I hear the Essex Train a-coming

 

March 31, 2012

With Essex train in the wilds of testing, and the Essex release intended date less than 10 days away, we are pretty excited about everyone descending on San Francisco — practically our home town — for the Design Summit and Conference.

Here at Mirantis, the company famous across OpenStack community for distributing vodka bottles at OpenStack meetups, we are gearing up in a big way for the summit and conference. If you haven’t seen the agenda, here’s what we’ve got teed up:

(1) We’ll start the frenzy with Just-in-time-Training: we have a few seats left at our 2-day OpenStack Boot Camp, crammed into the weekend of April 14-15, right before the summit and conference. REGISTER HERE and come to the event fully prepared to torment speakers and presenters with insidious technical questions about OpenStack technology and its future.

(2) Our team will participate in / moderate a few exciting sessions during the conference: OpenStack and Block Storage, OpenStack and High Performance Computing, Expanding the Community. Please be sure to pay us a visit.

(3) …and just to show how happy we are to have you here, we invite everyone at the conference to join Mirantis Summit Kick-Off Party. This is how we party at Mirantis! Vodka bottles and fun times in the best traditions of all our events are guaranteed. Be sure not to miss.

Looking forward to receiving everyone at the 2012 OpenStack Design Summit and Conference.

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Community Weekly Review (Mar 23-30)

 

March 30, 2012

OpenStack Community Newsletter –March 30, 2012

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COMMUNITY STATISTICS

  •  Activity on the main branch of OpenStack repositories, lines of code added and removed per developer during week 7 of 2012 (from Mon Mar 19 00:00:00 UTC 2012 to Mon March 26 00:00:00 UTC 2012)

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OpenStack Spring 2012 Conference Schedule

 

March 29, 2012

The programming committee has published the schedule for the OpenStack Conference Spring 2012. The conference will feature

  • Keynotes sessions from Biri Singh, SVP & GM of HP Cloud Services, Chris C. Kemp, CEO & Founder of Nebula; John Engates, CTO and Mark Interrante, VP of Products at Rackspace; and Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu;
  • User story presentations including X.commerce, Department of Energy Magellan, San Diego Supercomputer Center and NeCTAR Cloud;
  • Panels about community strategy & vision, technical debates, cloud standards and investing in the OpenStack community; and
  • Hands-on workshops, networking, social events and more.

The details, including all the social events are available on http://www.openstack.org/conference/san-francisco-2012/sessions/. Friday’s afternoon sessions include the introductory workshops “Swift Install” and “Programming OpenStack Compute API” aimed at developers that want to get started with OpenStack.

In addition to Headline sponsors HP, Nebula and Ubuntu supported by Canonical, supporters of the OpenStack Conference include Premier Sponsors Cisco, Dell and Intel; Event Sponsors DreamHost, ITRI, NetApp, Nexenta, Opscode, NTT Data, and Yahoo!; and Startup Sponsors Ceph, Cloudscaling, ElasticBox, Mirantis, Nicira, StackOps, SwiftStack and SolidFire.

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Community Weekly Review (Mar 16-23)

 

March 23, 2012

OpenStack Community Newsletter –March 23, 2012

A great community story:

Over the course of just a week I’ve gone from despair and frustration to almost wanting to shout from the rooftops the achievements that have been made in OpenStack and my own deployments and testing

Read the rest of it on https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg08950.html

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COMMUNITY STATISTICS

  •  Activity on the main branch of OpenStack repositories, lines of code added and removed per developer during week 7 of 2012 (from Mon Mar 5 00:00:00 UTC 2012 to Mon March 12 00:00:00 UTC 2012)

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Community Weekly Review (Mar 9-16)

 

March 16, 2012

OpenStack Community Newsletter –March 16, 2012

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  •  Activity on the main branch of OpenStack repositories, lines of code added and removed per developer during week 7 of 2012 (from Mon Feb 27 00:00:00 UTC 2012 to Mon March 5 00:00:00 UTC 2012)

  • Changes to Glance project – week 10 2012

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Community Weekly Review (Mar 2-9)

 

March 9, 2012

OpenStack Community Newsletter –March 9, 2012

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COMMUNITY STATISTICS

  •  Activity on the main branch of OpenStack repositories, lines of code added and removed per developer during week 7 of 2012 (from Mon Feb 27 00:00:00 UTC 2012 to Mon March 5 00:00:00 UTC 2012)

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On your mark… Get set… CODE!

 

March 5, 2012

The race is on to release the final candidate of Essex.  Join the OpenStack sprint team in Santa Clara during PyCon, March 12th-15th.  We need your help to push Essex across the finish line.

DreamHost is co-sponsoring the PyCon Development Sprints and is organizing a group that will focus exclusively on the OpenStack project.  Food and drink will be provided, so simply bring your laptop, your mad Python skills, and a lot of heart.

Queue the song, “Eye of the Tiger”.

Written by: Brent Scotten

OpenStack Governance Elections Spring 2012 Results

 

March 3, 2012

The OpenStack community has elected the Project Technical Leads and two members of the Project Policy Board. Here are the winners:

NOVA Project Technical Lead (1 position)

Winner:

KEYSTONE Project Technical Lead (1 position)

Winner:

HORIZON Project Technical Lead (1 position)

Winner:

SWIFT Project Technical Lead (1 position)

  • Only one candidate

Winner:

GLANCE Project Technical Lead (1 position)

Winner:

PROJECT POLICY BOARD (2 positions)

Winners:

Congratulations to you all! Good work everybody.

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Community Weekly Review (Feb 24-Mar 2)

 

March 2, 2012

OpenStack Community Newsletter –March 2, 2012

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  •  Activity on the main branch of OpenStack repositories, lines of code added and removed per developer during week 7 of 2012 (from Mon Feb 20 00:00:00 UTC 2012 to Mon Feb 27 00:00:00 UTC 2012)

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Recap: OpenStack Atlanta Meetup Mar 01

 

Armed to the teeth with coffee, Danishes and laptops, a band of merry men, led by Sir Duncan McGreggor*, set out yesterday morning to rob the royal Essex release of any and all bugs.  The gathering of this crack dev team marked the inaugural Meetup of OpenStack Atlanta, a new local chapter in the rapidly growing community.

DreamHost OpenStack Atlanta Meetup

DreamHost’s team in Atlanta facilitated the Hack-In event and hosted it in a cozy cottage.  Rakish beards aside, these happy hackers made great strides in testing Essex.  In order to maximize their impact, the Atlanta-based group reached across the country and coordinated their efforts with fellow coders at Canonical in Colorado and DreamHost in San Francisco.

 

Tech highlights include:

  • Testing out development deployments of OpenStack using Vagrant (some successes, some blockers)
  • Testing out dev deployments of OpenStack using VirtualBox directly
  • Filed some bugs for issues in Horizon regarding error feedback to users and how the documentation is generated
  • Dug into issues with logging and inconsistencies in datestamps
  • Uncovered some weirdness with the usage of gnu screen and hanging services/partial DevStack installs due to sudo assumptions (DevStack assumes a passwordless sudo, and will label an install as failed if it gets hung up on the apache log tail, waiting for a password, even if the install was successful and all the services started correctly)
  • Doug Hellmann made his first commit upstream to OpenStack

Bug banishment:  A bug in Horizon was uncovered and was confirmed later that day.  It’s currently marked as high priority and is slated to be fixed in the first Essex release candidate.

Special thanks to Lloyd Dewolf and Tristan Goode for facilitating the Essex OpenStack Global Hack-In.

*Knighthood could not be confirmed at the time of this posting.

 

Written by: Brent Scotten