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OpenStack Community Newsletter –December 1, 2011

HIGHLIGHTS

• Help building the list of events worldwide where OpenStack should be represented  http://etherpad.openstack.org/OpenStackEvents2012
• Zadara Storage won the Innovation Showdown Contest at Cloudbeat 2011 http://venturebeat.com/2011/12/01/innovation-showdown-contestants/
• OpenStack Guide available in epub format http://www.openstack.org/blog/2011/11/hacking-on-ebooks/
• Three post series on Improving Nova privilege escalation model part 1, part 2, part 3
• OpenStack Essex-1 milestone http://fnords.wordpress.com/2011/11/14/openstack-essex-1-milestone/

EVENTS

• OpenStack Swift Bay Area Meetup Dec 07, 2011 – Silicon Valley CloudCenter http://www.meetup.com/openstack/events/42120012/
• OpenStack Swift Training Dec 07, 2011 – Silicon Valley CloudCenter http://www.meetup.com/openstack/events/42292592/
• Australian OpenStack Users Group Inaugural Meetup Dec 13, 2011 – Sydney http://aosug.openstack.org.au/
• Meet & Drink: OpenStack in Production Dec 14, 2011 – Silicon Valley CloudCenter http://www.meetup.com/openstack/events/41423082/
• OpenStack Presentation in Slovenia Dec 14, 2011 –  Details to be announced soon on http://openstack.org/community/events

OTHER NEWS

• OpenStack Dev Tip — Easily Pull a Review Branch http://www.joinfu.com/2011/11/openstack-easily-pull-review-branch/
• OpenStack Wiki Recent Changes – http://wiki.openstack.org/RecentChanges
  • Quantum service insertion http://wiki.openstack.org/QuantumServicesInsertion
  • Essex Scheduler and Scaling Improvements http://wiki.openstack.org/EssexSchedulerImprovements
  • Fast Cloning For XenServer http://wiki.openstack.org/FastCloningForXenServer
• Team meeting summary http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack-meeting/2011/openstack-meeting.2011-11-29-21.03.html

COMMUNITY STATISTICS

• Activity on the OpenStack repositories, lines of code added and removed by the developers during the past week.
• Top 10 monthly committers to the repositories (by number of commits)

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