As part of our community’s commitment to interoperability, the OpenStack Board of Directors has been working to make sure that “downstream” OpenStack-branded commercial products offer the same baseline functionality and include the same upstream, community-developed code. The work to define these required core capabilities and code has been led by the DefCore Committee co-chaired by… Read more »
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OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (July 4 – 11)
OpenStack Swift 2.0 Released and Storage Policies Have Arrived OpenStack Swift 2.0.0. This release includes storage policies – the culmination of a year of work from many members of the Swift contributor community. Storage policies are the biggest thing to happen in Swift since it was open-sourced four years ago. Storage policies allow you to… Read more »
OpenStack Swift 2.0 Released and Storage Policies Have Arrived
This blog post was first featured on the SwiftStack Blog, and you can find the original post here. Today I’m happy to announce the release of OpenStack Swift 2.0.0. This release includes storage policies – the culmination of a year of work from many members of the Swift contributor community. Storage policies are the biggest thing to… Read more »
Wrapping up the Travel Support Program – Juno
The OpenStack Foundation brought 21 people to Atlanta for the Summit in May, thanks to the grants offered by the Travel Support Program, sponsored by VMware. The Travel Support Program is based on the promise of Open Design and its aim is to facilitate participation of key contributors to the OpenStack Design Summit. The program aims… Read more »
OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (June 27 – July 4)
OpenStack Turns 4 – It’s Time to Celebrate the Community! OpenStack celebrates its 4th birthday July 19, and we’re celebrating with the entire OpenStack community during July! User maturity, software maturity and a focus on cloud software operations are rapidly emerging for OpenStack and none of it would be possible without the quickly growing OpenStack… Read more »
OpenStack – A Global Perspective: Five Things we Learned at OpenStack Events Across Europe and Israel
We say the words “global community” and “collaboration” so often they can start to lose their meaning. It’s easy to lose sight of the bigger picture, and the scale of our community far beyond name-brand users from the US or the number of Summit attendees. A few weeks ago, members of the OpenStack community organized… Read more »
OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (June 20 – 27)
OpenStack Technical Committee Update (June 25) The TC is busy discussing OpenStack Glance‘s mission, evolving from cataloging and serving Nova disk images to cataloging and serving other artifacts consumed by other OpenStack services, like for example Heat templates. This scope evolution has been under discussion at the last two meetings. Read the other things that… Read more »
OpenStack Technical Committee Update (June 25)
Two weeks ago, Russell Bryant inaugurated a series of blogposts about what the Technical Committee (“TC”) is working on. We will regularly post about the outcomes of the TC meetings, and rotate writers to give all TC members a chance to participate and describe what happens in their own words. This post will focus on… Read more »
OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (June 13 – 20)
Summer Speaking Sessions and Call for Papers Summer is in full swing and there are some great industry events coming up on the OpenStack Marketing calendar, as well as Call for Proposals deadlines! Marconi to AMQP: See you later In the last couple of weeks, Marconi’s team has been doing lots of research around AMQP… Read more »
Summer Speaking Sessions and Call for Papers
Summer is in full swing and there are some great industry events coming up on the calendar, as well as Call for Proposals deadlines! The Global Events Calendar is the primary resource to know what events are approaching. It is fully editable, so you can update the following criteria: If your organization is attending, sponsoring… Read more »