Posts Categorized: community

Folsom Design Summit Day 3

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The Folsom Design Summit has ended. Tonight’s party marks the beginning of the OpenStack Spring 2012 Conference Highlights of the day @tcarrez: @OpenStack community maturing: last year at design summit we had “bzr vs. Git”, today we have “making configuration of OpenStack easier” Reminder- joint hackathon with core devs from @cloudfoundry and @OpenStack – 6pm… Read more »

Folsom Design Summit Day 2

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Highlights of the day: Slides PDF for @swifterdarrell Monitoring #OpenStack Swift With #StatsD talk: swiftstack.com/assets/ (pdf) slideshare version of today’s CS+SWIFT integration slideshare.net/ Openstack Quantum Security Groups Session slideshare.net/ For anyone looking for the slides the Melange Overview at the #openstack summit, you can find them on slideshare.net/troytoman/ and an announcement: tomorrow’s Cloud Foundry BOSH… Read more »

Folsom Design Summit Day 1

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Over 400 participant, more than 50 sessions today (over 150 in total). Not just developers in the rooms I’ve seen lots of users  involved in the sessions, asking questions and giving suggestions. Many discussisions revolve around real life problems and provide extremely  concrete solutions. There is the feeling that the OpenStack community is maturing.

Community Weekly Review (Apr 6 – 13)

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OpenStack Community Newsletter – April 13, 2012 HIGHLIGHTS OpenStack Foundation announces its founders http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/04/openstack-foundation-update/ Wired/Cloudline: http://www.wired.com/cloudline/2012/04/openstack/ InfoWorld: http://www.infoworld.com/t/cloud-computing/heavy-hitters-throw-weight-behind-future-openstack-foundation-190692 Gigaom: http://gigaom.com/cloud/its-official-ibm-and-red-hat-are-onboard-with-openstack/ Marketwatch (includes quotes from committed organizations): http://www.marketwatch.com/story/leading-technology-companies-support-formation-of-openstack-foundation-2012-04-12 IMPORTANT LINKS FOR THE SUMMIT AND CONFERENCE OpenStack Spring 2012 Schedule for Design Summit http://www.openstack.org/conference/san-francisco-2012/sessions/ OpenStack Spring 2012 Schedule for Conference http://www.openstack.org/conference/san-francisco-2012/sessions/conference Parties and other social events are on the official schedules… Read more »

Community Weekly Review (Mar 30 – Apr 6)

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OpenStack Community Newsletter – April 6, 2012 HIGHLIGHTS OpenStack Essex is ready http://www.openstack.org/Essex/ Press release http://www.openstack.org/projects/essex/press-release/ Release notes http://wiki.openstack.org/ReleaseNotes/Essex Essex Hall Of Fame http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/04/openstack-essex-hall-of-fame/ The Secret History of OpenStack, the Free Cloud Software That’s Changing Everything http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/04/openstack OpenStack Community Pulls It Out Of The Bag http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/04/openstack-community-pulls-it-out-of-the-bag/ Ask not what OpenStack can do for you… http://fnords.wordpress.com/2012/04/04/ask-not-what-openstack-can-do-for-you/ There… Read more »

OpenStack Essex Hall Of Fame

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Today we can celebrate a new release of OpenStack: version 2012.1 codenamed Essex is the fifth since its first announcement in July 2010. Join me to thank the over 200 people from over 50 companies that gave us a new version of OpenStack. These numbers are amazing. Just as a comparison, Linux kernel version 2.6.11… Read more »

OpenStack Community Pulls It Out Of The Bag

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For over a year I’ve been faithfully performing installations of OpenStack, writing up notes and documents on how to do this, understanding how to operate the software and, crucially, reporting any bugs I encountered.  The purpose is to investigate OpenStack as a viable cloud hosting platform.  The problem is that I’ve been faithfully performing installations… Read more »

Recap: OpenStack LA Meetup Mar 29

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Z! Entertainment Television presents… “Live from the Taupe Carpet”   Brian Schmeecrest here, coming to you live from the OpenStack LA premiere.  I’ll take you behind the scenes of this momentous event, give you the scoop on the presenters, highlight who said what, and get the lowdown on the worst dressed from the Fashion Polizei. First… Read more »