Posts Categorized: Newsletter

OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Feb 15 – 22)

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Highlights of the week Important CLA changes coming this weekend Starting on February 24, 2013 all contributors MUST review and agree to the new OpenStack Individual Contributor License Agreement and provide updated contact information at https://review.openstack.org/#/settings/agreements. On that day the Gerrit interface will be changing to present the new CLA text referring to the OpenStack… Read more »

OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Feb 8 – 15)

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Highlights of the week Important CLA changes coming in 10 days Starting on February 24, 2013 all contributors MUST review and agree to the new OpenStack Individual Contributor License Agreement and provide updated contact information at https://review.openstack.org/#/settings/agreements. On that day the Gerrit interface will be changing to present the new CLA text referring to the… Read more »

OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Jan 25 – Feb 1)

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Highlights of the week “H” stands for Havana The polls closed, Havana will be the code name for the OpenStack release following Grizzly. Contributing to OpenStack Rackspace’s Iccha Sethi and Alex Meade conducted a workshop on Contributing to OpenStack. Look at Iccha’s presentation on her blog. Quota Project: An effective way to manage the usage… Read more »

OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Jan 18 – 25)

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Highlights of the week Project Incubation Process Update is Underway Alan Clark, Chairman of the Board, wrote about the effort to improve the existing open source incubation process for OpenStack. This is one of the most important processes kickstarted by the OpenStack Foundation whose objective is to help ensure that projects receive the focus, visibility… Read more »

Project Incubation Process Update is Underway

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If you take a moment to view the different projects, committees and work groups that are currently underway within the OpenStack project, 2013 is looking to be a very exciting year for cloud computing.  I could easily write an entire dissertation about the accomplishments the community will make this year now that the OpenStack Foundation… Read more »

Introducing the User Committee

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As the number of production OpenStack deployments increase and more ecosystem partners add support for OpenStack clouds, it becomes increasingly important that the communities building services around OpenStack guide and influence the product evolution. When the OpenStack Foundation was launched in 2012, there were two initial structures created. The management board provides strategic and financial… Read more »

Technical Committee & Grizzly Update

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The OpenStack development teams continue to make progress in many areas. We recently published the grizzly-2 development milestone. It marks the middle of the “Grizzly” development cycle, which will end on April 4. So far 99 feature blueprints have been completed, and 113 more are still likely to be included before our feature freeze date… Read more »

Let’s Get this Started!

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I went to college in Indianapolis as one of the fine Butler Bulldogs. Each spring the Indy 500 car race is a celebrated event. On Labor Day weekend, the call for the engines to start is made by stating “Gentlemen, start your engines!” When female drivers are competing, the call becomes “Lady and Gentlemen…” or… Read more »