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OpenStack Community Newsletter –March 23, 2012

A great community story:

Over the course of just a week I’ve gone from despair and frustration to almost wanting to shout from the rooftops the achievements that have been made in OpenStack and my own deployments and testing

Read the rest of it on https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg08950.html

HIGHLIGHTS

• Submit session proposals for OpenStack Folsom Design Summit https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg08674.html
• OpenStack Essex release candidates are ready: go test them while supplies last
• Shout out to Andrew Hutchings for the new Jenkins and Gerrit styles http://www.linuxjedi.co.uk/2012/03/new-gerrit-and-jenkins-styles-are-live.html

EVENTS

• Australian OpenStack Users Group MeetUp Mar 26, 2012 – Sidney, Australia http://aosug.openstack.org.au/events/49679462/
• Lights, Camera, Stackers! Mar 29, 2012 – Los Angeles, CA http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-LA/events/54125632/
• OpenStack Spring 2012 Design Summit Apr 16 – 18 and Conference Apr 19-20 – San Francisco, California http://openstack.org/conference/
• OpenStack Israel 2012 May 30, 2012 – Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel http://www.meetup.com/IGTCloud/events/53864922/
• Open Cloud and Public Administration Jun 19, 2012 – Bern, Switzerland Call for papers/sponsors http://www.ch-open.ch/index.php?id=1034

OTHER NEWS

• New user groups in Canberra http://www.meetup.com/Canberra-OpenStack-Users-Group/ and India http://www.meetup.com/Indian-OpenStack-User-Group
• OpenStack Wiki Recent Changes – http://wiki.openstack.org/RecentChanges
• How To Update Corporate CLA http://wiki.openstack.org/HowToUpdateCorporateCLA
• Governance/Foundation/Funding http://wiki.openstack.org/Governance/Foundation/Funding
• Nova Orchestration Spec For Folsom http://wiki.openstack.org/NovaOrchestrationSpecForFolsom
• XenServer http://wiki.openstack.org/XenServer
• QuantumPackages  http://wiki.openstack.org/QuantumPackages
• Project meeting summary http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack-meeting/2012/openstack-meeting.2012-03-20-21.02.html

COMMUNITY STATISTICS

•  Activity on the main branch of OpenStack repositories, lines of code added and removed per developer during week 7 of 2012 (from Mon Mar 5 00:00:00 UTC 2012 to Mon March 12 00:00:00 UTC 2012)

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