OpenStack Community Newsletter – May 13, 2011
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Developer Lounge at OpenStack Conference and Design Summit
HIGHLIGHTS
- Eucalyptus loses Ubuntu to OpenStack by Maureen O’Gara; Sys.com Media ; http://www.sys-con.com/node/1832939
- OpenStack Conference and Design Summit
EVENTS
- 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 Blueprint for Cloud Installer by Rob Hirschfeld – http://robhirschfeld.com/2011/05/12/openstack-blueprint-for-cloud-installer-crowbar-apache2/
- Meeting Minutes – May 10
GENERAL COMMUNITY
- OpenStack Swift, Chef and SpiceWeasel – Part 1 – https://www.voxel.net/blog/2011/05/openstack-swift-chef-and-spiceweasel-part-1-0
- Project Policy Board Meeting
- OpenStack Wiki Recent Changes – http://wiki.openstack.org/RecentChanges
- Quantum API Specification – http://wiki.openstack.org/QuantumAPISpec
- Network/Meetings – http://wiki.openstack.org/Network/Meetings
- OpenStack API 1.1 – http://wiki.openstack.org/OpenStackAPI_1-1
- All changes for week at http://wiki.openstack.org/RecentChanges
COMMUNITY STATISTICS (5/6– 5/12)
- Data Tracking Graphs – http://wiki.openstack.org/WeeklyNewsletter
- OpenStack Compute (NOVA) Data
- 41 Active Reviews
- 268 Active Branches – owned by 72 people & 14 teams
- 952 commits by 74 people in last month
- OpenStack Object Storage (SWIFT) Data
- 6 Active Reviews
- 63 Active Branches – owned by 21 people & 6 teams
- 164 commits by 16 people in last month
- OpenStack Image Registry (GLANCE) Data
- 3 Active Reviews
- 22 Active Branches – owned by 7 people & 4 teams
- 89 commits by 10 people in last month
- Twitter Stats for Week: #openstack 244 total tweets; OpenStack 1,122 total tweets (does not include RT)
- Bugs Stats for Week: 336 Tracked Bugs; 95 New Bugs; 44 In-process Bugs; 1 Critical Bugs; 17 High Importance Bugs; 179 Bugs (Fix Committed)
- Blueprints Stats for Week: 215 Blueprints; 15 Essential, 21 High, 14 Medium, 18 Low, 147 Undefined
- OpenStack Website Stats for Week: 15,167 Visits, 34,430 Pageviews, 58.69% New Visits
- Top 5 Pages: Home 41.94%; /projects 10.19%; /projects/compute 15.98%; /projects/storage 11.30%; /community 5.62%
OPENSTACK IN THE NEWS
- Citrix CTO Advises Demanding Clarity From Vendors on Cloud by Andrew Murray; InformationWeek; http://www.informationweek.com/news/cloud-computing/platform/229403200
- Cloud Computing is ‘Picking up Steam’ by Bernard Golden; Coputerworld UK; http://www.computerworlduk.com/in-depth/cloud-computing/3278166/cloud-computing-is-picking-up-steam/
- Ubuntu Switches Cloud Software by Joab Jackson; IDG News; PCWorld; http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/227600/ubuntu_switches_cloud_software.html
- UK Web Host Memset Joins OpenStack Community – http://www.thewhir.com/web-hosting-news/050911_UK_Web_Host_Memset_Joins_OpenStack_Community
- Internap Delivers OpenStack and VMware Clouds; Internet.com; http://cloudcomputing.internet.com/networking_infrastructure/article.php/426350
- The difference between Amazon and OpenStack by Forrester; http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/infrastructure-and-operations/2011/05/the-difference-between-aws-and-openstack/
- Brocade touts open standards with CloudPlex rollout by Robert Dutt; Channelbuzz.ca; http://www.channelbuzz.ca/2011/05/brocade-touts-open-standards-with-cloudplex-rollout-1747/
- Extreme looks to one-up Cisco, others in data center by Jim Duffy; Network World; http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/051011-interop-extreme.html?hpg1=bn
- OpenStack Now Supported for SMEStorage Open Cloud SaaS Platform and Cloud Appliance; Press Release; http://www.americanbankingnews.com/2011/05/09/openstack-now-supported-for-smestorage-open-cloud-saas-platform-and-cloud-appliance/
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