Recording of OpenStack Foundation mission and roadmap

 

January 19, 2012

For those that couldn’t participate to past week’s webinar, here is the recording of Mark Collier and Jonathan Bryce presenting the draft mission of OpenStack Foundation and its roadmap. (The audio starts around minute 2:50). A total of 86 people participated to the events, 51 on Thursday and 35 on Friday. Since the chat was not visible to every participant, we’re disclosing the complete logs of the chat for both events, unedited . All questions were addressed by Mark and Jonathan. We’re looking for a different tool to use for future webinars.

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The First OpenStack Bug Squashing Day Is Coming On Feb 2nd

 

January 16, 2012

Shine your keyboards, hackers of OpenStack: on February 2nd 2012 you will be called to fight the ever growing number of bugs that keep creeping in our beloved code.  On Bug Squashing Day all the OpenStack developer community will focus mainly on Nova to:

  • Close old fixed bugs. Old bugs are nasty. Even when they are long dead, they clog bug views and render the lists unusable. Just look at old bugs and check if they still apply ! If they don’t, close them as FixReleased (if you can pinpoint when they were fixed) or Invalid (if you can’t).
  • Fix bugs. The best thing you can do on a bug squashing day is to kill a live one. Just look at the list of Confirmed or Triaged and pick your target. Submit a change that fixes it. Ask for review help on the channel.
  • Triage incoming bugs. It’s sometimes hard to distinguish fresh bugs from false alarms. You can help by using your expertise or reproduction skills on New bugs. If you can confirm the issue, set the bug to Confirmed. If you can fix it, read the previous chapter. If you need more info from the reporter, set it to Incomplete. And if it happens to not really be valid, set it to Invalid.

You don’t have to be an experienced Nova developer to participate, and we believe that February 2nd will be a great way to get started with the OpenStack community. You can get started by looking at Devstack to build your complete OpenStack development environment. The other projects are welcome to focus on quality that day but Nova is the one that will get more attention.

The event will happen mostly online, in a dedicated #openstack-bugsquash IRC channel on Freenode (that all participants are encouraged to join for the duration of the event). There will also be live meetings in Austin and San Francisco, hosted by Rackspace with food, drinks and games.

Do you want to host a Bug Squash Day on Feb 2nd? Let us know and we’ll add it to the list.

 

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Community Weekly Review (Jan 6 – 13)

 

January 13, 2012

OpenStack Community Newsletter –January 13, 2012

HIGHLIGHTS

EVENTS

OTHER NEWS

COMMUNITY STATISTICS

  • Top 10 contributors of 2011 for each repository, from Jan 2 00:00:00 UTC 2012 to Jan 9 00:00:00 UTC 2012

This weekly newsletter is a way for the community to learn about all the various activities occurring on a weekly basis. If you would like to add content to a weekly update or have an idea about this newsletter, please leave a comment.

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The OpenStack Spring 2012 Design Summit & Conference in San Francisco, California: April 16-20, 2012

 

We are excited to announce that the Spring 2012 OpenStack Design Summit & OpenStack Conference are planned for April 16-20, 2012 in San Francisco, California. Please start making plans to join us!

Learn more about the events on The Official Event Page.

Please note: Registration has not yet opened. More details, including accommodations, call for papers and the sponsorship prospectus will be available shortly.

Note that two events take place the same week: The Design Summit and the Conference. So, which should you attend?

Everyone: If you are an OpenStack user, provider, researcher, developer, or enthusiast, you’ll want to attend the OpenStack Conference held Thursday and Friday, April 19 & 20th. This is the main event and it includes keynotes, panel sessions, and vendor exhibitors who can help you get the most out of OpenStack.

Developers: If you are an active developer in the OpenStack community, you’ll also want to attend the Design Summit, happening right before the conference (April 16-18th). The Design Summit is kept intentionally small so that we can have productive working sessions as we discuss and plan for development on the next release of OpenStack.

We hope you’ll make the trip and join us at what’s shaping up to be a fantastic and informative event.

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Presenting OpenStack Foundation mission and roadmap [webinar]

 

January 10, 2012

Jonathan Bryce and Mark Collier will host two webinars to illustrate the draft mission for the future OpenStack Foundation. The draft was published on http://wiki.openstack.org/Governance/Foundation/ and it’s the fist building block of the organisation that was announced in Boston. They will be available to answer questions about the roadmap and deadlines proposed for the project.  We believe a live conversation will complement the online discussion on the foundation mailing list. We picked the times of the webinars to accommodate the needs of people living across the world and we picked the technology that is most accessible. You can use your favourite operating system or dial in using toll free numbers for virtually anywhere in the world. If you encounter problems please let us know.

The first webinar will be held on Thursday Jan 12, 2012 at 06:00 PM CST (register here https://cc.readytalk.com/r/ogxx717wjy06) and the following day on Friday, Jan 13, 2012 at 9:00 AM CST (register here https://cc.readytalk.com/r/9o9bdh6hb3vn).

You may find the converter useful http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html to find your local time.

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Please Welcome AT&T to the OpenStack Community!

 

January 9, 2012

We are very excited to welcome AT&T to the OpenStack community today!

John Donovan, AT&T’s Chief Technology Officer made the announcement at their annual AT&T developer’s summit in Las Vegas today:

“We also announced today that AT&T has become the first U.S. telecom services provider to join the OpenStack initiative, a community of more than 140 technology companies worldwide. We’ve been participating in OpenStack for more than a year and have already contributed a blueprint for a potential new function within OpenStack, focused on transactional task management.

We’re housing our OpenStack capabilities on dedicated infrastructure in three AT&T data centers today, with locations in Dallas, San Diego and Secaucus, New Jersey. We plan to more than double the number of our centers with open-source capabilities in 2012.”

Read more about it in their blog post.

Community Weekly Review (Dec 31 2011 – Jan 6 2012)

 

January 6, 2012

OpenStack Community Newsletter –January 6, 2012 — Happy New Year

HIGHLIGHTS

EVENTS

OTHER NEWS

COMMUNITY STATISTICS

  • Top 10 contributors of 2011 for each repository, from Jan 1 00:00:00 UTC 2011 to Dec 31 00:00:00 UTC 2011

This weekly newsletter is a way for the community to learn about all the various activities occurring on a weekly basis. If you would like to add content to a weekly update or have an idea about this newsletter, please leave a comment.

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Community Weekly Review (Dec 17-23)

 

December 23, 2011

OpenStack Community Newsletter –December 23, 2011

HIGHLIGHTS

EVENTS

OTHER NEWS

COMMUNITY STATISTICS

  • Activity on the OpenStack repositories, lines of code added and removed by the developers from Mon Dec 12 00:00:00 UTC 2011 to Sun Dec 18 00:00:00 UTC 2011

This weekly newsletter is a way for the community to learn about all the various activities occurring on a weekly basis. If you would like to add content to a weekly update or have an idea about this newsletter, please leave a comment.

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OpenStack Around The Globe in 2011

 

December 22, 2011

OpenStack has been a global phenomenon since the community formed in July 2010, and it has only gotten more diverse since then. One of my favorite stats is that we had people from 6 continents attend the most recent Design Summit & Conference in Boston. Still looking for that elusive Antarctica user.

I spent a few minutes digging through Google Analytics to pull out some other interesting 2011 stats to share.

  • People in over 13,000 cities from over 200 countries visited OpenStack.org this year!
  • We had a total of 750k+ visits from 430k+ unique visitors.
  • The most popular city was Beijing, followed by Seoul, London, and Bangalore
  • China was #2 after the U.S. as a source of visitors to openstack.org
  • Full details available here.
  • This is a google docs embeded graph that will overlay visits by region:

Conclusions:
  • There is clearly a need for a true global open source software platform, and lots of people are seizing that opportunity in over 200 countries.
  • This is a powerful movement!  It is much bigger than any one company or country.
  • We have much to do to support the diverse community, including more international events and localized content.  To coordinate an event or to talk sponsorships contact [email protected] and also check the events page to make sure your event is listed there. Lauren Sell and Dee Rosales are good people to talk to about how to make your OpenStack event a success.
  • If you’d like to help with translating content (web pages, overview docs, more technical docs, or openstack itself such as the dashboard) drop us a note at [email protected] with some info on how you’d like to help. Todd Morey, Anne Gentle, Stefano Maffulli (and other stackers) are starting several translation projects now and could use your help!

Here’s to an even bigger and stronger global OpenStack community in 2012!
Mark Collier
@sparkycollier

OpenStack 2012 Events

 

December 21, 2011

We are working on the 2012 event calendar, and are actively seeking feedback and sponsorship support for OpenStack to be well-represented at industry events.  There is a public etherpad where you can suggest an event to attend (or pass up!), and we would love to get  your input.  Right now, we are hoping to have OpenStack represented at the following industry events the first half of the year:

– SCALE10x, January 20-22, Los Angeles
– FOSDEM, February 4-5, Bruxelles, BE
– PYCON, March 7-15, Santa Clara, CA
– Ubuntu Developer Summit, May TBD
– EuroPython, June TBD, Florence, Italy
– OSCON, July 16-20, Portland, OR

We’ve had a lot of success with OpenStack having a community-sponsored presence at industry tradeshows. In this case, companies in the community may choose to pitch in and split costs for the OpenStack booth and marketing activities. In return, their brand is featured on promotional materials (signs, t-shirts, etc.), they are co-sponsors of the evening event (if applicable) and they have the opportunity to help staff the booth. Please contact Lauren Sell and Dee Rosales at [email protected] if you are interested in sponsoring OpenStack at upcoming events, the first of which is SCALE10x in January.

We are making headway on next OpenStack Design Summit & Conference, targeting the week of April 16 depending on venue availability.  We plan to finalize the venue and dates by the end of December, and will post a sponsorship prospectus and call for papers shortly thereafter. If you have a venue recommendation or your company might have the facilities to accommodate 800+ people, please contact [email protected] (note: we are moving very quickly on this with a goal to lock it down by Dec 31).

Also, if you are hosting a local meetup or OpenStack event, please contact [email protected] to have it listed and promoted on OpenStack.org/community/events.

Thanks for your continued support.