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The Whys and Hows of the Oslo Namespace Change During the Kilo cycle the Oslo team has been busy deprecating the oslo. namespace in all of our projects. The first question this probably raises for most people is: why? Ben Nemec has the answer in his blog post and also explains how the Common Libraries… Read more »

2015 Election Results Thank you to everyone who voted in this year’s election. We reached quorum and passed the three bylaws amendments. We also reached quorum in electing eight Individual Directors to the 2015 OpenStack Board of Directors. And the winner is…. Individual Directors Tim Bell Russell Bryant Alex Freedland Rob Hirschfeld Vishvananda Ishaya Kavit… Read more »

Happy 2015! “First App” Tutorial for OpenStack OpenStack needs something like the tutorial “Writing your first Django app”. We’re looking for volunteers to flesh out ideas on what this tutorial would look like for OpenStack and how it would work. Particularly we need to think about the kinds of example applications we should go with…. Read more »

Last newsletter of 2014, see you again in 2015! University of Hawaii College of Education harnesses OpenStack to support faculty research via a secure private cloud OpenStack powers a Holodeck at University of Hawaii at Manoa… Read the full story on Mirantis blog. The TOSCA Cloud State of the Union A nice summary of the… Read more »

The Way Forward The OpenStack project structure has been under heavy discussion over the past months. There was a long email thread, a lot of opinionated blogposts, a cross-project design summit session in Paris, and various strawmen proposed to our governance repository. Based on all that input, the OpenStack Technical Committee worked on a clear… Read more »

OpenStack DefCore Enters Execution Phase. Help! OpenStack DefCore Committee has established the principles and first artifacts required for vendors using the OpenStack trademark. Over the next release cycle, we will be applying these to the Icehouse and Juno releases. Rob will be doing two sessions about DefCore next week (will be recorded): Tues Dec 16… Read more »

Notice of meeting to elect Individual Directors The Annual Meeting of the Individual Members to elect directors for the Board of the OpenStack Foundation shall be held from January 12, 2015 to January 16, 2015, commencing at 00:01 UTC on January 12 and ending at 17:00 UTC on January 16. The meeting will be held… Read more »

OpenStack User Survey Insights: November 2014 This is the fourth consecutive survey conducted by the User Committee prior to each Summit starting in April 2013 and the previous survey in Atlanta, May 2014. The goals of the survey are to generate insights based on a representative sample of OpenStack users, in order to better understand… Read more »