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OpenStack Community Newsletter – March 11, 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

• OpenStack Party at SXSW; March 14 6pm Kung Fu Saloon http://schedule.sxsw.com/events/event_OE00338
• OpenStack Conference / Design Summit Registration Open – http://www.openstack.org/blog/2011/03/openstack-conferencedesign-summit-registration-is-open/
• OpenStack Governance Nomination Process – http://www.openstack.org/blog/2011/03/openstack-governance-nominations-and-election-process/
  • Current Nominations – http://www.openstack.org/blog/2011/03/openstack-governance-nominations-and-election-process/

EVENTS

• PYCON 2011: March 9-17, 2011: Atlanta, GA http://us.pycon.org/2011/home/
• SXSW 2011: March 11 – 20, 2011: Austin, TX http://sxsw.com/
• UKUUG Spring 2011 Conference; March 22-24: Leeds, UK http://www.ukuug.org/events/spring2011/programme/
• Texas Linux Fest: April 1 – 3, 2011: Austin, TX http://www.texaslinuxfest.org/

DEVELOPER COMMUNITY

• Meeting Minutes – March 8
  • Summary:  http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack-meeting/2011/openstack-meeting.2011-03-08-21.00.html
  • Meeting Log: http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack-meeting/2011/openstack-meeting.2011-03-08-21.00.log.html
• Developer Activity Review (Feb 28 – March 4): http://www.openstack.org/blog/2011/03/openstack-developer-activity-review-february-28-%E2%80%93-march-4/

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
• OpenStack Wiki Recent Changes – http://wiki.openstack.org/RecentChanges
  • Xenapi-sm-support – http://wiki.openstack.org/xenapi-sm-volume-driver
  • Distributed Scheduler – http://wiki.openstack.org/DistributedScheduler
  • All changes for week at http://wiki.openstack.org/RecentChanges

COMMUNITY STATISTICS (3/4– 3/10)

• Data Tracking Graphs – http://wiki.openstack.org/WeeklyNewsletter
• OpenStack Compute (NOVA) Data
  • 24 Active Reviews
  • 181 Active Branches – owned by 50 people & 10 teams
  • 2,070 commits by 61 people in last month
• OpenStack Object Storage (SWIFT) Data
  • 6 Active Reviews
  • 50 Active Branches – owned by 19 people & 4 teams
  • 208 commits by 12 people in last month
• Twitter Stats for Week:  #openstack 168 tweets; 172 re-tweets; all OpenStack total tweets
• Bugs Stats for Week:  315 Tracked Bugs; 57 New Bugs; 32 In-process Bugs; 7 Critical Bugs; 39 High Importance Bugs; 133 Bugs (Fix Committed)
• Blueprints Stats for Week:  164 Blueprints; 6 Essential, 13 High, 24 Medium, 22 Low, 100 Undefined
• OpenStack Website Stats for Week: 11,450 Visits, 26,187 Pageviews, 59.90% New Visits
  • Top 5 Pages: Home 41.96%; /projects 11.93%; /projects/compute 17.68%; /projects/storage 11.77%; /Community 6.55%

OPENSTACK IN THE NEWS

• Dell juices PowerEdge-C servers with OpenStack by Timothy Prickett Morgan; The Register; http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/08/dell_poweredge_c_openstack/
• Building Your Own OpenStack Cloud? Rackspace wants to support it by Klint Finley; ReadWriteCloud; http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud/2011/03/building-your-own-openstack-cl.php
• Private Clouds go Professional by Alex Handy; SD Times; http://www.sdtimes.com/PRIVATE_CLOUDS_GO_PROFESSIONAL/By_Alex_Handy/About_CLOUDCOMPUTING_and_OPENSTACK_and_RACKSPACE/35340
• Grid Dynamics New Cloud Services Division Features Jumpstart OpenStack offer for Enterprise Level ; http://pr-usa.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=650607&Itemid=29
• Is OpenStack Taking Over the Cloud? By Alan Shimel; Network World; http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/71917
• OpenStack Cloud Effort Plans Commercial Support by Sean Kerner; Internetnews.com; http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3927716/OpenStack+Cloud+Effort+Plans+Commercial+Support.htm
• Shuttleworth sees fewer clouds in Ubuntu’s future by Gavin Clarke; The Register; http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/07/ubuntu_cloud_belt_tightening/
• Xen.org offers tools to build private clouds by David Neal; V3.co.uk; http://www.v3.co.uk/v3-uk/news/2031441/xenorg-offers-tools-build-private-clouds