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OpenStack Community Newsletter –January 20, 2012

HIGHLIGHTS

• The First OpenStack Bug Squashing Day Is Coming On Feb 2nd http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/01/the-first-openstack-bug-squashing-day-is-coming-on-feb-2nd/
• Making more solid OpenStack releases http://fnords.wordpress.com/2012/01/18/making-more-solid-openstack-releases/
• Performance testing tool for Glance https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg06724.html
• OpenStack Nova and Glance 2011.3.1 released https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg06834.html
• GridDynamics released “nova-billing”, resource usage accounting system for OpenStack http://openstackgd.wordpress.com/2012/01/19/resource-usage-accounting-system-for-openstack/
• Dan Prince and Russell Bryant giving an introduction to OpenStack ad FUDCon http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/videos/2012/fudcon-blacksburg/openstack.ogg

EVENTS

• Southern California Linux Expo SCALE10x, Jan 20-22 – Los Angeles, CA http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale10x/presentations/state-openstack
• Lecture on OpenStack: Open source cloud computing Jan 21, 2012 – Pune, India (no URL: email me for details)
• FOSDEM 2012 Feb 04 – 05, 2012 – Bruxelles, BE http://fosdem.org/2012/schedule/track/virtualization_and_cloud_devroom
• Inaugural OpenStack DC Meetup Feb 16, 2012 – Washington, DC http://www.meetup.com/OpenStackDC/events/47106902/
• OpenStack Spring 2012 Conference Apr 16 – 20, 2012 – San Francisco, California http://openstack.org/conference/

OTHER NEWS

• OpenStack Community picks “Folsom” as the official name of next release https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg06785.html
• OpenStack Wiki Recent Changes – http://wiki.openstack.org/RecentChanges
• OpenStack Academic Initiative http://wiki.openstack.org/AcademicInitiative
• Puppet configuration for Nova http://wiki.openstack.org/PuppetConfigForNova
• Team meeting summary http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack-meeting/2012/openstack-meeting.2012-01-17-21.01.html

COMMUNITY STATISTICS

• We’re taking a break from producing the graphs this week. We hope to be back next week showing more precise information from commits to the master branch of OpenStack projects.

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