OpenStack Design Summit & Conference – Register Now!

The OpenStack community is once again in full preparation for our twice annual community events, this time in Boston, Ma in October.  There are two different (but related) events during the week of October 3rd-7th:  At the beginning of the week, we have the OpenStack Design Summit which is a set of small, focused developer working sessions where the roadmap will be set by active contributors on the project.  Later in the week, the broader community of Users, Developers, and Business folk will gather for the OpenStack Conference.  Those of you who attended the events in April may notice that, this time, we’ve reversed the order.  This will allow the broader community to hear and discuss the output of the Design Summit.

To better understand which event is right for you, here are some additional details:

OpenStack Design Summit – Held October 3 – 5, 2011, this event is targeted at OpenStack developers and architects to collaborate on the features, designs, and development methodology for the Essex product release. Developers submit their feature ideas for Essex via the Launchpad blueprint process and the three Project Technical Leads work with the Release Manager to create the final agenda. It is highly recommended that only OpenStack developers or architects attend as the sessions are extremely technical and focused on individual features for Essex. Registration for this group of attendees will be handled via launchpad accounts. The developer registration process will also offer you the option to indicate that you intend to stay for the Conference portion of the week, so you will NOT need to go to two places to register if you are attending both events.  In fact:  Please don’t!

OpenStack Conference –  Held October 5 – 7, 2011, this event is targeted at the broader OpenStack community including ecosystem companies, system administrators, users, and business executives interested in the OpenStack open source project. Senior executive leaders in the cloud computing marketplace present their ideas on the future of the industry and OpenStack’s influence in the general sessions along with a business track and technical track containing information for attendees on how OpenStack works and why OpenStack matters. The OpenStack community welcomes all attendees interested in cloud computing and open source to this event to learn about the OpenStack project and become an active part of the community. Click here to register for the Conference.

Click here to book your room at the Boston Intercontinental hotel (where the events are located) at a discount rate.  We have a block of rooms, so please use the link to ensure they are tracked appropriately.  The special rate is substantially cheaper than the normal rate, and is only guaranteed if you book by September 9th.

If you have any further questions on these two events, please contact Stephen Spector for more information.

 

OpenStack Governance Elections – Voting started

Today at 12:00pm CDT the election process for the OpenStack has started.  The approved candidates for the Project Policy Board are:

  • Joe Heck
  • Soren Hansen
  • Rick Clark
  • Jason Cannavale
  • Christopher MacGown
  • Paul Voccio
  • Joe Arnold
  • Blake Yeager
  • Ewan Mellor
  • Brian Lamar
  • Monty Taylor
  • Josh Kearney
  • Chuck Thier
  • Rob Hirschfeld

The poll is currently running to elect the three new members and the replacement for Eric Day. If you are eligible to vote and have requested to be added to the official list of voters you should have received an email with instructions to cast your vote for the Project Policy Board (PPB). Poll will close on September 4th, 12pm CDT.

For the Team Lead positions in Nova, Swift and Glance projects no poll was necessary since we had only one candidate for each position. The Team Leads therefore are:

  • NOVA Project Technical Lead:  Vishvananda Ishaya
  • SWIFT Project Technical Lead:  John Dickinson
  • GLANCE Project Technical Lead: Jay Pipes

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OpenStack Events in September

The OpenStack community has two confirmed events next month to book on your calendars (and a third in final confirmation)…

Paris, France

 

 

 

 

 

OpenStack in Action!
September 21, 2011 from 8:30 am – 5:30 pm
Current Sponsors: Enovance, UShareSoft, Canonical, Rackspace, and OW2
Event Registration: https://openstackinaction.eventbrite.com/

Boston, MA

 

 

 

 

 

Boston OpenStack User Group
September 21 from 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Sponsor: Fidelity
Event Registration: http://bostonopenstack.eventbrite.com

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OpenStack Governance Elections – Voting Process

This Wednesday at Noon CST, the OpenStack Governance Elections Nominations process will close and all approved candidates will be entered into the Election Tool.  Elections will run from August 25 – September 4 at Noon CST.

Elections

The following four separate votes will be conducted during this election cycle:

  • NOVA Project Team Lead (1 Position)
  • SWIFT Project Team Lead (1 Position)
  • GLANCE Project Team Lead (1 Position)
  • Project Policy Board (3 Open Seats)

In addition, Eric Day has resigned his seat on the PPB with a term ending Spring 2012. To fill his seat for the next 6 months, the 4th place vote getter in the Project Policy Board election will replace Eric and complete his term. This process change simplifies having to run a special election for his seat. Please contact me if you have any questions on this process for replacing Eric on the board.

Voter Eligibility

Each election has a separate policy for who can vote in the election. A complete review of this process can be found at http://www.openstack.org/blog/2011/08/openstack-governance-elections-coming-soon/. To be eligible to vote, please ensure that you meet these requirements by Noon CST on Wednesday August 25th.

Candidates

The current list of nominees is available at http://etherpad.openstack.org/Fall2011-Nominees.  If you are interested in being a nominee, please add yourself by Wednesday August 25th by Noon CST at which time nominations will close.

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Community Weekly Review (August 12 – 19)

OpenStack Community Newsletter – August 19, 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 email [email protected].

HIGHLIGHTS

EVENTS

  • China OpenStack Launch – September 6 in Shanghai, China – In Active Development
  • Ohio LinuxFest 2011 – September 9-11, 2011 in Columbus, OH – http://www.ohiolinux.org/
  • PyTexas 2011 – September 10-11, 2011 in College Station, Texas http://pytexas.org/PyTexas2011
  • OpenStack Conference – Boston, MA – October 5-7, 2011

DEVELOPER COMMUNITY

GENERAL COMMUNITY

COMMUNITY STATISTICS (8/12– 8/18)

  • Data Tracking Graphs – http://wiki.openstack.org/WeeklyNewsletter
  • OpenStack Compute (NOVA) Data
    • 22 Active Reviews
    • 335 Active Branches – owned by 88 people & 16 teams
    • 4,004 commits by 82 people in last month
  • OpenStack Object Storage (SWIFT) Data
    • 3 Active Reviews
    • 76 Active Branches – owned by 24 people & 6 teams
    • 82 commits by 15 people in last month
  • OpenStack Image Registry (GLANCE) Data
  • Twitter Stats for Week:  #openstack 306 total tweets; OpenStack 1012 total tweets  (does not include RT)
  • Bugs Stats for Week: 745 Tracked Bugs; 97 New Bugs; 33 In-process Bugs; 12 Critical Bugs; 74 High Importance Bugs; 529 Bugs (Fix Committed)
  • Blueprints Stats for Week:  225 Blueprints; 6 Essential, 14 High, 23 Medium, 25 Low, 157 Undefined
  • OpenStack Website Stats for Week:  14,728 Visits, 35,737 Pageviews, 51.09 % New Visits
    • Top 5 Pages: Home 41.13%; /projects 13.06%; /projects/compute 16.21%; /projects/storage 10.00%; /imageserver 6.15%

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Evolving Roles, Welcome Stefano Maffulli to the Community

The explosion of OpenStack over the past year has once again highlighted the significant impact that an open source community can have on an industry. Within a single year, over 100 participating companies and 1,300 community members have joined together to create the de-facto open source cloud computing standard. With this enormous growth comes a broad array of possible work opportunities that are unique in challenge and scope, and I have decided to move on from being your Community Manager to take up new projects within OpenStack. It has been a pleasure for me professionally and personally to have participated in this community as your Community Manager, and I thank you for your amazing support and efforts in driving OpenStack forward. I look forward to its continued success and welcome Stefano Maffulli as your Community Manager.

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Developer Weekly (August 12)

Many people have asked for more insight into the developer activities for OpenStack as the large number of code changes and proposals make it difficult to monitor everything happening. In hopes of exposing more of the developer activities, I plan to post a weekly or biweekly blog post on the latest development activities. If you have any ideas for this blog post, please email me at [email protected]. I am always ready to listen to the community for new ideas.

Activities

Developer Mailing List (archive: https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/)

This is select list of topics discussed this week in the developer mailing list and is not a complete list.  Please visit the archive to see all the topics.

  • Tenants and Service Relationship… – Liem Manh Ngueyn asks “can I have a tenant associated with the “swift” service in Region X and another “swift” service in Region Y?” Yogeshwar Srikrishnan replies that Keystone would have different endpoint_template for each of those regions and provides and example.
  • Monitoring RabbitMQ Messages – Joshua Harlow asks if there is a tool to see all the messages passing thru rabbitmq. Craig Vyvial suggested changing the config options for rabbitmq (http://www.rabbitmq.com/management.html#configuration). Narayan Desai suggested using rabbitmqctl list_queues to see what the queue depth for each NOVA service was.
  • Problems connecting Dashboard and Nova – Mauricio Arango submitted the error information when the Dashboard fails to connect to Nova. Several developers offered various ideas to solve the problem – Mark Gius, Rafael Duran Castaneda, Joseph Heck, Arvind Somya, Vand ish Ishaya . The complete flow of ideas and responses is at https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg03456.html.

Statistics

For the latest on development activities on OpenStack please check these sites for more details:

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Community Weekly Newsletter (August 5-12)

OpenStack Community Newsletter – August 12, 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 email [email protected].

HIGHLIGHTS

EVENTS

DEVELOPER COMMUNITY

GENERAL COMMUNITY

COMMUNITY STATISTICS (8/5– 8/11)

  • Data Tracking Graphs – http://wiki.openstack.org/WeeklyNewsletter
  • OpenStack Compute (NOVA) Data
    • 22 Active Reviews
    • 335 Active Branches – owned by 88 people & 16 teams
    • 4,004 commits by  82 people in last month
  • OpenStack Object Storage (SWIFT) Data
    • 3 Active Reviews
    • 76 Active Branches – owned by 24 people & 6 teams
    • 82 commits by 15 people in last month
  • OpenStack Image Registry (GLANCE) Data
  • Twitter Stats for Week:  #openstack 298 total tweets; OpenStack  1139 total tweets  (does not include RT)
  • Bugs Stats for Week: 690 Tracked Bugs; 100 New Bugs; 41 In-process Bugs; 12 Critical Bugs; 59 High Importance Bugs; 478 Bugs (Fix Committed)
  • Blueprints Stats for Week:  222 Blueprints; 6 Essential, 17 High, 26 Medium, 25 Low, 148 Undefined
  • OpenStack Website Stats for Week:  15,446 Visits, 38,868 Pageviews, 54.88 % New Visits
    • Top 5 Pages: Home 40.52%; /projects 13.17%; /projects/compute 16.66%; /projects/storage 10.37%; /imageserver 5.95%

OPENSTACK IN THE NEWS

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OpenStack Governance Elections – Nomination Process

The OpenStack Governance Elections Nominations are open from August 10, 2011 through August 24, 2011 at Noon CST. The process will follow the same format as last time with Etherpads as well as the opportunity for approved nominees to highlight information on themselves. If you have any questions on the process or eligibility, please contact me.

NOVA PROJECT TEAM LEAD (1 Position) Nominee Process

All developers listed on http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~hudson-openstack/nova/trunk/view/head:/Authors by the 24th of August are eligible to run for this position. Please nominate someone from the NOVA developer community or yourself at http://etherpad.openstack.org/Fall2011-Nominees under the Nominees heading. I will then confirm with the contact if they are willing to run for the position at which time I will move them to Approved Candidates or remove them from the list. Please give the name and email of the contact when nominating.

SWIFT PROJECT TEAM LEAD (1 Position) Nominee Process

All developers listed on http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~hudson-openstack/swift/trunk/view/head:/AUTHORS by the 24th of August are eligible to run for this position. Please nominate someone from the SWIFT developer community or yourself at http://etherpad.openstack.org/Fall2011-Nominees under the Nominees heading. I will then confirm with the contact if they are willing to run for the position at which time I will move them to Approved Candidates or remove them from the list. Please give the name and email of the contact when nominating.

GLANCE PROJECT TEAM LEAD (1 Position) Nominee Process

All developers listed on https://github.com/openstack/glance/blob/master/Authors by the 24th of August are eligible to run for this position. Please nominate someone from the GLANCE developer community or yourself at http://etherpad.openstack.org/Fall2011-Nominees under the Nominees heading. I will then confirm with the contact if they are willing to run for the position at which time I will move them to Approved Candidates or remove them from the list. Please give the name and email of the contact when nominating.

PROJECT POLICY BOARD (3 Positions) Nominee Process

All registered members of the OpenStack Launchpad system (https://launchpad.net/~openstack) who are listed by the 24th of August are eligible to run for these 3 positions. Please nominate someone from the OpenStack community or yourself at http://etherpad.openstack.org/Fall2011-Nominees under the Nominees heading. I will then confirm with the contact if they are willing to run for the position at which time I will move them to Approved Candidates or remove them from the list. Please give the name and email of the contact when nominating.

CANDIDATES

I will work with all approved candidates to add a link from the main page, http://etherpad.openstack.org/Fall2011-Nominees, to their custom profile. This will allow voters to learn more about the various candidates running for the open positions.

Once again, if you have any questions on this process or eligibility, please contact me for answers.

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Developer Weekly Activity Review – August 5, 2011

Many people have asked for more insight into the developer activities for OpenStack as the large number of code changes and proposals make it difficult to monitor everything happening. In hopes of exposing more of the developer activities, I plan to post a weekly or biweekly blog post on the latest development activities. If you have any ideas for this blog post, please email me at [email protected]. I am always ready to listen to the community for new ideas.

Activities

Developer Mailing List (archive: https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/)

This is select list of topics discussed this week in the developer mailing list and is not a complete list.  Please visit the archive to see all the topics.

  • Dashboard newbie question – Joshua Harlow asks about getting the Dashboard to work with the latest version of Nova; he is getting a 400 https response when deploying from the dashboard. Devin Carlen recommended using the Diablo-3 milestone release. Thierry Carrez asked that any issues be added to the bug report, which Carlo Impagliazzo listed for, but 820972. This issue is still being discussed at https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg03430.html.
  • [Gerrit] Getting “invalid author” – Yuriy Taraday indicated that he is trying to use Gerrit to propose changes to Keystone. He is following the instructions from the wiki and is getting “invalid author” errors. James Blair indicated that the issue was due to how Launchpad was importing account information and made a change, which solved the initial problem seen by Yuriy. Yuriy then indicated that he is seeing a “missing Change-ID in commit message” error. Several suggestions were presented as solutions. More details on those options at https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg03421.html.
  • Questions About test_localization.py – Zed Shaw indicated that he is going to clean up tests and source files and has questions about the tests/test_localization.py file and what its purpose is. The discussion on  the purpose of the test and some ways to beef up what is tested were discussed.

Statistics

For the latest on development activities on OpenStack please check these sites for more details:

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