leads. Here are the winners: NOVA Project Technical Lead (1 position) Winner: Vish Ishaya (only candidate) KEYSTONE Project Technical Lead (1 position) Winner: Joe Heck (only candidate) HORIZON Project Technical Lead (1 position) Winner: Gabriel Hurley  (only candidate) SWIFT Project Technical Lead (1 position) Winner: John Dickinson (only… Read more »

Join The OpenStack Foundation

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We’re excited to announce that we’ve reached a huge milestone in the process to establish the OpenStack Foundation.  Individual Members can now join and begin making important contributions like nominating board members: http://openstack.org/join  (It’s free!) Thanks to the hard work of the drafting committee (led by the amazing Alice King), we now have a complete set… Read more »

OpenStack Governance Elections Spring 2012 Results

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The OpenStack community has elected the Project Technical Leads and two members of the Project Policy Board. Here are the winners: NOVA Project Technical Lead (1 position) Official poll results http://www.cs.cornell.edu/w8/~andru/cgi-perl/civs/control.pl?id=E_db67df60654f6c8e&key=83b8ba2aeca3c8fd&akey=f52079a1711dd46e Winner: Vish Ishaya http://wiki.openstack.org/Governance/ElectionsSpring2012/Vishvananda_Ishaya KEYSTONE Project Technical Lead (1 position) Official poll results http://www.cs.cornell.edu/w8/~andru/cgi-perl/civs/control.pl?id=E_b16565f593d90e7a&key=6aa1fc41112e0ab9&akey=832fde7cb1ac9844 Winner: Joe Heck http://wiki.openstack.org/Governance/ElectionsSpring2012/Joe_Heck HORIZON Project Technical Lead (1 position)… Read more »

OpenStack Governance Elections Spring 2012: Action Item For All Candidates

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The OpenStack community is electing its Project Technical Leads and two members of the Project Policy Board. Details are at http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/02/openstack-governance-elections-spring-2012/. On February 26 the nominations will close and the voting process will start on February 28 and finish on March 3rd. The list of nominees is at http://etherpad.openstack.org/Spring2012-Nominees. It’s still open. You must register… Read more »

Presenting OpenStack Foundation mission and roadmap [webinar]

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Jonathan Bryce and Mark Collier will host two webinars to illustrate the draft mission for the future OpenStack Foundation. The draft was published on http://wiki.openstack.org/Governance/Foundation/ and it’s the fist building block of the organisation that was announced in Boston. They will be available to answer questions about the roadmap and deadlines proposed for the project. … Read more »