Posts By: Stefano Maffulli

OpenStack Governance Elections: Technical Committee

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Now that we have elected the Project Technical Leads for the next release, the OpenStack community is called to elect the last 3 members of the OpenStack Technical Committee. Per section 4.1(b) of the OpenStack Foundation bylaws, the Technical Committee (“TC”) is a technical meritocracy managing all the technical matters relating to OpenStack. It replaces… Read more »

OpenStack Governance Elections Autumn 2012 Results

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The OpenStack community has elected the Project Technical Leads. Here are the winners: NOVA Project Technical Lead (1 position) Winner: Vish Ishaya (only candidate) KEYSTONE Project Technical Lead (1 position) Winner: Joe Heck (only candidate) HORIZON Project Technical Lead (1 position) Winner: Gabriel Hurley  (only candidate) SWIFT Project Technical Lead (1 position) Winner: John Dickinson (only… Read more »

OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Aug 31-Sep 7)

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Highlights of the week New OpenStack Foundation Gold Members: Intel, VmWare, NEC Today, the OpenStack Board of Directors approved the applications of three companies wishing to become Gold Members: Intel, NEC and VMware. The factors considered by the Board included a commitment to helping achieve the OpenStack Foundation Mission through demonstrated and potential contribution to… Read more »

OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Aug 24-31)

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Highlights of the week Nominations now open for OpenStack Project Technical Leads It’s that time again 🙂 Anyone who would like to be a candidate for the forth-coming elections for the OpenStack Project Technical Leads may now submit their names! Valid candidates must currently be an Active Technical Contributor (within the 6 months prior to… Read more »

OpenStack at CloudOpen

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OpenStack is a protagonist of CloudOpen, the only conference providing a collaboration and education space dedicated to advancing the open cloud. Next week, from Aug 29 to 31 in San Diego there will be plenty of chances to hear talks about OpenStack and how it’s shaping the cloud industry. On Tuesday Aug 28th join the… Read more »

OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Aug 10-17)

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Highlights of the week OpenStack Foundation Board – Gold Member Election Results The Gold Members completed their election as planned. DLA Piper administered the election and has passed along the results. The eight elected companies and the individuals they intend to appoint to the board are listed alphabetically below: Cisco – Lew Tucker Cloudscaling – Randy… Read more »

How I contribute to OpenStack series

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Rackspace is running a series of interviews to the protagonists of OpenStack development. Titled ‘How I contribute to OpenStack’, it  collects insight straight from key developers on the front lines about how they became involved in OpenStack and the open cloud, and what contributions they’ve made. The first two installments saw SolidFire Software Engineer John… Read more »

OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (July 27-Aug 3)

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Highlights of the week OpenStack Foundation Board – 2012 Election Candidates See the current list of nominees for the OpenStack Foundation 2012 Board Member Elections who have received at least one nomination. A candidate must receive at least 10 nominations to appear on the ballot. Any active member of the OpenStack Foundation can support a… Read more »