Blow Out the Candles – OpenStack Turns 3!

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Update: Visit the new OpenStack birthday page with links to an infographic, the web badge and more! OpenStack will celebrate it’s third birthday July 19, and we’re celebrating this month!  In three short years, Openstack has truly emerged as the center of cloud innovation, with hundreds of companies around the world relying on OpenStack to… Read more »

OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (June 28 – July 5)

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Hong Kong Summit – Registration, Call for Speakers & Sponsors Now Open! 在全体大会中将提供英文至中文之即时翻译。 要得到更多信息, 请查阅注册信息页 OpenStack Object Storage (Swift) 1.9.0 released This week the team announced the latest release of OpenStack Object Storage, Swift 1.9.0. The new version added lots of major features thanks to the combined effort of 37 different contributors. Full release notes… Read more »

OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (June 21-28)

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Hong Kong Summit – Registration, Call for Speakers & Sponsors Now Open! 在全体大会中将提供英文至中文之即时翻译。 要得到更多信息, 请查阅注册信息页 OpenStack Summit Survey Results Key Findings: Overall: 96% of people rating the overall Summit as Good or Excellent.  Top areas to improve:  Clearly the Network and the Session Rooms (size, acoustics, equipment) were unacceptable. Format: Stackers favored keeping the Design… Read more »

OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (June 14 – 21)

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Hong Kong Summit – Registration, Call for Speakers & Sponsors Now Open! 在全体大会中将提供英文至中文之即时翻译。 要得到更多信息, 请查阅注册信息页 The OpenStack Summit is coming to Hong Kong, November 5-8, 2013. Visit http://openstack.org/summit for all the details. Early Bird Registration is now open The call for speakers is now open Potential Sponsors can read the Sponsorship Prospectus Quantum is no more. Welcome… Read more »

OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (June 7 – 14)

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Welcome Heidi, Margie, Jeremy, and Tom to the OpenStack Foundation team! Since the Foundation launched last September, we’ve continued to build out a diverse team. This has been a big focus to keep up with the incredible growth in the OpenStack community with another new software release (Grizzly), the Portland Summit with over 2600 people… Read more »

OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (May 31 – June 7)

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OpenStack 2013.1.2 released The OpenStack Stable Maintenance team is happy to announce the release of the 2013.1.2 stable Grizzly release. We have been busy reviewing and accepting backported bugfixes to the stable/grizzly branches. A total of 80 bugs have been fixed across all core projects. OpenStack “I” release naming The next release cycle for OpenStack,… Read more »

Lessons, Learning, and Long Views for Internship Programs

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In January 2013 the OpenStack project welcomed aboard three interns and excitedly assigned them to work on fairly complex projects in our first attempt at an organized project-level internship program. The OpenStack Foundation participated as one of the organizations with the GNOME Outreach Program for Women and learned quite a few lessons during the six… Read more »

OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (May 24-31)

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Havana-1 development milestone available The first milestone of the Havana development cycle, “havana-1” is now available for Keystone, Glance, Nova, Horizon, Networking, Cinder, Ceilometer, and Heat. It contains all the new features that have been added since the Grizzly pre-release Feature Freeze in March. Including the oslo libraries, 63 blueprints were implemented and 671 bugs… Read more »

OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (May 10-17)

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OpenStack Compute (Nova) Roadmap for Havana The Havana design summit was held mid-April.  Since then the Nova team has been documenting the Havana roadmap and going full speed ahead on development of these features.  The list of features that developers have committed to completing for the Havana release is tracked using blueprints on Launchpad. At… Read more »