Community Weekly Review (Dec 9-16)

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OpenStack Community Newsletter –December 16, 2011 HIGHLIGHTS Proposal to move non-standard ec2 “admin” api in essex https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg06218.html Proposed branches for Essex-2 milestones have been cut https://launchpad.net/openstack/+milestone/essex-2 Number of open bugs on Nova keeps increasing http://webnumbr.com/open-nova-bugs Documentation Team started to work on localization effort and new Launchpad project for openstack.org Full meeting summary http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack-meeting/2011/openstack-meeting.2011-12-12-20.03.html EVENTS Holiday… Read more »

Happy Ada Lovelace Day

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Ada Lovelace day, October 7th, is a day for bloggers to write a story about an inspirational influence in their life in technology. For me, there were two influential woman in my life as an undergraduate chemistry student in the early 90s at Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana. One was my first college chemistry professor,… Read more »

Rackspace Running OpenStack Compute Today for Select Customers, Discusses Broader Rollout Plans

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Lew Moorman, President of the Rackspace Cloud, recently discussed the state of Rackspace’s OpenStack plans in a blog post. In addition to running OpenStack Object Storage (code named Swift) for over a year to power their cloud, Rackspace is now running OpenStack Compute (code named Nova) for select customers. Head over to the Rackspace Cloud… Read more »

HP Announces Private Beta Program for OpenStack Cloud

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Today HP announced the private beta program for HP Cloud Services.  Our initial cloud services are HP Cloud Compute and HP Cloud Object Storage, both based on HP’s world-class hardware and software combined with OpenStack ™ technology.   I  want to personally invite you to sign up for our free private beta to develop, test and… Read more »

OpenStack Governance Elections Fall 2011 – Results

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The polls  for OpenStack Governance Elections closed. Congratulations to the winners and thank you all for participating in this election. PROJECT POLICY BOARD (3 positions + 1 to replace resigning member) Winners: Ewan Mellor Paul Voccio Monty Taylor Josh Kearney Details of the poll results are visible. The Project Technical Leads have not changed. NOVA… Read more »