OpenStack Community Newsletter – February 4, 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
- Bexar Release – http://www.openstack.org/blog/2011/02/the-openstack-bexar-release/
- OpenStack is Ready to Deploy with ‘Bexar’ Code Release: Ubuntu leader Canonical and Cisco now make 50 companies participating in OpenStack community – http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20110203006362/en/OpenStack-Ready-Deploy-%E2%80%98Bexar%E2%80%99-Code-Release
- OpenStack Conference / Design Summit (April 26 – 29) – Call for Topics/Speakers – http://www.openstack.org/blog/2011/01/call-for-speakerstopics-for-openstack-conference/ [Open Feb 1 – Feb 28]
EVENTS
- FOSDEM 2011: Feb 5 – 6. 2011 Brussels, Belgium http://www.fosdem.org/2011/about/fosdem
- Building a free, massively scalable cloud computing platform
- Cloud Seminar@NII – Three OSS IAAS Talks – http://www.grace-center.jp/event/node/71 (in Japanese)
- South Korea OpenStack User Group Launch – Seoul, Korea ; Feb 23, 2011
- SCALE 2011: Feb 25-27, 2011: Los Angeles, CA http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale9x/
- Open Source Days: March 5 in Copenhagen http://opensourcedays.org/
- PYCON 2011: March 9-17, 2011: Atlanta, GA http://us.pycon.org/2011/home/
- UKUUG Spring 2011 Conference; March 22-24: Leeds, UK http://www.ukuug.org/events/spring2011/programme/
DEVELOPER COMMUNITY
- Bexar Documentation
- OpenStack Compute Administration Manual – http://docs.openstack.org/openstack-compute/admin/content/
- OpenStack Object Storage Administrator Guide – http://docs.openstack.org/openstack-object-storage/admin/content/
- Create custom RHEL/Centos image with OpenStack – http://wiki.openstack.org/CreatingRHELImages
- Meeting Minutes – February 1
- More Developer Information on the Developer Activity Review – http://www.openstack.org/blog/2011/01/openstack-developer-activity-review-january-21-28/
GENERAL COMMUNITY
- OpenStack Conference / Design Summit Program Committee (Apr 26-29)
- High Level Agenda Proposal – http://www.openstack.org/blog/2011/01/openstack-conference-design-summit-high-level-agenda/
- Planning Schedule – http://etherpad.openstack.org/dsignsummit-scheduleapr2011
- Event Agenda Discussion – http://etherpad.openstack.org/DesignSummitApril2011
- Event Theme Proposal – http://etherpad.openstack.org/DSApr11-Theme
- OpenStack Wiki Recent Changes – http://wiki.openstack.org/RecentChanges
- MultiCluster Zones – http://wiki.openstack.org/MultiClusterZones
- OpenStack API 1.1 – http://wiki.openstack.org/OpenStackAPI_1-1
- VMware vSphere-support – http://wiki.openstack.org/VMware-vSphere-support
- All changes for week at http://wiki.openstack.org/RecentChanges
COMMUNITY STATISTICS (1/28– 2/3)
- Data Tracking Graphs – http://wiki.openstack.org/WeeklyNewsletter
- OpenStack Compute (NOVA) Data
- 6 Active Reviews
- 132 Active Branches – owned by 40 people & 9 teams
- 1,001 commits by 60 people in last month
- OpenStack Object Storage (SWIFT) Data
- 5 Active Reviews
- 44 Active Branches – owned by 19 people & 3 teams
- 285 commits by 14 people in last month
- Twitter Stats for Week: #openstack 91 tweets; 87 re-tweets; all OpenStack total tweets 1008
- Bugs Stats for Week: 365 Tracked Bugs; 57 New Bugs; 16 In-process Bugs; 17 Critical Bugs; 48 High Importance Bugs; 247 Bugs (Fix Committed)
- Blueprints Stats for Week: 158 Blueprints; 10 Essential, 6 High, 12 Medium, 16 Low, 114 Undefined
- OpenStack Website Stats for Week: 7,881 Visits, 18,389 Pageviews, 62.33% New Visits
- Top 5 Pages: Home 40.46%; /projects 11.69%; /projects/compute 19.37%; /projects/storage 13.54%; /Community 6.35%
OPENSTACK IN THE NEWS
- Cisco Backs OpenStack Cloud Platform by James Niccolai; IDG News; http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/218624/cisco_backs_openstack_cloud_platform.html
- OpenStack cloud gets Bexar release and backers by Jack Clark; ZDNet; http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/cloud/2011/02/04/openstack-cloud-gets-bexar-release-and-backers-40091682/
- OpenStack ‘Bexar’ Release Adds Cross-Hypervisor Support by Charles Babcock; InformationWeek; http://www.informationweek.com/news/cloud-computing/infrastructure/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=229200430&subSection=News
- Canonical brings Ubuntu to the OpenStack Cloud by Steven Vaughan-Nichols; ZDNet; http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/canonical-brings-ubuntu-to-the-openstack-cloud/8204
- Grid Dynamics Joins OpenStack Community; PRWeb on SFgate.com; http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/02/03/prweb8110020.DTL
- OpenStack Cloud OS Project Rolls Out Bexar Edition, New Partners by Fahmida Rashid; eWeek; http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Cloud-Computing/OpenStack-Cloud-OS-Project-Rolls-Out-Bexar-Edition-New-Partners-234666/
- If you could ask Vint Cerf anything, what would you ask? By Julie Bort; Network World; http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/71165
- Cloudscaling Deploys OpenStack Swift Object Storage Architecture by Shamial Janakiraman; Smart Data Centers; http://smart-data-centers.tmcnet.com/topics/smart-data-centers/articles/140546-cloudscaling-deploys-openstack-swift-object-storage-architecture.htm
- Cloudscaling Builds Momentum with First Commercial OpenStack-Based Storage Cloud; PR Newswire; http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/cloudscaling-builds-momentum-with-first-commercial-openstack-based-storage-cloud-114936034.html
- New features offered by OpenStack by Maxwell Cooter; Techworld; http://news.techworld.com/virtualisation/3259445/new-features-offered-by-openstack/
- Servers preloaded with Amazon-friendly cloud software by Julie Bort; Network World; http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/020111-dell-ubuntu.html
- The Great Bear by Rakesh Dogra; DataCenter Journal; http://datacenterjournal.com/the-daily-buzz/the-great-bear
- Complete List of News Articles at (over 100 for week) http://news.google.com/news/search?pz=1&cf=all&ned=us&hl=en&q=openstack&as_qdr=w&as_drrb=q&cf=all&start=0