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OpenStack Community Newsletter – December 10, 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].

HIGHLIGHTS

• China and Japan OpenStack Photos and Video Collection from Mark Collier – http://www.flickr.com/x/t/0092008/photos/markcollier/sets/72157625426820555/show/
• The Story of an OpenStack feature by John Dickinson; http://programmerthoughts.com/programming/the-story-of-an-openstack-feature/
• Cloud Computing: 2011 Predictions by Bernard Golden CIO.com, http://www.cio.com/article/645763/Cloud_Computing_2011_Predictions

EVENTS

• OpenStack at the Austin Cloud Users Group : December 14, 2010: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/1058739719
• OpenStack User Group NYC: January 12, 2011; http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-New-York-Meetup/calendar/15634525/
• Fudcon: January 29-31, 2011 Tempe, Arizona http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Tempe_2011
• O’Reilly Strata: Feb 1 – 3, 2011 Santa Clara CA http://strataconf.com/strata2011
• FOSDEM 2011: Feb 5 – 6. 2011 Brussels, Belgium http://www.fosdem.org/2011/about/fosdem
• SCALE 2011: Feb 25-27, 2011: Los Angeles, CA http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale9x/
• Call for Papers
  • Linux Conference Australia 2011 (http://lca2011.linux.org.au/)

DEVELOPER COMMUNITY

• Project “D” Release Schedule – http://wiki.openstack.org/DReleaseSchedule
• Project “E” Release Schedule –  http://wiki.openstack.org/EReleaseSchedule
• Meeting Minutes – December 7
  • Summary: http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack-meeting/2010/openstack-meeting.2010-12-07-21.01.html
  • Meeting Log: http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack-meeting/2010/openstack-meeting.2010-12-07-21.01.log.html
• I18n proposed plan Discussion – https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg00122.html

GENERAL COMMUNITY

• Egypt OpenStack User Group – http://groups.google.com/group/egypt-openstack-user-group
• Latest Bret Piatt Presentations – http://www.slideshare.net/group/openstackcloud
• OpenStack Wiki Recent Changes – http://wiki.openstack.org/RecentChanges
  • Launchpad  Groups – http://wiki.openstack.org/LaunchpadGroups
  • XenServer Snapshots – http://wiki.openstack.org/XenServerSnapshotBlueprint
  • Running OpenStack Compute (NOVA) in a Virtual Environment – http://wiki.openstack.org/NovaVirtually
  • All changes for week at http://wiki.openstack.org/RecentChanges

COMMUNITY STATISTICS (12/3– 12/9)

• Data Tracking Graphs – http://wiki.openstack.org/WeeklyNewsletter
• OpenStack Compute (NOVA) Data
  • 17 Active Reviews
  • 97 Active Branches – owned by 34 people & 4 teams
  • 472 commits by 26 people in last month
• OpenStack Object Storage (SWIFT) Data
  • 5 Active Reviews
  • 41 Active Branches – owned by 19 people & 2 teams
  • 184 commits by 15 people in last month
• Twitter Stats for Week:  #openstack 53 tweets; 47 re-tweets; all OpenStack total tweets 200
• Bugs Stats for Week: 139 Tracked Bugs; 51 New Bugs; 7 In-process Bugs;  3 Critical Bugs; 15 High Importance Bugs;  45 Bugs (Fix Committed)
• Blueprints Stats for Week: 135 Blueprints; 5 Essential, 20 High, 16 Medium, 14 Low, 80 Undefined
• OpenStack Website Stats for Week:  7,267 Visits, 23,663 Pageviews, 51.04% New Visits
  • Top 5 Pages: Home 30.43%; /projects 5.92%; /projects/compute 9.24%; /projects/storage 5.83%; /NovaInstall 5.21%

OPENSTACK IN THE NEWS

• The Open Cloud: There’s a Right Way by Sheng Liang, LinuxInsider; http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/71389.html
• Cloud Computing: 2011 Predictions by Bernard Golden CIO.com, http://www.cio.com/article/645763/Cloud_Computing_2011_Predictions
• Salesforce.com-Heroku deal muddies the water for VMware by Jo Maitland SearchCloudComputing.com; http://searchcloudcomputing.techtarget.com/news/column/0,294698,sid201_gci1524907,00.html
• Cyberduck FTP updated to v3.8, integrates CloudFront; http://www.macnn.com/articles/10/12/03/public.beta.for.windows.version.out.soon/
• Community and Cloud.com: Interview with Mark Hinkle by Joe Brockmeier, NetworkWorld; http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/69450
• Nimbula punts instamatic cloud kit to world+dog by Cade Metz, The Register; http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/12/07/nimbula_public_beta/
• Nimbula Director Beta Lets Enterprises Create Amazon EC2-Like Public Clouds by Fahmida Rashid, eWeek; http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Cloud-Computing/Nimbula-Director-Beta-Lets-Enterprises-Create-Amazon-EC2Like-Private-Clouds-190452/
• Understanding the cloud as a web hosting company by Steven Higashi, Web Host Industry Review; http://www.thewhir.com/blog/Steven_Higashi/120310_Understanding_the_cloud_as_a_web_hosting_company
• Cyberduck 3.8をリリース by David Kocher; http://www.value-press.com/pressrelease.php?article_id=69592