OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Sep 7-14)

 

September 14, 2012

Highlights of the week

OpenStack Governance Elections: Technical Committee

Now that we have elected the Project Technical Leads for the next release, the OpenStack community is called to elect the last 3 members of the OpenStack Technical Committee. Per section 4.1(b) of the OpenStack Foundation bylaws, the Technical Committee (“TC”) is a technical meritocracy managing all the technical matters relating to OpenStack. It replaces the “Project Policy Board” from the old governance.

OpenStack Governance Elections Autumn 2012 Results

The OpenStack community has elected the Project Technical Leads.

Demo: Live Migration, without shared storage, using XenServer and OpenStack

Renuka Apte demonstrates the new OpenStack Folsom and Storage XenMotion to enables live migration of VMs, without shared storage, using XenServer and OpenStack.

This week in Docs

Getting ready for Folsom release, the doc team went from 34 High folsom-targeted doc bugs two weeks ago to 17 on Monday. The documentation team is working hard to deliver always better documentation for OpenStack. See what else there is to be done.

Security announcements

Tips and tricks

Upcoming Events

Other news

  • Approaching OpenStack Folsom RC1
  • OpenStack Project Meeting 2012-09-11: Summary and full logs

Welcome new contributors

Celebrating the first patches submitted this week by:

  • pengyuwei
  • Clemens Perz
  • jokcylou
  • Derek Yarnell
  • Teng Li
  • Alessandro Tagliapietra
  • Chris Yeoh, IBM
  • Sirisha Devineni, Persistent
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OpenStack Governance Elections: Technical Committee

 

Now that we have elected the Project Technical Leads for the next release, the OpenStack community is called to elect the last 3 members of the OpenStack Technical Committee. Per section 4.1(b) of the OpenStack Foundation bylaws, the Technical Committee (“TC”) is a technical meritocracy managing all the technical matters relating to OpenStack. It replaces the “Project Policy Board” from the old governance.

Anyone who would like to be a candidate for this election may now submit their names!

Valid candidates, like voters, must be an Active Technical Contributor, which means:

  1. they have contributed at least one change to one of the official OpenStack projects[3] (over which the TC has final authority) in the year preceding 23:59 PST, August 29, 2012; and
  2. they are an individual member of the Foundation by 23:59 PST, September 13, 2012.

The 10 already-elected members (recently-elected PTLs and PPB members that were elected to a one-year seat last Spring) cannot run.

To submit your name for the ballot, please send an email to the [email protected] mailing list with the following information included:

Subject: TC candidacy
Body: Ideally, a description of your platform, your technical/leadership credentials, experience, etc. — in short, anything that will be useful
for voters to assess your qualifications as a member of the OpenStack Technical Committee.

Your candidacy will then be validated, on the same thread, by one of the election officials (Stefano Maffulli, Duncan McGreggor, Thierry Carrez).

The deadline to submit your candidacy is 23:59 PDT, September 19. The election will then run from September 21 to September 27.

There is more information on the election process, including how we’ll break any tie on the wiki. Let us know if there’s anything more we can do to make this process as transparent as possible!

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OpenStack Governance Elections Autumn 2012 Results

 

The OpenStack community has elected the Project Technical Leads. Here are the winners:

NOVA Project Technical Lead (1 position)

Winner: Vish Ishaya (only candidate)

KEYSTONE Project Technical Lead (1 position)

Winner: Joe Heck (only candidate)

HORIZON Project Technical Lead (1 position)

Winner: Gabriel Hurley  (only candidate)

SWIFT Project Technical Lead (1 position)

Winner: John Dickinson (only candidate)

GLANCE Project Technical Lead (1 position)

Winner: Brian Waldon (only candidate)

CINDER Project Technical Lead (1 position)

Winner: John Griffith (only candidate)

QUANTUM Project Technical Lead (1 position)

Winner: Dan Wendlandt (Official poll results)

OPENSTACK-COMMON Project Technical Lead (1 position)

Winner: Mark McLoughlin (only candidate)

Congratulations to all PTLs. They are automatically granted a 6-month seat on the OpenStack Technical Committee whose election process will start soon.

OpenStack Summit: Vote for Speakers

 

September 8, 2012

We’ve gotten a lot of great speaking submissions, and would like your help shaping the agenda for the next OpenStack Summit, October 15-18, in San Diego.  We’ve made the submissions public for your input, and you have until Thursday, September 13, to vote up your favorites. Please note you need to be an Individual Member of the OpenStack Foundation in order to access the voting system.

While the Design Summit and more technical content will run Monday – Thursday, the main days and keynote presentations will be Tuesday and Wednesday. We’re hoping to have the agenda locked the week of September 17, but in the meantime you can see a preview of the schedule.

We’re also hosting our first OpenStack Service Day on Friday, October 19. Please join us for a beach clean up with the Surfrider Foundation. We’ll be providing transportation and lunch, and will wrap up activities by 1 pm so you can fly out that afternoon.  If you’re interested in attending, we can accommodate 100 people, so please sign up.

We’ve extended early bird registration through September 30, but hotel rooms are going fast.  Our blocks at the Hyatt and Embassy Suites across the street are nearly sold out.  We’re looking into other options nearby to recommend, but please book a room quickly.

There are only 36 days until we kick off the next OpenStack Summit, and we look forward to seeing you in San Diego!

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OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Aug 31-Sep 7)

 

September 7, 2012

Highlights of the week

New OpenStack Foundation Gold Members: Intel, VmWare, NEC

Today, the OpenStack Board of Directors approved the applications of three companies wishing to become Gold Members: Intel, NEC and VMware. The factors considered by the Board included a commitment to helping achieve the OpenStack Foundation Mission through demonstrated and potential contribution to the OpenStack community in terms of code, adoption into product roadmaps, adoption as an end user, geographic and industry diversity and community development efforts. Join us to welcome them to the Foundation.

Session proposals for the Design Summit now open

Differently from previous OpenStack Design Summit and Confernece, this time the “Design Summit” is a specific track in the overall “OpenStack Summit” event. It is different from other tracks, too. Please make sure to read the full announcement and help make this summit the best Design Summit ever.

Caimito 0.9 – WebDAV frontend efor OpnStack Swift Cloud Storage

Caimito is an open source (Apache Software License 2.0) WebDAV,caching, and content management and delivery server frontend for cloud storage. Caimito supports Openstack Swift Storage (Rackspace, Softlayer, etc.), and Amazon S3. Caimito also features a REST API in addition to the Web interface for configuring user access. Caimito is designed with an event-driven and non-blocking architecture for Scalability. Caimito is ideal for Hosting and Reseller environments.

Quantum vs. Nova-network in Folsom

tl;dr both Quantum and nova-network will be core and fully supported in Folsom. More details from Quantum and Nova PTLs on Quantum vs. Nova-network in Folsom.

OpenStack, Xen and XenServer: a match made in Heaven!

A report from John Garbutt, back from XenSummit in San Diego.  There was lots of OpenStack related news in many of the CloudOpen sessions, including the announcement from SUSE that they have an OpenStack distribution that supports Xen.

XCP-XAPI on Precise

The Citrix-Openstack team is already running automated OpenStack tests against the stable, and the latest XenServer. As the XCP-XAPI is already available for Ubuntu systems, the team plans to run the tests against that platform as well.

Register now for OpenStack Summit in San Diego

The OpenStack room rate is now sold out at the Grand Hyatt. We’ve set up another room block at the Embassy Suites located across the street. Reserve a room at the OpenStack rate.

Security announcements

Tips and tricks

Upcoming Events

Other news

Welcome new contributors

Celebrating the first patches submitted this week by:

  • Matthew Treinish, IBM
  • lrqrun, Sina
  • Constantine Peresypkin, Litestack
  • jiangwt100, Sina
  • John Dunning
  • Duncan Thomas
  • Brian Rosmaita, Rackspace
  • Rosario Di Somma, Dreamhost
  • Peng Yuwei, Sina
  • Mathew Odden, IBM
  • Ian Wells, Cisco
  • Dermot Tynan, HP
  • Dongdong Zhou
  • Andrew James, HP
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OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Aug 24-31)

 

August 31, 2012

Highlights of the week

Nominations now open for OpenStack Project Technical Leads

It’s that time again 🙂 Anyone who would like to be a candidate for the forth-coming elections for the OpenStack Project Technical Leads may now submit their names! Valid candidates must currently be an Active Technical Contributor (within the 6 months prior to 23:59 PST August 29, 2012). The project for which they are running as PTL must be one of: Nova, Swift, Glance, Keystone, Horizon, Quantum, or Cinder.

Register now for OpenStack Summit in San Diego

The OpenStack room rate is now sold out at the Grand Hyatt. We’ve set up another room block at the Embassy Suites located across the street. Reserve a room at the OpenStack rate. There are still a few hours left to submit a speaking proposal.

A plea from an OpenStack user

Ryan Lane tells the story of his upgrade from Diablo to Essex and gives very constructive contributions to the developers and documentation writers for the pain points he had to face. The thread generated from his comments is a tribute to civil discussions.

A call for document writers: it’s that time of the release!

Now that we’re in feature freeze period, it’s a great time to look at what docs are needed for Folsom. You can help with documentation in several ways. Anne Gentle gave some ideas.

Cyberduck with support for Keystone-based OpenStack Swift

Zmanda contributed support for Keyston-based authentication to Cyberduck, the popular open source storage browser for several cloud storage platforms.

Cold Storage Using OpenStack Swift vs. AWS Glacier

Can a combination of OpenStack Swift and Linear Tape File System (LTFS) match, or even leapfrog AWS Glacier?

Security announcements

Upcoming Events

Other news

  • New configuration for meetbot, now meeting logs and summaries are split by project name
  • OpenStack Project Meeting 2012-08-28: Summary and Meeting log
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Openstack at barcamp XII, Bangalore, India.

 

Barcamp, Bangalore was organized on 25th  august and we had registered for a talk on Openstack. Our talk got scheduled for later in the day. Barcamp is a unconf style event so after meeting few other Openstack contributors from HP and others, we decided lets keep the session more of a QA and whiteboard centric than slide centric. So me  Sajid and Yogesh joined for the session.  🙂

The session was attended by over 30 people and after 25 minutes basic intro about whole Openstack project, we ended up spending rest of our time in QA session. There were wide range of questions related to data center deployment with Openstack to start-up venturing to project. There were also some questions like how freshers can build there career while contributing to Openstack.

Overall i would say it was great to have a session at barcamp, thanks to the organizers put putting up such awesome event. Some of the folks we met were looking forward to attend our Openstack monthly meetup in Banglore. We will be announcing the date and venue soon. 🙂

 

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OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Aug 17-24)

 

August 24, 2012

Highlights of the week

OpenStack at CloudOpen

OpenStack is a protagonist of CloudOpen, the only conference providing a collaboration and education space dedicated to advancing the open cloud. Next week, from Aug 29 to 31 in San Diego there will be plenty of chances to hear talks about OpenStack and how it’s shaping the cloud industry.

On Tuesday Aug 28th join the OpenStack community at The Hopping Pig for a party!  Food & drinks sponsored by HP, Intel, Opscode, Rackspace, SUSE, and Ubuntu. The event will immediately follow the official CloudOpen happy hour, and is within walking distance of the Andaz. Reserve your ticket.

OpenStack at PuppetConf: Tim Bell of CERN to Keynote

PuppetConf is coming up September 27-28 in San Francisco, and we’re excited to announce some great OpenStack content, including a keynote presentation from Tim Bell of CERN!

OpenStack Won Unprecedented Popularity in Asia/Pacific

On August 10 -11, the first two-day OpenStack Asia-Pacific Conference (OSAC) was held in Beijing and Shanghai concurrently. This conference is  jointly organized by CSDN (Chinese Software Develop the Net), the world’s largest Chinese IT technology community and the OpenStack user group (COSUG). The presentations are on slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/HuiCheng2/tag/2012osac

Submitting new features to Nova

Mark McLoughlin wrote down a few pieces advice for someone submitting a large feature patch to Nova.

OpenStack Folsom & Glance

Brian Waldon recaps what landed in Glance in the past months. These are most of the features that will make it in Folsom release.

Tips and Tricks

Upcoming Events

Other news

  • Feature freeze period started: we’re on our way to Folsom release
  • OpenStack Project Meeting 2012-08-21: Summary and Meeting log

Welcome new contributors

Celebrating the first patches submitted this week by:

  • Alex Yang
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OpenStack at CloudOpen

 

OpenStack is a protagonist of CloudOpen, the only conference providing a collaboration and education space dedicated to advancing the open cloud. Next week, from Aug 29 to 31 in San Diego there will be plenty of chances to hear talks about OpenStack and how it’s shaping the cloud industry.

On Tuesday Aug 28th join the OpenStack community at The Hopping Pig for a party!  Food & drinks sponsored by HP, Intel, Opscode, Rackspace, SUSE, and Ubuntu. The event will immediately follow the official CloudOpen happy hour, and is within walking distance of the Andaz. Reserve your ticket.

The talks we put in our agenda:

During the parallel event, LinuxCon North America:

Also, don’t miss these keynotes:
 CloudOpen’s full schedule is a celebration of how important open source is for the whole cloud computing industry. The keynotes will be live streamed.

 

 

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OpenStack at PuppetConf: Tim Bell of CERN to Keynote

 

August 21, 2012

PuppetConf is coming up September 27-28 in San Francisco, and we’re excited to announce some great OpenStack content, including a keynote presentation from Tim Bell of CERN!  Tim’s talk, ‘Accelerating Science with Puppet and OpenStack,’ will review CERN’s objectives, and how their computing infrastructure is evolving to address challenges at scale using community supported software such as Puppet and OpenStack.

PuppetConf will have even more OpenStack talks from:

  • Robert Starmer, Cisco Systems – Deploying OpenStack Clusters with Puppet
  • Yoram Heller, MorphLabs – Using Puppet to Maintain hundreds of OpenStack Deployments
  • Monty Taylor, Hewlett Packard – Collaboratively Managing the OpenStack Project with Puppet

You can see an almost complete line up on the PuppetConf website.

If you’re interested in Puppet and OpenStack, several members of the community started a project consisting of Puppet modules to deploy OpenStack Nova, Glance, Swift, Keystone, and Horizon. More information is available on the project’s Github and from Puppet Labs.

It’s always exciting to see users like CERN talking about their experiences with OpenStack. Thanks to PuppetConf and the Puppet community for hosting this great content!