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EMEA OpenStack Day is happening Wednesday, December 5, 2012 in London. You can find out more details about the event on the OpenStack Day EventBrite page. Would you like to speak at the EMEA OpenStack Day—Part 2? We are now accepting nominations for speaker presentations. The deadline for speaker submissions is November 9, 2012. A selection… Read more »

Last week at the OpenStack Summit, we organized the first OpenStack community service day, a beach cleanup with the Surfrider Foundation. We had nearly forty OpenStack community members volunteer their time Friday morning to help pick up trash from South Mission Beach, San Diego, as well as collect data for local environmental campaigns. We also learned… Read more »

PuppetConf is coming up September 27-28 in San Francisco, and we’re excited to announce some great OpenStack content, including a keynote presentation from Tim Bell of CERN!  Tim’s talk, ‘Accelerating Science with Puppet and OpenStack,’ will review CERN’s objectives, and how their computing infrastructure is evolving to address challenges at scale using community supported software… Read more »

Today is a monumental day in ARM server history! TryStack.org, the hosted cloud sandbox for OpenStack, now has an ARM-based OpenStack zone in addition to the x86 zone. (This is, to our knowledge, the first OpenStack cluster made publicly available on an ARM-based system!) For those of you not familiar with TryStack, it’s a community maintained OpenStack cloud… Read more »

The OpenStack Summit is coming to San Diego October 15th-18th at the Manchester Grand Hyatt . Check out the new Summit website to learn more, buy tickets, or to become a sponsor. This time we’ve set aside 4 days (Monday-Thursday) with “Design Summit” tracks running in parallel with other presentations and discussions, and have a single… Read more »

This morning we had an online meeting to discuss the plans for the next Summit.  The presentation is embedded below, as is the meeting recording. Key points: Dates:  October 15th-19th – Mark your calendars! (Friday the 19th will be an optional charity event to benefit a local charity) Location:  San Diego, CA Format:  More of… Read more »

We’ve come a long way since announcing in October in Boston that we planned to create an OpenStack Foundation in 2012. We set out to solicit as much feedback as possible (and on the second day, there was a town hall) and to participate in as many open forums as possible (mailing lists, webinars, meetups,… Read more »

Today Mark Interrante, Rackspace’s head of product, announced that the next generation of Rackspace’s Cloud Servers, powered by OpenStack Compute (Nova), is moving from Alpha to Beta for customers.  This is a major endorsement of the continuing maturation of OpenStack and its readiness to be deployed today.  Here are a couple of highlights about this… Read more »

Today, a project that has been a long time in the making is finally coming to fruition. Back last summer, when I was working at Rackspace, Nati Ueno from NTT PF Labs came up with the idea of establishing a “Free Cloud” — a site running OpenStack that developers using the OpenStack APIs could use… Read more »