OpenStack Governance: Electing Technical Leaders For Next Development Cycle

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An important part of OpenStack’s culture is to elect its tech leaders every six months: we’re in the process of electing the Project Tech Leads for the next 6 months release cycle. Our governance model based on merit is one of the strong points of our community. Except otherwise-noted in the program description, the electorate for… Read more »

OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Sep 13-20)

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Register Now For The Summit in Hong Kong 在全体大会中将提供英文至中文之即时翻译。 要得到更多信息, 请查阅注册信息页 Today all Hong Kong Summit Speakers were notified whether or not your submission was accepted for inclusion in the final Summit agenda. If you submitted a talk please check your email now (the email address that you used when you submitted the session). If… Read more »

OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Sep 6-13)

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Register Now For The Summit in Hong Kong 在全体大会中将提供英文至中文之即时翻译。 要得到更多信息, 请查阅注册信息页 The last batch of invites to the Summit for OpenStack Active Technical Contributors will be send in the next 10 days. If you have committed code or documentation before September 6 expect official communication soon. Participate in the OpenStack User Survey by September 30!… Read more »

OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Aug 30 – Sep 6)

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Register Now For The Summit in Hong Kong 在全体大会中将提供英文至中文之即时翻译。 要得到更多信息, 请查阅注册信息页 OpenStack Heat and Ceilometer got their dashboard panel The Havana milestone release of the Horizon dashboard brought an absolutely wonderful panel for Heat, the orchestration service and Ceilometer, the metering service. Enjoy a preview before the Havana’s official release. OpenStack Icehouse Incubation Roundup The… Read more »

First meeting of OpenStack Venezuela

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The Venezuelan OpenStack community had its first full day meeting on August 24 in Caracas and it was a big success.  Nelson Perez, gave a general introduction to  virtualization talking about what it is, why it’s useful and finally an overview of  hypervisors.  Enrique Femin then talked about cloud computing giving general definitions, principles and… Read more »

OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Aug 23-30)

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Register Now For The Summit in Hong Kong <在全体大会中将提供英文至中文之即时翻译。 要得到更多信息, 请查阅注册信息页 Ambassador Program – Specifics Following from the previous post, we’ve had a range of people express their support for the program and quite a number already looking for the application form! So, some more details about the Ambassador Program. Ambassadors will be recognised on… Read more »

OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Aug 10-23)

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Cast your vote for the presentation to be presented at OpenStack Summit, November 5-8, in Hong Kong 在全体大会中将提供英文至中文之即时翻译。 要得到更多信息, 请查阅注册信息页 Introducing the OpenStack Ambassador Program OpenStack Community Manager Tom Fifield started the discussion on the formation of an OpenStack Ambassador Program, which aims to create a framework of community leaders to sustainably expand the reach… Read more »

OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Aug 2-9)

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Hong Kong Summit – Registration, Call for Sponsors Now Open! 在全体大会中将提供英文至中文之即时翻译。 要得到更多信息, 请查阅注册信息页 DevStack in 1 minute It can be as easy as it looks: step by step instructions by Sébastien Han. OpenStack Compute For vSphere Admins An ongoing series of posts by Kenneth Hui about OpenStack for vSphere Admins.  You can catch up on… Read more »

OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (July 26 – Aug 2)

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Hong Kong Summit – Registration, Call for Sponsors Now Open! 在全体大会中将提供英文至中文之即时翻译。 要得到更多信息, 请查阅注册信息页 Benchmarking Performance of OpenStack Swift Configurations The latest OpenStack Object Storage Swift release 1.9.0 features full global clusters support, which allows to distribute one cluster over multiple, geographically dispersed sites, connected through a high-latency network. Mirantis published a brief introduction to how… Read more »

Open, Cloud Computing, And Startups: A Great Mix

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Contributed by Pete Chadwick, senior cloud solutions manager, SUSE If you think about cloud computing, then it’s inevitable that you’re going to think of the big enterprises that seem perfect for this sort of IT infrastructure. After all, they’re big, have loads of staff and resources, and are performing the big work that is ideal… Read more »