Preparing For Essex Unconference And Lightning Talks

 

September 26, 2011

Unconference

The Essex Design Summit is less than a week away and we want to use every moment to make the most out of it. Having the whole OpenStack community in the same timezone, sharing the same rooms is a precious event. Therefore we’re having the room Salon C reserved all three days dedicated to the Unconference,  a freely-scheduled, first-come first-serve set of 25-min slots, separated by 5-min context switches (it’s possible to grab 2 consecutive slots to do a 55min session).

The Essex Unconference runs: Monday 9:30-10:25, 11:00-12:25, 14:00-15:55, 16:30-17:55 and Tuesday, Wednesday: 9:00-10:25, 11:00-12:25, 14:00-15:55, 16:30-17:55.

We’ll have a big paperboard and post-it ready to allow all community members there to propose discussion topics, schedule and tools to keep notes.

Every day after lunch breaks we’ll have Lightning talks, fast-paced 5-min slots between 13:30 and 13:55. Any subject is ok, as long as it fits in exactly 5 minutes. Make sure to practice your speech or performance as there won’t be any mercy if you go overtime.

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Community Weekly Review (September 17-23)

 

September 23, 2011

OpenStack Community Newsletter – September 23, 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].

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DEVELOPER COMMUNITY

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COMMUNITY STATISTICS (9/16-9/23)

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Community Weekly Review (September 10-16)

 

September 16, 2011

OpenStack Community Newsletter – September 16, 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].

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DEVELOPER COMMUNITY

GENERAL COMMUNITY

COMMUNITY STATISTICS (8/12– 8/18)

  • OpenStack Compute (NOVA) Data
    • 38 Active Reviews
    • 413 Active Branches – owned by 102 people & 18 teams
    • 1,658 commits by 76 people in last month
  • OpenStack Object Storage (SWIFT) Data
    • https://github.com/openstack/swift/graphs/impact
  • OpenStack Image Registry (GLANCE) Data
  • Bugs Stats for Week: 948 Tracked Bugs; 136 New Bugs; 67 In-progress Bugs; 17 Critical Bugs; 133 High Importance Bugs;
  • Blueprints Stats for Week:  245 Blueprints; 4 Essential, 13 High, 24 Medium, 20 Low, 157 Undefined
  • OpenStack Website Stats for Week:  16,421 Visits, 39,697 Pageviews, 56 % New Visits
    • Top 5 Pages: Home 41.32%; Compute 16.15%; /projects 13.39%; Storage 10.35%; Community 5.60%

OpenStack Documentation Blitz

 

September 12, 2011

I had a great idea come across my radar this week – a Documentation Blitz! I’ve been working on case studies for a second edition of my book, Conversation and Community: The Social Web for Documentation, and in one of the case studies from Sarah Maddox at Atlassian, I uncovered a gem of an idea. From Sarah:

We have also held a couple of documentation blitz tests. This is a very successful way of involving the development and support teams in testing the documentation just before the release date. The technical writers set up a plan, including a list of the documents to focus on and a couple of ways people can give us feedback. We usually include an IRC channel, as well as wiki pages and comments, so that the engineers can choose the way that suits them best. We allocate a time period, usually just an hour, and everyone dives into the documentation. The chat session goes wild, comments fly, and we end up with a lot of useful feedback.

I love this idea and want to experiment with it for OpenStack. Fortunately the timing is just right, with the Diablo release ready for a September 22nd release. So, here’s the plan.

On Monday September 19th, from 2:00-3:00 CST (Monday, September 19, 2011 at 17:00:00):

To get coverage on the other side of the globe, we’ll run the Doc Blitz for a second hour at 11:00 pm – 12:00 midnight CST (Tuesday, September 20, 2011 at 04:00:00).

Let’s go find some doc bugs!

 

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Community Weekly Review (September 2-9)

 

September 9, 2011

OpenStack Community Newsletter – September 9, 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 (8/12– 8/18)

  • Data Tracking Graphs – http://wiki.openstack.org/WeeklyNewsletter
  • OpenStack Compute (NOVA) Data
    • 38 Active Reviews
    • 389 Active Branches – owned by 100 people & 18 teams
    • 1,671 commits by 79 people in last month
  • OpenStack Object Storage (SWIFT) Data
    • 1 Active Reviews
    • 78 Active Branches – owned by 25 people & 6 teams
    • 67 commits by 14 people in last month
  • OpenStack Image Registry (GLANCE) Data
  • Bugs Stats for Week: 898 Tracked Bugs; 118 New Bugs; 63 In-progress Bugs; 16 Critical Bugs; 123 High Importance Bugs;
  • Blueprints Stats for Week:  241 Blueprints; 4 Essential, 12 High, 18 Medium, 20 Low, 157 Undefined
  • OpenStack Website Stats for Week:  15,533 Visits, 37,558 Pageviews, 54.43 % New Visits
    • Top 5 Pages: Home 41.80%; Compute 15.8%; /projects 13.11%; Storage 9.86%; Community 5.52%

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OpenStack Conference Registration – Are you Coming?

 

The OpenStack community is once again meeting in less than a month in Boston, MA to educate, discuss, and plan for the future of cloud computing. The community is asking for cloud computing enthusiasts, open source gurus, IT leaders, and technologists to take part in our open discussion. The event is held at the Boston Intercontinental Hotel from October 5 – 7, 2011 with industry leaders from Dell, HP, Nebula, NetApp, Canonical, NTT, Rackspace, DreamHost, CloudScaling, RightScale, MPStor, SolidFire, and Piston to name just a few. Registration is now open with discounted hotel rooms available until September 16.

The OpenStack Design Summit, held three days prior to the OpenStack Conference is the community gathering of developers putting together the features and architecture for the next community release, Essex. This event is now sold out and the waiting list on Launchpad is being closed on Tuesday, September 13 at Noon GMT.

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Rackspace Running OpenStack Compute Today for Select Customers, Discusses Broader Rollout Plans

 

Lew Moorman, President of the Rackspace Cloud, recently discussed the state of Rackspace’s OpenStack plans in a blog post.

In addition to running OpenStack Object Storage (code named Swift) for over a year to power their cloud, Rackspace is now running OpenStack Compute (code named Nova) for select customers. Head over to the Rackspace Cloud blog to learn more.

They also recently announced dates for training classes on OpenStack, and will be in full attendance at the OpenStack Conference in Boston next month.

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HP Announces Private Beta Program for OpenStack Cloud

 

September 7, 2011

Today HP announced the private beta program for HP Cloud Services.  Our initial cloud services are HP Cloud Compute and HP Cloud Object Storage, both based on HP’s world-class hardware and software combined with OpenStack ™ technology.   I  want to personally invite you to sign up for our free private beta to develop, test and run your applications. To register, simply visit www.hpcloud.com. We are accepting only a limited number of private beta applicants—so register early.

As we announced in July, HP is taking an active role in the community and we are looking forward to seeing many of you at the upcoming OpenStack Design Summit and OpenStack Conference.

Read the blog entry!

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OpenStack Governance Elections Fall 2011 – Results

 

September 5, 2011

The polls  for OpenStack Governance Elections closed. Congratulations to the winners and thank you all for participating in this election.

PROJECT POLICY BOARD (3 positions + 1 to replace resigning member)

Winners:

  1. Ewan Mellor
  2. Paul Voccio
  3. Monty Taylor
  4. Josh Kearney

Details of the poll results are visible.

The Project Technical Leads have not changed.

NOVA Project Technical Lead (1 position)

Winner: Vishvananda Ishaya

SWIFT Project Technical Lead (1 position)

Winner: John Dickinson

GLANCE Project Technical Lead (1 position)

Winner: Jay Pipes

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Waiting list for the Design Summit

 

September 2, 2011

The first 200 open seats for the Essex Design Summit were registered in less than 9 days. This event, geared towards existing and prospective OpenStack developers, is separate from the OpenStack Conference and has a more limited capacity. For the last 50 seats, the Design Summit organization committee needs to give priority to OpenStack core developers and well-known contributors that missed the boat, so we set up a waiting list.

This list will be reviewed regularly, and people that are confirmed will receive an email. The last 50 seats will be gradually assigned over the next weeks. If you want to make sure to have a seat at the OpenStack Conference, you should probably register for that event separately, since there can be no guarantee you will get one of the last Essex Design Summit seats. Sign up early on the Summit waiting list to increase your chances !