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OpenStack Community Newsletter –February 17, 2012

HIGHLIGHTS

• TryStack.org – A Sandbox for OpenStack is live http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/02/trystack-org-a-sandbox-for-openstack/
• The brand new API reference website http://api.openstack.org/
• SoftLayer announced its Object Storage product built on OpenStack Swift http://blog.softlayer.com/2012/softlayer-openstack-swift-softlayer-object-storage/
• Action needed: OpenStack Governance Elections http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/02/openstack-governance-elections-spring-2012/
• Setting up the OpenStack Foundation: video of the meetup in Santa Clara http://www.collierclan.net/mark/?p=425
• A draft for the Foundation’s structure is up for discussion http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/foundation/2012-February/000134.html
• Last days to answer the Call for speaker for OpenStack Conference http://www.openstack.org/conference/san-francisco-2012/speakers/
• Book your room for the week https://resweb.passkey.com/go/DRAC2012

EVENTS

• FLOSSTalk Kosovo Feb 22, 2012 – UNICEF Innovations Lab Kosovo in Prishtina, Kosovo http://www.flossk.org/en/blog/flosstalk-arturo-suarez-openstack
• OpenStack Spring 2012 Design Summit Apr 16 – 18 and Conference Apr 19-20 – San Francisco, California http://openstack.org/conference/

OTHER NEWS

• Under the hood of Swift: the Ring (by Mirantis) http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/02/1997/
• DNS management system for OpenStack (by Grid Dynamics)  http://openstackgd.wordpress.com/2012/02/17/dns-for-openstack/
• OpenStack Wiki Recent Changes – http://wiki.openstack.org/RecentChanges
• New report to track changes only in main branch http://wiki.openstack.org/CommunityMetrics/Code
• OpenStack sprint at PyCon2012 http://wiki.openstack.org/Sprints/PyCon2012
• How to update the Corporate Copyright License Agreement http://wiki.openstack.org/HowToUpdateCorporateCLA
• Documentation Day, March 6th http://wiki.openstack.org/Documentation/DocDay
• Documentation HowTo http://wiki.openstack.org/Documentation/HowTo
• Getting Started with OpenStack in Japanese http://wiki.openstack.org/GettingStarted/ja
• Project meeting summary http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack-meeting/2012/openstack-meeting.2012-02-14-21.00.html

COMMUNITY STATISTICS

•  Activity on the main branch of OpenStack repositories, lines of code added and removed per developer during week 6 of 2012 (from Mon Feb 06 00:00:00 UTC 2012 to Mon Feb 13 00:00:00 UTC 2012)

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