Posts Categorized: community

OpenStack Events Update

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OpenStack will be represented at several industry conferences this summer, and community members across the world are hosting regional OpenStack days.  Below are some highlights from the event schedule,  including how you can sponsor or participate. Global OpenStack Days OpenStack Israel 2012 | May 30 | Tel Aviv, Israel More than 250 people are registered… Read more »

Community Weekly Review (May 18-25)

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OpenStack Community Newsletter — May 25 Highlights of the week  S3 emulation to OpenStack Swift has moved Following PPB’s decision of May 15 meeting the S3 emulation layer to OpenStack Swift has moved to a new home: https://github.com/fujita/swift3 [more…] Building a Swift Storage Cloud? Avoid Wimpy Proxy Servers and Five other Pitfalls The Zmanda team… Read more »

OpenStack Melbourne Australia Meetup May 15

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Last Tuesday night (17/5) in Melbourne I attended the 2nd meetup of the Melbourne contingent of the Australian OpenStack User Group. It was a fantastic night with great speakers and a great group of people who are passionate about OpenStack. There was a mix of people with various OpenStack experience, from the NeCTAR team who have… Read more »

Starter docs and articles

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I wanted to send a note out to discuss the growth of all the starter docs and “articles” on a particular topic. Thanks all who are sending these as links to the mailing list or tweeting ’em. We are listening. The doc team has been discussing ways to ensure we help people find what they… Read more »

Community Weekly Review (May 11-18)

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OpenStack Community Newsletter — May 18 Highlights of the week  Decision On Third Party APIs The PPB in its May 15 meeting decided that: An OpenStack project will support an official API in it’s core implementation(the OpenStack API). Other APIs will be implemented external to core. The core project will expose stable, complete, performant interfaces… Read more »

Indian User Group first meet up

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The first formal meetup of the Indian OpenStack User Group was held in Bangalore last weekend on the 5th of May. The event was attended by 25 enthusiastic InStackers. We were hoping to see a few more people but there were a couple of other tech events on the same day. The venue for the meetup… Read more »

Community Weekly Review (May 4-11)

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OpenStack Community Newsletter – May 4, 2012 HIGHLIGHTS Comment on the first draft of OpenStack Foundation’s bylaws http://wiki.openstack.org/Governance/Foundation/Bylaws The mailing list message is on http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/foundation/2012-April/000255.html The Project Policy Board made important decisions regarding 3rd party APIs and Cinder (formerly known as Nova Volume): third party apis are not part of openstack core, and we focus… Read more »

Community Weekly Review (Apr 27-May 4)

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OpenStack Community Newsletter – May 4, 2012 HIGHLIGHTS If you participated to the summit or conference, remember to take the survey https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/openstack-folsom-events Most of the videos and slides from April’s conference are on http://vimeo.com/openstack and http://www.slideshare.net/group/openstackcloud Comment on the first draft of OpenStack Foundation’s bylaws http://wiki.openstack.org/Governance/Foundation/Bylaws The mailing list message is on http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/foundation/2012-April/000255.html New layout… Read more »

Community Weekly Review (Apr 20-27)

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OpenStack Community Newsletter – April 27, 2012 Welcome back to our regular publishing schedule. This week we still hear the echo of the Design Summit and Conference. HIGHLIGHTS If you participated to the summit or conference, remember to take the survey https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/openstack-folsom-events Notes, reports, post-mortem, comments from participants to last week’s events: http://maffulli.net/2012/04/26/back-from-openstack-design-summit-and-conference/ http://technicae.cogitat.io/2012/04/new-life-openstack-devops-community.html http://blog.doughellmann.com/2012/04/notes-from-openstack-folsom-design.html… Read more »

OpenStack Conference Spring 2012 Day 2

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And today marks the end of this full week of meetings, panels, formal and informal chats, parties, networking and lots of fun. The final count of registered people went well over 1,000! This calls for a celebration to this great community. [View the story “OpenStack Conference Spring 2012 Day 2” on Storify] Remember to publish… Read more »