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OpenStack Community Newsletter – April 8, 2011

This weekly newsletter is a way for the community to learn about all the various activities occurring on a weekly basis. If you would like to add content to a weekly update or have an idea about this newsletter, please email [email protected].

HIGHLIGHTS

• OpenStack Welcomes Facebook Open Compute Project – http://www.openstack.org/blog/2011/04/openstack-welcomes-facebook-open-compute-project/
• OpenStack Governance Elections Results
  • http://www.openstack.org/blog/2011/04/openstack-governance-election-results/
  • New Project Policy Board – http://www.openstack.org/blog/2011/04/project-policy-board-membership-update-post-election/
• Cactus Gamma Freeze – https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg01739.html
• OpenStack Conference & Design Summit 2011 sponsored by Citrix (SOLD OUT)
  • Conference Agenda – http://openstack-spring2011.sched.org/
  • Design Summit Agenda – http://wiki.openstack.org/Summit

EVENTS

• Spain OpenStack Community Meetup – April 14^th in Madrid, Spain (over 100 registered)
• OpenStack Conference & Design Summit sponsored by Citrix – April 26-29 in Santa Clara, CA
• OpenStack Korea User Group – April 14 or 15 http://www.openstack.org/blog/2011/04/openstack-korea-user-group-technical-seminar-april-14-or-15/
• Interop – May 8-12 in Las Vegas, NV  http://www.interop.com/lasvegas/
• OpenHelp – June 3-5 in Cincinnati, OH http://openhelpconference.com/
• SouthEast LinuxFest – June 10-12 in Spartanburg, SC http://www.southeastlinuxfest.org/
• Open Source Bridge – June 21-24 in Portland, OR http://opensourcebridge.org/
• Structure – June 22-23 in San Francisco, CA http://event.gigaom.com/structure/

DEVELOPER COMMUNITY

• OpenStack Auth Preparation –  https://tlohg.wordpress.com/2011/04/01/openstack-auth-preparation/
• Meeting Minutes – April 5
  • Summary: http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack-meeting/2011/openstack-meeting.2011-04-05-21.01.html
  • Meeting Log:  http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack-meeting/2011/openstack-meeting.2011-04-05-21.01.log.html

GENERAL COMMUNITY

• Q1 2011 OpenStack Community Snapshot – http://www.openstack.org/blog/2011/04/q1-2011-openstack-community-snapshot/
• Project Policy Board Meeting Minutes – March 17
  • Summary: http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack-meeting/2011/openstack-meeting.2011-03-31-20.07.html
  • Meeting Log:  http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack-meeting/2011/openstack-meeting.2011-03-31-20.07.log.html
• OpenStack Wiki Recent Changes – http://wiki.openstack.org/RecentChanges
  • Cloud Gateway – http://wiki.openstack.org/CloudGateway
  • NaaS-Core – http://wiki.openstack.org/NaaS-Core
  • Nova Admin Manual – http://wiki.openstack.org/NovaAdminManual
  • All changes for week at http://wiki.openstack.org/RecentChanges

COMMUNITY STATISTICS (4/1– 4/7)

• Data Tracking Graphs – http://wiki.openstack.org/WeeklyNewsletter
• OpenStack Compute (NOVA) Data
  • 37 Active Reviews
  • 220 Active Branches – owned by 54 people & 13 teams
  • 2,231 commits by 67 people in last month
• OpenStack Object Storage (SWIFT) Data
  • 2 Active Reviews
  • 52 Active Branches – owned by 22 people & 5 teams
  • 184 commits by 15 people in last month
• Twitter Stats for Week:  #openstack 87 total tweets; OpenStack 233 total tweets  (does not include RT)
• Bugs Stats for Week: 510 Tracked Bugs; 55 New Bugs; 48 In-process Bugs; 9 Critical Bugs; 70 High Importance Bugs; 293 Bugs (Fix Committed)
• Blueprints Stats for Week:  182 Blueprints; 3 Essential, 11 High, 12 Medium, 21 Low, 135 Undefined
• OpenStack Website Stats for Week:  10,904 Visits, 23,496 Pageviews, 57.72% New Visits
  • Top 5 Pages: Home 44.83%; /projects 11.27%; /projects/compute 15.84%; /projects/storage 11.19%; /Community 7.09%

OPENSTACK IN THE NEWS

• Dell Plans to Spend A Billion Dollars to Build 10 New Data Centers by Arik Hesseldahl; All Things Digital; http://newenterprise.allthingsd.com/20110407/dell-plans-to-spend-a-billion-dollars-to-build-10-new-data-centers/
• OpenStack Backers Troll for Prospects by Maureen O’Gara; Sys.Con Media; http://www.sys-con.com/node/1777241
• rPath X6 Supports OpenStack and vCloud Director by Rajani Baburajan; InfoTech; http://it.tmcnet.com/topics/it/articles/161265-rpath-x6-supports-openstack-vcloud-director.htm
• Now Witness the Power of This Fully Operational Feedback Loop by Lori MacVittie; Sys-Con; http://www.sys-con.com/node/1784102
• How Many Open Source Projects Makes a Cloud? By Sean Michael Kerner; Internetnews.com; http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3929871/How+Many+Open+Source+Projects+Makes+a+Cloud.htm
• Simon Crosby – CTO de Citrix: VMware ne fait pas du Cloud! By Jose Diz; Silicondsi.fr; http://dsi.silicon.fr/sur-le-terrain/simon-crosby-citrix-vmware-ne-fait-pas-du-cloud-1185
• 开源项目如何打造云计算; ChinaByte.com; http://soft.chinabyte.com/412/11899412.shtml
• جوجل تنصح ناسا بالاتجاه للمصدر المفتوح; ArabNet5.com; http://www.arabnet5.com/computer-internet-news.asp?c=2&id=84699