Community Weekly Review (Apr 20-27)

 

April 27, 2012

OpenStack Community Newsletter – April 27, 2012

Welcome back to our regular publishing schedule. This week we still hear the echo of the Design Summit and Conference.

HIGHLIGHTS

Upcoming Events

Other news

Community Statistics

This week’s chart shows the geographical dispersion of participants to Folsom series of events in San Francisco. The information is derived from the work address provided by participants when they registered. Participants from USA were the large majority, around 70% of the over 1,000 participants, nonetheless it’s interesting to look at the distribution once the outlier is removed.

Participants to Folsom Design Summit and Conference, per nation (excluding USA)

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OpenStack Conference Spring 2012 Day 2

 

April 20, 2012

And today marks the end of this full week of meetings, panels, formal and informal chats, parties, networking and lots of fun. The final count of registered people went well over 1,000! This calls for a celebration to this great community.

Remember to publish your slides on Slideshare OpenStack Group and stay tuned for the videos of the conference. Thank you all for participating, see you all soon.

Upcoming Events

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OpenStack Conference Spring 2012 Day 1

 

April 19, 2012

The OpenStack Conference started with incredible keynotes this morning. All sessions are recorded and videos will be published soon. Meanwhile, the slides provided by the speakers are shared on SlideShare OpenStack group.

Highlights of first day

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packed room for opening session at #openstack conference with @jbryce

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Radio Free Asia brings freedom of press to closed societies using #OpenStack

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Mark Interrante and John Engates live demoing Rackspace Cloud Servers powered by #OpenStack

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Live deployment of #OpenStack by Mark Shuttleworth on stage

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Kurt Garloff, VP Engineering at DBU Cloud Services in Deutsche Telekom talking about his Linux experience and parallels

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Biri Singh explains HP Cloud Services powered by #OpenStack

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Chris Kemp on stage thanking leaders of #OpenStack and recognizing ecosystem

 

“Vish Ashaya hosting a panel of block storage experts at #openstack including #Ceph's Tommi Vaartinen”

Party time now!

 

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Folsom Design Summit Day 3

 

April 18, 2012

The Folsom Design Summit has ended. Tonight’s party marks the beginning of the OpenStack Spring 2012 Conference

Highlights of the day

See what attendees think of the OpenStack Design Summit

chaos monkey strolled through the #OpenStack dev lounge...

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Folsom Design Summit Day 2

 

April 17, 2012

Highlights of the day:

and an announcement: tomorrow’s Cloud Foundry BOSH + Openstack hackathon; 6pm SF Hyatt bit.ly/HVYqFq (food+beer+code included)

Nicira's Dan Wendlandt introductory talk on #OpenStack Quantum is packed!

Darrell giving his talk on statsd + Swift at the #OpenStack Design Summit.

and to finish this great second day

"little" #openstack HP event at the Ferry Building

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Folsom Design Summit Day 1

 

April 16, 2012

Over 400 participant, more than 50 sessions today (over 150 in total). Not just developers in the rooms I’ve seen lots of users  involved in the sessions, asking questions and giving suggestions. Many discussisions revolve around real life problems and provide extremely  concrete solutions. There is the feeling that the OpenStack community is maturing.

Full house for the kickoff

Vish leading the Nova volume session

For some of the participants it was a long car trip

But the view is like a commercial ... Priceless

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Live Streaming From OpenStack Folsom Design Summit

 

Thanks to hardware contributed by Zareason and service provided by Cisco Webex, we’ll be able to offer an experimental live streaming of the discussions at Folsom Design Summit, starting April 16.

If you want to partecipate to the discussions remotely, check on the schedule which room is hosting the session you’re interested in, then join the Webex meeting to listen to the discussion and use IRC to ask questions.

Each room has its own dedicated Webex meeting (the password for all events is folsom) and its own dedicated IRC channel:

Please keep in mind that this is an experimental feature and it may break any time.  Follow @openstack on Twitter for updated information. Thanks to all the volunteers that helped on Sunday afternoon: Matt, Duncan and Nirmal.

Community Weekly Review (Apr 6 – 13)

 

April 13, 2012

OpenStack Community Newsletter – April 13, 2012

HIGHLIGHTS

IMPORTANT LINKS FOR THE SUMMIT AND CONFERENCE

OTHER NEWS

COMMUNITY STATISTICS

This week’s statistics are contributed by Bitergia, a startup company expert in analysing open source communities. They developed for us a tool to analyse the history of OpenStack bug reports hosted on Launchpad. The charts below represent data taken from the projects: nova, glance, swift, horizon, keystone, manuals, quantum, tempest, python-keystoneclient, python-novaclient, python-quantumclient

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OpenStack Foundation Update

 

April 12, 2012

We’ve come a long way since announcing in October in Boston that we planned to create an OpenStack Foundation in 2012. We set out to solicit as much feedback as possible (and on the second day, there was a town hall) and to participate in as many open forums as possible (mailing lists, webinars, meetups, and in person meetings).

At the start of the process, Jonathan Bryce and I spent the first couple of months learning as much as we could about successful open source foundations, like the ASF, Eclipse, and the Linux Foundation, reading foundation meeting minutes into the wee hours of the morning. We also talked to a lot of lawyers to get advice on legal structures, and received feedback from many of the folks in the community. We entered 2012 with a heck of a lot more knowledge and a good sense of what proposals to put forward (borrowing heavily from these amazing trailblazers before us!) that would best fit the “OpenStack Way.”

Since then we’ve had active mailing list discussions, held several webinars, meetups, and published a ton of stuff on the wiki, culminating in a Mission, Structure, and Funding Model that stay true to our values as a community, including:

  • An open development process that is driven by technical meritocracy
  • Making significant investments in community building and driving awareness and adoption
  • Encouraging the development of a healthy and profitable ecosystem of companies powered by OpenStack

Last month, as that framework started coming into focus, we published a “Framework Acknowledgement Letter” and asked companies to sign it if they agreed with the approach and were intent on joining as Gold or Platinum members once formed. Today are are very excited to announce that nineteen companies have signed the letter:

  • Platinum: AT&T, Canonical, HP, IBM, Nebula, Rackspace, Red Hat, SUSE
  • Gold: Cisco, ClearPath, Cloudscaling, Dell, DreamHost, ITRI, Mirantis, Morphlabs, NetApp, Piston Cloud Computing, Yahoo!

What’s Next?
We are now forming a Drafting Committee, to take the framework and turn it into legal documents, with the help of legal resources from the above companies. The Drafting Committee process and timeline is outlined on the wiki, and they will be publishing drafts for community review & input, with a goal of getting to a final draft in Q3. The committee will not be making decisions in a vacuum, they will be putting the framework into long form legalese for all of us to review and comment.

I don’t think it’s a stretch to suggest that cloud computing will one day power our global economy, and that means there is a lot at stake. Seeing the caliber of companies putting serious resources into making OpenStack successful, who all believe deeply in the open development model, I am more optimistic than ever it will be an open future, powered by OpenStack.

Here are a few related posts about today’s announcement from participating companies

In closing, I’ll leave you with the mission we are excited to pursue when the foundation is formed later this year:

The Foundation Mission: The OpenStack Foundation is an independent body providing shared resources to help achieve the OpenStack Mission by Protecting, Empowering, and Promoting OpenStack software and the community around it, including users, developers and the entire ecosystem.

Mark Collier

@sparkycollier

Community Weekly Review (Mar 30 – Apr 6)

 

April 6, 2012

OpenStack Community Newsletter – April 6, 2012

HIGHLIGHTS

EVENTS

REPORTS FROM PAST EVENTS

OTHER NEWS

COMMUNITY STATISTICS

To celebrate Essex release we publish the statistics assembled by Mark McLoughlin using gitdm, looking into the top 20 contributors across Nova, Glance, Swift, Keystone, Horizon and Quantum (even if Quantum will be officially part of OpenStack Folsom, not Essex):

Processed 3481 csets from 217 developers
100 employers found
A total of 421695 lines added, 256904 removed (delta 164791)
Developers with the most changesets
termie                     238 (6.8%)
Gabriel Hurley             207 (5.9%)
Brian Waldon               195 (5.6%)
Johannes Erdfelt           146 (4.2%)
Vishvananda Ishaya         116 (3.3%)
Dolph Mathews               98 (2.8%)
Dan Prince                  84 (2.4%)
Ziad Sawalha                80 (2.3%)
Jason Kölker               77 (2.2%)
Mark McLoughlin             73 (2.1%)
Jake Dahn                   73 (2.1%)
Rick Harris                 71 (2.0%)
Alex Meade                  70 (2.0%)
Trey Morris                 62 (1.8%)
Joe Heck                    58 (1.7%)
Chris Behrens               52 (1.5%)
Russell Bryant              50 (1.4%)
Eoghan Glynn                50 (1.4%)
Joe Gordon                  47 (1.4%)
Jesse Andrews               46 (1.3%)
Covers 54.380925% of changesets

w00t! Congrats and thanks to those for all their hard work on Essex!

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