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OpenStack Community Newsletter – December 17, 2010

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Japan OpenStack User Group

HIGHLIGHTS

• OpenStack Design Summit – April 26-29, 2011 in Santa Clara, CA; event location in final contract negotiation
• Top 10 Cloud Computing Services for 2010: http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud/2010/12/top-10-cloud-computing-services-for-2010.php
• Cloud Computing: 2011 Predictions by Bernard Golden; http://www.computerworlduk.com/in-depth/cloud-computing/3253266/cloud-computing-2011-predictions/

EVENTS

• 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

• New Nova Diagram from Mohamed El-Refaey – http://www.box.net/shared/static/ussls7gp2j.png
• Meeting Minutes – December 14
  • Summary: http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack-meeting/2010/openstack-meeting.2010-12-14-21.01.html
  • Meeting Log: http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack-meeting/2010/openstack-meeting.2010-12-14-21.01.log.html
• Suspend and Locking Instances Discussion – https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg00138.html

GENERAL COMMUNITY

• Community Manager – 3 OpenStack Goals for 2011 http://www.openstack.org/blog/2010/12/community-manager-on-openstack-2011/
  • Production Ready Software (release of Bexar, Cactus, etc)
  • Conquer the World (10 new User Groups/ 50 OpenStack deployments in test,production / Global event coverage)
  • Welcome to the Community (20% more developers / 25 new global partners / Design Summit in US and Asia )
• OpenStack Wiki Recent Changes – http://wiki.openstack.org/RecentChanges
  • Nova Admin Manual – http://wiki.openstack.org/NovaAdminManual
  • Xen Server Development – http://wiki.openstack.org/XenServerDevelopment
  • Doc Improvements Spec – http://wiki.openstack.org/DocImprovementsSpec
  • All changes for week at http://wiki.openstack.org/RecentChanges

COMMUNITY STATISTICS (12/10– 12/16)

• Data Tracking Graphs – http://wiki.openstack.org/WeeklyNewsletter
• OpenStack Compute (NOVA) Data
  • 20 Active Reviews
  • 98 Active Branches – owned by 35 people & 5 teams
  • 523 commits by 29 people in last month
• OpenStack Object Storage (SWIFT) Data
  • 8 Active Reviews
  • 44 Active Branches – owned by 20 people & 2 teams
  • 168 commits by 13 people in last month
• Twitter Stats for Week:  #openstack 42 tweets; 69 re-tweets; all OpenStack total tweets 250
• Bugs Stats for Week:  143 Tracked Bugs; 52 New Bugs; 7 In-process Bugs; 3 Critical Bugs; 15 High Importance Bugs; 53 Bugs (Fix Committed)
• Blueprints Stats for Week:  138 Blueprints; 4 Essential, 16 High, 20 Medium, 14 Low, 84 Undefined
• OpenStack Website Stats for Week:  8,262 Visits, 26,101 Pageviews, 56.98% New Visits
  • Top 5 Pages: Home 31.84%; /projects 6.63%; /projects/compute 9.67%; /projects/storage 7.03%; /NovaInstall 4.34%

OPENSTACK IN THE NEWS

• Cloud Computing: 2011 Predictions by Bernard Golden; ComputerWorld UK; http://www.computerworlduk.com/in-depth/cloud-computing/3253266/cloud-computing-2011-predictions/
• Top 10 Cloud Computing Services for 2010 by Alex Williams; ReadWrite Cloud; http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud/2010/12/top-10-cloud-computing-services-for-2010.php
• Why CloudSwitch is Gaining Momentum and Resisting VCs by Derrick Harris; GigaOM; http://gigaom.com/cloud/cloudswitch-ceo-on-funding-clouds-and-version-2-0/?utm_source=webworkerdaily&utm_medium=specialtopics
• Windows Azure Fabric Controller; http://searchcloudcomputing.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid201_gci1525150,00.html
• Rackspace in heavenly marriage with server admin kit by Cade Metz, Channel Register; http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2010/12/16/rackspace_acquires_cloudkick/
  • 150 more articles on CloudKick acquisition; http://news.google.com/news/more?pz=1&cf=all&as_qdr=w&as_drrb=q&cf=all&ncl=dj3yWoYTxPrOjHM1wudOHQ9MqIMLM
• Eucalyptus & Red Hat: The Cloud’s New Best Friend by Maureen O’Gara; Sys.com Media; http://www.sys-con.com/node/1649507
• Cloud computing: predicciones para 2011; Network World; http://www.networkworld.es/Cloud-computing:-predicciones-para-2011-/seccion-actualidad/noticia-103509
• 读写网盘点2010十大云产品; http://news.3snews.net/overseas/20101217/11215.shtml
• 2011年云计算预测 混合云将会更混乱; tech.hexun.com; http://tech.hexun.com/2010-12-15/126188995.html
• Rackspace neemt ontwikkelaar voor cloudapplicaties over; IT Service Magazine; http://www.itservice.nl/Nieuws/70065/Rackspace-neemt-ontwikkelaar-voor-cloudapplicaties
• Les prévisions du cloud pour 2011 (1ère partie); LeMondeInformatique; http://www.lemondeinformatique.fr/actualites/lire-les-previsions-du-cloud-pour-2011-1ere-partie-32406.html
• 10 chmur obliczeniowych, które liczyło się w IT w 2010 roku by Adam Golanski; Webhosting.pl; http://webhosting.pl/10.chmur.obliczeniowych.ktore.liczylo.sie.w.IT.w.2010.roku
• Los 10 mejores servicios de cloud computing del 2010; ReadWriteWeb in Spanish; http://www.readwriteweb.es/tecnologias/10-mejores-servicios-cloud-computing-2010/
• Cisco、Juniper并购虚拟化与安全公司的背后 ChinaByte.com; http://network.chinabyte.com/280/11728280.shtml