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OpenStack Community Newsletter – July 1, 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 [email protected].

Musical Entertainment at OpenStack Meetup

HIGHLIGHTS

• OpenStack Nova: Main themes for Diablo – https://fnords.wordpress.com/2011/05/20/openstack-nova-main-themes-for-diablo/
• Jonathan Bryce on OpenStack (Video) by Colleen Miller – http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2011/06/28/video-openstack-and-its-open-source-cloud/
• Call for Program Committee for OpenStack Conference – http://www.openstack.org/blog/2011/06/call-for-committee-members-for-boston-event/

EVENTS

• EMEA OpenStack Day – June 13, 2011 in London, England –  http://emeaopenstackday.eventbrite.com/
• OSCON – July 25-29, 2011 in Portland, OR –  http://www.oscon.com/oscon2011
• Hostingcon 2011 – August 8-10, 2011 in San Diego, CA –  http://www.hostingcon.com/
• LinuxCon NA – August 17-19, 2011 in Vancouver, Canada –  http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/linuxcon/
• China OpenStack Launch – September 3 in Shanghai, China – In Active Development
• Ohio LinuxFest 2011 – September 9-11, 2011 in Columbus, OH – http://www.ohiolinux.org/

DEVELOPER COMMUNITY

• Diablo Release Schedule – http://wiki.openstack.org/DiabloReleaseSchedule
• Distributions, Projects, and Releases by Greg Holt – http://tlohg.com/distributions-projects-and-releases
• Installing OpenStack Dashboard from GitHub to Ubuntu Natty (Part 2) by Shang Wu – http://voices.canonical.com/shang.wu/category/openstack/
• Spelunking Nova – flags and services by Joseph Heck – http://www.rhonabwy.com/wp/2011/06/30/spelunking-nova-flags-and-services/
• Meeting Minutes – June 28
  • Summary: http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack-meeting/2011/openstack-meeting.2011-06-28-21.02.html

GENERAL COMMUNITY

• IRC Community Meetings Schedule – http://wiki.openstack.org/Meetings
• Mandriva 2011 RC1 arrives after slight delay – http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Mandriva-2011-RC1-arrives-after-slight-delay-1270614.html
• Cisco and OpenStack by Simon Bisson – http://www.h-online.com/open/features/Cisco-and-OpenStack-1266885.html
• Swift in the Small by Joe Arnold – http://joearnold.com/2011/06/27/swift-in-the-small/
• OpenStack Meetup in Silicon Valley June 29; Joe Arnold Presentation – http://www.slideshare.net/joearnold/openstack-meetup-swift-in-the-small
• OpenStack Wiki Recent Changes – http://wiki.openstack.org/RecentChanges
  • Structured Metadata – http://wiki.openstack.org/StructuredMetadata
  • Hacking Nova Mac OSX – http://wiki.openstack.org/HackingNovaMacOSX
  • Quantum Client Library – http://wiki.openstack.org/QuantumClientLibrary

COMMUNITY STATISTICS (6/24– 6/30)

• Data Tracking Graphs – http://wiki.openstack.org/WeeklyNewsletter
• OpenStack Compute (NOVA) Data
  • 12 Active Reviews
  • 279 Active Branches – owned by 78 people & 15 teams
  • 1382 commits by 65 people in last month
• OpenStack Object Storage (SWIFT) Data
  • 1 Active Reviews
  • 67 Active Branches – owned by 22 people & 6 teams
  • 101 commits by 12 people in last month
• OpenStack Image Registry (GLANCE) Data
  • 6 Active Reviews
  • 34 Active Branches – owned by 11 people & 5 teams
  • 164 commits by 12 people in last month
• Twitter Stats for Week:  #openstack 287total tweets; OpenStack 762 total tweets  (does not include RT)
• Bugs Stats for Week: 500 Tracked Bugs; 76 New Bugs; 44 In-process Bugs; 6 Critical Bugs; 35 High Importance Bugs; 339 Bugs (Fix Committed)
• Blueprints Stats for Week:  202 Blueprints; 9 Essential, 14 High, 16 Medium, 24 Low, 139 Undefined
• OpenStack Website Stats for Week:  12,207 Visits, 30,317 Pageviews, 48.14% New Visits
  • Top 5 Pages: Home 40.51%; /projects 11.53%; /projects/compute 16.47%; /projects/storage 11.00%; /community 6.38%

OPENSTACK IN THE NEWS

• DreamHost Offers Support for the Development of OpenStack by Rajani Baburajan; infotech spotlight – http://it.tmcnet.com/topics/it/articles/190544-dreamhost-offers-support-the-development-openstack.htm
• Former Citrix CTO says virtualization will solve security problems by Jon Brodkin; Network World – http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/070111-bromium-crosby.html
• Nonprofit helps government expand open soruce software usage by Jon Brodkin; Network World – http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/062711-government-open-source.html
• Top cloud candidates? Startups and non-critical apps by Jason Hiner; ZDNet – http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/top-cloud-candidates-startups-and-non-critical-apps/51430
• Determining a Private Cloud Delivery Model by Joe Onisick; Networking Computing – http://www.networkcomputing.com/private-cloud/231000617
• Best Way to Play the Cloud by Dana Blankenhorn; Seeking Alpha – http://seekingalpha.com/article/277268-best-way-to-play-the-cloud
• 2011 Cloud Computing World Series Award winners announced ; Press Release – http://www.openpr.com/news/180951/2011-Cloud-Computing-World-Series-Award-winners-announced.html