Community Weekly Review (October 14-21)

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OpenStack Community Newsletter – October 21, 2011 HIGHLIGHTS New OpenStack user group in Indonesia http://www.openstack-id.org/ Lots of work on blueprints for Essex release https://blueprints.launchpad.net/openstack EVENTS OpenStorage Summit, Oct 26 – 27, 2011 – San Jose, CA http://www.openstoragesummit.org/ Ubuntu Developer Summit, Oct 30 – Nov 4, Orlando, FL http://uds.ubuntu.com/ Xen Summit Asia Nov 02 – 03,… Read more »

Community Weekly Review (October 7-14)

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OpenStack Community Newsletter – October 14, 2011 HIGHLIGHTS Join the OpenStack Foundation mailing list http://www.openstack.org/blog/2011/10/join-the-openstack-foundation-mailing-list/ The OpenStack Academic Initiative is starting up http://wiki.openstack.org/AcademicInitiative Essex Summit etherpads published http://wiki.openstack.org/EssexSummitEtherpads EVENTS OpenStack Hackaton, Wikimedia Foundation – October 14-16, New Orleans, LA  http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/NOLA_Hackathon London DevOps October – Oct 18, London, UK https://london-devops-oct.eventbrite.com/ Private Clouds and Open Software (Presentations… Read more »

Happy Ada Lovelace Day

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Ada Lovelace day, October 7th, is a day for bloggers to write a story about an inspirational influence in their life in technology. For me, there were two influential woman in my life as an undergraduate chemistry student in the early 90s at Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana. One was my first college chemistry professor,… Read more »

Documentation Contributors Styling Ts

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Why give your time and efforts to an online community? Researchers like Peter Kollock have identified and studied reasons for people to contribute to online communities. I try to keep the basic principles of online participation in mind for documentation contributors all the time, and find ways to recognize the people making a difference with… Read more »