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Join The OpenStack Foundation

The OpenStack community has worked hard since the announcement of intention to establish an OpenStack Foundation in October 2011. We’ve come to the point where Individual Members can join and begin making important contributions like nominating board members: http://openstack.org/join  (It’s free!)

TryStack.org Adds New ARM Technology-Powered Zone

A monumental day in ARM server history! TryStack.org, the hosted cloud sandbox for OpenStack, now has an ARM-based OpenStack zone in addition to the x86 zone. (This is, to our knowledge, the first OpenStack cluster made publicly available on an ARM-based system!)

Full room at OpenStackDay during OSCON 2012

Tips and tricks

• By Sébastien Han: how to bring gigabit to your VMs with the virtio driver

Upcoming Events

• 13th International Free Software Forum – OpenStack Track Jul 25 – 28, 2012 – Porto Alegre, Brazil Coordination
• The 1st London OpenStack Meetup Jul 25, 2012 – London, UK Details
• 2012 OpenStack APEC Conference Aug 10 – 11, 2012 – Bejing+Shanghai, China Details
• OpenStack Summit Oct 15 – 18, 2012 – San Diego, CA

Other news

• Developers join the OpenStack-Dev mailing list: http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
• Updated page about Cinder http://wiki.openstack.org/Cinder
• A patch to Swift starts a discussion about testing environment http://openstack.markmail.org/thread/f7kbw3l6sea27eun
• OpenStack Project Meeting was postponed to next week.

Welcome new contributors

Celebrating the first patches submitted this week by:

• Wang Long, qq.com
• Lars Gellrich, HP
• Isethi Iccha, Rackspace
• Tom Hancock, HP
• Dmitry Khovyakov, GridDynamics
• Tong Li, IBM