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OpenStack Community Newsletter –February 24, 2012

HIGHLIGHTS

• OpenStack Governance Elections Spring 2012: Action Item For All Candidates http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/02/openstack-governance-elections-spring-2012-action-item-for-all-candidates/
• Nominations close on Monday
• Announcing StackTach: a little debugging tool to watch the flow of an operation through the various parts of OpenStack https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg07765.html
• Quantum promoted to core project: it will be part of Folsom release, in Autumn 2012
• A brief update on the invites to the Design Summit https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg07765.html
• A proposal for the OpenStack Foundation Technical Committee http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/foundation/2012-February/000146.html
• New graph: now tracking contributions to Tempest (see below)

EVENTS

• OpenStack 1st Global Hack-In Day Mar 01, 2012 – Around the world http://wiki.openstack.org/OpenStackUsersGroup/EssexGlobalHackIn
• TryStack.org – a Sandbox for OpenStack! Mar 06, 2012 – San Francisco, CA http://www.meetup.com/openstack/events/52464312/
• OpenStack Essex Doc Day Mar 06, 2012 – San Francisco, CA http://www.meetup.com/openstack/events/52466462/
• OpenStack Spring 2012 Design Summit Apr 16 – 18 and Conference Apr 19-20 – San Francisco, California http://openstack.org/conference/

OTHER NEWS

• Open development, releases and quality (Thierry Carrez) http://fnords.wordpress.com/2012/02/21/open-dev-releases-quality/
• Revisiting OpenStack Architecture: Essex Edition (Ken Pepple) http://ken.pepple.info/openstack/2012/02/21/revisit-openstack-architecture-diablo/
• OpenStack Wiki Recent Changes – http://wiki.openstack.org/RecentChanges
• Keystone Use Cases http://wiki.openstack.org/KeystoneUseCases
• OpenStack Dashboard design concepts http://wiki.openstack.org/Design
• Get started with Quantum fixing these easy bugs http://wiki.openstack.org/QuantumStarterBugs
• Project meeting summary http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack-meeting/2012/openstack-meeting.2012-02-21-21.04.html

COMMUNITY STATISTICS

•  Activity on the main branch of OpenStack repositories, lines of code added and removed per developer during week 7 of 2012 (from Mon Feb 13 00:00:00 UTC 2012 to Mon Feb 20 00:00:00 UTC 2012)

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