Moving forward as a User Experience Team in the OpenStack Juno release cycle The OpenStack Juno Summit in Atlanta was a major turning point for User Experience professionals working on OpenStack. There were 3 specific design sessions around UX work and 1 talk on the persona work, all with great attendance, and the whole team… Read more »
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OpenStack Technical Committee Update
The OpenStack Technical Committee (TC) meets weekly. During the meeting on 2014-06-03, one of the topics we discussed was the relatively low turnout for the TC election as compared to the PTL elections. The most productive thing to come out of that discussion was that we needed to do a better job of communicating what… Read more »
OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (May 30 – June 6)
An Ideal OpenStack Developer In a long piece, Mark McLoughlin thinks about the velocity OpenStack achieved and how it has managed to attract an unusual number of contributors and, for such a complex project, made it relatively easy for tThe way I feel when upgrading my OpenStack cloudhem to contribute. He attempts to define The… Read more »
OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (May 23 – 30)
MySQL Galera does *not* support SELECT … FOR UPDATE It’s not as bad as it sounds but I think it’s worth mentioning here for two reasons: this conversation came as a result of putting developers and operators in the same room, again, in Atlanta. It proves that we’re on the right track to building cohesion… Read more »
OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (May 2 – 23)
Taking Stock of OpenStack’s Rapid Growth With another successful OpenStack Summit in the books, Jonathan Bryce reflects on three big areas of maturity that are rapidly emerging for the project: user maturity, software maturity and a focus on cloud operations. OpenStack Superuser Superuser is a new online publication dedicated to the experiences of individuals who… Read more »
Upcoming OpenStack Day Events in May & June!
Did you miss the Atlanta Summit? Did you attend the Summit and now have new stories to tell? There are several OpenStack events taking place near you over the next few weeks. Come join us to share outcomes of the Juno Design Summit, hear about new use cases and have direct conversations with industry and… Read more »
OpenStack Upstream Training in Atlanta A Big Success
The first edition of OpenStack Upstream Training completed today in Atlanta: the class made of software developers from around the world, started learning technical and social convention of one of the largest open source collaboration project. During the first day, twenty people picked a real bug or feature to work on, got their development environment… Read more »
OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Apr 25 – May 2)
DefCore Core Capabilities Selection Criteria SIMPLIFIED -> how we are picking Core Rob Hirschfeld summarizes the status of discussions within OpenStack community of what is ‘Openstack’. The effort is now summarized in a diagram showing the 12 criterias grouped in 4 main categories. Better go read Rob’s post, it’ll all make sense. Announcing the O’Reilly… Read more »
OpenStack gets lots of students this summer
The selection’s results are in and OpenStack is adding 10 new people working on our awesome project. Please join me and welcome students from Google Summer of Code and Outreach Program for Women: Artem Shepelev Kumar Rishabh Manishanker Talusani Masaru Nomura Prashanth Raghu Tzanetos Balitsaris Victoria Martínez de la Cruz Virginia Gresham Ana Malagon Nataliia… Read more »
OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Apr 4 – 11)
Take the OpenStack User Survey and Change the (OpenStack) World Still a few more hours to fill in the OpenStack User Survey. Heartbleed The bug discovered affecting OpenSSL and “breaking” internet doesn’t directly touch OpenStack but can lead to OpenStack compromise. The width of the problem discovered this week is extremely wide though and I… Read more »