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OpenStack Community Newsletter – May 4, 2012

HIGHLIGHTS

• Comment on the first draft of OpenStack Foundation’s bylaws http://wiki.openstack.org/Governance/Foundation/Bylaws
• The mailing list message is on http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/foundation/2012-April/000255.html
• The Project Policy Board made important decisions regarding 3rd party APIs and Cinder (formerly known as Nova Volume):
  1. third party apis are not part of openstack core, and we focus on building a strong ecosystem where these apis could exist as proxies or external plugins. It is up to deployers to decide which ecosystem projects to include in their distributions (jbryce, 20:06:25)
  2. VOTE: an member:openstack project will support an official API in it’s core implementation (the member:openstack API). other APIs will be implemented external to core. the core project will expose stable, complete, performant interfaces so that 3rd party APIs can be implemented in a complete and performant manner. 3rd party APIs will not have an official member:OpenStack blessing, but we may provide some (jbryce, 20:34:27)
  3. VOTE: an OpenStack project will support an official API in it’s core implementation (the OpenStack API). other APIs will be implemented external to core. the core project will expose stable, complete, performant interfaces so that 3rd party APIs can be implemented in a complete and performant manner. (jbryce, 20:37:36)
  4. VOTE: Voted on “above motion?” Results are, 1: 10 (jbryce, 20:41:48)

  Full summary: http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack-meeting/2012/openstack-meeting.2012-05-08-20.00.html

• Join the discussion to shape the future of OpenStack International Communities https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack-community/msg00081.html
• Docs seeking javascript gurus to implement “try-it-out” for TryStack.org – https://blueprints.launchpad.net/openstack-manuals/+spec/api-try-it-out

Upcoming Events

• Australian OpenStack User Group Meeting May 15, 2012 – Melbourne, Australia Details
• OpenStack Israel 2012 May 30, 2012 – Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel Details
• OpenStack in action 2! – Production ready May 31, 2012 – Paris, France Details
• Open Cloud and Public Administration Jun 19, 2012 – Bern, Switzerland Call for papers
• FISL 2013 Jul 25-28 – Porto Alegre,  Brazil http://wiki.openstack.org/FISL13

Other news

• Csscorp published the updated version of OpenStack Beginners Guide and is looking for translators http://cssoss.wordpress.com/2012/05/07/openstack-beginners-guide-v3-0-for-essex-on-ubuntu-12-04-precise-pangolin/
• Are you interested in metering? Help design the public API http://openstack.markmail.org/thread/uvpp4nzjicz4xamw
• More contributed documentation: Install Your Own OpenStack Cloud – Essex Edition http://openstack.markmail.org/thread/uekbca4hr6jcrzxu
• The blueprints for OpenStack Manuals http://blueprints.launchpad.net/openstack-manuals
• Summary of QA Weekly Status meeting http://openstack.markmail.org/thread/cj4pra44ycj2qvaa
• OpenStack Wiki Recent Changes – http://wiki.openstack.org/RecentChanges
• Project meeting summary http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack-meeting/2012/openstack-meeting.2012-05-08-21.01.html

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