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OpenStack Community Newsletter – January 7, 2011

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].

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HIGHLIGHTS

• Microsoft HyperV support development branch accepted into OpenStack Compute (NOVA) main source code tree
• OpenStack Meetup in NYC Next Week (sponsored by AppFirst) –  http://www.openstack.org/blog/2011/01/openstack-meetup-in-new-york-city-next-week/
• OpenStack for the Enterprise: At Cloud Expo Silicon Valley; webcast discussion with Jim Curry – http://cloudcomputing.sys-con.com/node/1664243

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/
• OpenStack Design Summit Spring 2011: April 26-29, 2011 in Santa Clara, CA
  • Event Planning Home Page – http://wiki.openstack.org/Summit/Spring2011
  • Event Theme Development (1/6 – 1/26) – http://etherpad.openstack.org/DSApr11-Theme
  • Event Agenda Development (12/15 – 3/1) – http://etherpad.openstack.org/DesignSummitApril2011
  • Program Committee – Announcement on Monday January 10th

DEVELOPER COMMUNITY

• OpenStack Bexar Branch Merge Proposal Freeze – http://fnords.wordpress.com/2011/01/07/openstack-bexar-bmpfreeze-report/
• Meeting Minutes – January 4
  • Summary: http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack-meeting/2011/openstack-meeting.2011-01-04-21.00.html
  • Meeting Log: http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack-meeting/2011/openstack-meeting.2011-01-04-21.00.log.html
• Developer Discussions  – New blog post starting today with summary of significant developer discussions (will post every other week)

GENERAL COMMUNITY

• Spanish Language User Group –  http://groups.google.com/group/openstack-en-espanol
• Ed Leafe to speak at PyCon 2011; Dealing with Concurrency in Large Scale Systems
• Q4 2010 Community Data Snapshot –  http://www.openstack.org/blog/2011/01/q4-2010-openstack-community-snapshot/
• OpenStack Wiki Recent Changes – http://wiki.openstack.org/RecentChanges
  • Getting Images that Work on OpenStack – http://wiki.openstack.org/GettingImages
  • OpenStack Compute (NOVA) Deployment Manual – http://wiki.openstack.org/NovaDeploymentManual
  • Usage of Live Migration Feature – http://wiki.openstack.org/UsageOfLiveMigration
  • All changes for week at http://wiki.openstack.org/RecentChanges

COMMUNITY STATISTICS (1/1– 1/6)

• Data Tracking Graphs – http://wiki.openstack.org/WeeklyNewsletter
• OpenStack Compute (NOVA) Data
  • 20 Active Reviews
  • 108 Active Branches – owned by 36 people & 8 teams
  • 909 commits by 51 people in last month
• OpenStack Object Storage (SWIFT) Data
  • 8 Active Reviews
  • 46 Active Branches – owned by 21 people & 2 teams
  • 119 commits by 12 people in last month
• Twitter Stats for Week:  #openstack 42 tweets; 67 re-tweets; all OpenStack total tweets 516
• Bugs Stats for Week:  180 Tracked Bugs; 43 New Bugs; 11 In-process Bugs; 4 Critical Bugs; 21 High Importance Bugs; 76 Bugs (Fix Committed)
• Blueprints Stats for Week:  141 Blueprints; 1 Essential, 12 High, 18 Medium, 16 Low, 94 Undefined
• OpenStack Website Stats for Week:  6,630 Visits, 21,693 Pageviews, 61.18% New Visits
  • Top 5 Pages: Home 29.05%; /projects 6.67%; /projects/compute 11.99%; /projects/storage 6.51%; /Community 3.72%

OPENSTACK IN THE NEWS

• 8 Cloud Companies to Watch in 2011 by Derrick Harris; New York Times; http://www.nytimes.com/external/gigaom/2011/01/05/05gigaom-8-cloud-companies-to-watch-in-2011-53327.html?ref=technology
• How the Wikimedia Foundation is Using OpenStack to Build a Cloud Infrastructure by Klint Finley; ReadWriteWeb; http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud/2011/01/how-the-wikimedia-foundation-i.php
• Cisco Bank on Open Source in Cloud Shift by Sean Michael Kerner; Internetnews.com; http://www.internetnews.com/infra/article.php/3919266/Cisco+Banks+on+Open+Source+in+Cloud+Shift.htm
• Cisco to Leverage Open Source in Cloud Computing by Sean Michael Kerner; Datamation; http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3919576/Cisco-to-Leverage-Open-Source-in-Cloud-Computing.htm
• NASA Open Source Architecture Wins Apache Support by Elizabeth Montalbano, InformationWeek; http://www.informationweek.com/news/government/enterprise-architecture/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=229000056&cid=RSSfeed_IWK_All
• Still need a job? Learned Drupal yet? By Dave Rosenberg; Cnet.news; http://news.cnet.com/8301-13846_3-20027411-62.html
• A Wikimedia Foundation Usa o OpenStack para Construir uma Infra-Estrutura em Nuvem by Diogo Bedran; ReadWriteWeb Brasil; http://readwriteweb.com.br/2011/01/05/a-wikimedia-foundation-usa-o-openstack-para-construir-uma-infra-estrutura-em-nuvem/
• Administrataion Cloud: Rackspace se paie Cloudkick by Marc Hypollite; Tom’s Hardware; http://www.presence-pc.com/actualite/cloud-rackspace-cloudkick-administration-42005/
• Como crear una insfraestructura en la nube; ReadWriteWeb en Espanol; http://www.readwriteweb.es/tecnologias/como-crear-infraestructura-nube/
• I cloud providers: I migliori nel corso del 2010 per numeri e fatturato by Stefano Ellasio; Hosting Talk.it; http://www.hostingtalk.it/news/cloud-computing/8045/i-cloud-providers-i-migliori-nel-corso-del-2010-per-numeri-e-fatturato