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OpenStack Community Newsletter – December 31, 2010

This weekly newsletter is a way for the community to learn about all the various activities occurring on a weekly basis. If you would like to add content to a weekly update or have an idea about this newsletter, please email [email protected].

HIGHLIGHTS

• OpenStack Design Summit – April 26-29, 2011 in Santa Clara, CA; Hyatt Santa Clara.  SAVE THE DATE!
  • Looking for Program Committee Volunteers – http://wiki.openstack.org/Summit/Spring2011
• Coming up in OpenStack Bexar release – http://www.openstack.org/blog/2010/12/coming-up-in-openstack-bexar-release/

EVENTS

• OpenStack User Group NYC: January 12, 2011; http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-New-York-Meetup/calendar/15634525/
• Fudcon: January 29-31, 2011 Tempe, Arizona http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Tempe_2011
• O’Reilly Strata: Feb 1 – 3, 2011 Santa Clara CA http://strataconf.com/strata2011
• FOSDEM 2011: Feb 5 – 6. 2011 Brussels, Belgium http://www.fosdem.org/2011/about/fosdem
  • Building a free, massively scalable cloud computing platform
• SCALE 2011: Feb 25-27, 2011: Los Angeles, CA http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale9x/
• Call for Papers
  • Linux Conference Australia 2011 (http://lca2011.linux.org.au/)

DEVELOPER COMMUNITY

• Meeting Minutes – December 28
  • Summary:  http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack-meeting/2010/openstack-meeting.2010-12-28-21.00.html
  • Meeting Log: http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack-meeting/2010/openstack-meeting.2010-12-28-21.00.log.html
• OpenStack API [RFC] Discussion – https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg00181.html
• Some insight into the number of instances Nova needs to spin up…  Discussion- https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg00162.html

GENERAL COMMUNITY

• Design Summit Program Committee Volunteers Needed – http://wiki.openstack.org/Summit/Spring2011
  • Agenda Planning in Public – http://etherpad.openstack.org/DesignSummitApril2011
• OpenStack Wiki Recent Changes – http://wiki.openstack.org/RecentChanges
  • Usage of Live Migration at http://wiki.openstack.org/UsageOfLiveMigration
  • Nova Install at http://wiki.openstack.org/NovaInstall
  • Authentication in OpenStack at http://wiki.openstack.org/openstack-authn
  • All changes for week at http://wiki.openstack.org/RecentChanges

COMMUNITY STATISTICS (12/24– 12/30)

• Data Tracking Graphs – http://wiki.openstack.org/WeeklyNewsletter
• OpenStack Compute (NOVA) Data
  • 21 Active Reviews
  • 106 Active Branches – owned by 37 people & 8 teams
  • 805 commits by 47 people in last month
• OpenStack Object Storage (SWIFT) Data
  • 5 Active Reviews
  • 41 Active Branches – owned by 21 people & 2 teams
  • 127 commits by 12 people in last month
• Twitter Stats for Week:  #openstack 17 tweets; 33 re-tweets; all OpenStack total tweets 106
• Bugs Stats for Week:  168 Tracked Bugs; 41 New Bugs; 8 In-process Bugs; 3 Critical Bugs; 20 High Importance Bugs; 74 Bugs (Fix Committed)
• Blueprints Stats for Week:  142 Blueprints; 1 Essential, 12 High, 20 Medium, 14 Low, 95 Undefined
• OpenStack Website Stats for Week:  4,708 Visits, 14,802 Pageviews, 56.22% New Visits
  • Top 5 Pages: Home 29.79%; /projects 6.43%; /projects/compute 9.31%; /projects/storage 7.31%; /NovaInstall 4.08%

OPENSTACK IN THE NEWS

• 11朵金花！盘点2010年云计算领域的新品; Tech.Hexun; http://tech.hexun.com/2010-12-26/126415512.html
• Näitä teknologiayhtiöt ostavat seuraavaksi by Aino Frilander; Tekno-Ostokset; http://www.tietoviikko.fi/kaikki_uutiset/article553005.ece
• 2010年度云计算十大新闻事件 ; CCIDNet.com;  http://news.ccidnet.com/art/1032/20101226/2279943_1.html
• 构建私有云：面临的挑战有哪些？; Tech Xinmin; http://tech.xinmin.cn/2010/12/31/8632209.html