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OpenStack Community Newsletter – January 21, 2011

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

• Bexar Gamma Freeze – EOD January 27, 2011 (http://wiki.openstack.org/GammaFreeze)
• OpenStack Turns 6 Months Old – http://www.openstack.org/blog/2011/01/openstack-at-six-months/
• Internap Offers First Major Service Storage Service Using OpenStack – http://www.cio.com/article/655482/Internap_Offers_First_Major_Storage_Service_Using_OpenStack?page=1&taxonomyId=3000

EVENTS

• InfoTalk 2011 (Japan) – http://www.slideshare.net/adjohn/01192011-aiit-infotalk-on-openstack
• 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
  • Building a free, massively scalable cloud computing platform
• Cloud Seminar@NII – Three OSS IAAS Talks – http://www.grace-center.jp/event/node/71 (in Japanese)
• SCALE 2011: Feb 25-27, 2011: Los Angeles, CA http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale9x/
• PYCON 2011: March 9-17, 2011: Atlanta, GA http://us.pycon.org/2011/home/
• UKUUG Spring 2011 Conference; March 22-24: Leeds, UK http://www.ukuug.org/events/spring2011/programme/

DEVELOPER COMMUNITY

• Meeting Minutes – January 18
  • Summary:  http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack-meeting/2011/openstack-meeting.2011-01-18-21.00.html
  • Meeting Log: http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack-meeting/2011/openstack-meeting.2011-01-18-21.00.log.html
• More Developer Information on the Developer Activity Review – http://www.openstack.org/blog/2011/01/openstack-developer-activity-review/

GENERAL COMMUNITY

• OpenStack Conference / Design Summit Program Committee (Apr 26-29)
  • High Level Agenda Proposal – http://www.openstack.org/blog/2011/01/openstack-conference-design-summit-high-level-agenda/
  • Planning Schedule – http://etherpad.openstack.org/dsignsummit-scheduleapr2011
  • Event Agenda Discussion – http://etherpad.openstack.org/DesignSummitApril2011
  • Event Theme Proposal – http://etherpad.openstack.org/DSApr11-Theme
• OpenStack Wiki Recent Changes – http://wiki.openstack.org/RecentChanges
  • Bexar Ipv6support Readme – http://wiki.openstack.org/BexarIpv6supportReadme
  • Governance/Proposed/2011 Charter and Scope – http://wiki.openstack.org/Governance/Proposed/2011%20Charter%20and%20Scope
  • Python Development Environment – http://wiki.openstack.org/PythonDevelopmentEnvironment
  • All changes for week at http://wiki.openstack.org/RecentChanges

COMMUNITY STATISTICS (1/14– 1/20)

• Data Tracking Graphs – http://wiki.openstack.org/WeeklyNewsletter
• OpenStack Compute (NOVA) Data
  • 12 Active Reviews
  • 113 Active Branches – owned by 36 people & 6 teams
  • 1,161 commits by 62 people in last month
• OpenStack Object Storage (SWIFT) Data
  • 4 Active Reviews
  • 45 Active Branches – owned by 21 people & 2 teams
  • 247 commits by 15 people in last month
• Twitter Stats for Week:  #openstack 83 tweets; 57 re-tweets; all OpenStack total tweets 857
• Bugs Stats for Week:  275 Tracked Bugs; 55 New Bugs; 24 In-process Bugs; 8 Critical Bugs; 37 High Importance Bugs; 100 Bugs (Fix Committed)
• Blueprints Stats for Week:  128 Blueprints; 2 Essential, 5 High, 13 Medium, 11 Low, 97 Undefined
• OpenStack Website Stats for Week:  8,123 Visits, 18,048 Pageviews, 62.61% New Visits
  • Top 5 Pages: Home 42.93%; /projects 11.54%; /projects/compute 17.83%; /projects/storage 12.85%; /Community 5.95%

OPENSTACK IN THE NEWS

• OpenStack’s ‘Bexar’ Adds IPv6 to Cloud Platform by Sean Kerner; Internetnews.com; http://www.internetnews.com/infra/article.php/3921386/OpenStacks+Bexar+Adds+IPv6+to+Cloud+Platform.htm
• Internap Offers First Major Storage Service Using OpenStack by Nancy Gohring; PCWorld; http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/216885/internap_offers_first_major_storage_service_using_openstack.html
• OpenStack fluffs inaugural open source cloud: Internap takes storage to the heavens by Cade Metz; The Register; http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/01/18/first_openstack_service_unveiled/
  • 88 More articles on Internap and OpenStack; http://news.google.com/news/more?pz=1&cf=all&as_qdr=w&as_drrb=q&cf=all&ncl=dbD2kabDFB1V_RM5Z8QmBVokppydM
• Cloud News: Amazon, EU Cloud, Internap by John Rath; DataCenter Knowledge; http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2011/01/21/cloud-news-amazon-eu-cloud-internap/
• News of ‘Natty Narwhal’ Preview What’s Next for Ubuntu by Katherine Noyes; PCWorld; http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/216925/news_of_natty_narwhal_previews_whats_next_for_ubuntu.html
• Dell morphs into Amazonian ‘public cloud’ biz? By Cade Metz; The Register; http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/01/18/dell_public_cloud_tweet/
• OpenStack Object Storage (o, Swift) ospita pure i backup di Déjà Dup by Federico Moretti; OSS Blog.it; http://www.ossblog.it/post/7333/openstack-object-storage-o-swift-ospita-pure-i-backup-di-deja-dup
• 注目のOpenStackプロジェクトの全体像　〜コミュニティーと主要コンポーネント; TechTarget; http://techtarget.itmedia.co.jp/tt/news/1101/19/news02.html
• Rackspace houdt cloud in Europa; Storage Magazine;  http://www.storagemagazine.nl/Nieuws/70770/Rackspace-houdt-cloud-in-Europa
• Rackspace bygger infrastruktur för molntjänster i Europa; mynewsdesk; http://www.mynewsdesk.com/se/pressroom/rackspace/pressrelease/view/rackspace-bygger-infrastruktur-foer-molntjaenster-i-europa-566273
• Plataforma de BPM sobresale en lista ‘Rookies of the Year’ de proyectos open source a mirar; CMS-SPAIN.com; http://www.ecm-spain.com/noticia.asp?IdItem=12939