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Simon Crosby, CTO Citrix Systems at Citrix Synergy in Berlin 2010

HIGHLIGHTS

• Design Summit Registration Site Live – http://www.openstack.org/register
• OpenStack at RackSpace Partner Summit : RackSpace had a small booth with Dell to talk about OpenStack and Dell to leading RackSpace VARs
• Architecture Board Nomination Deadline Extended to October 15: http://openstack.org/blog/2010/10/architecture-board-nomination-deadline-extended-to-oct-15th/
• OpenStack Event Mailing List [email protected] ready for registration and use
• Project NOVA Feature Freeze on Oct 1

EVENTS

• Speaking at an event on #openstack, let me know for addition to this list
• Design Summit : Nov 9-12, 2010 in San Antonio, TX
  • Business Track Agenda release expected next week
  • Registration Site: http://www.openstack.org/register

DEVELOPER COMMUNITY

• NOVA Feature Freeze – https://lists.launchpad.net/nova/msg00258.html
• IPv6 on RoadMap –  Joshua McKenty;  http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2010/09/there-is-no-plan-b-why-the-ipv4-to-ipv6-transition-will-be-ugly.ars
• Wiki Updates
  • Installing Object Storage (SWIFT) http://wiki.openstack.org/SwiftInstall
  • Install NOVA from source on Ubuntu Lucid Lynx http://wiki.openstack.org/InstallFromSource
  • SWIFT API Languages http://wiki.openstack.org/SwiftAPI
  • Hacking NOVA on MacOSX http://wiki.openstack.org/HackingNovaMacOSX
  • Blueprint Hardware Staging http://wiki.openstack.org/blueprint-hardware-staging
  • Governance http://wiki.openstack.org/Governance
  • How can I help? http://wiki.openstack.org/HowToContribute
  • OpenStack Guide “Getting Started with OpenStack” http://wiki.openstack.org/Documentation

GENERAL COMMUNITY

• New Community Manager Interview with Barton George: http://bartongeorge.net/2010/10/06/meet-openstacks-community-manager/
• OpenStack Merchandise Available at http://www.cafepress.com/openstack
• New XING OpenStack Community Site for European Participants at https://www.xing.com/net/pri96af74x/openstack/
• OpenStack Community Mailing Lists – http://wiki.openstack.org/MailingLists
• OpenStack SlideShare Group – http://www.slideshare.net/group/openstackcloud

COMMUNITY STATISTICS (10/1 – 10/7)

• Twitter Stats for Week:  54 tweets ; 57 re-tweets
• Bugs Stats for Week: 26 New Bugs; 140 Open Bugs; 5 In-process Bugs; 1 Critical Bug; 12 High Importance Bugs; 2 Bugs with Patches
• Blueprints Stats for Week: 55 Blueprints; 3 Essential, 3 High, 11 Medium, 2 Low, 36 Undefined
• OpenStack Website Stats for Week:  6,340 Visits, 13,884 Pageviews, 62.33 New Visits
  • Top 5 Pages :  Home 47.20% ; /projects 11.65% ; /projects/compute 11.92% ; /projects/storage 10.62%; /community 7.09%

OPENSTACK IN THE NEWS

• Jim Curry Video Interview with VAR Guy :  http://www.thevarguy.com/2010/10/06/openstack-an-open-source-cloud-for-vars-and-msps/
• CRN: RackSpace’s OpenStack Cloud: Where Does the Channel Play? By Andrew R Hickey: http://www.crn.com/news/cloud/227700278/rackspaces-openstack-cloud-where-does-the-channel-play.htm?pgno=1
• Barton George Interview with VAR Guy: Dell Cloud Server Solution and OpenStack, http://www.thevarguy.com/2010/10/06/dell-cloud-server-nears-launch/