OpenStack Spring 2012 Conference Schedule

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The programming committee has published the schedule for the OpenStack Conference Spring 2012. The conference will feature Keynotes sessions from Biri Singh, SVP & GM of HP Cloud Services, Chris C. Kemp, CEO & Founder of Nebula; John Engates, CTO and Mark Interrante, VP of Products at Rackspace; and Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu; User… Read more »

Community Weekly Review (Mar 16-23)

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OpenStack Community Newsletter –March 23, 2012 A great community story: Over the course of just a week I’ve gone from despair and frustration to almost wanting to shout from the rooftops the achievements that have been made in OpenStack and my own deployments and testing Read the rest of it on https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg08950.html HIGHLIGHTS Submit session… Read more »

Community Weekly Review (Mar 9-16)

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OpenStack Community Newsletter –March 16, 2012 HIGHLIGHTS Submit session proposals for OpenStack Folsom Design Summit https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg08674.html Shout out to all folks who participated to sprints for OpenStack this year at PyCon http://oubiwann.blogspot.com/2012/03/openstack-at-pycon-2012-sprints.html The real way to start hacking on OpenStack http://www.linuxjedi.co.uk/2012/03/real-way-to-start-hacking-on-openstack.html OpenStack API’s and WSGI, Mike Pittaro’s presentation at South Bay OpenStack Meetup March 8th http://www.slideshare.net/lhrc_mikeyp/openstack-apis-and-wsgi… Read more »

Community Weekly Review (Mar 2-9)

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OpenStack Community Newsletter –March 9, 2012 HIGHLIGHTS OpenStack community elected new PTLs and two members of PPB http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/03/openstack-governance-elections-spring-2012-results/ OpenStack effort to join Google Summer of Code https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg08459.html Swift 1.4.7 released https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg08445.html Results of OpenStack Documentation Day https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg08403.html Help needed to enable remote participation at Folsom Design Summit https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg08360.html EVENTS Webinar: OpenStack Foundation update Mar 13,… Read more »

OpenStack Governance Elections Spring 2012 Results

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The OpenStack community has elected the Project Technical Leads and two members of the Project Policy Board. Here are the winners: NOVA Project Technical Lead (1 position) Official poll results http://www.cs.cornell.edu/w8/~andru/cgi-perl/civs/control.pl?id=E_db67df60654f6c8e&key=83b8ba2aeca3c8fd&akey=f52079a1711dd46e Winner: Vish Ishaya http://wiki.openstack.org/Governance/ElectionsSpring2012/Vishvananda_Ishaya KEYSTONE Project Technical Lead (1 position) Official poll results http://www.cs.cornell.edu/w8/~andru/cgi-perl/civs/control.pl?id=E_b16565f593d90e7a&key=6aa1fc41112e0ab9&akey=832fde7cb1ac9844 Winner: Joe Heck http://wiki.openstack.org/Governance/ElectionsSpring2012/Joe_Heck HORIZON Project Technical Lead (1 position)… Read more »

Community Weekly Review (Feb 17-24)

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OpenStack Community Newsletter –February 24, 2012 HIGHLIGHTS OpenStack Governance Elections Spring 2012: Action Item For All Candidates http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/02/openstack-governance-elections-spring-2012-action-item-for-all-candidates/ Nominations close on Monday Announcing StackTach: a little debugging tool to watch the flow of an operation through the various parts of OpenStack https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg07765.html Quantum promoted to core project: it will be part of Folsom release, in… Read more »

OpenStack Governance Elections Spring 2012: Action Item For All Candidates

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The OpenStack community is electing its Project Technical Leads and two members of the Project Policy Board. Details are at http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/02/openstack-governance-elections-spring-2012/. On February 26 the nominations will close and the voting process will start on February 28 and finish on March 3rd. The list of nominees is at http://etherpad.openstack.org/Spring2012-Nominees. It’s still open. You must register… Read more »

Community Weekly Review (Feb 10-17)

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OpenStack Community Newsletter –February 17, 2012 HIGHLIGHTS TryStack.org – A Sandbox for OpenStack is live http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/02/trystack-org-a-sandbox-for-openstack/ The brand new API reference website http://api.openstack.org/ SoftLayer announced its Object Storage product built on OpenStack Swift http://blog.softlayer.com/2012/softlayer-openstack-swift-softlayer-object-storage/ Action needed: OpenStack Governance Elections http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/02/openstack-governance-elections-spring-2012/ Setting up the OpenStack Foundation: video of the meetup in Santa Clara http://www.collierclan.net/mark/?p=425 A draft… Read more »