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OpenStack Community Newsletter – January 14, 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].

HIGHLIGHTS

• Bexar Feature Freeze (1/13)
• Black Duck Software Names Open Source Rookies of 2010; http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/black-duck-software-names-open-source-rookies-of-2010-113073829.html
• Mark Shuttleworth at DELL on UEC and OpenStack – http://bartongeorge.net/2011/01/11/mark-shuttleworth-on-uec-and-openstack/

EVENTS

• 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
• Cloud Seminar@NII – Three OSS IAAS Talks – http://www.grace-center.jp/event/node/71 (in Japanese)
• SCALE 2011: Feb 25-27, 2011: Los Angeles, CA http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale9x/
• PYCON 2011: March 9-17, 2011: Atlanta, GA http://us.pycon.org/2011/home/

DEVELOPER COMMUNITY

• Meeting Minutes – January 11
  • Summary: http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack-meeting/2011/openstack-meeting.2011-01-11-21.01.html
  • Meeting Log: http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack-meeting/2011/openstack-meeting.2011-01-11-21.01.log.html
• Translator, start your engines… – https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg00277.html
  • Austrian, Chinese (Simplified), Danish, Italian, Japanese, Russian, & Ukrainian underway for OpenStack Compute (NOVA)
  • Respond to mailing list if interested in helping with other languages
• Lazy import of modules discussion – https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg00267.html

GENERAL COMMUNITY

• OpenStack Conference / Design Summit Program Committee (Apr 26-29)
  • Planning Schedule – http://etherpad.openstack.org/dsignsummit-scheduleapr2011
  • Event Agenda Discussion – http://etherpad.openstack.org/DesignSummitApril2011
  • Event Theme Proposal – http://etherpad.openstack.org/DSApr11-Theme
• OpenStack Wiki Recent Changes – http://wiki.openstack.org/RecentChanges
  • OpenStack REST API – http://wiki.openstack.org/OpenStackRESTAPI
  • Instance Availability Zones – http://wiki.openstack.org/InstanceAvailabilityZones
  • Branch Merge Proposal Freeze (BF) – http://wiki.openstack.org/BranchMergeProposalFreeze
  • All changes for week at http://wiki.openstack.org/RecentChanges

COMMUNITY STATISTICS (1/7– 1/13)

• Data Tracking Graphs – http://wiki.openstack.org/WeeklyNewsletter
• OpenStack Compute (NOVA) Data
  • 10 Active Reviews
  • 101 Active Branches – owned by  32 people &  6 teams
  • 1,118 commits by 60 people in last month
• OpenStack Object Storage (SWIFT) Data
  • 2 Active Reviews
  • 36 Active Branches – owned by  19 people & 2 teams
  • 181 commits by  12 people in last month
• Twitter Stats for Week:  #openstack 77 tweets; 48 re-tweets; all OpenStack total tweets 542
• Bugs Stats for Week:  225 Tracked Bugs; 50 New Bugs; 15 In-process Bugs; 7 Critical Bugs; 27 High Importance Bugs; 85 Bugs (Fix Committed)
• Blueprints Stats for Week: 125 Blueprints; 1 Essential, 6 High, 14 Medium, 13 Low, 91 Undefined
• OpenStack Website Stats for Week:  11,076 Visits, 24,838 Pageviews, 70.31% New Visits
  • Top 5 Pages: Home 43.27%; /projects 12.02%; /projects/compute 18.29%; /projects/storage 12.71; /Community 5,40%

OPENSTACK IN THE NEWS

• 10 New Open Source Projects to Watch; PCWorld; http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/216377/10_new_open_source_projects_to_watch.html
• Black Duck lists rookie open source projects to watch in ’11 by Paula Rooney; ZDNet; http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/black-duck-lists-rookie-open-source-projects-to-watch-in-11/8054
  • 54 related articles at http://news.google.com/news/more?pz=1&cf=all&as_qdr=w&as_drrb=q&cf=all&ncl=dbLC6Jz4q8GgYVMcBIxIpemxJkSjM
• It’s Official: Ubuntu Will Embrace the Cloud—Flexibly by Sam Dean; GIGAAOM; http://ostatic.com/blog/its-official-ubuntu-will-embrace-the-cloud-flexibly
• Ubuntu and Dell join in a cloud alliance by Edward Berridge; The Inquirer; http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1936500/ubuntu-dell-join-cloud-alliance
• Ubuntu’s Narwhal rides OpenStack cloud by Gavin Clarke; The Register; http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/01/12/ubuntu_goes_open_stack/
• Social-network open source project Diaspora named ‘rookie of the year’ by Katie Serignese; SDTimes; http://www.sdtimes.com/SOCIAL_NETWORK_OPEN_SOURCE_PROJECT_DIASPORA_NAMED_ROOKIE_OF_THE_YEAR_/By_Katie_Serignese/About_BLACKDUCK_and_OPENSOURCE_and_DIASPORA_and_OPENSTACK/35138
• The New Linux: OpenStack aims for the heavens by Cade Metz; The Register; http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/01/08/openstack/
• Is Salesforce Entering a Year of War?; SFGate; http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/01/11/prweb4953804.DTL
• Putting numbers on the Scoble Effect by Dennis Howlett; ZDNet; http://www.zdnet.com/blog/howlett/putting-numbers-on-the-scoble-effect/2760
• Hacker Poll: What was the best new open source project of 2010? By Klint Finley; ReadWriteHack; http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/2011/01/hacker-poll-open-source-2010.php