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OpenStack Community Newsletter –March 16, 2012 HIGHLIGHTS Submit session proposals for OpenStack Folsom Design Summit https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg08674.html Shout out to all folks who participated to sprints for OpenStack this year at PyCon http://oubiwann.blogspot.com/2012/03/openstack-at-pycon-2012-sprints.html The real way to start hacking on OpenStack http://www.linuxjedi.co.uk/2012/03/real-way-to-start-hacking-on-openstack.html OpenStack API’s and WSGI, Mike Pittaro’s presentation at South Bay OpenStack Meetup March 8th http://www.slideshare.net/lhrc_mikeyp/openstack-apis-and-wsgi… Read more »

OpenStack Community Newsletter –March 9, 2012 HIGHLIGHTS OpenStack community elected new PTLs and two members of PPB http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/03/openstack-governance-elections-spring-2012-results/ OpenStack effort to join Google Summer of Code https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg08459.html Swift 1.4.7 released https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg08445.html Results of OpenStack Documentation Day https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg08403.html Help needed to enable remote participation at Folsom Design Summit https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg08360.html EVENTS Webinar: OpenStack Foundation update Mar 13,… Read more »

OpenStack Community Newsletter –February 24, 2012 HIGHLIGHTS OpenStack Governance Elections Spring 2012: Action Item For All Candidates http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/02/openstack-governance-elections-spring-2012-action-item-for-all-candidates/ Nominations close on Monday Announcing StackTach: a little debugging tool to watch the flow of an operation through the various parts of OpenStack https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg07765.html Quantum promoted to core project: it will be part of Folsom release, in… Read more »

OpenStack Community Newsletter –February 17, 2012 HIGHLIGHTS TryStack.org – A Sandbox for OpenStack is live http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/02/trystack-org-a-sandbox-for-openstack/ The brand new API reference website http://api.openstack.org/ SoftLayer announced its Object Storage product built on OpenStack Swift http://blog.softlayer.com/2012/softlayer-openstack-swift-softlayer-object-storage/ Action needed: OpenStack Governance Elections http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/02/openstack-governance-elections-spring-2012/ Setting up the OpenStack Foundation: video of the meetup in Santa Clara http://www.collierclan.net/mark/?p=425 A draft… Read more »

OpenStack Community Newsletter –February 10, 2012 HIGHLIGHTS OpenStack Bug Squashing day was a success and we should repeat it (see graphs below) OpenStack Foundation Update http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/foundation/2012-February/000123.html Ceph Lords meetup in San Francisco has links to recorded presentations http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/02/recap-ceph-lords-openstack-sf-meetup-feb-02/ Feedback from FOSDEM 2012 meetings http://fnords.wordpress.com/2012/02/08/fosdem-2012-feedback/ and a visual https://twitter.com/#!/smaffulli/status/165746062181670912/photo/1 Canonical published guide to automatic testing on… Read more »

OpenStack Community Newsletter –January 20, 2012 HIGHLIGHTS The First OpenStack Bug Squashing Day Is Coming On Feb 2nd http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/01/the-first-openstack-bug-squashing-day-is-coming-on-feb-2nd/ Making more solid OpenStack releases http://fnords.wordpress.com/2012/01/18/making-more-solid-openstack-releases/ Performance testing tool for Glance https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg06724.html OpenStack Nova and Glance 2011.3.1 released https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg06834.html GridDynamics released “nova-billing”, resource usage accounting system for OpenStack http://openstackgd.wordpress.com/2012/01/19/resource-usage-accounting-system-for-openstack/ Dan Prince and Russell Bryant giving an… Read more »