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 »

Community Weekly Review (Feb 3-10)

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OpenStack Community Newsletter –February 10, 2012 HIGHLIGHTS OpenStack Bug Squashing day was a success and we should repeat it (see graphs below) OpenStack Foundation Update http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/foundation/2012-February/000123.html Ceph Lords meetup in San Francisco has links to recorded presentations http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/02/recap-ceph-lords-openstack-sf-meetup-feb-02/ Feedback from FOSDEM 2012 meetings http://fnords.wordpress.com/2012/02/08/fosdem-2012-feedback/ and a visual https://twitter.com/#!/smaffulli/status/165746062181670912/photo/1 Canonical published guide to automatic testing on… Read more »

Community Weekly Review (Jan 13 – 20)

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OpenStack Community Newsletter –January 20, 2012 HIGHLIGHTS The First OpenStack Bug Squashing Day Is Coming On Feb 2nd http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/01/the-first-openstack-bug-squashing-day-is-coming-on-feb-2nd/ Making more solid OpenStack releases http://fnords.wordpress.com/2012/01/18/making-more-solid-openstack-releases/ Performance testing tool for Glance https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg06724.html OpenStack Nova and Glance 2011.3.1 released https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg06834.html GridDynamics released “nova-billing”, resource usage accounting system for OpenStack http://openstackgd.wordpress.com/2012/01/19/resource-usage-accounting-system-for-openstack/ Dan Prince and Russell Bryant giving an… Read more »

More details about seminar “Open and safe in the cloud” in Ljubljana, Slovenia

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On December 14th company CHS d.o.o. hosted seminar on Open and Secure Cloud Computing, which was held in Tehnološki park in Ljubljana. This unique occasion assembled 49 attendants from academic and government representatives to small businesses and additional 17 students. Participants were eager to get to know leading IT trends in building own cloud environments… Read more »

Brief report from Ljubljana, Seminar “Open and safe in the cloud”

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On December 14th I completed my talk about OpenStack in Slovenia, in front of 66 people (49 registered, 17 more showed up last minute) from Slovenian small businesses, government agencies and academia. Incredible vibe, very competent crowd about cloud computing and IaaS in general. The agenda of the day (full agenda, in Slovenian) OpenStack –… Read more »