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
The OpenStack community has elected the Project Technical Leads and two members of the Project Policy Board. Here are the winners:
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Congratulations to you all! Good work everybody.
OpenStack Community Newsletter –March 2, 2012
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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’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:
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
Today Mark Interrante, Rackspace’s head of product, announced that the next generation of Rackspace’s Cloud Servers, powered by OpenStack Compute (Nova), is moving from Alpha to Beta for customers. This is a major endorsement of the continuing maturation of OpenStack and its readiness to be deployed today. Here are a couple of highlights about this launch:
This is offer is not production-ready yet, but it is getting much closer. Much of the work that needs to get done is specific to Rackspace’s service provider scale. In the meantime, companies with smaller deployment needs are putting OpenStack into full production today. We expect to see that pace continue to accelerate.
Congrats to Mark and the entire Rackspace team!
Jim Curry
@jimcurry
Essex is a release focused on improving the integrity of OpenStack, so our first Global Hack-In is right at the start of the release candidate cycle, the start of March, 2012. The event brings together physically developers that spend their days or their nights making OpenStack.
http://wiki.openstack.org/OpenStackUsersGroup/EssexGlobalHackIn
The event is focused on testing and getting familiar with the release and exploring areas outside of your expertise. Collaborators will be working on resolving high priority bugs, and exploring, reviewing and testing OpenStack Essex.
Thanks in advance to DreamHost, Gold Coast Techspace, Piston Cloud, MercadoLibre, Yahoo, Mirantis, Citrix, Ubuntu, and Rackspace for sponsoring these events. Special thanks to my co-conspirator Tristan Goode of Aptira and the OzStackers for representing with 3 local events in Australia!
It’s not too late to have a Hack-In at your location, just add the information to the wiki. Even if it’s just you and a friend opening your door to fellow stackers, it’s a great way to start a local community.
Last Friday February 24 at the Harbour View Hotel in Sydney the Australian OpenStack User Group had a special meetup with James Williams, CIO of NASA AMES Research Centre. For those not in the know James and AMES had a key role in the establishment of Nebula and OpenStack.
Last week we heard James was in the country for a conference and was passing through Sydney, so an invitation to meet the User Group was extended and James graciously accepted at very short notice. James’ enthusiastic evangelism for OpenStack was very inspiring and everyone attending managed to get a chat in. On behalf of the Australian OpenStack User Group and the evening’s sponsor Aptira, thanks to James for fitting us into his hectic schedule.
More pictures are available over at TechWorld.
Head to our Australian Meetup group to get involved, or join the AU Google group.
UPDATE: PPB election update: we need to reboot the voting process. Please accept our apology. Read more on http://ow.ly/9lNGf
The OpenStack community is called to elect the Project Technical Leads and two seats of the Project Policy Board. The nominations process is now officially closed and voting can start: all entitled to vote will receive a personal message via email on February 28 and have time until March 3 11:59 PST to vote. The email message will go to the email address included in the Authors file and the one provided during the registration for PPB votes.
The official list of nominees (in random order) is the following:
Like previous OpenStack Governance Elections, we will use the Condorcet Internet Voting Service from Cornell University, http://www.cs.cornell.edu/andru/civs.html. This tool uses the Condorcet method of voting which invokes ranking the nominees instead of just selecting one choice. More information on this methodology is at http://www.cs.cornell.edu/w8/~andru/civs/rp.html. All registered voters will receive an email with a unique link allowing them to privately vote.
Please note that the voting system is run using private polls with restricted access to ensure voter authenticity; however all results will be made public once the election ends. Voter anonymity is guaranteed. The result’s ranking will be evaluated using Schulze (also known as Beatpath or CSSD) completion rule. If an individual should happen to be elected as both a PTL and General Member of the PPB, then they will take their PTL seat only and the elected General Member seat will go to the next highest vote getter in the most recent election. Thanks for participating in this essential process.
The election committee is made of Stefano Maffulli, Lloyd Dewolf and Dave Nielsen.
OpenStack Community Newsletter –February 24, 2012
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The OpenStack community is electing its Project Technical Leads and two members of the Project Policy Board. Details are at http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/02/openstack-governance-elections-spring-2012/. On February 26 the nominations will close and the voting process will start on February 28 and finish on March 3rd.
The list of nominees is at http://etherpad.openstack.org/Spring2012-Nominees. It’s still open. You must register to vote for PPB on http://ppbelectionsregistration.openstack.org/
Before the voting process starts the election committee asks all nominees to create a page on OpenStack wiki and answer three simple questions:
1a. [for PPB] Since the last elections, what areas have you focused on and what contributions have you made in order to improve OpenStack as a whole?
1b. [for PTL] Since the last elections, what areas have you focused on and what contributions have you made in order to improve your project?
2a. [for PPB] What are the most pressing/important issues facing OpenStack as a whole?
2b. [for PTL] What are the most pressing/important issues facing your project?
3. What is your relationship to OpenStack & why is its success important to you and/or your company?
If you’re a candidate, create a wiki page using the template http://wiki.openstack.org/Governance/ElectionsSpring2012/[Firstname_Lastname] and answer those questions there. Feel free to add more content, too. Those pages will be included in the link sent to all voters.
The election committee is made of Stefano Maffulli, Lloyd Dewolf and Dave Nielsen.
