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OpenStack Community Newsletter – November 12, 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].

Design Summit

HIGHLIGHTS

• OpenStack Design Summit
  • 250+ Attendees – 12 Countries – 90 Companies
  • General Session & Business Track Slides – http://www.slideshare.net/event/openstack-design-summit-2010 ; Videos Coming Next Week
  • Technical Track – Etherpad notes for each blueprint available in Launchpad
  • Lots of pictures – http://www.flickr.com/groups/1574695@N22/pool/

EVENTS

• 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
• 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

• Release Code Name (Spring 2011) – CACTUS
• Features I Would Like to See in Swift – http://programmerthoughts.com/programming/features-i-would-like-to-see-in-swift/
• Talking to OpenStack Chief Architect – Rick Clark – http://bartongeorge.net/2010/11/11/talking-to-openstack-chief-architect-rick-clar

GENERAL COMMUNITY

• Community Manager on OpenStack – http://community.zenoss.org/blogs/zenossblog/2010/11/11/building-the-open-cloud-with-openstack
• New Mailing Lists
  • [email protected]: Marketing discussions for the community (http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-marketing)
  • [email protected]: Deploying OpenStack with Chef development discussions (http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-chef)
  • OpenStack Wiki Recent Changes – http://wiki.openstack.org/RecentChanges
    • Mailing Lists – http://wiki.openstack.org/MailingLists
    • Openstack-accounting – http://wiki.openstack.org/openstack-accounting
    • DocSprint – http://wiki.openstack.org/DocSprint
    • All changes for week at http://wiki.openstack.org/RecentChanges

COMMUNITY STATISTICS (11/5 – 11/11)

• Twitter Stats for Week:  #openstack 570 tweets; 380 re-tweets; all OpenStack total tweets 1247
• Bugs Stats for Week:  77 Tracked Bugs; 36 New Bugs; 3 In-process Bugs; 2 Critical Bugs; 10 High Importance Bugs; 15 Bugs (Fix Completed)
• Blueprints Stats for Week:  133 Blueprints; 1 Essential, 2 High, 15 Medium, 4 Low, 112 Undefined
• OpenStack Website Stats for Week: 2,436 Visits, 9,662 Pageviews, 46.92% New Visits
  • Top 5 Pages: Home 25.92%; /projects 4.32%; /projects/compute 6.44%; /projects/storage 4.32%; /NovaInstall 3.87%

OPENSTACK IN THE NEWS

• NASA wants to run space missions, not data centers by Patrick Thibodeau, Computerworld; http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/352534/NASA_Wants_Its_Data_Up_in_the_Clouds
• Microsoft Angling for the Private Cloud by Arthur Cole; IT Business Edge; http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/microsoft-angling-for-the-private-cloud/?cs=44172
• Pragmatism Surpasses Hype at Cloud Expo West by Yankee Group; http://www.wirelessweek.com/News/Feeds/2010/11/wireless-pragmatism-surpasses-hype-at-cloud-expo-west/
• Cloudscaling Leadership Speaks at or Keynotes Four Conferences in Fourth Quarter; http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/cloudscaling-leadership-speaks-at-or-keynotes-four-conferences-in-fourth-quarter-107291368.html
• Free may do more for cloud than VMWare, Microsoft, or Amazon ever did by Kevin Fogarty; http://www.itworld.com/virtualization/127415/free-may-do-more-cloud-vmware-microsoft-or-amazon-ever-did