Posts By: Stefano Maffulli

Announcing OpenStack Asia/Pacific Conference 2012

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We talked about during the community sessions at past OpenStack Design Summit, we’re now ready to announce it officially: the Asia/Pacific community is hosting a large OpenStack conference. Mark your calendar: August 10th and 11th, with a main venue in Bejing and a remote participation in Shanghai, hosted by the Chinese OpenStack User Group (COSUG)… Read more »

OpenStack at Gjøvik University College

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A group of students from Gjøvik University College wrote the first bachelor thesis on OpenStack, based on my knowledge*. Lars Erik Pedersen, Jon Arne Westgaard and Hallvard Alte Westman studied an implementation of OpenStack as a framework for virtual computer at College’s labs to replace the current system. The college uses in teaching subjects like… Read more »

Community Weekly Review (May 18-25)

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OpenStack Community Newsletter — May 25 Highlights of the week  S3 emulation to OpenStack Swift has moved Following PPB’s decision of May 15 meeting the S3 emulation layer to OpenStack Swift has moved to a new home: https://github.com/fujita/swift3 [more…] Building a Swift Storage Cloud? Avoid Wimpy Proxy Servers and Five other Pitfalls The Zmanda team… Read more »

Community Weekly Review (May 11-18)

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OpenStack Community Newsletter — May 18 Highlights of the week  Decision On Third Party APIs The PPB in its May 15 meeting decided that: An OpenStack project will support an official API in it’s core implementation(the OpenStack API). Other APIs will be implemented external to core. The core project will expose stable, complete, performant interfaces… Read more »

Community Weekly Review (May 4-11)

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OpenStack Community Newsletter – May 4, 2012 HIGHLIGHTS Comment on the first draft of OpenStack Foundation’s bylaws http://wiki.openstack.org/Governance/Foundation/Bylaws The mailing list message is on http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/foundation/2012-April/000255.html The Project Policy Board made important decisions regarding 3rd party APIs and Cinder (formerly known as Nova Volume): third party apis are not part of openstack core, and we focus… Read more »

Community Weekly Review (Apr 27-May 4)

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OpenStack Community Newsletter – May 4, 2012 HIGHLIGHTS If you participated to the summit or conference, remember to take the survey https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/openstack-folsom-events Most of the videos and slides from April’s conference are on http://vimeo.com/openstack and http://www.slideshare.net/group/openstackcloud Comment on the first draft of OpenStack Foundation’s bylaws http://wiki.openstack.org/Governance/Foundation/Bylaws The mailing list message is on http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/foundation/2012-April/000255.html New layout… Read more »

Community Weekly Review (Apr 20-27)

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OpenStack Community Newsletter – April 27, 2012 Welcome back to our regular publishing schedule. This week we still hear the echo of the Design Summit and Conference. HIGHLIGHTS If you participated to the summit or conference, remember to take the survey https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/openstack-folsom-events Notes, reports, post-mortem, comments from participants to last week’s events: http://maffulli.net/2012/04/26/back-from-openstack-design-summit-and-conference/ http://technicae.cogitat.io/2012/04/new-life-openstack-devops-community.html http://blog.doughellmann.com/2012/04/notes-from-openstack-folsom-design.html… Read more »