Posts Categorized: Communication

OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Dec 6 – 13)

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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 »

Ask OpenStack passes 10,000 questions

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Recently, our Q&A site, Ask OpenStack passed an important milestone – more than 10,000 questions. Since it was launched by community manager Stefano Maffulli with the help of our tame AskBot developer Evgeny Fadeev early last year, we’ve had great support from our entire community – users and vendor support staff alike getting on there… Read more »

OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Nov 28 – Dec 6)

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December 2014 OpenStack Infrastructure User Manual Sprint During this week the Infrastructure team released a significant milestone for the Infrastructure User Manual. The manual consolidates documentation for Developers, Core Reviewers and Project Drivers, which was spread across wiki pages, project-specific documentation files and general institutional knowledge. The manual is starting to look great and a… Read more »

OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Post Paris)

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How Operators Can Get Involved in Kilo #OpenStackSummit Maish Saidel-Keesing participated in the Ops Summit: How to get involved in Kilo, and shared his notes from those sessions. Development Reports from Summit What’s coming in Kilo for Glance, Zaqar and Oslo? OpenStack SDK Post-Summit Update Horizon topics during Kilo development summit Sahara updates in the… Read more »

OpenStack Upstream Training in Japan

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While we’re completing the training sessions in Paris, I’m glad to share the results of the Upstream Training in Japan on Oct.10-11 in Tokyo. The training session was organized by the Japanese user group with 19 people attending from 11 different Japanese companies and organizations and 7 mentors helping them. There are a lot more… Read more »

2014 Summer of Interns at OpenStack

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OpenStack has been a regular participant in community-led internship programs, such as the FOSS Outreach Program and for the first time this year, the Google Summer of Code. Our wonderful mentors and coordinators have made it possible for OpenStack to have some great interns over the (northern hemisphere) summer. Julie Pichon has helped collect thoughts… Read more »

OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Oct 17 – 24)

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OpenStack Startup/Venture Capital Ecosystem – it’s real and coming to Paris! Recently OpenStack has been generating financial headlines with the acquisitions of OpenStack ecosystem startups eNovance, Metacloud, Cloudscaling and OpenStack veteran Mirantis raising $100M in venture capital this week. At the OpenStack Summit in Paris next week, we are launching a new track called “CloudFunding”… Read more »

OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Oct 10 – 17)

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OpenStack Juno is here! OpenStack Juno, the tenth release of the open source software for building public, private, and hybrid clouds has 342 new features to support software development, big data analysis and application infrastructure at scale. The OpenStack community continues to attract the best developers and experts in their disciplines with 1,419 individuals employed… Read more »