With the release yesterday of an OpenStack message board system, the community has quickly realized that significant demand exists and we have decided to re-evaluate the various technologies to ensure that we provide the optimal solution to meet the growing demand. The Project Policy Board is is working on a process to make decisions on our official communication tools that will result in new tools being deployed in the near future to meet the needs of the community beyond the existing tools (IRC and Mailing List).. I anticipate the re-launch of a forum next week with the full support of the entire community. Please watch this blog and Twitter for more information on this important support mechanism.
OpenStack Launches Community Message Boards
The OpenStack community has launched a new communication tool to better allow prospective and current users to share ideas and solutions to common problems when deploying or using OpenStack technologies. Of course, developers and technologists are more than welcome to join the forum boards to provide answers and add questions of their own. The site is available at http://forums.openstack.org/.
Sign up today and start leveraging your existing knowledge (and learn even more) of OpenStack in Object Storage (SWIFT), Compute (NOVA), and Image Service (GLANCE).
OpenStack Madrid Meeting 4/14/2011 Videos
The StackOps team held an OpenStack meeting in Madrid on the 14th and posted all their videos on YouTube. I am embedding a few and encourage you to search “OpenStack Madrid” to find the rest. Please note the presentations are in Spanish.
OpenStack Conference and Design Summit – Day 4 Recap
I am on my way home from San Jose writing this final event recap blog in the clouds…
Thanks again to approximately 480 enthusiastic OpenStack community members for an amazing 4 days of interactive and productive sessions, meetings, and demonstrations. The community continues to accelerate forward at a rapid pace in a highly collaborative environment with so many great ideas on such a variety of topics that it truly is becoming difficult to keep track of all the innovation. I look forward to once again working with the global community on our next event the first week of October 2011 and plan to announce its location in a few weeks. It is going to be tough to outdo this great event but I am confident that our community will rally together again to show the world how open source should be done.
If you took any pictures at the event please be sure to upload to the OpenStack Flickr account at http://www.flickr.com/groups/1574695@N22/. I am sending out a post-event survey to all attendees on Monday so please take a few moments to complete the survey. The questions will be easy to answer and your feedback is valuable as the event team and I are able to tweak future events to better serve the community.
Final highlights from today:
- OpenStack event presentations available at http://www.slideshare.net/event/openstack-conference-and-design-summit-apr-2011 ; 15 slides currently uploaded
- OpenStack session videos – I should have those uploaded and ready for viewing mid to late next week ; Stay Tuned for More Information
- Rackspace’s Jonathan Bryce and Dell’s Barton George discuss all things OpenStack – http://vimeo.com/23003968
- Great presentation from Masanori Itoh of NTT on Japanese Tsunami Lessons – http://www.slideshare.net/thatsdone/openstack-diablo-design-summit-talk-a-lesson-from
- Clanavi/SimCloud Demonstration Video – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-yGt5s1ZEE
Open Source at the Pool
Even the hotel supports OpenStack
Finally, I am not posting a Community Weekly Blog or Developer Activity Blog post this week as the last 4 blog recaps have already hit the weeks highlights. I did update the weekly statistics available at http://wiki.openstack.org/WeeklyNewsletter?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=2011+Data+Tracking+%28Excel%29.
OpenStack Conference and Design Summit – Day 3 Recap
The OpenStack community completed its third day with 15 sessions, 12 five-minute lighting talks, 6 unconference sessions, 1 demonstration session, and many hallway conversations; all in just 9 hours. To top off the evening, we headed over to Dave and Buster’s for fine food, beverages, and many, many video games. Here are your daily highlights:
- OpenStack Conference Slides (I keep adding them as I get them from the speakers) – http://www.slideshare.net/event/openstack-conference-and-design-summit-apr-2011
- PaaS on OpenStack – Run Applications on Any Cloud, Any Time Using Any Thing by Nati Shalom on his OpenStack talk – http://highscalability.com/blog/2011/4/28/paas-on-openstack-run-applications-on-any-cloud-any-time-usi.html
- AWS and OpenStack, An Interesting Contrast Worth Considering During Cloud Selection – http://www.zdnet.com/blog/forrester/aws-and-openstack-an-interesting-contrast-worth-considering-during-cloud-selection/640
- OpenStack, The House Elves of Your Datacenter (the picture is well worth the click-over) – http://upon2020.com/2011/04/openstack-the-house-elves-of-your-datacenter/
- Next OpenStack Conference & Design Summit – Hold week of October 3rd open on your calendars
- Moving to consolidated 6-month release cycle, with frequent per-project milestones in between; Diablo scheduled for September 22, 2011 Release
- Announcing SpotCloud for OpenStack – http://www.elasticvapor.com/2011/04/announcing-spotcloud-for-openstack.html
Crowd at Dave and Busters
Github vs Launchpad Meeting
Talk Cloudy to Me Event
The Silicon Valley Cloud Computing Group is hosting a 1 day cloud computing event this Saturday, April 30 at 1:30 pm. Register at http://www.meetup.com/cloudcomputing/events/16701362/.
The agenda is at http://talkcloudy2011.sched.org/list/descriptions/ with 2 OpenStack sessions from Citrix and Piston.
Thanks to Sebastian Stadil from Scalr for the information.
OpenStack Conference and Design Summit -Day 2 Recap
Another amazing day at the OpenStack Conference and Design Summit; highlights:
- OpenStack Conference Slides (working to get all the slides) – http://www.slideshare.net/event/openstack-conference-and-design-summit-apr-2011
- OpenStack Virtual Appliance Demo from Citrix – http://www.citrix.com/tv/#videos/3837
- OpenStack Cookbooks for Chef from Matt Ray at OpsCode – https://github.com/mattray/openstack-cookbooks
- Installing OpenStack on Cisco Equipment – http://www.cisco.com/web/solutions/sp/design_summit_2011.html#~Resources
Hallway Conversations – Making OpenStack Happen
Billy Cox from Intel
Lew Tucker from Cisco
OpenStack Governance Discussion from Conference
The OpenStack community held an open discussion on the existing and future governance policy of the community. I taped the meeting with my FLIP camera so apologies for the so-so video; however the audio sounded fine when I ran through the tape.
OpenStack Conference: Governance Discussion from OpenStack on Vimeo.
OpenStack Conference and Design Summit -Day 1 Recap
The first day of the OpenStack event in Santa Clara, CA has finally ended (at least for me) and here are some event highlights as well as some great pictures taken by various community members.
- Gordon Mangione of Citrix Systems talks about his keynote today – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClGnuECnfFE
- Attendance – Just over 400 people attended the event today
- OpenStack Community donates $15,000 from event registration to Japanese Tsunami Relief Fund
- Other Keynote Speakers – Jim Curry from Rackspace – Ryan Lane from Wikimedia – James Williams from NASA – Neal Sample from eBay
- Nati Shalom from GigaSpaces – PaaS on OpenStack Slides- http://www.slideboom.com/presentations/344639/PaaS-on-OpenStack
- All keynote sessions taped – anticipate posting videos and slides next week
Morning Keynotes
Crowd in Networking for OpenStack Presentation
Lunch in great California weather
Community Weekly Newsletter (April 15 – 22)
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].
Korea OpenStack User Group Technical Seminer
HIGHLIGHTS
- Cactus Release – http://www.openstack.org/blog/2011/04/openstack-announces-cactus-release/
- Cactus Overview Webinar Recording – https://cc.readytalk.com/play?id=39ban4
- OpenStack Supports Japan Tsunami Relief Effort – http://www.openstack.org/blog/2011/04/openstack-community-supports-japan-tsunami-relief-efforts/
- OpenStack Conference & Design Summit 2011 sponsored by Citrix (SOLD OUT)
- Conference Agenda – http://openstack-spring2011.sched.org/
- Design Summit Agenda – http://wiki.openstack.org/Summit
EVENTS
- OpenStack Conference & Design Summit sponsored by Citrix – April 26-29 in Santa Clara, CA
- OpenStack Korea User Group Photos – http://www.flickr.com/photos/junwoo/sets/72157626375795627/
- Interop – May 8-12 in Las Vegas, NV http://www.interop.com/lasvegas/
- OpenHelp – June 3-5 in Cincinnati, OH http://openhelpconference.com/
- SouthEast LinuxFest – June 10-12 in Spartanburg, SC http://www.southeastlinuxfest.org/
- Open Source Bridge – June 21-24 in Portland, OR http://opensourcebridge.org/
- Structure – June 22-23 in San Francisco, CA http://event.gigaom.com/structure/
DEVELOPER COMMUNITY
- Project Red Dwarf – Database as a Service – http://www.openstack.org/blog/2011/04/announcing-project-reddwarf-database-as-a-service/
- Developer Activity Weekly Review (April 9 – 15) – http://www.openstack.org/blog/2011/04/openstack-developer-activity-weekly-review-april-9-15/
- Meeting Minutes – April 19
GENERAL COMMUNITY
- Cloudscaling FAQ on OpenStack Object Storage (Swift) – http://cloudscaling.com/blog/cloud-computing/cloud-faqs-openstack-storage-swift-basics-q-a
- Mark Collier on Facebook Open Compute – http://www.openstack.org/blog/2011/04/mark-collier-on-facebooks-open-compute/
- OpenStack Wiki Recent Changes – http://wiki.openstack.org/RecentChanges
- NaaS Core Design – http://wiki.openstack.org/NaaSCoreDesign
- Database as a Service – http://wiki.openstack.org/DatabaseAsAService
- All changes for week at http://wiki.openstack.org/RecentChanges
COMMUNITY STATISTICS (4/15– 4/22)
- Data Tracking Graphs – http://wiki.openstack.org/WeeklyNewsletter
- OpenStack Compute (NOVA) Data
- 40 Active Reviews
- 237 Active Branches – owned by 62 people & 13 teams
- 1,754 commits by 72 people in last month
- OpenStack Object Storage (SWIFT) Data
- 0 Active Reviews
- 54 Active Branches – owned by 21 people & 5 teams
- 214 commits by 12 people in last month
- OpenStack Image Registry (GLANCE) Data
- 2 Active Reviews
- 17 Active Branches – owned by 5 people & 3 teams
- 96 commits by 9 people in last month
- Twitter Stats for Week: #openstack 397 total tweets; OpenStack 1,441 total tweets (does not include RT)
- Bugs Stats for Week: 294 Tracked Bugs; 77 New Bugs; 44 In-process Bugs; 0 Critical Bugs; 15 High Importance Bugs; 158 Bugs (Fix Committed)
- Blueprints Stats for Week: 225 Blueprints; 2 Essential, 11 High, 12 Medium, 20 Low, 180 Undefined
- OpenStack Website Stats for Week: 15,551 Visits, 38,438 Pageviews, 57.06% New Visits
- Top 5 Pages: Home 36.47%; /projects 11.77%; /projects/compute 18.08%; /projects/storage 11.90%; /projects/glance 6.08%
OPENSTACK IN THE NEWS
- Ubuntu 11.04 Adds OpenStack to Linux by Sean Michael Kerner; Internetnews.com; http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3931556/Ubuntu+1104+Adds+OpenStack+to+Linux.htm
- OpenStack Marches on, but Can’t Outrun Open Source Politics by Derrick Harris; Gigaom; http://gigaom.com/cloud/openstack-marches-on-but-cant-outrun-open-source-politics/
- OpenStack Cloud Hits Cactus Release by Sean Michael Kerner; Internetnews.com; http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3931056/OpenStack+Cloud+Hits+Cactus+Release.htm
- Two Open-Source Cloud Standards: What It Means to You by Kevin Fogarty; PCWorld; http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/225759/two_opensource_cloud_standards_what_it_means_to_you.html
- OpenStack Unveils Third Community-Driven Software Release by Raju Shanbhag; infotech; http://it.tmcnet.com/topics/it/articles/165843-openstack-unveils-third-community-driven-software-release.htm
- GigaSpaces Leverages Citrix OpenCloud to Deliver Flexible and Open PaaS Solution; press release; http://news.thomasnet.com/companystory/GigaSpaces-Leverages-Citrix-OpenCloud-to-Deliver-Flexible-and-Open-PaaS-Solution-845728
- NASA to Leverage Nebula for Gulf Ecosystem Project by Elizabeth Montalbano; InformationWeek; http://www.informationweek.com/news/government/cloud-saas/229401820
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