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OpenStack Community Newsletter – June 3, 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].

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HIGHLIGHTS

• Swift, Nova, and Glance Reach First Milestone – https://fnords.wordpress.com/2011/06/02/the-diablo-1-milestone/
• OpenStack Social Networking Survey – http://ow.ly/58W38
• OpenStack Recognized in Cloud Category on the SDTimes 100 – http://www.sdtimes.com/link/35592
• OpenStack Glance Webinar with Jay Pipes and James Weir – https://cc.readytalk.com/cc/schedule/display.do?udc=i5l6gkl36wsy

EVENTS

• OpenHelp – June 3-5 in Cincinnati, OH http://openhelpconference.com/
• Cloud Expo East – Jun 6-9 – New York, NY http://cloudexpo2011east.sys-con.com/
• Interop Tokyo – June 7-10 in Tokyo, Japan http://www.interop.jp/2011/english/index.html
• SouthEast LinuxFest – June 10-12 in Spartanburg, SC http://www.southeastlinuxfest.org/
• O’Reilly Velocity – June 14-16 in Santa Clara, CA – http://velocityconf.com/velocity2011
• Open Source Bridge – June 21-24 in Portland, OR http://opensourcebridge.org/
• Structure – June 22-23 in San Francisco, CA http://event.gigaom.com/structure/

DEVELOPER COMMUNITY

• Diablo Release Schedule – http://wiki.openstack.org/DiabloReleaseSchedule
• Meeting Minutes – May 31
  • Summary: http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack-meeting/2011/openstack-meeting.2011-05-31-21.02.html
  • Meeting Log: http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack-meeting/2011/openstack-meeting.2011-05-31-21.02.log.html

GENERAL COMMUNITY

• OpenStack User Group Launch in Indonesia – https://groups.google.com/group/openstack-id?pli=1
• Project Policy Board Meeting Minutes – June 2
  • Summary: http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack-meeting/2011/openstack-meeting.2011-06-02-19.06.html
  • Meeting Log: http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack-meeting/2011/openstack-meeting.2011-06-02-19.06.log.html
• OpenStack Appliance Ready for Test (from rPath) –  http://blogs.rpath.com/wpmu/technical-viewpoints/2011/06/01/open-stack-appliance-ready-for-test/
• RightScale Blog – Commercial Support for OpenStack on the Horizon – http://blog.rightscale.com/2011/05/25/commercial-support-for-openstack-on-the-horizon/
• VMblog.com interviews Citrix and Dell on OpenStack –  http://www.openstack.org/blog/2011/05/vmblog-com-interviews-citrix-and-dell-on-openstack/
• Grid Dynamics – Running 200 VM Instances on OpenStack Compute – http://blog.griddynamics.com/2011/05/running-200-vm-instances-on-openstack.html
• OpenStack Wiki Recent Changes – http://wiki.openstack.org/RecentChanges
  • Glance Zone – http://wiki.openstack.org/GlanceZone
  • HyperV Install – http://wiki.openstack.org/HypervInstall
  • Diablo Release Schedule – http://wiki.openstack.org/DiabloReleaseSchedule
  • Testing Guide Draft – http://wiki.openstack.org/TestingGuideDraft

COMMUNITY STATISTICS (5/27– 6/2)

• Data Tracking Graphs – http://wiki.openstack.org/WeeklyNewsletter
• OpenStack Compute (NOVA) Data
  • 12 Active Reviews
  • 256 Active Branches – owned by 72 people & 15 teams
  • 1344 commits by 65 people in last month
• OpenStack Object Storage (SWIFT) Data
  • 1 Active Reviews
  • 68 Active Branches – owned by 22 people & 6 teams
  • 137 commits by 15 people in last month
• OpenStack Image Registry (GLANCE) Data
  • 2 Active Reviews
  • 21 Active Branches – owned by 6 people & 5 teams
  • 84 commits by 8 people in last month
• Twitter Stats for Week:  #openstack 214 total tweets; OpenStack 1064 total tweets  (does not include RT)
• Bugs Stats for Week: 385 Tracked Bugs; 71 New Bugs; 38 In-process Bugs; 0 Critical Bugs; 21 High Importance Bugs; 255 Bugs (Fix Committed)
• Blueprints Stats for Week:  205 Blueprints; 13 Essential, 16 High, 20 Medium, 26 Low, 130 Undefined
• OpenStack Website Stats for Week:  12,896 Visits, 35,054 Pageviews, 50.28% New Visits
  • Top 5 Pages: Home 39.26%; /projects 11.55%; /projects/compute 17.08%; /projects/storage 11.06%; /community 7.18%

OPENSTACK IN THE NEWS

• vCloud vs. OpenStack: Battle lines for enterprise cloud by Kyle Hilgendorf; Gartner; http://blogs.gartner.com/kyle-hilgendorf/2011/05/31/vcloud-vs-openstack-battle-lines-for-enterprise-cloud
• This Week in Cloud: Citrix OpenStack announcements by CloudCommons 2011; Sys.con Media; http://www.sys-con.com/node/1859302
• Cloud Cruiser Announces Beta Release of its Cloud Cost Management Solution for Enterprise Customers; Press Release; http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/cloud-cruiser-announces-beta-release-of-its-cloud-cost-management-solution-for-enterprise-customers-122933243.html
• Avnet Technology Solutions adds VCE to data centre lineup by Robert Dutt; ChannelBuzz.ca; http://www.channelbuzz.ca/2011/06/avnet-technology-solutions-adds-vce-to-data-centre-lineup-1904/
• Ubuntu Oneiric Ocelot Alpha 1 arrives; http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Ubuntu-Oneiric-Ocelot-Alpha-1-arrives-1254434.html
• SilverSport Releases New Version of Spore Self-Configuring Monitoring Appliance by Anshu Shrivastava; InfoTech; http://it.tmcnet.com/topics/it/articles/181486-silverspore-releases-new-version-spore-self-configuring-monitoring.htm