As you are all aware, the OpenStack Conference and Design Summit Sponsored by Citrix is April 26- 29, 2011 in Santa Clara, CA. You may also be aware that we have reached the registration limit which has created a large waiting list. I wanted to provide more information on the decisions that have led to… Read more »
Posts By: Stephen Spector
Project Policy Board Membership – Update Post Election
Now that the Spring 2011 Governance Elections have completed, I would like to formally update the community on the OpenStack Project Policy Board: Member Status Jesse Andrews Appointed Jonathan Bryce Appointed Thierry Carrez Elected – Term ends Spring 2012 Rick Clark Elected – Term ends Fall 2011 (replacing Vish Ishaya)* Eric Day Elected – Term… Read more »
Q1 2011 OpenStack Community Snapshot
At the end of 2010, I posted a community snapshot blog (http://www.openstack.org/blog/2011/01/q4-2010-openstack-community-snapshot/) that provided a variety of community health data-points. Seeing measurements on a quarterly basis provides insight to the health and growth of our community. If you have any ideas for other metrics to monitor, please contact me at [email protected]. End of Q1 2011… Read more »
OpenStack Conference & Design Summit Spring 2011 Sponsored by Citrix Final Agenda
The OpenStack Conference agenda for the first two days of the 4 day event is now finalized and ready for attendee consumption. The Design Summit agenda for the final 3 days of the event is still in active development following a process detailed here. All attendees will receive a program guide with the agenda at… Read more »
OpenStack Governance Election Results
The OpenStack Community has completed the governance elections as described in several previous blog posts: here and here. The results of the voting are as follows: Project Technical Lead SWIFT: John Dickinson Project Technical Lead NOVA: Vishvananda Ishaya Project Technical Lead GLANCE: Jay Pipes Project Policy Board (2 Positions): Thierry Carrez and Eric Day Congratulations… Read more »
Community Weekly Newsletter (March 25 – April 1)
OpenStack Community Newsletter – April 1, 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]. OpenStack Booth at UKUUG HIGHLIGHTS OpenStack… Read more »
OpenStack Developer Activity (March 19 – 25)
Many people have asked for more insight into the developer activities for OpenStack as the large number of code changes and proposals make it difficult to monitor everything happening. In hopes of exposing more of the developer activities, I plan to post a weekly or biweekly blog post on the latest development activities. If you… Read more »
Community Weekly Newsletter (March 19 – 25)
OpenStack Community Newsletter – March 25, 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]. Watch live streaming video from gigaombigdata… Read more »
OpenStack Conference / Design Summit 2011 Sponsored by Citrix
The time has finally come to reveal the agenda for the conference portion of next month’s OpenStack Conference / Design Summit 2011 sponsored by Citrix. The Design Summit agenda is still in active development and will be finalized once the Project Team Leader elections are complete and the new team members are able to offer… Read more »
Ubuntu Cloud Days IRC Event
On March 23 and 24th, the Ubuntu community is hosting their first Cloud Days event via IRC. Soren Hansen is representating the OpenStack Community with an introduction talk at 20.00 UTC. The schedule for Wednesday March 23 is below: Wed 23rd Mar 16.00 UTC Cloud Computing 101, Ask your questions — kim0 17.00 UTC Scaling… Read more »