OpenStack Community Newsletter – March 25, 2011
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HIGHLIGHTS
- OpenStack Governance Elections Underway – http://www.openstack.org/blog/2011/03/openstack-governance-elections-underway/
- Elections Open Until April 1, 2011 at 11:59 pm CST
- Contact [email protected] if you believe you did not receive a voting link for any of the 4 elections
- Cactus Feature Freeze – http://is.gd/huYZ2V
- OpenStack Conference & Design Summit 2011 sponsored by Citrix
- Registration at http://openstack.org/register
- 208 out of 350 slots already confirmed
- Conference agenda announced – http://www.openstack.org/blog/2011/03/openstack-conference-design-summit-2011-sponsored-by-citrix/
EVENTS
- Texas Linux Fest: April 1 – 3, 2011: Austin, TX http://www.texaslinuxfest.org/
- Spain OpenStack Community Meetup – April 14th in Madrid, Spain
- OpenStack Conference & Design Summit sponsored by Citrix – April 26-29 in Santa Clara, CA
- 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
- VMware VSphere Hypervisor Merge Complete – http://community.citrix.com/display/ocb/2011/03/25/OpenStack%27s+vSphere+support
- Meeting Minutes – March 22
- Developer Activity Review (March 11 – March 18): http://www.openstack.org/blog/2011/03/openstack-developer-activity-march-11-18/
GENERAL COMMUNITY
- Russian OpenStack User Group – http://www.oscloud.ru/
- OpenStack Wiki Recent Changes – http://wiki.openstack.org/RecentChanges
- Network Service – http://wiki.openstack.org/NetworkService
- Release Notes/Cactus – http://wiki.openstack.org/ReleaseNotes/Cactus
- All changes for week at http://wiki.openstack.org/RecentChanges
COMMUNITY STATISTICS (3/18– 3/24)
- Data Tracking Graphs – http://wiki.openstack.org/WeeklyNewsletter
- OpenStack Compute (NOVA) Data
- 22 Active Reviews
- 192 Active Branches – owned by 48 people & 10 teams
- 2,320 commits by 63 people in last month
- OpenStack Object Storage (SWIFT) Data
- 4 Active Reviews
- 47 Active Branches – owned by 19 people & 4 teams
- 189 commits by 13 people in last month
- Twitter Stats for Week: #openstack 113 total tweets; OpenStack 281 total tweets (does not include RT)
- Bugs Stats for Week: 408 Tracked Bugs; 80 New Bugs; 21 In-process Bugs; 9 Critical Bugs; 51 High Importance Bugs; 209 Bugs (Fix Committed)
- Blueprints Stats for Week: 169 Blueprints; 4 Essential, 11 High, 16 Medium, 22 Low, 116 Undefined
- OpenStack Website Stats for Week: 11,129 Visits, 24,014 Pageviews, 60.51% New Visits
- Top 5 Pages: Home 43.70%; /projects 11.86%; /projects/compute 15.96%; /projects/storage 11.40%; /Community 6.20%
OPENSTACK IN THE NEWS
- Cloud Poll: Does OpenStack Need to be More Open? By Alex Williams, ReadWriteWeb; https://www.google.com/news/url?sa=t&ct2=us%2F0_0_s_0_0_t&usg=AFQjCNH4D2pOnFkVdO95Ev9k2OLElSDfTQ&did=5f4fe5ce3042ddc0&cid=17593875458050&ei=f6iLTajjIOj0sge319OWAg&rt=SEARCH&vm=STANDARD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.readwriteweb.com%2Fcloud%2F2011%2F03%2Fcloud-poll-does-openstack-need.php
- Rackspace accused of ‘controlling’ open source cloud project by Gavin Clarke; The Register; http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/23/rackspace_flamed_by_openstack_architect/
- Andy Bechtolsheim on Big Data, OpenStack & The Future by Katie Fehrenbackher; GigaOM; http://gigaom.com/2011/03/23/andy-bechtolsheim-arista-networks/
- Dell erects data centers in ’10 countries’ by Cade Metz; The Register; http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/21/dell_building_data_centers_in_ten_countries/
- RPath Simplifies Building Workloads for Data Center, Cloud by Charles Babcock; Information Week; http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/app_optimization/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=229400103&cid=RSSfeed_IWK_All
- Xen Lets Developers ‘Play’ ; Dr. Dobb’s http://drdobbs.com/high-performance-computing/229400172
- Avhoppare: “Rackspace försöker kontrollera Openstack” by Niklas Andersson; IDG.se; http://www.idg.se/2.1085/1.376049/avhoppare-rackspace-forsoker-kontrollera-openstack
- Dell kiest ook niet-Microsoft-cloud by Jasper Bakker; Web Wereld; http://webwereld.nl/nieuws/106092/dell-kiest-ook-niet-microsoft-cloud.html
- サービス事業者が本当に使いたいサーバ機はどれだ ITmedia; http://www.itmedia.co.jp/enterprise/articles/1103/22/news005.html
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