OpenStack Summit Fall 2012: Tickets & Sponsorships now available

 

July 12, 2012

The OpenStack Summit is coming to San Diego October 15th-18th at the Manchester Grand Hyatt . Check out the new Summit website to learn more, buy tickets, or to become a sponsor.

This time we’ve set aside 4 days (Monday-Thursday) with “Design Summit” tracks running in parallel with other presentations and discussions, and have a single registration system.  On Friday, we are organizing a volunteer day to benefit a local charity (details TBD) so try to stick around through Friday and give something back to our host city.

The early bird price for tickets is $400 until August 31st, then it goes up to $600, so please buy your ticket now!  Sponsorships are also selling out quickly, so review the options here and contact [email protected] with any questions.

Also please take advantage of the discounted room rate of $199 before the room block is sold out by booking with this link: http://bit.ly/sandiegohyatt

The Hyatt is going to be a great venue for our event.  See you in San Diego!

 

 

Lots Of OpenStack At OSCON 2012

 

July 9, 2012

OSCON is only one week away. Don’t miss the official OpenStack Day on July 17, with:

And if that’s not enough, there are more talks related to OpenStack:

And to finish the day on July 18th join us for the OpenStack Party at Spirit of 77 (500 NE MLK Blvd.). Please register for the event.

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OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (June 29 – July 6)

 

July 6, 2012

Highlights of the week

Folsom-2 milestone available for Keystone, Glance, Nova, Horizon and Quantum

The second milestone of the Folsom cycle is now available for Keystone, Glance, Nova, Horizon and Quantum ! Note that the corresponding Python client libraries are no longer shipped as part of the server counterpart delivery, but follow their own release plan. A Folsom-2 milestone is available for Cinder, too.

New nova-rootwrap landing in folsom-2

Thierry Carrez contributed a new, more configurable and extensible nova-rootwrap implementation. Here is what you should know about it, depending on whether you’re a Nova user, packager or developer!

OpenStack “G” naming poll

It’s already time to decide the name of the future OpenStack release. Participate to the poll.

Best practices for merging common into specific projects

Andrew Bogott started a conversation about defining some best practices when crossing the boundary between common and other openstack projects. It developed into a request for leadership for openstack-common so that it can become a proper library.

RPC Guarantees in OpenStack

Eric Windisch describes the required guarantees of OpenStack RPC implementations.

A brief introduction to quantum plugin-Ryu

Yaguang Tang reminds us of Ryu, a Quantum plugin developed by NTT. Ryu aims to provide a logically centralized control and well defined API that make it easy for operators to create new network management and control applications. Details on http://osrg.github.com/ryu/

Tips and tricks

Upcoming Events

Other news

Welcome new contributors

Celebrating the first patches submitted this week by:

  • chnm-kulkarni
  • Syed Armani
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OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (June 22-29)

 

June 29, 2012

Highlights of the week

OpenStack Events at OSCON & Discounted Passes

We have quite a few activities planned for OSCON to celebrate OpenStack’s second birthday.  Kicking off with the first OpenStack Day, Tuesday July 17, there will be lots of OpenStack speakers, events and community members in attendance. Full details on the blog.

Thoughts on improving OpenStack GIT commit practice/history

Daniel P. Berrangé started a discussion about git commit practice based on his personal experience over the past few months getting involved with OpenStack Nova through learning the codebase, examining its history, writing code and participating in reviews. There is a discussion about it also on the OpenStack developer list.

Sumo nodes for OpenStack Swift: Mixing storage and proxy services for better performance and lower TCO

Zmanda present a novel way to build storage clouds with higher throughput bandwidth but with lower initial hardware purchase cost and lower ongoing IT-related costs by using nodes in a Swift cloud which mix storage and proxy services.

How to improve our bug triaging?

Thierry Carrez started an important conversation. At the beginning of the month we had a BugTriage day that allowed us to make the Nova bug database much more relevant and triage a lot of incoming new bugs. However, since then, the numbers went up again. How would you resolve this issue?

A collection of utilities for cleaning up the database

Lars Kellogg-Stedman released a small collection of tools to clear things out of the Nova database that constantly fills with garbage while testing and developing. More.

Improving git Commit Messages

Brian Waldon wrote a short guide in Nova’s HACKING.rst on how to write useful commit messages.

Setuptools-git

The OpenStack Infra team wrote a setuptools plugin which adds git vcs support to setuptools

Heat Version 4 Released

The Heat developers are pleased to announce the release of the Heat API version 4. We have added many new features including Ubuntu Precise host support. Heat is a project designed to work with OpenStack that provides a programmable interface to orchestrate multiple cloud applications implementing CloudFormation. More.

Recent updates of DevStack

Dean Troyer sent a quick summary of recent significant DevStack changes.

Upcoming Events

Other news

Welcome new contributors

Celebrating the first patches submitted this week by:

  • ncode aka Juliano Martinez
  • David Scannell, Gridcentric
  • Sean M. Collins
  • Iryoung Jeong
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OpenStack Events at OSCON & Discounted Passes

 

June 28, 2012

We have quite a few activities planned for OSCON to celebrate OpenStack’s second birthday.  Kicking off with the first OpenStack Day, Tuesday July 17, there will be lots of OpenStack speakers, events and community members in attendance.

Please note, in order to attend OpenStack Day, your OSCON pass must include Tuesday. *OpenStack community members may save 20% on any OSCON pass using the discount code: OPENSTACK.*

In addition to OpenStack Day, we will have a big presence in the Expo Hall with the first OpenStack Pavilion (booth #426) sponsored by Calxeda, CSS Corp, DreamHost, Mirantis, Morphlabs, NetApp, Piston Cloud, Rackspace and Ubuntu supported by Canonical.

On Wednesday, July 18, there will be a meetup from 7-9 pm directly across from the convention center at Spirit of 77 to discuss the OpenStack Foundation.  Immediately after the meetup, from 9-11 pm, we will officially celebrate OpenStack’s 2nd birthday!  We’ll have food, drinks, cake, games and limited edition OpenStack t-shirts. Please RSVP to attend the meetup and after party, as space is limited.

If you are interested in sponsoring the OpenStack booth, evening event and t-shirts at OSCON, there are still opportunities available, but the absolute deadline is Monday, July 2. Please Contact [email protected] to participate!

Schedule of Events
Monday, July 16
– Getting Started with OpenStack Workshop, 1:30 – 5:00 pm

Tuesday, July 17
– OpenStack Day, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm

Wednesday, July 18
– OpenStack Pavilion @ OSCON Expo Hall
– OpenStack Meetup & Party, 7:00 – 11:00 pm, Spirit of 77

Thursday, July 19
*OpenStack Pavilion @ OSCON Expo Hall

OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (June 15-22)

 

June 22, 2012

Highlights of the week

OpenStack Summit coming October 15th-19th to San Diego, CA

Mark your calendar October 15th-19th in San Diego, California with more of everything: 4 days of Design Summit, 2 full days of conference content, more devops time, more workshops. One registration system.No invitation required for Design Summit tracks and no cap (limited only by facility capacity). One name for the weeks’ activities: “OpenStack Summit” with designated rooms for Design Summit & various Conference topics. More details.

OpenStack Nova, Glance, Keystone and Horizon 2012.1.1 released

The bugfixes contained in this release were backported from the development branches into a stable branch. The release is intended to be a relatively risk free update with no intentional regressions or API changes.

Performance metrics

An interesting discussion on how to do performance analysis on OpenStack.

Cinder status update

Cinder is the new project intended to separate block storage out of Nova and provide it via it’s own service. The goal is to have a functional replacement for Nova-Volumes by Folsom 2. What to expect and what’s in progress in the status update by John Griffith.

Thoughts on client library releasing

The community is trying to figure out how to release client libraries. No consensus yet and therefore no decision: your opinion is appreciated.

Upcoming Events

Other news

Welcome new contributors

Celebrating the first patches submitted this week by:

  • Martin Packman, Canonical
  • Sascha Peilicke, Suse
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OpenStack Summit coming October 15th-19th to San Diego, CA

 

June 19, 2012

This morning we had an online meeting to discuss the plans for the next Summit.  The presentation is embedded below, as is the meeting recording. Key points:

  • Dates:  October 15th-19th – Mark your calendars! (Friday the 19th will be an optional charity event to benefit a local charity)
  • Location:  San Diego, CA
  • Format:  More of everything!  4 days of Design Summit, 2 full days of conference content, more workshops, more devops time.  We have more rooms to facilitate more discussions in parallel across 4 days (Monday-Thursday)
  • One registration system. No invitation required for Design Summit tracks and no cap (limited only by facility capacity).
  • One name for the weeks’ activities: “OpenStack Summit” with designated rooms for Design Summit & various Conference topics.
  • Registration:  Coming soon.  Follow @openstack on twitter and this blog for updates.  There will be early bird pricing so please check back often!  There will be discounted rooms available at the hotel, so look for that information when you register.
  • Sponsorships:  Prospectus coming soon.  Email [email protected] with questions.
OpenStack Summit Fall 2012

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Meeting recording:

OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (June 8-15)

 

June 15, 2012

OpenStack Community Newsletter — June 15

Highlights of the week

Announcing OpenStack Asia/Pacific Conference 2012

The OpenStack Asia/Pacific community is hosting a large OpenStack conference on August 10th and 11th, with a main venue in Bejing and a remote participation in Shanghai, hosted by the Chinese OpenStack User Group (COSUG) and CSDN, supervised by CSIP.

Companies interested in sponsorship opportunities in the area can browse the sponsorship prospectus and pick the best options for their budget.

Speakers are welcome to submit their speaking proposal, also in English. If you want to help with the organization of the event you can still join the OpenStack APEC community group.

Meeting To Discuss Next OpenStack Conference And Summit

All people interested in the next OpenStack Summit and Conference, especially former sponsors and coordinators of tracks in past events, are invited to register for the meeting OpenStack Summit & Conference Fall 2012 Planning,  next Tuesday, June 19 at 10:00 AM CDT. It will be the right time and place to discuss the challenges faced as the events have grown, and potential changes to the format to address them going forward.

LVM disks support in OpenStack Nova Folsom

GridDynamics implemented LVM disk support functionality (based on previous work for Diablo) and successfully delivered it to upstream.

New LVM image backend can be enabled by setting libvirt_images_type flag to value lvm.For more information on this functionality you can consult the blueprint and review code changes here.

swift.common.client library and swift CLI moved to a new home

In order to improve code manageability and consistency across all OpenStack projects, swift.common.client and the bin/swift CLI moved to a separate repository https://github.com/openstack/python-swiftclient

This should be compatible with swift.common.client with only difference being to import swiftclient instead of importing swift.common.client. Send bugs/feature request under the swift project in launchpad https://bugs.launchpad.net/swift/+filebug using the tag python-swiftclient.

Keystone v3 API draft (update and questions to the community)

Joe Heck reporting on the progress for the new API and asking feedback to the community. Join the discussion on Keystone v3 API draft.

Call for testing : nova, glance, keystone and horizon 2012.1.1 tarballs

Mark McLoughlin is ready to release an update to OpenStack Stable branch with over 60 bug fixes since the release in April.

Welcome RHEL/CentOS/Fedora to docland!

Anne Gentle pushed a couple of changes to the docs landing page and added a brand new install/deploy guide for RHEL, CentOS, and Fedora. Comments are now enabled by default on each page and there are now two guides to install OpenStack from scratch: one for Debian/Ubuntu systems (apt) and one for RedHat/Fedora/CentOS (yum).

Upcoming Events

Other news

Welcome new contributors

Celebrating the first patches submitted this week by:

  • Boris Filippov, GridDynamics
  • Eric Harney
  • Deevi Lalitha, Persistent Systems
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Meeting To Discuss Next OpenStack Conference And Summit

 

June 14, 2012

It’s never too late to get started, especially with a complex series of event like the OpenStack Summit and Conference. We’ve received the results of the survey after the past event in April in San Francisco and we want to keep the conversation open with the community.

All people interested in the next OpenStack Summit and Conference, especially former sponsors and coordinators of tracks in past events, are invited to register for the meeting OpenStack Summit & Conference Fall 2012 Planning,  next Tuesday, June 19 at 10:00 AM CDT. It will be the right time and place to discuss the challenges faced as the events have grown, and potential changes to the format to address them going forward.

Update: read the results of this meeting on OpenStack Summit coming October 15th-19th to San Diego, CA

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Announcing OpenStack Asia/Pacific Conference 2012

 

June 13, 2012

We talked about during the community sessions at past OpenStack Design Summit, we’re now ready to announce it officially: the Asia/Pacific community is hosting a large OpenStack conference. Mark your calendar: August 10th and 11th, with a main venue in Bejing and a remote participation in Shanghai, hosted by the Chinese OpenStack User Group (COSUG) and CSDN, supervised by CSIP.

OpenStack developers and companies building products based on OpenStack from Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation will meet to present their solutions and to plan ways of working together on promoting OpenStack in local enterprises and industries.

There is still space available to sponsor the event: thousands of users from the region are expected. Interested companies can browse the sponsorship prospectus and pick the best options for their budget.

Speakers are welcome to submit their speaking proposal, also in English.

If you want to help with the organization of the event you can still join the OpenStack APEC community group. You can also follow: @CSDN and @CSDN Cloud Computing for updates in Chinese.

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