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OpenStack Community Newsletter – November 5, 2010

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].

Jim Curry “Chief Stacker” at Cloud Expo 2010

HIGHLIGHTS

• Design Summit
  • 225 Attendees as of Nov 5 at 8:30 am
  • Registration Site Live – http://www.openstack.org/register
  • Business Track Agenda – http://openstack.org/blog/2010/11/openstack-design-summit-business-track/
• OpenStack Architecture Board Election Results
  • Vishvananda Ishaya – Anso Labs (2 year term)
  • Soren Hansen – Rackspace (2 year term)
  • Chuck Thier – Rackspace (1 year term)
  • Ewan Mellor – Citrix (1 year term)

EVENTS

• Cloud Computing Expo Japan; Nov 10 – 12 at Makuhari Messe; See OpenStack at Midokura booth (http://aki.cloud-japan.jp/en/)
• UP-Con Nov 15-19 Virtual; Hear Mark Collier http://www.up-con.com/content/open-source-future-cloud
• Defrag 2010 Conference; Nov 16 – 18, 2010 in Denver, CO; See Stephen Spector
• USENIX LISA 2010: Nov 7 – 12 in San Jose, CA See Jay Faulkner  & Todd Deshane at OpenSource and Open Standards-based Cloud Computing Nov 9 at 8:00 pm http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa10/lisa10.html
• Design Summit: Nov 9-12, 2010 in San Antonio, TX
• OW2 Conference: Nov 24-25, 2010 Paris, France – See Bret Piatt http://www.ow2.org/view/Events/OW2AnnualConference2010
• IEEE CloudCom: Nov 30 – Dec 3, 2010 Indianapolis, IN http://2010.cloudcom.org/
• Call for Papers
  • Linux Conference Australia 2011 (http://lca2011.linux.org.au/)

DEVELOPER COMMUNITY

• Announcement of Theirry Carrez joining OpenStack as Release Manager
• Video – Installing Nova using GitHub Script – http://wiki.openstack.org/NovaInstall/Video
• Project Help Wanted: list assistance you need on any given development or documentation project – http://wiki.openstack.org/Wanted

GENERAL COMMUNITY

• Korea User Group – http://groups.google.com/group/kosco?pli=1
• Brazil User Group – Marco Sinhoreli to lead effort; more news on this in the coming weeks
• OpenStack Wiki Recent Changes – http://wiki.openstack.org/RecentChanges
  • Bexar Release Schedule Spec – http://wiki.openstack.org/BexarReleaseScheduleSpec
  • Audit Logging – http://wiki.openstack.org/AuditLogging
  • I18N Support – http://wiki.openstack.org/I18NSupport
  • More at http://wiki.openstack.org/RecentChanges

COMMUNITY STATISTICS (10/29 – 11/4)

• Twitter Stats for Week:  #openstack 86 tweets ;  60 re-tweets ; all OpenStack  total tweets 404
• Bugs Stats for Week: 72 Tracked Bugs; 35 New Bugs; 2 In-process Bugs; 2   Critical Bugs; 8 High Importance Bugs; 12 Bugs (Fix Completed)
• Blueprints Stats for Week:  127 Blueprints; 1 Essential, 2 High, 15 Medium,   4 Low, 105 Undefined
• OpenStack Website Stats for Week: 4,939 Visits, 14,099 Pageviews, 55.96% New Visits
  • Top 5 Pages: Home 35.65% ; /projects 7.97% ; /projects/compute  11.72% ; /projects/storage  8.53%; /community  5.42%

OPENSTACK IN THE NEWS

• On the Record (video) with Jim Curry of Rackspace by Robert Cohen, http://www.echannelline.com/usa/story.cfm?item=26304
• Why consolidation will boost use of open-source systems by Shawn McCarthy, http://gcn.com/articles/2010/11/01/internaut-consolidation-open-source.aspx
• Här är planerna för nästa Ubuntu by Niklas Andersson, http://www.idg.se/17.108/2.1085/1.350219/har-ar-planerna-for-nasta-ubuntu
• On-Demand-Geschäft zieht an, http://www.saasmagazin.de/saasondemandmarkt/unternehmen/all-for-one-midmarket041110-.html
• Вышел новый релиз европейской облачной платформы с открытым кодом OpenNebula, http://www.rosinvest.com/news/748126/
• NTTデータなど5社と3つの団体が「日本OpenStackユーザ会」を設立, http://www.impressrd.jp/idc/news/2010/11/02/1537