OpenStack 2014: Powered by Users

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If momentum is any indication, 2014 is poised to be a defining year for OpenStack. All of our vital statistics, from community growth to code commits and tracked deployments, doubled in 2013, and all signs point to continued growth. Still, we continue to hear the questions: Who’s really driving OpenStack? Are there too many cooks… Read more »

OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Jan 17 – 24)

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Icehouse-2 development milestone available The second milestone of the Icehouse development cycle, “icehouse-2” is now available for Keystone, Glance, Nova, Horizon, Neutron, Cinder, Ceilometer, Heat, and Trove. Including the oslo libraries, “only” 50 blueprints were implemented and about 650 bugs were fixed during this milestone, which is slightly less than our usual velocity at that… Read more »

OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Jan 10 – 17)

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Election Results for Individual and Gold Directors Each January two of the Foundation member classes hold elections to determine their Board representatives for 2014. The Gold Members held their election on January 6th-7th while Individual Members elected their Directors between Jan 12th-17th. Today the 2014 election of Individual Directors has closed and the official results… Read more »

Election Results for Individual and Gold Directors

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Each January two of the Foundation member classes hold elections to determine their Board representatives for 2014. The Gold Members held their election on January 6th-7th while Individual Members elected their Directors between Jan 12th-17th. Today the 2014 election of Individual Directors has closed and the official results are in. The elected and appointed directors… Read more »

OpenStack Documentation Wrap Up for 2013

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It’s that time of the new year to reflect and look for ways to keep improving the OpenStack docs. Here’s a list of major events from 2013 in OpenStack doc-land. Let’s look at the year in review. Operator Guide book sprint was in February 2013 and I still remember it fondly. The before post and… Read more »

OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Dec 20 – 27)

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OpenStack “J” naming poll closed Polls closed, the OpenStack community decided: Juno will be the name of the OpenStack development cycle starting in May 2014, after the Icehouse cycle completes. Third party testing with Turbo-Hipster Soon you are going to see a new robot barista leaving comments on Nova code reviews. He is obsessed with… Read more »

OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Dec 13 – 20)

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What Is VMware Up To With OpenStack? As a former vSphere and now OpenStack Architect, Kenneth Hui has been following with much interest the courtship ritual that VMware has been performing with the OpenStack project.  Dan Wendlandt and the entire OpenStack Team at VMware has been busy courting the OpenStack community at various venues, including… Read more »