OpenStack 2014: Powered by Users
If momentum is any indication, 2014 is poised to be a defining year for OpenStack. All of our vital statistics, from community growth to code commits and tracked deployments, doubled in 2013, and all signs point to continued growth. As we start a new year, we in the OpenStack Foundation are putting our resources behind elevating the voice of OpenStack users and tightening the feedback loop between users and developers to influence decisions such as the scope of the project, new feature priorities, interoperability requirements and operational best practices.
New Foundation Gold Members & Sponsors
The OpenStack Foundation is thrilled to have new additions to our ecosystem. Three new Gold Members and 18 Corporate Sponsors have recently joined the incredible list of companies who are supporting the Foundation and driving innovation on the platform. Aptira, Huawei and Hitachi won the OpenStack Board’s approval at the November board meeting and joined the Foundation as Gold members, which requires a strong, strategic commitment to the technology and community. We’ve also seen amazing support in Corporate Sponsorship and we want to share the impressive list of recent additions.
OpenStack Commitment to Interoperability
Now that OpenStack has tons of users, we need to make sure all (downstream) products labeled “OpenStack” have a certain set of core capabilities, and we need to verify those with automated tests just like we do upstream. End-users should be our focus, and ensuring they get what they want and expect out of the platform once it’s running as a service is paramount. The goal is to define the first set of tests in time for the May 2014 Summit in Atlanta. If this matters to you, get involved!
Maturing the Horizon Overview Page Part 1 and Part 2
User experience designer Liz Blanchard goes into details about tells in two blog post how she and Ju approached the designing of the Overview page for Horizon.
OpenStack Object Storage release 1.12.0
New release of OpenStack Object Storage (Swift) with new features for operators and end-users alike.
Tips ‘n Tricks
- By Adam Young: Splitting a patch
- By Frederic Lepied: How to build eDeploy roles
- By Matthew Farrellee: Hadoop on OpenStack with a CLI: Creating a cluster
- By ICCLab: Mirantis Fuel – Openstack installation for Noddy
- By Kashyap Chamarthy: virt-builder, to trivially create various Linux distribution guest images
- By Flavio Percoco: Real-Time Systems: High level introduction
Upcoming Events
- FOSDEM Feb 01 – 02, 2014 – Bruxelles, Belgium Details
- SFBay Meetup – Platform Tools in OpenStack Feb 05, 2014 – Sunnyvale, CA Details
- SFBay Meetup – Beginner track Feb 06, 2014 – Sunnyvale, CA Details
- SFBay OpenStack Hackathon #OSSFO Feb 06, 2014 – Details
- OpenStack Finland Meetup Feb 11, 2014 – Helsinki, Finland Details
- OpenStack Paris Meetup Feb 11, 2014 – Paris, France Details
- OpenStack Days – Tokyo 2014 Feb 13 – 14, 2014 – Tokyo, Japan Details
- OpenStack Workshop at Gnunify Conference, SICSR Pune Feb 14, 2014 – Bangalore, India Details
- Korea OpenStack Day Feb 18, 2014 – Seoul, South Korea Details
- Austin OpenStack User Group Meetup Feb 19, 2014 – Austin, Texas Details
- OpenStack Chicago Meetup Feb 20, 2014 – Chicago, IL Details
- SFBay OpenStack Hackathon #OSSFO Feb 20, 2014 – Details
- OpenStack India Meetup Feb 22, 2014 – Hyderabad, India Details
- Open Cloud Summit at IBM Pulse Feb 23 – 26, 2014 – Las Vegas, Nevada Details
- Mobile World Congress Feb 24 – 27, 2014 – Barcelona, Spain Details
- Cloud Connect Summit at Interop Mar 31 – Apr 01, 2014 – Las Vegas, Nevada Details
- World Hosting Days Apr 01 – 03, 2014 – Rust, Germany Details
- PyCon Apr 09 – 17, 2014 – Montreal, Canada Details
- OpenStack Summit May 2014 May 12 – 16, 2014 – Atlanta, GA Details
- Cloud World Forum Jun 17 – 18, 2014 – London, UK Details
Most Popular OpenStack Videos of the Week
- OpenStack Havana Demo
- Getting Started with OpenStack
- OpenStack Keynote featuring Concur, DigitalFilm Tree, Shutterstock
Reports from Previous Events
Other News
- Google Summer of Code 2014 – 2/14/14 deadline for orgs
- OpenStack Users: join the discussion on logging standards
- Open Mic Spotlight: Tatiana Mazur
- Chairman’s Corner: Great 2013 to even Greater 2014
- Coming soon – Storage Policies in OpenStack Swift
- OpenStack Project Meeting: Summary and full logs
Welcome New Reviewers and Developers
Is your affiliation correct? Check your profile in the OpenStack Foundation Members Database!
Latest Activity In Projects
Do you want to see at a glance the bugs filed and solved this week? Latest patches submitted for review? Check out the individual project pages on OpenStack Activity Board – Insights.
- Telemetry (Ceilometer)
- Block Storage (Cinder)
- Image Service (Glance)
- Orchestration API (Heat)
- Dashboard (Horizon)
- Bare Metal Provisioning (Ironic)
- Identity (Keystone)
- Manuals
- Networking (Neutron)
- Compute (Nova)
- Hadoop Cluster as a Service (Savanna)
- Object Storage (Swift)
- Database As A Service (Trove)
OpenStack Reactions
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