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OpenStack Community Newsletter – August 12, 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 Governance Nominations – http://etherpad.openstack.org/Fall2011-Nominees
• OpenStack Conference – Call for Speakers – http://www.openstack.org/blog/2011/08/openstack-conference-call-for-speakers/
• Xen Summit Review with Videos of Presentations – http://xen.org/xensummit/xensummit_summer_2011.html
• Ken Pepple’s OpenStack book with O’Reilly – http://oreilly.com/catalog/0636920021674

EVENTS

• LinuxCon NA – August 17-19, 2011 in Vancouver, Canada –  http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/linuxcon/
• China OpenStack Launch – September 6 in Shanghai, China – In Active Development
• Ohio LinuxFest 2011 – September 9-11, 2011 in Columbus, OH – http://www.ohiolinux.org/
• PyTexas 2011 – September 10-11, 2011 in College Station, Texas http://pytexas.org/PyTexas2011
• OpenStack Conference – Boston, MA – October 5-7, 2011 http://www.openstack.org/community/events/openstack-conference-fall-2011/

DEVELOPER COMMUNITY

• Diablo Release Schedule – http://wiki.openstack.org/DiabloReleaseSchedule
• Continuous Integration and Testing Team Meeting Minutes – August 9
  • http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack-meeting/2011/openstack-meeting.2011-08-09-19.05.txt
• Developer Team Meeting Minutes – August 9
  • http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack-meeting/2011/openstack-meeting.2011-08-09-21.02.html

GENERAL COMMUNITY

• Gluster Storage Connector for OpenStack Resource Page – http://www.gluster.com/community/documentation/index.php/OSConnect
• Shared storage for OpenStack based on DRBD – http://mirantis.blogspot.com/2011/05/shared-storage-for-openstack-based-on.html
• The Cloud – http://mikaeljensen.dk/blog/?p=915
• OpenStack Beginner’s Guide for Ubuntu Natty – http://t.co/auQSfrw
• OpenStack Wiki Recent Changes – http://wiki.openstack.org/RecentChanges
  • How To Release – http://wiki.openstack.org/HowToRelease
  • Nova RHEL6 Notes – Diablo3 – http://wiki.openstack.org/NovaInstall/RHEL6Notes-Diablo-3
  • SmokeStack – http://wiki.openstack.org/smokestack

COMMUNITY STATISTICS (8/5– 8/11)

• Data Tracking Graphs – http://wiki.openstack.org/WeeklyNewsletter
• OpenStack Compute (NOVA) Data
  • 22 Active Reviews
  • 335 Active Branches – owned by 88 people & 16 teams
  • 4,004 commits by  82 people in last month
• OpenStack Object Storage (SWIFT) Data
  • 3 Active Reviews
  • 76 Active Branches – owned by 24 people & 6 teams
  • 82 commits by 15 people in last month
• OpenStack Image Registry (GLANCE) Data
  • https://github.com/openstack/glance/graphs/languages
• Twitter Stats for Week:  #openstack 298 total tweets; OpenStack  1139 total tweets  (does not include RT)
• Bugs Stats for Week: 690 Tracked Bugs; 100 New Bugs; 41 In-process Bugs; 12 Critical Bugs; 59 High Importance Bugs; 478 Bugs (Fix Committed)
• Blueprints Stats for Week:  222 Blueprints; 6 Essential, 17 High, 26 Medium, 25 Low, 148 Undefined
• OpenStack Website Stats for Week:  15,446 Visits, 38,868 Pageviews, 54.88 % New Visits
  • Top 5 Pages: Home 40.52%; /projects 13.17%; /projects/compute 16.66%; /projects/storage 10.37%; /imageserver 5.95%

OPENSTACK IN THE NEWS

• How OpenStack Helps Rackspace’s Business by Rich Miller; Data Center Knowledge; https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2011/08/05/how-openstack-helps-rackspaces-business/
• Dell Launches OpenStack Cloud Platform Solution; Internet.com; http://cloudcomputing.internet.com/networking_infrastructure/article.php/427838
• ElasticStack wants to power your organization’s cloud by Dan Kusnetzky; ZDNet.com; http://www.zdnet.com/blog/virtualization/elasticstack-wants-to-power-your-organizations-cloud/3603
• Born from NASA, Nebula Aims to “Disrupt and Democratize” Cloud Computing by Wade Roush; Xconomy.com; http://www.xconomy.com/san-francisco/2011/08/11/born-from-nasa-nebula-aims-to-disrupt-and-democratize-cloud-computing/
• Red Hat Brings Java EE 6 to OpenShift Cloud by Sean Michael Kerner; ServerWatch; http://www.serverwatch.com/news/article.php/3938416/Red-Hat-Brings-Java-EE-6-to-OpenShift-Cloud.htm
• Nebula Cloud Project Gets Buzz, But Will Proprietary Players Taint It? By Sam Dean; Ostatic.com.; http://ostatic.com/blog/nebula-cloud-project-gets-buzz-but-will-proprietary-players-taint-it
• Cloud vendors rise to meet divergent demands of enterprises and service providers by Carl Brooks; SearchITChannel.com; http://searchitchannel.techtarget.com/news/2240039474/Cloud-vendors-rise-to-meet-divergent-demands-of-enterprises-and-service-providers
• Situation Normal, Everything Must Change, with Simon Wardley by Liam Eagle; Web Host Industry Review; http://www.thewhir.com/web-hosting-news/080911_Situation_Normal_Everything_Must_Change_with_Simon_Wardley