Make your cloud sing with OpenStack’s Community App Catalog 

The Catalog can get you rocking with containers in just a few clicks – how it’s evolving and how your feedback can shape its future.

The Road to Tokyo 

• Registration prices increase on 9/1
• Get your OpenStack Summit Tokyo visa in five steps
• Superuser Awards nominations close on 8/31
• Interested in being a Tokyo Summit Sponsor? Deadline is 9/1

Reports from Previous Events 

• Takeaways from OpenStack’s Mid-Cycle Ops Meetup, Liberty edition
• OpenStack Days India reflects local tech boom: attendance up 150%
• OpenStack Day Taiwan 2015: An Exciting Time to Witness OpenStack’s Rapid Growth in Taiwan

Deadlines and Contributors Notifications 

• Full list of mid-cycle sprints (meetups)
• Trove Midcycle Sprint: August 26-28 @HP Sunnyvale, CA, US 
• Security Midcycle Sprint: September 1-4 @HP Seattle, WA, US 
• QA End of Cycle Code Sprint: September 14-16 @HP Fort Collins, CO, US 

Security Advisories and Notices 

• None this week

Tips ‘n Tricks 

• By Phil Hopkins: Install OpenStack from source Part 6
• By Rich Bowen: Get the latest message on OpenStack’s Zaqar service
• By Jeff Jameson: Scaling NFV to 213 Million Packets per Second with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, OpenStack, and DPDK
• By Kenneth Hui: The Easy Button for Using VMware Sphere with an OpenStack Cloud

Upcoming Events 

• Aug 21 – 22, 2015 Texas Linux Festival 2015! San Marcos, TX, US
• Aug 22, 2015 OpenStack India awareness Camp New Delhi, NEW Delhi, IN
• Aug 22, 2015 OpenStack的幕后­英雄-运维与支撑系统专场 Beijing, CN
• Aug 22, 2015 OpenStack awareness camp with PyDelhi at JNU New Delhi, IN
• Aug 23, 2015 奔跑吧，OpenStack! ——UnitedStack与您⾯对⾯·北京站·容器专场 Beijing, CN
• Aug 23, 2015 6th Meetup Viet OpenStack Ha Noi, VN
• Aug 25-26, 2015 OpenStack Trove Day 2015 San Jose, CA, US
• Aug 25 – 26, 2015 OpenStack Monthly meetup Chesterfield, MO, US
• Aug 26 – 27, 2015 OpenStack Silicon Valley Mountain View, California, US
• Aug 26 – 27, 2015 OpenStack Networking and SDN Solutions Frederick, MD, US
• Aug 26 – 28, 2015 Trove Midcycle Sprint Sunnyvale, CA, US
• Aug 27, 2015 OpenStack Nova Deep Dive Meetup Cluj-Napoca, Cluj, RO
• Aug 27, 2015 Networking with LXC Containers Lehi, Utah, US
• Aug 27 – 28, 2015 August Meetup: Manila – The OpenStack File Share Service Morrisville, NC, US
• Aug 28, 2015 Discuss and Learn about OpenStack Denver, CO, US
• Aug 28, 2015 Linux Network Namespaces Lehi, UT, US
• Aug 29, 2015 OpenStack Meetup, Chennai Chennai, Tamil Nadu, IN
• Aug 31, 2015 Australian OpenStack User Group – Quarterly Brisbane Meetup
• Sep 01 – 04, 2015 Security Midcycle Sprint Seattle, WA, US
• Sep 01, 2015 September Sydney Meetup
• Sep 01, 2015 Talk about OpenStack Architectures Fort Collins, CO, US
• Sep 01 – 02, 2015 Build an OpenStack Cloud! Bring your Laptop Hanover, MD, US
• Sep 02 – 03, 2015 In the planning stage (#24) Washington D.C., DC, US
• Sep 03, 2015 Large Scale OpenStack Operations Best Practices Reston, VA, US
• Sep 03, 2015 OpenStack Howto part 5 – Storage Prague, CZ
• Sep 03, 2015 OpenStack Howto part 8 – DB as a Service Prague, CZ
• Sep 03 – 04, 2015 Build an OpenStack Cloud! Bring your Laptop Glen Allen, VA, US
• Sep 04, 2015 Neutron Advanced Services talk
• Sep 04, 2015 SFBay OpenStack Hackathon #OSSFO
• Sep 04, 2015 SFBay OpenStack Advanced Track #OSSFO Topic: Monasca and Heat
• Sep 08, 2015 Manchester OpenStack Meetup Manchester, Greater Manchester, GB
• Sep 08, 2015 11th Swiss OpenStack User Group Meetup with Docker Zürich, CH 
• Sep 08, 2015 First OpenStack Meetup Manchester, GB
• Sep 12, 2015 OpenStack Bangalore Meetup Bangalore, Karnataka, IN
• Sep 14 – 15, 2015 Extensibility in OpenStack Swift and what you can do with it! (#25) Washington D.C., DC, US
• Sep 15, 2015 OpenStack Project Leader – visiting Belgium Diegem, BE
• Sep 16 – 17, 2015 OpenStack Austin – Sept. Meetup Austin, TX, US
• Sep 17, 2015 OpenStack Benelux Conference 2015 Bussum, NL
• Sep 18, 2015 OpenStack PDX Meetup
• Sep 18, 2015 SFBay OpenStack Hackathon #OSSFO San Francisco, CA, US
• Sep 21 – 24, 2015 Storage Developer Conference Santa Clara, CA, US

Other News 

• How open source helped one woman break into the tech industry
• Yes, containers need OpenStack

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